@missy

I think it was Frank Spencer in Some Mothers Do Have ‘Em.

@cathannabel

Superb piece.

@wolfweed: Well, I’m glad someone said, you beat me to it. Steven Moffat didn’t write the script, Toby Whithouse did! All right he had to approve of it, but it wasn’t his work.  Not that it matters because, as I’ve already said, I really enjoyed this episode.

@thane15:  That laugh! *shudder* It had the same affect on me as the smile he gives in t…[Read more]

Some quick thoughts, as it’s late! Overall I liked lots of it a lot, but not as much as the previous 2,  particularly Extremis (which I really liked). My problem with it was much as @JimtheFish (and others) have pointed out – that the Monks were just a bit vague in what they wanted, after their set up as near omniscient beings, with their…[Read more]

@cathannabel that IS what she said! Probaly what I would have said in her shoes too… Well, I’d have said taxi because I’m not young and hip like her, but you get the point! It was a funny line, it’s a shame people missed it.

@CathAnnabel  My true blunder was mixing up height & weight in the listing. It’s 3 times more clear on iplayer…

(See @ 5 minutes 47 seconds)

Gender: Female

Age: 26

Height: 176.6cm

Weight: 130.2lbs

Heart rate: 79 (bpm?)

Temperature: 37.6 (degrees c?)

(Means she’s just over 9 stone & nearly 5ft8)

@CathAnnabel  What I mean top say is that the pic is just there to demonstrate which stats I’m on about (& that I’m not just randomly listing off a lady’s statistics…!)

I honestly didn’t expect anyone to begin to attempt to read it. You must have a big screen!

Sorry for the confusion…..

@CathAnnabel  You’re right – It’s the wrong picture. It’s from Extremis (couldn’t find a grab of the right pic).

I was reading stats off of the tv (also very small) whilst watching TPATEOTW though…

@blenkinsopthebrave, @cathannabel, @mudlark, @whisit thank you- would have replied earilr but I premitvly took @pedants advice and indeed did ‘drink drink drink’ and now its a bank holiday weekend, when will it all end…
@bluesequeekpip thanks again for your help with the creative writing modules. You were a big factor in getting my overall…[Read more]

@nick, @thane15, @pedant, @cathannabel,

I, too, was taken with John Cooper Clarke way back when, and then I read an interview with him a year or so ago where he claimed that Nigel Farage was saying the most sensible things in British politics. Clarke, Morrissey–I suspect that there was something about the 1980s that, in retrospect, was…[Read more]

@Nick

Yep, saw that earlier. I thought it very affecting, even if the presentation was a little bit Tame Craig Charles.

@cathannabel @craig @thane15 @whisht

I was with them all the way up to “the songs still sound marvellous”. The emperor never had any clothes, he just hid his self-pity behind Johnny Marrs’s fig leaf.

Ugh. I feel the need for…[Read more]

@morpho @thane15

This is bizarre.

Maybe it is because my old neighbours are a Bangladeshi family who, on formal and celebration days wear the most spectacular and brilliantly vibrant colours that led my first impression to be that the monks were very much Asian-inspired.

My first thought on seeing the monk, walking towards the Doctor bak-lit by…[Read more]

@frobisher

I like pushing the Bowie envelope a bit, so:

It was ‘The Passenger’ that sent us on the Bowie frenzy, believe it or not. The version I posted can be found here (easy to miss as the music thread can take some time to load)

+ @cathannabel & @whisht

I was really surprised noone selected this. The enemy in space – lower pressure. The…[Read more]

As ever, I generally agree with you lovely people about this episode: Better than the Forest of the Dead, not as good as The Pilot. I felt that the Doctor and Bill were slightly flat at times. In their defence, I don’t think those emoji robots can have been easy to act against. I would be happy to never see the emoji robots again. The nano-robots…[Read more]

“I’m so happy, I hope you’re happy too”

@cathannabel and all. I think the Bowie Game is surely on! 🙂

@cathannabel @missrori @jimthefish @Thane15

There is a small possibility I might have commented on the Graun thread…

Anyway, worth noting that RTD and Moff have both explicitly acknowledged the debt to Buffy.

Season 5 of Buffy remains, to me, the finest single season of TV storytelling in any genre, ever. Matt Smith’s first season (S5 also,…[Read more]

@thane15, @cathannabel and @missrori (and all) Yes, happy Buffy Day. Was thinking to mark it I’d repost the original Buffy blogs and we could revisit our own Buffy experience. Might keep us occupied till Series 10 actually shows up. I’m intending to re-watch a few choice episodes over the weekend anyway.

@janetteb @thane15 (and Puro) @nerys @cathannabel @missy @ichabod and anyone I may have missed.

Many thanks for all the very lovely comments. I’m sure Nicola would have enjoyed them. You really are a wonderful bunch given this is an internet forum!

I’m sorry if I gave the impression Nicola died recently, she died 14 years ago, but listening to…[Read more]

@whisht @cathannabel @thane15 @pedant Have always loved Billy Bragg and when I bought my guitar I bought the “Back To Basics” chord book (which included ‘It says here’). I think the lack of studio reaction is because they didn’t realise he would say “tits” at 8am! He’s as good a comedian as a musician and the book came with a ‘learn to play…[Read more]

@CathAnnabel

As regards the confession dial, my view is pretty close to yours.  As I think I outlined in comments I posted on Heaven Sent, the interpretation which makes the most sense to me is that what the Doctor experienced was in a virtual reality generated by the dial, and the time he experienced was subjective. The alternative, that the ca…[Read more]

@CathAnnabel       Thanks for linking, nice work. My son included Blowin’ in the Wind as part of a poetry analysis project he did a few years ago. Seriously, no one with any familiarity with Dylan’s work could say it wasn’t legitimate as poetry.

Tears of Rage is a gorgeous song, I was first familiar with it as done by The Band. Another lesse…[Read more]