@translatorcircuit   Your last sentence rings a bell.   I should perhaps say that I’m absolutely not a gun lover, nor do I wish to raise the issue here,  but in past decades when American sitcoms (which Mrs D had a regrettable tendency to watch) were replete with cute smartass kids delivering ‘clever’ one-liners to a laugh track, the only way I co…[Read more]

@oochillyo   I’ve got that movie.   It’s insane, but entertaining.   Luc Besson on LSD   🙂    The ‘Pearls’ remind me strongly of the aliens in Avatar.   Rihanna’s character ‘Bubble’ is entertaining (and sexy 🙂   Visually, it’s spectacular.  Fun to watch.

Though, I think, it suffers compared with Besson’s earlier ‘Fifth Element’ (get that if yo…[Read more]

@craig   Thanks for your efforts on this site  (I bunged a small donation towards the kitchen as a token appreciation)

<span class=”useratname”>@ps1l0v3y0u</span>    Oh, and I forgot to mention Paul McGann.   Excellent in The Night of the Doctor short.   I’ve seen the movie and it didn’t feel like Doctor Who, it was an American cop show disguised as Who.   He would have made a great Doctor, in proper episodes.

And of course the War Doctor,  John Hurt.   H…[Read more]

@ps1l0v3y0u      I think you’ve summed up the Doctors pretty well.    My favourite of NuWho would be Capaldi.   But the others were good – Tennant maybe a bit too emotional.    Smith started out too young but he aged into it (a bit like Roger Moore as James Bond).

Old Who, I only ever saw glimpses of Hartnell, Patrick Troughton who I liked very m…[Read more]

@devilishrobby     I just Googled and ‘steelbook’ is what it sounds like – simply a steel DVD case.   Personally I’m perfectly happy with the usual polythene DVD cases, less likely to get scuffed (because their labels are slip-fitted paper under a clear plastic cover).     Steelbook issues apparently typically have more ‘extras’.   But I’d be a ta…[Read more]

@winston   Yes, I found the bit where they all turned against the Doctor hard to watch.   The stewardess – who was initially suspicious of the Doctor – redeemed herself at the cost of her own life and – icing on the cake – nobody even knew her name.   And, IIRC, most of the passengers didn’t seem to have learned anything from the exper…[Read more]

@devilishrobby   Often ‘bottle shows’ are among the best, if the writer and cast are good.  I guess Moffat’s equivalent would be ‘Listen’, though it used several locations (so maybe it wasn’t quite a ‘bottle’ show) but the cast was only four people.   Again, it had two truly hair-raising scenes, one with the silent bedspread monster and the othe…[Read more]

@thereet    Much as I’d love it to be, it doesn’t seem to be.    I see  @<span class=”useratname”>ps1l0v3y0u   has already answered.</span>

If you’re searching for similar information in future, I can recommend tardis.fandom.com  which has a full synopsis and cast list for every episode.   And chakoteya.net   has a full episode transcript (w…[Read more]

@craig    Yes, one suggestion.   Is it possible to make the list of ‘Recent Forum Posts’ on the homepage longer than 5, or maybe set it so it lists the 5 different forums most recently used?    Currently, with a little bit of chitchat between two people on, say, On the Sofa, they all point to the same forum and a post someone made yesterd…[Read more]

@janetteb   I know just what you mean about your ‘handbag book’.   I was using Moving Pictures in similar fashion, which is why it took me so long to get through it.    In fact I’ve learned from experience that if I chauffeur Mrs D anywhere, especially if her very large family is involved, I make sure I’ve got a book handy in case of emerge…[Read more]

@janetteb    I’ve just started (re-) reading Reaper Man  (he says, blithely ignoring the excitement going on nearby over New Episodes!)    I guessed you’ve finished it by now.    I think it’s one of Pratchett’s most entertaining books (and of course it features a favourite character, Death).   The Auditors of Reality remind me of management…[Read more]

@nerys    Well, ‘Layer Cake’ finally arrived in the mail.   I just watched it.   Yes, I did have some trouble following the complicated plot, though that did help with giving the impression that things were spinning out of control of XXXX (Daniel Craig’s character).   Interesting how they managed to never mention his name without that ever bei…[Read more]

@ps1l0v3y0u I must admit that my memory of the episodes from Chibnall’s reign are a little hazy, having only watched them once so far. I think Spyfall struck me at the time as an improvement on previous eps, but I wouldn’t want to put it stronger than that without rewatching. I can understand your reservations about Noor Inayat Khan (or any other…[Read more]

Just re-watched The Pilot. I do like this episode, and better this time round. The first time, I was slightly (and unconsciously) biassed against Bill. Nothing personal, just that Clara was a hard act to follow and I was missing her.

Bill is quite a plain-looking girl, but her mother (in the photographs) is beautiful.   That was a lovely C…[Read more]

@ps1l0v3y0u    Well I’m a Southern Railway fan primarily (I grew up in LSWR territory) but I think Gresley certainly had the best-looking of all modern locomotives. (It’s great to see that a P2 is being built btw). I acknowledge Churchard’s lead in e.g long-travel valves but (IMO) Churchward having made great advances, his successors were reluctan…[Read more]

@ps1l0v3y0u I deduce that you’re some sort of historian or history fan. 🙂 I’m not really, except in a few specific areas.

Take any subject, like, say, sailing ships, or the English Civil War, and what the average member of the public (including me) ‘knows’ probably amounts to about half a paragraph. Usually it boils down to just a few anecdotes.…[Read more]

@ps1l0v3y0u Well the classic mythical figure has to be King Arthur, I guess. Based on (presumably) some ancient chieftain. But the most mythologised-about has to be Cleopatra whose existence is very throughly documented. It’s fun to play with historical figures, but ideally it should dovetail in to known history and not do violence to it. So for…[Read more]

<span class=”useratname”>@ps1l0v3y0u</span>   Hi,  I can’t really comment on most of that since I’m essentially a nuWho fan.   I have watched the last few of Seven and Ace’s episodes on DVD, and I know all the old Doctors, but that’s about it.

I’m okay with such concepts as travelling to ‘the end of Time’, but I just find that – dramatically – th…[Read more]

@janetteb   It’s probably a symptom of my disinterest that I can hardly remember what the overall plot of the Flux series was.   Or maybe it was just quite obscure at the time.   The Flux eating the universe actually reminded me of episodes in that weird series Lexx where robotic heads were eating everything and changing it into more robotic heads…[Read more]