@dentarthurdent   I love a good dog story. We live on a creek and all my dogs have loved to swim in it just for the fun of it. Are there sharks or other bitey things swimming about down there? It just sounds so wonderful to be swimming in a lagoon with the fish and a dog.

I hope your house and garden are safe and sound when you get home.Have f…[Read more]

@thane16 “waves back”

@dentarthurdent Haha. Not jealous at all of you lazing about in tropical lagoons. It’s a tough life 😛

@blenkinsopthebrave   @nerys  @dentarthurdent   @janetteb     Thank you all for your kind words and encouragement. Yesterday was a sad one and I guess I had a wobble or a wibble? We went to our town and were shocked all over again by the damage we saw. So depressing if you are a tree lover. Many of the trees we lost were planted by me, some up…[Read more]

@thane16   We had a terrible ice storm 12 days ago that almost had me curled up in a ball on the floor from sheer terror. The rain started to freeze in the afternoon and just kept falling all day and night coating everything in at least a 1/4 inch of ice or more by evening. By nine pm the branches on trees all around us started to break and fall a…[Read more]

@dentarthurdent. I never tire of re’ watching my old favourites. I am currently watching an old BBC series from 1976 that I first watched when I was in high school. In terms of script, acting, filming, and historical accuracy it holds up. video quality less so but one puts up with that for the sake a great series.

Good Omens is always fun to…[Read more]

@nerys @janetteb @dentarthurdent

The War Between the Land and the Sea is part of the current BBC-Disney deal. IIRC they signed up for (something like) an initial 25 episodes total. Which would mean an 8-episode season 2. I would have preferred a longer run, but I’ll take what I can get at this point.

Still no release date for TWBtLatS that I c…[Read more]

@janetteb This looks like the cast I saw in the third installment of the 60th anniversary specials.

@whohar @dentarthurdent I agree that knowing who the Sun’s owner is is key to understanding the article’s slant. I do hope the end is not near. After all, I just got back on board with the specials. But, we live in uncertain times.

@winston @dentarthurdent I used to watch “The Day of the Doctor” fairly regularly when Crave still carried Doctor Who in Canada. Alas, it is no more. However, I’ll bet my library has it, so I will check it out.

It was so much fun watching the three Doctors haggle with one another (himself), and then finally come together for a solution. Rose/The…[Read more]

@janetteb     @nerys  @dentarthurdent  We were talking about this episode  and I had to watch it again. I still can’t say why I like it so much because there is just so much. John Hurt being so weary of war ,death and destruction, literally carrying the weight of his world on his shoulders. Matt Smith the youngest actor somehow being a very old an…[Read more]

@dentarthurdent I agree with you that “Wild Blue Yonder” was the best of the three. Yet I am glad to have them all. I understand what you mean about the Disney-esque elements. I tried to overlook them. The Flux was kept to a bare minimum, so I was OK with it. Kind of like tying up loose ends, I suppose.

@winston I love your “fuzziest socks”…[Read more]

@dentarthurdent  @nerys     This one was a great episode. That long ship corridor and the ever growing fake Doc and Donna almost made me queasy, like a fever dream. The closer they got the larger they grew! They gave me the willies.

It had a good puzzle , a visit with Newton and a little robot.This felt very Who to me and I enjoyed it all. The…[Read more]

@dentarthurdent
zero sum… dunno. Donnie does like to deal. And the deal needs to look good to the buyer. It’s more that he doesn’t really bother to think that hard about it.

His instincts are:
what have I done before that might work? Obviously this in property but money is real, right? Rich guys in Russia are obviously on to a good thing but V…[Read more]

@dentarthurdent @nerys @winston
Why?

1. Disruption… give things a shake and see what falls out.

2. Mess up liberal opponents so we can give more sympathetic parties a leg up. Elon is helping with this. He’s very good. Very sane.

3. Justify protectionism. We need to show we got something back.

4. Lay the ground for the resolution of the Ukr…[Read more]

@winston I think your call is the correct one. But even as buffoonery, it’s just bizarre. And he hasn’t even been sworn in yet. I hate to think how it’s going to be after he is … and without the people who were there before, putting up guardrails.

@dentarthurdent We’re about a three-hour drive from the Bay of Fundy. We go out to Brier Island…[Read more]

@dentarthurdent      That does sound like a perfect week. Good weather and a good beach, what more can you ask for? We woke up to -17C but it did warm up to a balmy -12C by afternoon. Knee high snow and cold winds. Oh Canada! We do have lots of cold birds and chilly squirrels come to the feeders though and that gives me something to look at besi…[Read more]

@dentarthurdent We too benefit from the Gulf Stream. However, “warm” is relative … and the water is never warm enough for me to consider swimming in it. However, thanks to the Gulf Stream, we rarely get the frigid temperatures and deep snowfall that routinely hit New Brunswick and the northern U.S. East Coast. After watching the winter storm…[Read more]

@nerys   Happy New Year!    When we were on Vancouver Island our daughter took us to the secret beach that only the locals knew about. We first walked through an old growth forest with trees so big and ferns so tall that we felt very small. We felt like Hobbits on a quest and low and behold the secret beach. A strange thing about that day was that…[Read more]

@dentarthurdent I think BBC has gotten wise to folks using a VPN. I have NordVPN on my phone and turn it on whenever I’m using Wi-Fi at an unsecured location. So I tried using it with iPlayer, and they blocked me, making note of the fact that I was using VPN. Such is life.

You are correct, the Atlantic Ocean is not currently swimming temperature.…[Read more]

@ps1l0v3y0u, @dentarthurdent, @winston

and, of course, other forum members,

On the question of fantasy, a lot of excellent points have been made above. Given that the conversation began with reference to the visual representation of fantasy in Who I would offer two examples of how fantasy can really work on the screen;

The Thief of B…[Read more]

@blenkinsopthebrave @dentarthurdent @winston

We seem to be getting away from Sutekh and Ruby… I will finish that ep at some point, but I thought I’d continue the discussion here.

Fantasy is rehashed pre-scientific/modern ethical belief systems. Generally the milieu doesn’t require an elaborate introduction or world building because we’ve all…[Read more]