• ichabod replied to the topic Part 6 – The Vanquishers

    @dentarthurdent    Thanks, Arthur.  I couldn’t find a date on it, which I thought was weird.

  • ichabod replied to the topic Part 6 – The Vanquishers

    @missy  — thanks; here’s hoping!  And here’s hoping this link works, for a long and interesting look-back with Moffat that sounds as if was taped just before Chibnal’s seasons started.

  • ichabod replied to the topic The Faces of the Doctor (2)

    @dentarthurdent — yep.  I think those fans who where whining that Moffat was “Americanizing” DW may soon begin to realize how good they had it with Moff, and how bloody awful this shift through idiot Chib-bits to Davies might become, if there really is an American connection.  American pop entertainment is witless and awful, by and large, and y…[Read more]

  • ichabod replied to the topic Part 6 – The Vanquishers

    @juniperfish — Thanks for the explanations!  I completely missed the Azure and Swarm thing about their species being wiped out by the Doctor and Division: when?  Which Doctor?  And why?  The Doctor, whichever one, tried to wipe out TIME?  What the hell?  Surely the Doctor – *any* Doctor — would know better than to try to do that, and then botch…[Read more]

  • ichabod replied to the topic The Faces of the Doctor (2)

    Oh, my effing gods —

    In other words, “superheroes” all the way down, idiotic and meaningless battles all the bloody time, utterly meaningless BS to thrill 14 year old boys of any physical age. I’ll end up curled up in a corner…[Read more]

  • ichabod replied to the topic Part 6 – The Vanquishers

    This wrap-up was crazy-making.  I’d re-watch to see if it could be made sense of, but I think I’d rather chew rocks.  It’s almost as if Chibnal said to himself, “So, they thought my first two runs were flat, simplistic, and slow, did they? I’ll show ’em!”

    Well, he showed me, anyway.  There was much too much going on, much too fast for ne…[Read more]

  • ichabod replied to the topic The Faces of the Doctor (2)

    @missy — Hell, the inside of MY Tardis looks better than all that melty wax with lights inside — and I don’t even have a Tardis!

    @dentarthurdent — 57 of anything is a bit much for me — I’m trying to clear out tons of detritus (lived in this house since 1992, so you probably imagine; sort of.  Why isn’t the Tardis chock full of space…[Read more]

  • ichabod replied to the topic The Faces of the Doctor (2)

    @davidwho — She must be awfully old by now; like most of us . . . !  But yeah, she did a nifty job.  Thanks for the reminder.

    @dentarthurdent  — Yes, yes, a pact!  No dying til RTD is back in the saddle and DW takes off again like the wobbly, wild-eyed rocket it’s always been, at its best.  And yes on music, too.  I have somewhat, ah, odd-i…[Read more]

  • ichabod replied to the topic The Faces of the Doctor (2)

    @dentarthurdent   “A neolithic sex toy” — PERFECT!  I hate that bloody mess of a Tardis with quite a few fibers of my being.

    And *I* can remember, as a little girl living on Manhattan’s very un-gentrified West Side in the forties, burly men carrying enormous blocks of ice up the stairs of tenements for people to put in their ice-boxes; and the g…[Read more]

  • ichabod replied to the topic The Faces of the Doctor (2)

    @davidwho  — Oh, I don’t forget the eyebrows!  I treasure the memory.  Thanks for congrats on making it to 82 — I forget about it a lot of the time, but then I have to get up and walk somewhere . . . and boy, do I remember!  The Doctor is very old; I can relate!

    @mudlark — thanks for the reminder about birthdays!  Libras are the best, espe…[Read more]

  • ichabod replied to the topic The Faces of the Doctor (2)

    @blenkindsopthebrave — dear Brave Blenx, thanks for your welcome and encouragement.  Just passed my 82nd birthday, so I can only hope to hang on long enough to see what Davies will do to rescue the wreckage of the show I loved (well, we all did).

    @davidwho — I like your speculation re CapDoc and River.  One of those examples of less is more -…[Read more]

  • ichabod replied to the topic The Faces of the Doctor (2)

    I’m having a tough time with this Flux story, I have to admit (so I’ve been quiet here about the show for a while).  In fact, I couldn’t stick with Chibnul’s most recent episodes, partly because the sound balance is (at least on my TV) awful and I can hardly hear what people are saying (or shouting) over the damned loud, lurchy music.  Either I…[Read more]

  • @missy — and here am I, even later at reading this essay — really enjoyed it, and the responses.

    Missy,  yes; I too have reminded myself of what brilliance and daring Moffat and Capaldi brought to DW, and […]

  • ichabod replied to the topic Revolution of the Daleks

    @missrory: I miss the snappier conversations and quiet moments of Twelve’s episodes; a lot of the equivalents here are more like characters lecturing each other, and more telling than showing.

    Yes, and yes.  I just don’t like the way Chibnal is writing this.  Everybody keeps explaining stuff to each other, and if there’s a rhythm to the scen…[Read more]

  • ichabod replied to the topic Doctor Who memories

    @pedant — Ha!  Wonderful!  There’s jargon, and then there’s self-satirical jargon, but such nuances do tend to get lost outside the fold.

  • ichabod replied to the topic The Kebab & Calculator

    @missy — So sorry to hear about your OH.  I wish you both the best in dealing with it.  The last “good” news I had about cancer was that my opposite number, my daughter-in-law’s mother (who started her own life-long war with this disease when her son went through a bout of it in his teens), died of a recurrence of her own cancer — aged 92.

  • ichabod replied to the topic Doctor Who memories

    Winston: Maybe a female Doctor will get a whole new bunch of people watching and loving the show so it keeps going.  . . .  I always understood that to be politically correct just meant being polite and kind and being considerate of everyone no matter who they are.

    Thank you, Winston; nicely put.  The “origin story” that I’ve read about the ter…[Read more]

  • ichabod replied to the topic General Music thread 3

    @thane16  Yup, just can’t stay away — civilized and intelligent conversation is much to be prized these days, and youse guys have it.

    Yeah, “Innocence” wasn’t wonderful, just pleasant, and that mostly because Nighy is such a pleasure to watch at work.  Speaking for myself, I can’t stand reading Christie — it’s all timetables, “fixed” clocks, a…[Read more]

  • ichabod replied to the topic General Music thread 3

    @thane16  Speaking of Nighy….there’s a strange series -an Agatha Christie – starring the venerable Nighy  that looks  horrorific. Has it been well received in the UK?

    Hi, Puro — if you mean, “Ordeal by Innocence”, I saw that on Netflix, I think, and enjoyed it, but I haven’t seen anything by way of reaction to it.

  • @missy  Me, too.  Me, too.

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