@winston  Lucky devil!

I think a lighter season could be great — give rein to Capaldi’s sly, dry humor, although we’ll just have to supply the Explosive Tucker Profanity for ourselves . . .

@toinfinityandbeyond  Oh, good; thanks for the link.

@missrori  not in the U.S. til next spring.

Brilliant decision.  Aargghhh!

@cathannabel  Did you see any of the American remake of “The Returned”?  Awful, awful, awful, like a badly cracked bell.  I’m sure the producers would have just strung it out into six seasons if they could have . . . although even in the US, the idea of closed-ended series working for higher quality and an actual story has taken root.  I await the…[Read more]

Something interesting from Radio Times:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/aboutthebbc/entries/5fa5d449-0c02-4839-846e-c4a999dbaba6

@janetteb  I was disappointed by the recent Del Toro Crimson Peak.

Haven’t seen it yet — I was put off, really, by an interview with this director before CP was released, about how deeply involved he’d become in just playing around with monsters and horror scares on film.  I think he told his one big story — and it is a big one — in “The D…[Read more]

@missy  “Miss Peregrine” opens here this weekend, and I’m going to see it asap — Burton’s work is always worth a look, IMO.  And after “Penny Dreadful”, I’d follow Eva Green anywhere — well, almost.

@cathannabel  @puroandson  The zombie theme has always seemed to me to be hermetically sealed with nowhere to go but in circles, so I steer cle…[Read more]

@cathannabel  Thanks for the recce — saw the Wilderpeople and enjoyed it very much, but I hadn’t heard of the Huppert film.  Is it a new-ish one of hers?  She’s always in interesting movies, though sometimes a tad too rarified for me.  This one sounds attractive, though.

@pedant  Thanks!

@pedant   What’s vpn?  I too have had a loving message from Sonja, so I’m a bit concerned about getting locked out.

@theconsultingdoctor  Yes, Sherlock’s mind palace via Moffat is drug-induced hallucination, isn’t it?  I don’t see it as a way of remembering things and ideas, which was the original intention of this mental structure as an educational device.  It’s much more a twisty, almost artistic version of reality tripped through on drugs, which is a far cr…[Read more]

@missy  Great; thanks for checking!  So different for most of us, with our various notions of  “the afterlife” where we’ll supposedly meet our lost relatives and friends and lovers again in some sort of — happy, timeless stasis? For a space wanderer who has never met a real “God” or glimpsed the paranormal — an existential space wanderer st…[Read more]

@blenkinsopthebrave  @nerys  Yep; me too.

@winston   I always check in on Holmes versions, to see what other writers/performers find in him.  Since the character as ACD wrote him is nearly 100% rationality, people project all sorts of interesting ideas and emotions onto it in more current interpretations.  I’m reading (well, skimming) the latest of Laurie King’s meditations on Sh…[Read more]

@missy   Ah, okay; I’ll take another look when I get a chance . . .

@missy  Thanks for thanks; I think the full line, though, is “I’m so sick of losing people”, and refers in the first place to Ashildr — ?  He doesn’t actually *lose* in the larger sense — the monster is dealt with, the people on the train are rescued and the mummy soldier is freed, etc., usually (“Sleep No More” is an exception — he and Clara g…[Read more]

@arbutus  “Catch Me” is a good pic, too.  And Ab-Fab is something my husband and I used to watch with delight and quote lines from, as my whole family used to do with the Goon Show!

@theconsultingdoctor  A “brain attic”!  That made me laugh!  I didn’t remember it from reading the Holmes canon way back there someplace, so thanks.  Given what attics tend to look like (and how hot or icy cold they usually are, not to mention musty), I take the high road, thanks — the “palace”.  But you’ve actually tested this concept and used…[Read more]

@missrori   She certainly did not think her life was worth risking the Web of Time or burning a billion billion hearts….

True: “I was dead,” she says, and not needing anybody to do anything for her any more.

The Hybrid was destined to do what it did because it had to heal its heart(s). Her heart did not need healing…but his did.

That’s an very…[Read more]

@puroandson  Hi, Son Of, I do know the movie you mention — I’m not a Hanks fan, although I appreciate some of his work.  This movie, about the emergency passenger-jet landing on the Hudson River, has been getting very enthusiastic reviews here. It’s apparently *not* a slam-bang thriller-type approach to the situation but a down-to-earth take on a…[Read more]