I found some DW comics locally and had a look — they gave me, I think, a clearer idea of what the fans who want DW to get back to being “fun” again mean: all action all the time, a bit of wit, nothing much in the way of character exploration or interaction.  Action, action, action, and speed, speed, speed.  About what I thought I’d find.  …[Read more]

@janetteb  Hardy + ghosts?  Where can I find this show?!

Hasn’t the Doctor always been presented and played as a scientist (of SF science, but still, science) rather than a mystic?  He might be hopeful of finding ways *around* death (postponement, mostly, as with post-Raven Clara), but even that is so that the “dead” person can go on being in our live universe as a player.  What sort of “Heaven” would a…[Read more]

@puroandson  I simply turned off the music portion (I have a programme which allows me to do that -it’s not for purchase unfortunately) and heard the dialogue. In the end we had what’s called a ‘dry score’ or ‘dry run;’ whilst that was very helpful it’s not for everyone, I’m afraid and lowers the megahertz output by dozens of decibels causing…[Read more]

@missrori  Thanks for the comments on the Titan comics.  Gotta go look for that, sounds interesting.

@missy  The Clara/CapDoc chemistry is what got me, too — I think it was so strong that they could play a great number of variations on it and it *worked* because of being grounded in that natural and solid connection.  There are people you fee…[Read more]

@puroandson  I think Clara’s fast talking shtick was more annoying (at least to me) when she first met Eleven rather than her two series with Capaldi. As for wanting to have it all. Why on earth not?
I do. I want to be the flying sprite and the witty academic. I can’t but I want to. And I should for it’s in the wanting that we learn to know our tr…[Read more]

@puroandson   I hope you’ve been given some codeine or panadeine forte through the tough recovery. If ‘neck jewellery’ isn’t something you like, perhaps scarves?

I am delighted to report that I did come home with pain meds, but never had to use anything stronger than Tylenol, and now it’s just a bit of irritating soreness, nothing worse.  Best of…[Read more]

@whisht   thanks!  Feeling pretty good today —

@puroandson  — Glad you’re back home again.

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@janetteb  Your scar sounds rather like mine.  . . . For a while it did provide an excuse to buy lots of necklaces and fancy scarves

That’s what my mom did about her thyroid scar, too!  In my case, it’s hopeless — I mean that I buy pretty gewgaws from time to time, but sooner or later off they come, tossed in a box, forgotten — I just can’t ab…[Read more]

@trillianwho  @stitchintime  Well, that music was a signal to open wide (your mind, not so much your mouth) and prepare for something different from everything else — thrillingly unpredictable, sometimes a bit baffling but in a way that didn’t shut you up but made you want to ask more questions, spoken in a strange and exotic English (for US k…[Read more]

@missrori  @missy  Thanks you both for comments above — I think I share some of your thinking there, about the ways in which #12 is a-neurotypical for human behavior (and possibly TL behavior as well, since the TLs we’ve seen don’t seem any more different on average from stuck-up, over-privileged humans than the Olympian gods seemed in c…[Read more]

@missrori  Oh, I am — I am feeling much better, and enjoying not having to lie down and nap at odd times during the day any more.  I’m going to the gym today, but gently.  Just the treadmill, thanks, at a sedate speed.

@pedant  The rest of you got lucky

Yah — great line!  I liked Danny, and wanted just a bit more dimension to him, a scene or two of him with other people in his life; orphans have friends, and soldiers have old army buddies, but they never gave him any time as himself, on his own and in his own milieu outside of work, which I think would have h…[Read more]

@missy  — Funny, I don’t care for McGann either — maybe he’s just to smooth for my taste.  I like ’em a bit spiky, myself.

@missy  True enough, and DW has thriven on just that; pity many fans only give lip-service to change, but balk like a spooked horse at the actual jump (from one actor-Doctor to another, that is).  Even a show based on theme-and-variations will attract a conservative fringe — though of course, as in most questions of judgment, where to draw the l…[Read more]

@pedant   Uh — well, yes, the Clockwork/Buffy treatment might help create a breakthrough for some, but most of the objectors . Story arcs can require an unusual commitment to a show and its characters that not everyone is inclined to make.

And arcs can be overdone, too — e.g., “The Mentalist” and the “Red John” theme, which finally drove me…[Read more]

@stitchintime  @puroandson I don’t think he remembers, either, and yep, I’m one of those who put my thinking on it out there way up-thread.  I think he takes the chalkboard message as one he might have written himself at some earlier point, or that the Tardis might have generated for him.

@puroandson  The picture itself held no awareness for him…[Read more]