@puroandson  I think it was far more brave (dare I invoke that expression) to have her return and then categorically forget Clara so completely considering this was hinted right from the beginning in “remember me, you clever boy” implying a time in the paradox where he would no longer “remember” something important. Something very signific…[Read more]

@puroandson  Words couldn’t be his weapons in this or every instance -“every good man faces the world with actions” and sometimes, with inaction, which is symbolic in itself.

And Clara has pent up his best weapon herself: “Whatever you’re about to say, don’t.”  She disarms him and forbids him to *act* out revenge.  He bows to her wishes (at leas…[Read more]

@missrori   Thanks!  Heading up toward B&N now, will stop there after gym/treadmill.  Great!  A cool drink in a desert . . .

@missy   Well, the best Doctor for thee and me, anyway.  So far, that is, but it *is* pretty far, 50+ yr span.  I think what clinches it for me (in other cases too) is the most effective portrayal of the internal struggle between high intelligence and high passions (in the broader sense of course, not the romantic one).  Capaldi has embodied tha…[Read more]

@missy  Hmmm.  Looks a little like *my* mom, come to think of it . . . !

@missy  Ah, well, join the club.  I was just about ready to quit TV altogether and stick with old BBC stuff online when Capaldi took over as the best Doctor ever (for me, anyway, but I haven’t been 16 in a very long time, so . . .) and I sank right back in.  Now some good shows have turned up on HBO and even some broadcast stations, so I’m ho…[Read more]

@puroandson  @missy  Well, strictly speaking, change is an unavoidable thing, being a function of time; and nobody’s figured out yet how to stop time, at least as far as I know!  I’d not eager for a female Doctor either, but I reserve the right to be so surprised, in a good way, that I end up raving like a lunatic about a female actor in the ro…[Read more]

@missy  Yeah . . . gawd, I miss my DW fix!  In just about every respect, I can hardly wait for the end of this ghastly year.

@puroandson  I think we’re all getting surprise-proof when it comes to the ferocity of the backlash against so much of the progress of the pas 50 yrs . . . should have expected it, I guess.  I just keep expecting adult people in general to be a little more adult, but am always disappointed.  I hope I get to see the reverse set in ag…[Read more]

@todeledo  Ah, fun!  Thanks!  No beard — good news, IMO — that face is so expressive, I don’t want half of it hidden in hair.  And I do like that statement re beardlessness, authoritative but not snarky or a put-down.  That’s my guy.

@arbutus  Why are they recasting Xena and Gabrielle at only 40?

We know why.  But we don’t need feminism any more, right?

@miapatrick  Yep, that makes it worse — people who so lack understanding of what “human rights” means scare me when I think of them in the role of husband, wife, or parent.

A smart car!  I’d love to have one, but around here there are so many huge truck-like things (including those mini-hummers) that I wouldn’t feel safe enough in such a neat s…[Read more]

@puroandson  Oh, never fear, I am always on the scent; and somewhere, somehow, the game is always afoot.

Got to the second interview on Radio Free Skarro with Rachel Talalay, this one (#534, I think) centering on Hell Bent; fascinating, particularly her generosity toward everyone involved, and her ardent admiration for the actors and what they…[Read more]

@1997whovian  Thanks for your comment on itFotN — I thought it was clever and funny and didn’t mind the wonky “science” of the thing, which was mostly magic anyway.  Haven’t re-watched it recently, but there’s plenty of time (way too much plenty!) to look at the last two seasons before the promised Xmas special.

@arbutus   Happy to lightly share these thoughts . . . I think I got my first dose of perspective-exploding by reading a bunch of SF by early 20th c author Olaf Stapleton.  “Last and First Men”, among others (the title kind of gives it away, doesn’t it?).

@1997whovian   I’m a scendle, it seems; how odd — pretty accurate, actually.  I am scholarly type by nature . . .

@missy  You’re welcome.  I’m also given to snooping around for Doctor-y stuff in the internet, I guess.  Must go see if I might live to an old age in Sparta . . . which might be not such a great thing, what with story about the Spar…[Read more]

@puroandson  Without A/C, there’d be hardly anybody living in the Arizona-New Mexico area, I think.  The old maps of early European exploration show huge areas labeled “Great American Desert”, and we are it — except for A/C.  Oh, and more likely avacado green in the US, though my blender is white.  Love it for mixing tasty drinks!  Things that…[Read more]

Interesting find on ye internette; have folks here come across this?

http://www.digitalspy.com/tv/doctor-who/feature/a800125/doctor-who-bbc-original-plans/

@puroandson  And thanks for your concern, by the way.  Cars are a big subject here as well as there, since we also have large distances to drive to get anywhere less empty than substantial portions of this state.  They’re also an enormous nuisance; but (if I may don my reincarnation cap for a moment) every lifetime in every time and place has th…[Read more]

@puroandson  Oh, the subject will rise again no doubt (and should, really) as new developments occur.  And pickled onions would go very well right now . . . well, maybe not after lying down to sleep!  Me, I like a generous shot of Grande Marnier straight up, no ice, except that I don’t drink it any more because of the $#%^&*() calories.  It is b…[Read more]