@miapatrick  The worrying thing for me at the moment isn’t really the pass she gives the system. It’s the fact that, just as she isn’t doing anything about a race of aliens moving through the universe killing people for sport. She isn’t doing anything about the human root of the corporation

The problem with that for me is that it’s coupled…[Read more]

@jimthefish  WhitDoc . . .  seems to have forgotten a lot of life lessons. I quite like the hesitant naivete of this Doc but it sometimes seems to rely a little too much on her not having been remotely affected by the experiences of previous regenerations.

That’s my major problem with her too.  And the wide eyes and big O mouth of surprised de…[Read more]

@janetteb  I do like Robots of Sherwood. I agree the script is very silly and the ending even sillier. I enjoy it because it is a fun play on the Errol Flynn movie and the banter between Capdoc and Robin is hilarious.

Me. too — I was happily reminded of a bunch of lurid “historical” movies of my childhood, and I found poor Robin’s uncertainty…[Read more]

@mudlark — Good luck with the nose!  Here in the American Southwest, oddities with noses (and cheeks, and ears) are taken quite seriously.  I’m glad yours is being taken that way too.

@missy  Although only fiction and an actor acting out that fiction, PC’s Doctor always made me feel safe. Strange isn’t it.

I felt both the same, and the opposite — never knew, particularly in S8, which way he would jump, or how far he would go, but simultaneously there was no doubt whatever in my mind that this Doctor’s two hearts were posi…[Read more]

@mudlark  Thanks!  And Fermor’s book is one of my favorites, right up there with, say, “Akenfield: Portrait of an English Village” et al.

@toinfinityandbeyond  — GAWD, that clip is *wonderful* — thanks so much!  Love it, love it — and they used the middle eight!  Hurray!

@cathannabel   I must have told him a dozen times each day ‘Don’t wander off’ with about as much effect as it had when various Doctors gave that instruction to various companions (he did wander off in the middle of Salzburg,

I know the feeling, from when my husband and I did a couple of river cruises, and before it became just too much to even t…[Read more]

@margaret-blaine   . . . under Chibnall, the show seems to be moving in a different direction and the time for theorizing of a bonkers nature may, sadly, be over. Perhaps this has been a Moffat site more than a Dr Who site.

My very thoughts.  Even a good story (like “Punjab”) is flatfooted, by which I mean — what you see is what you get, so ho…[Read more]

@blenkinsopthebrave  Ye gods.  That clip really *hurts*, after all this time — and so much else that has hurt and continues to hurt.

@bluesqueakpip  High ratings — good!  Relieved to hear it.  Thanks.

@mudlark  Yaz . I thought I knew my Nan … But if this is true, if this is her life, then she lied to me.

Graham. … that girl in there, she ain’t your nan, yet. It’s only later that she’ll decide how to tell it. And I honestly don’t know whether any of us know the real truth about our own lives’.

This was the first hint of serious depth in this…[Read more]

@missy  Yes, many of us do . . . Funny, but it was always quite clear that Capaldi himself was not “his” Doctor (“He’s the Doctor, I’m just a guy”), and that the Doctor was separated from human by eons of not-human experience although electrifyingly connected to humanity at certain emotional points.

The thing with Whittaker that I’m finding is…[Read more]

@BJT25  2, Jodie is a proven good actor so why is she the same in all episodes!

That’s the writing: so far, it’s been pretty simplistic and shallow (compared with what we’ve become used to with Moffat, that is), but I’m hoping for better as the writers gain more confidence.

Female roles in the past episodes have been so much stronger.  I think t…[Read more]

@mudlark  Oops, misread “Cry” as “City”.  Time for lunch!

@pedant  O crap on the BMW — I’ve been bashed like that once, no great harm done, by a very old lady driver who told me she’d thought she was on the interstate highway rather than little old Thingie Street, and I found the sheer *shock* of it absolutely — I like a quiet life, thrills and chills and bolts of panic strictly on a viewing screen,…[Read more]

@chiara  I think a female actor with a bit more character may have been better (personally I think Rebecca Front would have been quite good)

I think so too; Amanda Tapper, from “Sanctuary” etc, might have done better.  I’m feeling a bit overwhelmed by chipper-upper-lipper-itis, or something, and longing for some moments of reflection, some q…[Read more]

@juniperfish  We can’t wait for the Doctor, or anyone else, to fix earth’s problems. We have to do it ourselves. A rather sombre message, for sombre times.

And much needed — and heeded, to some degree, as noted about the mid-term elections here in the US.  This part of what CC is doing I do like: the scaling back of the earlier Docto…[Read more]