@theconsultingdoctor  Yes, I think it’s a particularly successful example of the sub-sub-sub genre of fan fiction, and stands as a quiet rebuke to the common charge that fan fic is rubbish even at its best.  Of course a lot of it *is* rubbish, if literary quality and consistency with the original characters is your standard.  Even even the ju…[Read more]

@pharellman  What’s wrong with cooking, and kind of “some cleaning house” housework? Sometimes it’s even relaxing after whole day of tired life.

It took me many decades to give in and admit that much as I hate washing the dishes, once I’ve actually driven myself to do it, it’s a very soothing, pleasant way to spend some time.

@arbutus   I think Donald Trump is his own focus group.

And his own Companion, too.  Well, nobody else should *every* be stuck with that job, unless they are willing to endure it in order to come out well-fixed for money for life.

@missy  Perhaps he should have been suffocated at birth?

Alas, it is too late . . .

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@arbutus   CapDoc shows up strongest when he is challenged. He can use a few well-chosen, acerbic words to put them in their place!

Yes — but you have to be careful, or you get people whining that the Doctor isn’t supposed to be “mean” to his companion, let alone to be seen to be “putting down” a female companion.  It’s a tricky line to walk, an…[Read more]

@mersey   The Authority.  We do indeed see him differently!  I’ve generally found him to be too quirky to be that, and also a bit too alien (on and off).  To me, he swings between being on our wave-length and being — not; it’s like an extreme shift of focus, I think.  Close in and fully engaged with us, his understanding is triggered.  When his m…[Read more]

@missy   Thanks!  I’ll find it.

@missy  Yes, I did and loathed it!  However I did watch the series “The Murder Rooms” or “Doctor Bell and Mr. Doyle”- superb.

I’m drawing a blank on Murder Rooms — though I did catch one episode and enjoyed it.  But then, it’s a UK production, right?  The problems tend to arise, perhaps, when someone pitches a story about characters *who do not…[Read more]

@mersey  That’s my chief argument against 12. You can expect that 2000 years old man will be more stoic in the face of death and loss

Yes; but then, I wouldn’t care about the character.  He’d be just another standard comic-book superhero — save ’em, lose ’em, all in a day’s work, and all forgotten by next week’s issue or episode — unless deat…[Read more]

Anybody watch “Houdini & Doyle”?  I did, sort of.  Trouble is, I’m dead spoiled — and while this involved the infamous Magdelane Laundries and a female cop with some feminist consciousness, there’s a nice psychic character that Doyle consults, and the idea of teaming up the spiritualist Doyle with the ghost-busting Houdini has promise, the p…[Read more]

@puroandson  Oh, I agree — you could say that he could be simply running away from the prospect of taking his expected place in that class-dominated society would be explanation enough for his escape in the Tardis.

“The Lives of Others” is gorgeous, isn’t it.  Wonderful work.

Maybe do the dance *before* the vodka . . . ?  Health and safety su…[Read more]

@dentistofdavros   Thanks, and I do love “Whistle”, which scared the daylights out of me for years after I first encountered it.  Will go find John Hurt’s take — is it a reading, or a teleplay?

@puroandson  specifically Puro Solo:  Yeah, you get me, I know.  Thanks for that.  I left the Russians out because they seem to be a special case, also adding in a perfectly understandable and reasonable but painful attitude of frustrated idealistic rationalism, and a particularly raw and persistent tragic sense of life.  From what I’ve read, and…[Read more]

Oh, yikes — okay, that was a surprise!  So not to worry about the other fanfic items on the original page I found this on.  I *still* don’t know how to do anything on the internet . . . oh, well, never mind.

Somebody mentioned fanfic, and some of it being pretty damn good — not here, I think, but it’s late, so I’ll just plop this down here and hope for the best: one of good pieces I came across a while ago is here

Very short, but by someone interested…[Read more]

@mersey   I want to see the Doctor who enjoys being himself. He speaks a lot that he saves people but he failed to save major characters like Clara, Danny, Osgood, Ashildr.

Well, to be fair, he *did* save Ashildr from death, pretty permanently it seems.  And he did end up working with revived Clara to save her and himself, in Hell Bent, and t…[Read more]

If I can’t have a Buddhist Doctor, why not a Buddhist companion, at least?  Some one who doesn’t go in for prayer rituals (I can’t see the Doctor let that go by without a challenge, in some one who travels with him) but who has spiritual beliefs about the universe at large that would be a challenge to the Doctor in more general terms.  Maybe an i…[Read more]

@puroandson  @thedentistofdavros   I liked the herky-jerky mixed pickles of S8 a lot, myself — I felt “invited into” the headlong rush of newness and confusion that both leads were trying to get past, after him left reeling by a completely unexpected new set of regenerations instead of flat-out death, and her losing her Chin boy (after e…[Read more]

@missy  You are most welcome!

@puroandson  (Solo)  Free the gryphons!  Cages are lousy under most circumstances, but a well-designed zoological garden is more for protection of animals from crazy, greedy, desperate humans than v.v.

@craig  @blenkinsopthebrave  — heard from “carolyn” this morning.  She has fallen in love with my profile.  Do I even have a profile?

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