@winston  There’s another side to it, too: I don’t think many actors with serious talent *want* to stay in a single role long enough to get stale, bored, or permanently typecast as only this sort of character.  It must be great to have a steady paycheck (or as steady as that can be in the TV business), but still.  I’m thinking of Bela Lugosi, wh…[Read more]

@puroandson — love right back, our very own Hybrid.  Astrologer pal tells me the moon is “void of course” (??) tomorrow, so a day best used for calm reflexion, daydreaming, friendly conversation and turning loose the tiller to let the tides carry us where they will.

That’s all bosh though, right?  Search me, but I never mind being advised to b…[Read more]

@winston  Nothing wrong with fickle.  Fixating like a looney on one actor’s version, like certain crazies on tumblr etc., to the exclusion of all others seems pretty self-defeating, not to mention a teeny bit — adolescent?  Well, “youth audience”, so no surprise there, I guess . . .!  My faves are Eccleston, Capaldi, and Tom Baker, though I thi…[Read more]

@Arbutus Thanks! Yeah, Smith to me was Old but ignoring it (mostly) and very “boyish” and physical as part of that act. At times CapDoc remindsed me of Peter O’Toole, specially playing T.E. Lawrence — as a man who’s missing some invisible but protective layer of skin, so he tends to recoil from physical contact as a form of self-defe…[Read more]

@kharis   He is like someone with Aspergers who is somehow concealing he is an Empath, or protecting that side, almost burying it. He is complex and lovable.

Yep, that puts it very well.  I had a couple of teachers like this, in high school and college, strict and often really tired but caring, and they were the best.  As for Asperger’s — wel…[Read more]

@winston –  Ooh, yeah — except he *did* go, and I know I’m far from the only one who felt badly let down by his too-early departure.  I’d quite taken to his tougher (on the outside) Doctor, and Tennant just didn’t click for me (I just can’t connect with this actor — didn’t like him in Broadchurch either, but yes, I did watch, because people r…[Read more]

@missy  — so much nasty rumor flies around about everybody, thanks to chat rooms and cliques and weird politics etc. that I think it’s helpful to highlight this kind of off-stage inter-action to help keep our balance amid some of the crazy toxicity you run into sometimes.  Eccleston sounds like a mensch to me; but I am simple and easily pleased .…[Read more]

Something lovely, from over on Reddit:

Hope it works!

@puroandson  Sorry, I didn’t get back to you about this!  I’m not all that sure about tumblr myself — I signed up because some of the sites there have interesting poetry and art, and then I found some sites run by admirer’s of Peter Capaldi where there are sometimes interesting observations and some great photos etc.  There are also some crazy cl…[Read more]

@pedant  Thanks — Wish I could go!

Ah, Spike — some nasty crap would be sure to be flying around whenever he popped up!

@pedant  Right, sure made me laugh!  Spike, as I recall him, could be a sort of inverted Doctor — generally bad, but with a romantic heart(s) and flashes of goodness . . . ?  What’s Marsters up to these days, anybody know?  He had presence, that guy — well, they all did, didn’t they?  Loved Willow . . . also the werewolf boy, and Giles the Pati…[Read more]

@fatmaninabox  Good Lord!  That’s *insane*!

@bluesqueakpip  Now all we need is a trained commando who is also a veterinarian . . . ?  But let’s keep it equal opportunity: somebody for the fangirl vipers of tumblr, too?

Somebody over on DWTVuk posted in a chat about changes from SmithDoc to CapDoc and what’s likely for Series 10 and, beyond that, 11 raised an issue that’s been nagging at me.  Poster said that there’s only so much character-change that the Doctor can exhibit *because the series is open-ended* with no specific resolution driving it.  The c…[Read more]

@pedant @bluesqueakpip  Hell, I’m definitely on board for a spot of neutering!  But — so many promising prospects, so little time!

@pedant   Not “a woman” but this specific woman, with all the wagon trains of baggage behind her, the grief, the rage, the unspoken pain, driving her to a moment when she misses that one little detail… And then she faced it like a boss.  And then gets regenerated.

Bravo!  Exactly.  I find on various discussion sites that it’s the Clara-hate…[Read more]

@pedant @dalektor  On Dalek “art”, has this point ever been addressed in DW?  I mean the difficulties of actually perceiving alien art as art in our own terms.  It took a long time for Westerners to perceive African art as art, didn’t it?  Too easy to dismiss strange-looking objects as “ritual objects” or some such, maybe, rather than rea…[Read more]

@arbutus  Love your Dalek story!

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