@puroandson  OH yeah . . . let’s keep him, just as long as he wants to be, er, kept?  Um.

And yes, I remember the take-out dinner now!  Thank goodness.  But — did he *eat* any?  Onscreen?  Well, maybe none of them did, cuz lines, after all.  Talking with your mouth full, not recommended . . . People gotta eat, even TLs, right?  Even thin TLs who…[Read more]

@puroandson  I think you did grand, myself.  IMO, a bit of righteous friction has its place, even in these generally peaceable precincts.  There’s a certain breed of fannish stubbornness about all sorts of things (bees in bonnets, rigid  expectations or demands that were disappointed, etc.) that doesn’t flourish here, so visitors of that str…[Read more]

@puroandson  (I’ve missed your incisive prose so waving ‘halloo’ at you) and otters…

Ha!  Otters are not here!  You’re stuck with US!

Thanks for halloo, though.  And waves.

Ichi

@janetteb   Hit the nail on the head — change is the life blood of DW.  But too much at once is extra-difficult and hard on everybody, particularly, I think, on fans with more rigid and defensive mind-sets about the show.  We just have to trust the new folks (and the old ones — I’m assuming some of Chib’s writers will be veterans of Moffat’s sh…[Read more]

@puroandson  (but really PuroSolo right now — )  Right back atcha, and feel free to entertain the wrathy whenever the urge comes upon you.  You’re polite and funny about it, *and* you’ve had plenty of provocation lately even without the Windy One in your hospital room.

Be reassured; from what I’ve observed on other boards, at this point Ca…[Read more]

@missy  TWICE?!  Wow!  That’s a lot of — um; well, a lot of beautiful, perfectly paced, gorgeously lit and framed, terrifying cauldron full of a seething churn of loss, repentance, and the fortitude of stars.  Or something.

Now I’ll have to go watch again, myself.  Thanks, for the whetting of the appetite for another helping (or two) of that…[Read more]

Is fine — so far; only please, not so much *screaming* and screaming and screaming, all the time.  Please note: this ep passes the Bechtel Test: named female characters conversing with each other but not, for a good deal of the time (I think — too much screaming and shouting to be sure when, exactly, and how long), about the men.  More about s…[Read more]

@puroandson  PuroSolo —  I suspect, though, that the Stupids have won and want all episodes to be like Blink or The Family of Blood. I loved them actually -Paul Cornell did a pretty good job in that Human Nature two parter. Mainly, though, the Doctor ran, cried, sobbed, snogged and talked (fast).

Yup.  Too much of all that for my taste, for fa…[Read more]

@pedant  Actually Lost had a known closing date 3 seasons out – of course, that didn’t stop people from completely failing to pay attention at the end (no, they weren’t dead all along)

Yeah, but by then they’d already bumbled themselves into such a raggedy mess of a story that it was too late, in my estimation, to bring the thing to a satisf…[Read more]

@puroandson  PuroSolo  I’ve seen with American interviewers do say the same thing: “here is Peter Capaldi”. In the interview itself, they never say Peter, they use both his names.

You know, I have a feeling that this is at Capaldi’s request, because he’s pushing back against the tendency for people to say his last name as “Cap-ALL-di”, but he…[Read more]

@bluesqueakpip  Oh, good — I hope your assessment proves right, and all the angsty ones wrong, for all our sakes!

PuroSolo @puroandson this: I was only asking about whether Capaldi was referred to like that or introduced like this? In the States? You then say “PLEASE, please don’t put my name anywhere near [some part of] a sentence”

PuroSolo, you are correct.  The “Pete” phrase appears in @ob-wan  post #50590 as follows:  Believe me, Pete’s agent is on the p…[Read more]

@winston    Doctor Who must be a demographic nightmare.

From a show runner’s point of view, I imagine so.  You can see the effort being made in S8 to get some lighter material in there, and loose-jointed plots that make groan-ups out of grown-ups (RoS, FotN), but on the whole I think Moffat pretty much went his own way in this series and in S9…[Read more]

Doctor Who News has a feature with Capaldi giving us a bit of a tour of a UN-run camp for Syrian refugees, with more to come.  Here’s the link:

http://www.doctorwhonews.net

@doctordani  Capaldi isn’t any less popular than Smith really

I think people sometimes get the really crazy Moffat-hatred as including Capaldi too, particularly since there was some very childish horror expressed by some very loud and persistent Tennant/Smith obsessives that Capaldi was too “old” and “mean” as the Doctor.  That died away, at lea…[Read more]

@puroandson  PuroSolo  Now we watch Fringe and are pretty bored.

Yeah, well . . . my sister and I call each other up to yell, “Guess what’s on television tonight?  NOTHING!”  We’re hoping for the return of  “The Leftovers” soon, but that is probably not a show for teens, who tend to be confused enough as it is.  “Game of Groans” will be back…[Read more]

@puroandson  @missy  I guess there’s a line in the sand somewhere. Hmm, now where was that line in the sand from? 🙂

I’ve always felt the “line in the sand” metaphor is basically a poignant and rather wistful one: one swipe of a strong breeze, and where is it then?

@craig  Yep; done and dusted, as requested.

@zepyr101  Just registering annoyance with needlessly crude and provocative language and unspecific mud-slinging, in case you choose to think that relative quiet on that score = assent, in any particular.

@puroandson  Son of Puro  Please tell your mum that the hospital was only brought up at all because I asked, in response to an earlier post of yours.  Do pass any blame along to me; and nobody here, I’m sure, thought there was any attention-bidding going on (other members have posted personal bits here from time to time *ahem* without no such re…[Read more]