@missy  Of “Heaven Sent” + adjectives –“Mind-blowing” just seems so, so weak somehow . . . but it was.  Also I found it viscerally painful, and that feeling lasted for a couple of days.  Like a . . . toothache?  The kind you keep poking back to your mental foreground with your tongue, because damn it.  Something.  Because, beaut…[Read more]

@missy   Not the Raven — it’s a middle-European (?) folk tale, about the hugeness of Eternity and the smallness of men (even great men, like the emperor), one of many in which authorities find wisdom by turning to humble country folk for answers. Anybody remember if the fellow whose challenge was how to render the hard surface of the world…[Read more]

@pedant  @winston   Loved “Dead Like Me” — bought the box.  Time for a re-watch!

@lesames   Not to worry, we’re not beastie show-offs here.  But you might want to take your comments over the the “Hell Bent” thread instead of here.

@superfreak  Well, there are people who don’t like all kinds of aspects of S9: the rather murky tease of “Sleep No More”, anything about Clara, the Fisher King, Ashildr, etc.; a concentration on th…[Read more]

@missy   As to bringing it on herself — I don’t agree.  She gets a sort of Rube Goldberg accidental death, more indirect than Danny’s, but just as unpredictable and “ordinary” as his.  I think it’s in the Extra with this episode that Moffat talks about how they took care to make it impossible to lay *blame* for this event on any of the ch…[Read more]

@arbutus — can’t get the thing to load, but will keep trying.  @pedant   *Love* those headless monks!

@puroandson   Lovely!  I love the delighted smiles that these eruption bring — thank you!

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PuroSolo — I’m with you on the anger; these losses never seems “fair”, although I maintain that we don’t have a clue, really, whatever we may believe.  I’m thinking of Robin Williams, whose death made more sense as suicide in some form when it became known that he’d been suffering with Parkinson’s disease for some years (that, at…[Read more]

@missy  For whatever help my comments were, you’re welcome of course.

And yes, dead is “dead” in my book as well — because whatever happens to the soul, assuming there is one, without the body it inhabited it’s no longer that person, with all his or her connections with family, friends, colleagues, etc.,  but something (or nothing) else.

@kharis  Hmm.  A bit like that daft bloviater Hydroflax in “Husbands”, with his exploding booby-trap body.

@missy   It’s a good example of an “unreliable narrator” story: a film put together *by the bad guy*, Rasmussen, so we have to assume that he has edited the footage from the station cameras (and helmet cams of various characters) to make the story *he* wants to tell, for his own nefarious purposes having to do with spreading the Sandman p…[Read more]

For those who don’t already know this stuff (I was surprised to find elsewhere that Rickman went to a Montessori school as a kid), a rough round-up about Rickman.  Look at how dorky he looked as a youngster, playing Tybalt!  And what a uniquely beautiful man he became.

http://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-35313578

I really hate these l…[Read more]

@miapatrick  historically women seem to be frequently either raised onto a pedestal, or pushed down into the gutter,

Yep; and the pedestal wasn’t *ever* a pedestal of intelligence and abstract thought, but one of idealized “purity” and a weird high-mindedness empty of actual thought.  Since women were not to be permitted to be Thinkers or D…[Read more]

@puroandson  Is feminism an ideology to you?  For me it’s something different. If ideology, it becomes a separate unbonded issue (like a chemical compound) which can be argued away -I suppose. But that’s the way I look at it.

I was looking at it as rejecting the cultural habit of identifying assertive, even flamboyantly dominant women this way a…[Read more]

@xaxiomatic   Welcome; and yes, what impresses me most is how bold Steven Moffat is.  I think it’s his risk-taking that his haters hate most.  They see it as arrogance, which tells me so much more about them than it does about him, none of it good.  River’s character wasn’t appealing to me from the start, as her “chemistry” with SmithDoc felt for…[Read more]

@puroandson  Dear PuroSolo — thanks for bringing that to us; lovely story.  It’s very good to hear from you in any case.

Bloody Hell.

@bluesqueakpip   Thanks for the news, terrible as it is, and for the song.

@brewski  Oh gosh, no, of course not!  I see what you mean, and was only saying that it looks to me as if ACD was quite serious about “killing” Holmes.  He wrote letters expressing his annoyance at the success of what he regarded as light entertainment, and wanted badly to highlight his more serious work, so it was a he really was trying to get ou…[Read more]

@superfreak  Did anyone else just go ‘huh??!!’ at the end of this? Kind of like how I went ‘huh??! ‘ at the end of the Sherlock Christmas special.

That’d be me; I’m not the quick study I was in days of yore, and I need re-watches just to get really complicated stuff straight before I can chat about it.  That review of SNM cited in my post abov…[Read more]

@superfreak    Thanks for your music — you have a clear, free-flowing voice that’s very appealing.  I loved S9, too, plus the Xmas Special which wrapped it up with near-perfection — which is as close as we ever get.

@birdtomahawk   You’re right, I forgot the “Kane” remark — my head was full of images of stairs, bannisters, and Cesar cre…[Read more]