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@barbable   Oh, thanks!

Can’t wait to see it on my computer tomorrow via itunes, *without* the god damned ads that were on BBCA.

@blenkindsopthebrave  I bought a season pass myself, this morning, thus freeing myself of scheduled broadcasts, which is a timetable flexibility I need these days.

Cheers!

@toinfinityandbeyond   Baldric, yes!  A very big, BIG Baldric, with an axe — run away, run away!

@craig   Thanks for the clarification.

@purofilion  Yes, it looks like you get access to everything — says here, it all goes into your iTunes “purchased” file, so it’s really yours, I think.

@blenkinsopthebrave  iTunes is offering a “season pass” to S9 for $31.00, access to anything and everything DW that comes down the pike, looks like.  If iTunes will let me set a new password instead of the old one that I remember perfectly well only they don’t, I plan to sign up so I can catch up if medical emergencies or travels interfere.  …[Read more]

@thecleverzygon  Right, got it this time.

Only I think, @pedant et al, that the spoiler at issue is partly my doing, in responding to two earlier posts on the subject set off by a sighting of the news, as news after months of speculation we’ve seen on this, on FB.  I made the same assumption that those posters did — that if it’s announced in t…[Read more]

@missy  The German interview was unusually thoughtful, as I recall.  As for SM, he does know how to provoke — but I think of it more as (among his duties as show runner rather than episode writer/doctor) doing effective publicity for a show with long wait-times between seasons/series.  He’s got an unusually restless and intelligent audience to ke…[Read more]

@purofilion  No, no, I saw it in one of the bits and pieces that keeps getting thrown onto my computer screen as I cruise around — they’ve put out so many teasers, in long and short forms with various mixes and matches of glimpses from here and there that I can’t identify the source of anything much — except everything I’ve put here comes from…[Read more]

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Maybe this belongs here — an interesting new interview with Capaldi, with some insights into this and that:

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/tvandradio/doctor-who/11858973/Peter-Capaldi-You-dont-just-play-the-Doctor-you-represent-him.html

And you were right, @puro (I think?), there is some running problem going on — I’d rather assumed that…[Read more]

I think Missy called the disc a “Confession Calendar.  This is the last Will and Testament of the Doctor.”  The sound’s a bit woozy right there; my conclusion, given Capdoc’s instruction to Ohila (“You know who to five this to”), is that the disc is given to Clara, who tries to use it to find the Doctor (for urgent reasons), can’t, so goes to M…[Read more]

@gallifreyangoldfish  About Jenna Coleman leaving — a few thoughts ventured: for one thing, playing *any* role for years at a time probably gets pretty wearing after a while, not least when you’re still a young actor looking forward to new and different jobs so you don’t get type-cast and end up only playing, say, “sidekicks” (or monsters — see…[Read more]

@blenkinsopthebrave  Thanks, lovely!  We loved those UK comedy films when I was a kid.  Bringing it back . . .

@thecrynoidman  Thanks for the Orff!  A bouncy start to the day, much appreciated!

@thekrynoidman  Thanks — it amazes me that they’re talking about sending her home after two days and one night — but glad she’s smart and tough, and will probably be all right.  Nothing like a good sound kick in the butt as a wake-up call to fix your bad habits . . . mine too, I hope!