Damn, but I love cat stories.  They are our court jesters — entertaining us with silliness, showing us up, reminding us of Nature’s indifference, mystifying us, making us love them, and leaving too soon.  No wonder they’ve taken over the world; just like us, in that respect, and just as destructive in their own ways.  Of course we fall for th…[Read more]

@missy  You feel the way you feel, and you’ve plenty of company, judging by some of the comments I’ve seen elsewhere on the choice of JW to be Doctor 13.

Mind you, I think we might have been far better off with a female Jesus — only she would have been done away with a whole lot sooner, IMO.  Uppity women — faugh!  Wasn’t there a great ph…[Read more]

@thane16   Puro  — I think I read that during Capaldi’s run a lot of older female fans (or younger female fans when they started, attracted by Tennant, who had *become* somewhat older female fans) went all in for this Doctor.  There were lots of posts, at first, among young female fans lamenting that Capaldi was “too old”, “a mean old man”, “t…[Read more]

@thane16  Screeching Weasel and The Grateful Frogs . . . how did I miss that concert?  Same way I missed all the other ones, I guess.

@thane16  Mmm; yup, statistics alone can be awfully shallow when it comes to viewership figures (well, not complicated for the bottom-line minders, but for viewers with a sense of the varieties of viewers and their, as it were, various views.

I see the Capaldi/Moffat era as a bold experiment that yielded a bumpy ride, but the highs were indeed…[Read more]

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@kharis  Had been hoping the trailer would get me excited, but all it did was make me miss my favorite doctors.

On the other hand, you also got ice cream and wine . . .

Well, it’s just the wait now.

Thing that frustrates me is what @mudlark says above, and the inevitability of it.  When DW was a low budget, quirky show for family viewing that h…[Read more]

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@bluesqueakpip  Ah, thanks; yes, that makes sense.  Love the kiss story!

@pedant   I’ll go find your post — this recurrent issue drove me nuts back when it was hot and dripping vitriol.

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@blenkinsopthebrave  Thanks so much!  I never saw that one, I’m sure — and I’ll look for it.

My aversion to Troi is based on the irritating lack of anything real for this character to *do* in the series except state the obvious; but beyond that, the problem of the creators and writers seemingly assuming that a female character is *only* good f…[Read more]

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@blenkinsopthebrave  Oh ho — I await the revelation of your favorite favorite with bated breath — and hope that when you do name it, I can actually remember it!  I find the original series ludicrously tacky now, as well as astonishingly ambitious in its politics, but still enjoy some of NG, if Deanna Troy isn’t in it.  Okay, it was good of th…[Read more]

@craig  Thanks so much for the whole set of interviews with Moffat — I’d not seen the third installment before.  With  Moffat, there’s always something fresh or new — to me, at least.  Always a pleasure.

@thane16  @blenkinsopthebrave  I try to see “Close Encounters” about once every 5 yrs or so; love the optimism, the lack of paranoia and gener…[Read more]

@hiker  @thane16  @oswald  PCap is my Doctor too — happy to join the crowd on this.  He was the Doctor for grown-ups (hence the flat merchandise sales since most grown-ups don’t seem to be that much into action figures etc.), and he made the most of it.  It was a wonderful “most”, too, and I think it will wear well on re-watch well into the futu…[Read more]

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@blenkinsopthebrave  the great science fiction series of all time is Doctor Who.

WHAT?  My God, I had no idea — Harlan said that?  Wow.  If I’d known before, I’d have called him up for a natter about it.  He was a very — ah — volatile party, who often did amazing favors for other writers and/or insulted, alienated, and occasionally punch…[Read more]