@JimTheFish

Couldn’t be more timely. I will use this as an excuse to plug 13 Reasons Why again. Very on point.

@Thane15

Re short stories

You seem to have been given a time limit, rather than a word limit, which is…odd. If there is a word limit, remember that it is a limit, not a target. A friend of mine can write a complete short story in…[Read more]

@missy

Quite the opposite in my case. I value your opinions and ideas very highly so I wouldn’t say that they do not sway me a jot. I believe that everyone can say something inspiring, spot more things and understand them better than me. Of course there are things that I like and no one can convince me that I’m wrong in my conviction (I can’t be…[Read more]

@ichabod @janetteb I couldn’t agree more. I think announcements like this about Bill’s sexuality spoil the fun a bit (as a fun I mean discovering the character). And I would love to see Clara kissing Jane Austin but it never occured to me that she’s bisexual.

I doubt that you are the only one of us on a count down Janette.

Thank you @ichabod. this could the series to end all series – and THIS time, I shall watch every episode, instead of waiting until I get the DVD. It almost killed me last year.

Missy

@merseyL

Like @ichabod, it makes no difference to me what people say.  I love it or don’t and other peoples opinions, although sometimes interesting, do not sway me a jot.

@joshamus: I don’t suppose it was Steven Moffat’s idea to tell all. The media love to cause, what they think, is a sensation. As for what  I think? It doesn’t bother me one…[Read more]

@joshamus @ichabod @craig

Now that’s what I call a gay agenda….

(If Moffat’s writing – all the way back to Press Gang – has a consistent theme it is about loneliness and the desperate need to companionship and how connection makes us better, being isolated breaks us. The many and varied ways he has found to explore that, to riff time and again…[Read more]

@ichabod They announced today that it will be set up in the very first scene of the new series.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-39444025

I think it’s great too, for all the reasons you mention. I really hope we don’t get a female Doctor now that Bill fancies. That would be a retrograde step.

But I know where you are coming from @jos…[Read more]

@missrori @joshamus @ichabod @thane15

The more I discuss Doctor Who the less I like it as your comments and theories make me realize the whole potential hidden in the storyline and left me disappponted as it’s usually not fulfilled. But this forum is a bit addictive.

@ichabod:

Yes, I do know what you mean.

Missy

@ichabod yes aftershow means it airs directly after the show. It’s an American thing so i doubt we will get it here in the UK! @thane15 i don’t have any worries about the actors and producers of the actual show it’s the presenters and other guests on the aftershows that get on my nerves. don’t get me wrong i tend to give Doctor Who way more praise…[Read more]

@ichabod   Mad times indeed.  (Hugs for those who need them)  One of the saddest things about these disasters right now is that while the officials, etc. in the U.K. are handling this with grace and dignity, it is not a guarantee that those in power elsewhere will.  Many people will turn this into just another political football to kick around to…[Read more]

@ichabod  I’m a theatre buff too, and I’ve heard a lot about the Groundhog Day musical from its original run in Stratford-on-Avon.  (The creative team was responsible for the very much loved stage version of Roald Dahl’s Matilda, so there was a lot of advance hope and hype for this one.)  Some people who have seen it there or in previews in N.Y.…[Read more]

@ichabod

Not as far as I know. Maybe on Amazon.

@ichabod

Doesn’t appear to be on Region 1 DVD (either Amazon or the BBC America store), so unless it is on  iTunes or one of the streaming services in the US then it’s a region 2 import and a region-hacked player.

@thane15 @MissRori @ichabod

Becoming, Part 1

Whistler: No one asks for their life to change, not really. But it does. So what are we, helpless? Puppets? No. The big moments are gonna come. You can’t help that. It’s what you do afterwards that counts. That’s when you find out who you are.

@janetteB and @ichabod Thanks for the advice.  (hugs)  I’m sure things will come back in time.  Maybe around April…  😉

@thane15 and @ichabod — You’re right, of course, and I’m terribly sorry I didn’t make things clearer.  I put “better” in quotation marks for a reason.  😉  Of course he makes the right choices when he had the chance, because he is the Doctor and not a sociopath.  That takes a lot of courage and strength on his part because he doesn’t know the pot…[Read more]

@ichabod : Took your advice and looked up Sir Patrick on Graham Norton. The man is hilarious.

Love him on American Dad too!

Why hasn’t he been on Doctor Who????

Let us know what you think @ichabod!  😉

I’ve been feeling rather blah of late.  My muse hasn’t felt like creating new poetry or anything in quite a while, and last year it was pretty prolific.  And perhaps it’s my autism, but trying to force myself to work on creative work everyday — which is what they always recommend as a way to punch th…[Read more]

@thane15:

So if he’d left children & civilians on G’frey die that would’ve been better? 

Well, in the sense that it would have been less grief for the Doctor in the long run, it would have been “better”.  Same with Ashildr — if he’d let her perish even though he could keep that from happening, it would have spared him much grief and guilt.  A…[Read more]