• janetteB replied to the topic The Winchester

    @dentarthurdent. Sounds as though Mrs D needs a holiday to recover from her holiday. Hope all is well now. Raro sounds wonderful. I now want to visit. Your description reminds me of a small island that my friends and I stayed on on the Cork coast when we were backpacking/hitching around. With a population of 80 everyone was a neighbour and the pub…[Read more]

  • janetteB replied to the topic Dr Who News (5)

    @dentarthurdent. Yes. It was especially with all the nonsense being churned out by the no camp. It does not restore one’s faith in humanity.

    Re the music that is a good point. Murray Gold’s music suits the nature of RTD’s writing.  Neither tends towards the subtle.

    Cheers

    Janette

  • janetteB replied to the topic Dr Who News (5)

    Thank you for the news @blenkinsopthebrave. I have mixed feelings about this one. While I loved Murray Gold’s music I also really liked the music composed by Segun Akinola. His adaptation of the theme is one of my favourites and I am sorry that he is no longer composing for Dr Who.

    Cheers

    Janette

  • janetteB replied to the topic The Winchester

    @dentarthurdent Sorry to hear that Mrs D has been unwell. Hopefully she is now fully recovered and you are both enjoying the holiday.

    cheers

    Janette

     

  • janetteB replied to the topic The Winchester

    Saddened to hear of the death of Michael Gambon, such a wonderful actor and superb in A Christmas Carol, lovable as Dumbledore too. I think my favourite role of his was in Longitude. I really should re watch The Singing Detective too. I last saw it when I was at Uni studying Film Noir.

    Cheers

    Janette

  • @nerys. First fires then storms. Mother nature is not being kind to Canada at the moment. It seems that this year we are really beginning to see just how pissed nature is though humanity has a frightening capacity to forget a crisis very quickly. I think it takes a couple of days from memory. My S/O did some research on that when he was…[Read more]

  • janetteB replied to the topic Dr Who News (5)

    @translatercircuit According to an article in the Guardian recently the next series of Dr Who is going to be impacted by the writers strike, presumably due to the Disney connection. I guess that the specials will not be impacted.

    . Cheers

    Janette

     

  • janetteB replied to the topic The Zygon Inversion

    @winston Our sons tell me that I am too forgiving of Dr Who too but sometimes it does go too far for me. Kill and Moon and the cyberking being probably the worst examples. Sci fi generally and fantasy create their own rules and as long as they vaguely stick to those that i fine. I tried writing a sci fi story recently and got caught up in the…[Read more]

  • janetteB replied to the topic Dr Who News (5)

    @blenkinsopthebrave. Good news indeed. She is always great value.

    @devilshrobby There is still very little news coming out and like I am getting impatient. I believe the third of the specials will be broadcast over Christmas, though the actual date is unspecified. I am hoping it will be Christmas Day in a return to “tradition”. I guess things are…[Read more]

  • janetteB replied to the topic The Zygon Inversion

    @dentarthurdent. The Doctor and other aliens can bend “the rules of reality” but those rules need to be fixed in order to bend. I think it was Moffat that said that the human world of Dr Who is our world only without a curious little TV show called Dr Who. that is also why stories that change our history bother me, ie the giant stompy robot…[Read more]

  • janetteB replied to the topic The Zygon Invasion

    Have not watched the two parter for a while. Zygons are one of my favourite monsters, in part because Dr Who and the Zygons with Tom Baker and Elizabeth Sladden was the first episode I ever watched and because there is something very disturbing about shape shifters. You cannot ever be sure than anyone is who you think they are.

    As to the revival…[Read more]

  • janetteB replied to the topic The Girl Who Died

    @dentarthurdent. Another well thought through review. I have not re watched this for a very long time but as I recall there were aspects of the historical depiction of Vikings that annoyed me. I don’t recall just what they were however. I also found Ashildr a bit irritating at times and though  I really don’t know anything about electric eels…[Read more]

  • janetteB replied to the topic The Woman Who Lived

    Have just returned from holiday and doing some catching up.

    A good review for an episode that would probably be a 7/10. Not bad with a lot of good moments but not one of the best. (I have not watched it for a long time so I may be unfair in that judgement.) I thought it better than the previous episode with the dodgy Vikings. An episode of…[Read more]

  • janetteB replied to the topic The Winchester

    @winston  I feel the same. It isn’t just about “us” humans, we are killing so many other innocent creatures and that simply isn’t fair. We don’t have the right to do that. Just today I saw that Emperor penguin chicks are dying in Antarctica. We are destroying so much in our hubris and arrogance. But is isn’t most humans, just unfortunately those…[Read more]

  • janetteB replied to the topic Dr Who News (5)

    @blenkinsopthebrave. Thank you for sharing that news. I note they used the words, “Christmas Special” and that makes me very happy indeed.

    In a overview of tv series coming this “autumn” to the UK in the Guardian the other day it was said that RTD is saving Dr Who for a second time. I hope those words prove true.

    Cheers

    Janette

  • janetteB replied to the topic The Winchester

    @blenkinsopthebrave. Hi. Good to hear from you. I hope all is ok in your neck of the woods and you are not troubled by fires.

    Cheers

    Janette

  • janetteB replied to the topic The Winchester

    @dentarthurdent That is a cool detail. Colstrope is an interesting name. I do like these old Anglo-Saxon names. Or derived from old anglo-saxon.

    We finally finished series 2 the other night. Not as good as series 1 but still very good. It lacks the Pratchett whimsy element and I feel as though it is really setting the stage for series 3.

    I will…[Read more]

  • janetteB replied to the topic The Web of Fear – S5 5

    @jameshope Agreed. Such a pity that so many of his stories are missing.

    cheers

    Janette

  • janetteB replied to the topic The Winchester

    @winston I would love to have grandchildren one  day but no prospect of that at the moment. I do have a “grandkitty” as compensation. You are very fortunate and so are your grandchildren and great grandchild. (our boys lost their grandmother when they were very young. we were talking about that today. family gathering.)

    I liked all three actors…[Read more]

  • janetteB replied to the topic The Winchester

    @winston Congratulations That is wonderful news and having a great great grandfather, wow That is impressive. A lucky child too, to have so many generations of family.

    and @dentarthurdent I was not a fan of the movie at the time it was a bitter disappointment, It just didn’t have the feel of Dr Who. It has been years since I watched it but at the…[Read more]

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