@puroandson—

he chose a Blog by @jimthefish on the Buffyverse which was also well loved by the teacher

You’ve no idea how chuffed that makes me. (And is that ‘make like a tree and bark’?)

Sorry, I’ve not been around much but I’ve taken the lurch back into full-time further education again and it’s been a surprisingly rapacious devourer of time…[Read more]

@missrori—

I’ve not read Supremacy yet but I’ve largely heard good things about it. Think I’ll wait for the inevitable TP.

As to the Doctor finding peace — well, do we really want that? Wouldn’t that mean that the story –and the show — was essentially at an end?

@missrori and @bluesqueakpip

Actually, given the heaven/hell and death motifs in his tenure thus far, perhaps the Twelfth Doctor’s “big” arc will finally reveal there is a real promised land and give him something to work towards/look forward to?

Yes, this has definitely been an arc for the 12th Doctor. But I think with Heaven Sent/Hell Bent w…[Read more]

@janetteb and @pedant et al–

Yeah, I get the PTSD thing, although I think there’s a danger in overstating it. From memory, I think it’s really only implied, mostly in that scene with his class. I don’t think it was ever really returned to. Which is just as well because it’s a hell of a thing to just throw in there for a companion to deal…[Read more]

@puroandson et al

I personally really liked s8 and thought it an improvement on s7, which, barring a few high points, namely the ‘of the Doctor’ sequence, was starting to look a bit tired. I suspect that at least to begin with there was some general ambivalence to Capaldi’s Doc — for reasons that I’ll raise in a blog I’m currently writing –…[Read more]

@puroandson—

The TV series you’re thinking of is The Hanging Gale. And I’ve known I’ve said this before, but fans of McGann should really check out the dramatisation of Our Mutual Friend from 10 or so years ago. Not only is it a roll call of familiar Who faces, it’s got some splendid performances in it, including a great one from McGann.

As for…[Read more]

I hesitate to describe this as news but as it’s kind of thin on the ground at the mo’, I’m going to stretch a point….

PC meeting fans during filming. I’m personally very happy to see that the hoodie look is back. The velvet coat thing was cool but a bit too generically Doctorish for my…[Read more]

@puroandson — sorry for the delay in getting back to you but … news (please someone make it stop)…

In reply to your question of frikkin’ ages ago, I am emphatically not a DC fanboy. It’s Marvel all the way for me. Although 2000AD trumps them both.

@phaseshift —

That sounds excellent. Will duly be downloading. I have fond memories of the old Who pinball game (in the old RGIT union in Aberdeen I seem to remember).

Yeah, I definitely did to a blog on video games but I can’t find it either now. Many of the older blogs have now been lost in a morass of fan film reviews, it seems….

@missy—

That thing you posted is, I’m afraid, the most terrible piece of Brexiteer bollocks — of the kind that was getting cut and pasted into newspaper forums on an hourly basis (not to mention clogging up the inboxes of news editors up and down the country in the run-up to the referendum). Almost all the capital and investment flight it…[Read more]

@pedant — that looks rather excellent…

On a mercifully non-Brexity note, anyone going to Glasgow Comic Con this weekend? @ScaryB? @Wolfweed?

@mersey — my apologies. I misread your comment.

@Mersey — @XA24 is based in the UK and so is very much directly involved/affected by the omnishambles that is Brexit. And no, @lisa, I don’t remotely think that the EU will be inclined to offer England a deal. The prevailing attitude seems to be ‘go and go now’. And you can’t blame them on top of the Brexit vote you have Farage trotting off to…[Read more]

@bluesqueakpip—

We do indeed. But I suspect you’re right in that democratically speaking this was something that had to happen. If it hadn’t been the Brexit vote, it would have been something else eventually. The politics of the last couple of centuries had more or less reached its shelf life. I just kinda wish it hadn’t been over something with…[Read more]