@jimthefish, Talk about sympathy for the devil!  😀

It will be interesting to see where it goes.  Maybe Gallifrey is done and dusted, though already the Titan comics are playing with it in “Supremacy of the Cybermen”.  Maybe it’s not the real Promised Land and it’s something, someplace else where the Doctor will finally find peace…

@pedant  The rest of you got lucky

Yah — great line!  I liked Danny, and wanted just a bit more dimension to him, a scene or two of him with other people in his life; orphans have friends, and soldiers have old army buddies, but they never gave him any time as himself, on his own and in his own milieu outside of work, which I think would have h…[Read more]

@puroandson        Well, I loved S8, but as I have written here before, Peter Capaldi had me the instant he poked his head out of the TARDIS. He is without doubt my AG Doctor. It also did what I hadn’t expected, in that it was a complete turnaround for Clara’s character. I hadn’t found her time with Matt Smith hugely engaging, except for the 50th…[Read more]

@JimTheFish

Wot @janetteB sed.

And, anyway, it all built up do “I didn’t die to save the World, I died to save her. The rest of you got lucky,” moment. Which rocked beyond the telling of it.

@JimTheFish I love Our Mutual Friend. One of my favourite Dickens’ adaptations. I started watching the Hanging Gale when it was on TV many years ago but had trouble distinguishing which brother was which. I am due for a rewatch. (it should be in my collection somewhere.) I was pointing out one of the McGann brothers to my youngest the other day in…[Read more]

@JimTheFish. I did not think Danny was passive aggressive. He was suffering PSTD and clearly had some issues relating to that, which made him “touchy” which became important in the end but really needed more screen time perhaps to better develop a character that the audience could empathise with. He was often hurt but mostly all he asked was the…[Read more]

@mersey   There is an old saying: “Don’t shoot the messenger” A friend sent it to a friend, who sent it to me, and I did say that I wasn’t sure of its accuracy.

@jimthefish: Likewise.

@puroandson: Nope, I got it yesterday. The Oz election isn’t going too well either it seems.

Missy

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@JimTheFish

And with the pound plummeting, stocks in freefall and the prospect of future capital flight that makes anything that happened in the past 20-odd years look like a walk in the park, it’s going to take a lot more than that for Britain to be anything other than an economic basket-case.

I’ve been saying throughout this Referendum – n…[Read more]

During my absence I’ve contributed to a Doctor Who Kickstarter campaign (The campaign is fully funded now, so no pleading for your hard earned dosh). If you’re currently twiddling your thumbs as you wait for the next series of Doctor Who, this may give you a thumb alternative from September.

The campaign was to help pay the licensing costs for a…[Read more]

@Mersey

Yeah – Evans is one of the best radio people around (although too shouty for breakfast radio for me), but he has never quite made the full transition to TV.

But, to be clear, he is a true petrolhead.

Have you seen Episodes? That might give you a different take on LeBlanc (who has been a bit of a revelation on Top Gear)

@JimTheFish

If…[Read more]

@JimTheFish

On a slightly smaller scale, this is near me organised by one of the BG Who FX guys whose name escapes me:

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@jimthefish @ichabod I really enjoyed reading your political posts.

@ichabod comment #52947 is brilliant.  You should submit an article with your thoughts in a newspaper or political magazine.

@lisa

I think the UK wants to just control the free movement more.   Why shouldn’t  that happen?

Free movement of labour is a condition of access to the Single Market (AS IS acceptence to competition law AND paying for access). If we end up in either the European Economic Area or The European Free Trade Association we will have to abide by these…[Read more]

@jimthefish @XAD4 has nothing to do with my post above. Didn’t do anything wrong. Nor did I. But @puroandson marked me as a troublemaker and I disagree with that.

@JimTheFish

Ah, well. We are living in interesting times. 😕

@jimthefish    I suspect the fundamental changes in the way we are living our lives now is going to require a fundamentally different politics. I just have no idea what that is going to involve. I suspect no one does yet.

Exactly.  It’s as if  “the Singularity” has indeed come upon us, only it wasn’t about cyborgs or contact with space alie…[Read more]

@JimTheFish

As somebody on Twitter said, re this, Boris is trying to put the shit back in the horse.

But this is the reality, and somebody needs to step up and un-fuck this dog.

We are talking about 50-70,000 job losses in London’s financial sector (plus consequential losses in the professional sector, and that’s not even including the myriad…[Read more]