@JimtheFish

6pm at the Filmhouse sounds good to me.

And the Moff… oh my, WOOHOO! (And Brian Minchin too – that’s taking us seriously. I like it)

So see you there. Will you be “in that suit in that bar singing that song, gills flaring, teeth sparkling under the glitterball”?

😈

And @XAd4  and any other Forumers who can make it

@JimtheFish It scrambled my little brain somewhat – my visual cortex switched into Who mode, while my ears were expecting Buffy, haha.

Pintage beforehand is probably essential – my anticipation circuits will be on overload by then. Can’t believe it’s TOMORROW!!! ONE MORE SLEEP 🙂 (*SSSSHHHH!! Looks round guiltily at being one of the lucky ones…[Read more]

@JimtheFish

Good comment. And I agree he is

a hero that appeals to the marginal, the awkward, the loner (and the lonely)

He’s the frequently gauche, socially awkward hero who solves problems with brain not brawn.

But I do feel the need to be pedantic. You say:

to almost revel in your lack of ties

Right back to Hartnell, the Doctor has always…[Read more]

Not sure where to post this, but it seems like a sofa-ish item.

Apologies if it’s already been posted elsewhere, but just came across it and thought of @Bluesqueakpip @JimtheFish @Purofilion @pedant in particular 😉

@JimTheFish et all. I don’t think anyone has posted this yet. AL Kennedy did a good write up about Doctor Who in The Guardian yesterday.

http://www.theguardian.com/books/booksblog/2015/aug/25/doctor-who-rescued-me-literary-world-al-kennedy

@Ichabod

S10 is greenlit and Moffat is signed up for it. That’s why, if the rumoured ‘short series for S10’ is the case, I’d expect it to be for a producer switch over.

If we are having a new producer, I’d expect that a) the new producer is trying to persuade Peter Capaldi to stay for S11 or b) @JimTheFish ‘s idea of a surprise regeneration is…[Read more]

@JimTheFish

Well, if he’s now got two series under his belt, it will be ‘sooner rather than later’, won’t it? The Tennant and Smith runs were both three full series and a last series of specials. 🙄

@JimTheFish  A “senile” TARDIS?  So Doctor #1 should have stolen a newer model?  And Clara misdirected him to one that would descend into dementia before the Doctor himself ever would?  We need Perkins!  Fix those stacks, or whatever the heck they are!

SPOILER, SPOILER, SPOILER...

@indigomoose @JimTheFish @blenkinsopthebrave I like the Romana
concept and have even entertained this idea for a moment before we knew who Missy was
but I still cant reconcile this idea because Missy likes to kill people for fun
and entertainment purposes. That’s not how I see Romana. But as we all know
the personalities do…[Read more]

@bluesqueakpip and @JimTheFish

I know that Missy has to be the Master because the TV show said so. My theory makes no sense given the reveal, and it wouldn’t make sense for Romana to lie about who she is. Clearly, my idea is no longer a viable theory, just head cannon.

Often, I put the volume on low and pretend the subtitles are slightly…[Read more]

@indigomoose and @JimTheFish

I’d also like to see John Simm’s Master again – in fact, I’d like a three-way between Sir Derek Jacobi, Michelle Gomez and Mr Simm.

Hmmm… not sure that came out the way I wanted. Or, given both the Simm Master and Missy’s definite S&M tendencies, maybe it did. 😉

Regarding indigomoose’s bonkers theory that Missy…[Read more]

@TheKrynoidMan    @craig was updating the site and some posts were lost in the process:

Website comments (2)

@JimTheFish    Yes, I had posted something similar before the massacre. Davison really shone in this. I liked him best when he was quietly intense, taking verbal shots at hi…[Read more]

@purofilion

I actually resisted seeing the first Burton Batman film for quite a while. It was possibly the most aggressive advertising campaign that Warner ever launched and it just put me off.

I generally like Burtons work (the Dark Goth Fairytale stuff works for me) but I can’t help thinking the first film showed signs of “engineering for suc…[Read more]

To me it always seemed that for Batman to work on the screen, you needed to heighten that world, make it more dreamlike and for that reason Burton’s snowy wonderland gone to hell idea worked more than Nolan’s Coppola by way of Michael Mann-esque uber-realism.

That’s a problem I have with the Nolan films too @jimthefish, one minute you’re wat…[Read more]

@jimthefish @purofilion @craig I don’t mind any of the Batman films, since I grew up with them. While the three Nolan ones are probably the best as films, I enjoy the 1989 one the most because of Keaton and Nicholson. I used to really like Returns too but looking back as an adult I find it very un-Batman like.
I must be the only one who doesn’t…[Read more]

@purofilion @thekrynoidman @jimthefish

Ah… Batman. One of my favourite subjects.

Me, I grew up on Batman as a really young kid. I wanted to be Batman (or Clint Eastwood). My parents’ sofa had arm covers that, when put on my head, gave me little points like Batman’s ears, and a very tiny cape. It was all my imagination needed.

But as I got a…[Read more]

@JimTheFish  Heh heh.  But I think even in school, you’d have to be pretty damn fast and awfully well focused to put one over on UKL.  She has a very sharp and critical mind, and speaks it straight out and frequently.  I recall a discussion in which somebody complained about “political correctness” (this was back in the eighties), and she sna…[Read more]

@JimTheFish

I see that Strange and Norrell, has been mentioned. It hasn’t visited these shores as yet. I did try reading the book, but become fed up with all the boring footnotes!
The film looks interesting though.

@JimTheFish  Wow, that’s gorgeous!  I’ve always thought of the Cybermen as robotic soldiers because that’s how they look and how they act.  Maybe we need a story about them restoring themselves to a less armored look?  I don’t remember their origins at all, but I don’t like the super-muscular macho look they have now.