@JimTheFish

How are you doing with Greeks Bearing Debts? Or have they got you holding the fort while everyone else discovers they have a great idea for a vox pop story on some beautiful Greek island? 😉

@jimthefish oh absolutely. I’ve criticised the new series a lot (a bit too much if I’m being honest), but the cliffhangers have been consitantly good, even on stories I’m not a big fan of.

@JimTheFish Thank you, I appreciate you fixing my slip.  I am new here and thought everyone on this thread had seen it.  I would hate to spoil anything.  Good to know.  I will revise and just chime in that I think this is an intense episode and played my emotions like a fiddle.

@Barnable and @JimtheFish, I think the explanation of the androids is simple: the makers of the show wanted to save up the surprise of the Cybermen for the end of the show. Remember, the Cybermen had not been seen on Who for 7 years (in Revenge of the Cybermen with Tom Baker). Having them come back after such a long time was really big news, and…[Read more]

@JimTheFish Will remedy that as soon as I have a large enough window to watch a whole movie.  Most of my sci-fi I get through books, so I tend to be behind on movie witching.  Great screen name BTW.   Have you built that dam yet? 😉

Right now I am in the Who zone and looking forward to a possible season nine trailer this week.

@JimTheFish Did the “Which sci-fi hero are you?” and result – came out as Mal Reynolds (Firefly). “You like to play the joker occasionally, but when the chips are down you can be relied on to do the right thing. Sure, you’d rather stay out of other people’s business – but sometimes you just have to misbehave.”

Think I’ll take the rest of the day off.

@JimTheFish Loving the pink beret. Keep it sexy!

@PhaseShift — Farscape: yep, that was me, on the torture issue.  It’s very much a personal limit thing, of course, since an awful lot of stories, great and small, are *about* the protagonist being wrung out and driven by terrible events up to and including actual torture, and where you start feeling heavily manipulated by extended scenes of…[Read more]

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That’s very kind Jim. When I heard the news about Macnee I thought I may have tempted fate by highlighting Christopher Lee in The Avengers. 🙁

With the loss of Macnee, Moody, Lee, Nimoy (surely the absolute redeeming feature of Trek) and Pratchett I’m willing, halfway through 2015 to declare it “annus horribilis” for genre. If Tom…[Read more]

@JimTheFish  Apparently I’m supposed to be Spock.  I can only conclude that the whole exercise is flawed!  (and I assure you that I do not have pointy ears and my eyebrows are perfectly normal).

@jimthefish – ha ha!

Actually that was more interesting than most (must have more heroes as answers methinks).

I’m Ellen Ripley.

and so’s my wife.

;¬)

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I’d agree with you about Widows, but I’d put in a good word for the earlier Rock Follies, as well.

@JimTheFish

On the one hand, I don’t think Who was her greatest achievement. Though, to be honest, it would be hard to point to Verity Lambert’s ‘greatest’ achievement, because she achieved so much.

But on the other hand – would she have really, really had the chance to achieve so much if people hadn’t known her as – not just the producer of…[Read more]

@JimTheFish – well, to be honest, I can think of a couple of Gaelic speakers where I’d say that while running away rapidly. 😀

The latest research came out in March; there’s certainly a genetic link between the Welsh and the Irish, as well as between Lowland Scots and Northern Ireland. The North Walians and the South Walians, however, are…[Read more]

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I think your Firefly blog has been spammed.

Either that, or there’s a connection between Firefly and cheap trainers that I just don’t get. 😉

@pedant my reaction to that story would mirror @JimTheFish‘s if I had any aunts to get giddy.

Cheers

Janette