@Craig Ah, thank you so much for this. And for The Muppets vs Wicker Man (ROFLd at that ). And the Kermode clip – great stuff. And yes very moving. Wee bit of dust floating about there…

@JimtheFish I’ve probably mentioned this before, but did you ever catch Bill Forsyth’s 1st film, made on a budget of 1 peanut (or possibly a stolen sink!) That…[Read more]

@JimTheFish

It’s pretty clear at the end of Lies that the trigger was no longer effective.

To us. Buffy didn’t know that (and even at the end of the ep it is far from clear – Spike has immense willpower).

Giles has pretty much been trying to be the entire Council single-handed (everything he was brought up to believe in was being sy…[Read more]

@craig, @jimthefish, was fascinating to watch, the work and integrity of Forsyth and the faith of Puttnam is apparent. Was an interesting point about the women, Stella and Marina, Sky and sea. In a way it did reduce them to symbols, over idealised, but Forsyth plainly believed it to be the case that women were often just different. I was thinking…[Read more]

@Bluesqueakpip @JimTheFish @FatManInABox @PhaseShift

I’ve started a new blog which can be found here:

BBC approved Doctor Who series 9 spoilers and trailers

However I think policing this forum could become quite difficult, and the forum could become quite boring, if absolutely nothing about series…[Read more]

@Craig, @FatManInABox, @JimTheFish and @PhaseShift – firstly, is it time to start up a Series 9 blog? So we can discuss official production-team approved spoilers where those who wish to be utterly unspoilered can avoid them?

And secondly, should @Lisa‘s #38133 be moved, because it gives away a rather important piece of information? Admittedly,…[Read more]

@purofilion

How is it that everyone else is running to telephone boxes for quite some years?

Because mobile phones are evil plot destroying devices, far worse than any vampire. 🙂

@JimTheFish – you did sound a tad snippy, but I put it down to my just having told a Romantics specialist the dates of Romanticism. Next up, teaching the Doctor…[Read more]

@JimTheFish

You did, and I concur. A cancer on political discourse.

@JimTheFish You’ll probably enjoy this, then.

@JimTheFish

Yeah, I was aware of that actually

Sorry. That’s the teacher in me. 😳

@JimTheFish

I’m pretty sure he’d subscribe to the chaos and “spontaneous overflow of strong feelings” of the Romantics.

Spike would. Because William wouldn’t.

William may have been a Bloody Awful Poet, but he was a Victorian Bloody Awful poet; if we go by the Fool For Love flashbacks, he was born a bit too late to be part of the Romanti…[Read more]

@JimTheFish

 To the extent that he realises that he has to do something and leaves immediately on his soul quest.

He thought he could change. He was wrong, because for all his Bloody Awful Romanticism it was his nature.  But as far as he can tell the only difference between him and Angel is the soul. It is way too early to infer anything selfless going on.

@purofilion @jimthefish

The turn of phrase was “bored now”. Ziiiipppp.

Did you notice Amber Benson in the main credits? That was done by Joss as a tribute, since she had always preferred not to be ‘main’ so she could do other work.

I picked the “he’s going to get his soul’ thing pretty quickly. It felt too much like “LOOL OVER THERE! LOOK OVER…[Read more]