@Juniperfish

I agree. X-men has not always been at it’s strongest, but both first class and days of future past have hit the spot right where I needed them to. They’re funny, exciting and more or less thought through. Of course there are a few things off. I yet don’t quite understand where future Charles comes from, since Jean killed him a while…[Read more]

I do like Victoria – she is completely useless, but in such a very sweet way. And she is willing to try to help … but unfortunately her education as a Victorian lady seems to have concentrated on, I dunno, possibly a little light embroidery? Playing the piano? Beginning and advanced swooning?

Despite this lack of preparation for real life she…[Read more]

A magpie could do worse than hang out here and pick up shinys.

@ichabod, how did I miss a parapsychology series set in Glasgow?!? Off to find it, Lovely Bones (the film), @Craig, Man in High Castle looks great.

Cucumber, banana.  I sort of see your point @juniperfish, and I guess it echoes what Julie Walters was saying about a preponderance of…[Read more]

@juniperfish, maybe, maybe. Could do with a few extra teaspoons.. Loch Tay lovely, is that the one with the Crannog centre?

Drone filming, can’t paste the link cos upstairs on tablet, not downstairs on MrLefty’s laptop (never found an emulator which worked) and also not in the music thread, but the OK Go video I won’t let you down with the 2000…[Read more]

@ScaryB Yes, Danny Macaskill is, in my opinion, an amazingly talented mental case. Have seen that before and it just gives me the willies! Love it though, what skill (or MacaSkill).

And @Juniperfish, the aerial shots were done with a drone, as far as I know, no helicopters involved. So reasonable peace was respected. As they get cheaper I’m sure…[Read more]

@barbaralefty

I’ve enjoyed reading the contributions on writing as well, but time didn’t permit me to respond fully, so I’ve left it late (I’ll submit my note later). Like @juniperfish I’ll defend fanfic as a concept to the hilt. Especially as Doctor Who (and perhaps fellow sixties Sci-fi franchise Star Trek) owes the concept an awful lot.

He…[Read more]

For @Juniperfish on the occasion of the Feast of Juniper!

(only juniper-related clip I could find, but it’s 60s so hopefully you’ll like m’dear! 😉 )

Meanwhile… just found out that today is the Feast of Juniper! (For Brother Juniper, follower of St Francis and also known as “the renowned jester of the lord”)

So I propose roasting some pigs feet (veggie options are allowed) and passing round a few flagons of gin, while raising a toast to our own @Juniperfish

🙂

@Juniperfish – it’s not so much the thigh high boots as the strange shape of the cream section of the jacket. From the back, Astrid looks like she’s in a neck brace. 🙂

Then there’s the reveal that the Doctor likes a vest and long johns. In fact, we’ve seen that so often (twice for the Smith Doctor), that I suspect Gallifreyan underwear tends…[Read more]

@Purofilion

(Moved back the to TV corner to keep stuff together)

BTW, I watched some of (what I thought) was the worst (no, say ‘not the best’) Buffy in ‘Put the I in Team’?

Is it just me, but whilst Crouse’s performance in parts was spectacular, some things just did not work at all?

And the ENDING?? What the hell happened! I get the vague moti…

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Well that’s been an interesting morning catch up! 😀

Everything, literary…

@ichabod, @lisaB, engineer (or architect as GRR Martin puts it) v gardener, bit of both. Like the stock cards, mobile idea, tried doing that for my post-grad, couldn’t make it work, might be better suited to four/five act tv than science. Just need to keep an eye on…[Read more]

@Juniperfish     That’s a rather lovely remark by RTD. In a way, it mirrors what happens in other art forms (painting, sculpture, music), where the original work is put out there, and has spawned, sometimes over a very long period of time, a “conversation”, as @ichabod puts it. I think I agree that the “Big Conversations” aren’t exactly the sam…[Read more]

@juniperfish

One may make a distinction between the technical or imaginative quality and skill of one piece of writing over another, without needing to trash the author of the novice piece, their enthusiasm and milieu.

Good critique doesn’t show mercy and it judges quality, of which invention, skill, craft and bunch of other stuff are all c…[Read more]

@Juniperfish

Sherlock shooting someone in cold blood in the head? I don’t think Conan Doyle would have approved

Holmes: If you had killed Watson, you would not have got out of this room alive.

This is in The Adventure of The Three Garridebs, just after Holmes has thumped the guy with his pistol, so he’s telling someone who’s half-concussed a…[Read more]

@Juniperfish  Well, enjoy — there are some stories behind it, in terms of the writing of, but we’ll save that for — The White Hart? — and see if people would like to ask a question or two.

But didn’t Holmes carry and use guns in ACD?  I know Watson refers occasionally to bringing along his service revolver when dealing with “criminal gang” a…[Read more]

@juniperfish, I believe it was yourself. If ever a comment was guaranteed to make me come down on the side of fanfic tho it was @arbutus comparison with Indy music. Also, while I wasn’t making a direct comparison with Sherlock, but acknowledging others, namely @jumiperfish and Mr Lefty making the point, I’m quite willing now to go with it.

I’ll…[Read more]

@juniperfish — apologies for the mis-attribution.

And Wide Sargasso Sea. That’s surely fanfic too.

@juniperfish, bizarrely, the Sherlock thing was a conversation I was just having with Mr Lefty, also a defender 😉  I did feel the need to qualify, as I am aware there is good writing that is fanfic, so I submit graciously to your staunch defence.

Oh dear. I’m going to have to go have a look now aren’t I?

I’m beginning to pine for lack of Dr Who on TV! Seems to have disappeared completely from catch-up on my TV.  Must have a look and see if I can find the World Tour thingy on iplayer on computer. Sounds great. I remember someone on here from Korea (sorry, forgotten who) talking about how they’d had to move to a bigger venue. And agree – it’s g…[Read more]

@pedant

Hartnell. Who else?

Hmmm… yes m’boy, quite right, quite right

😉

@Juniperfish

Must be that “post new year and on-one’s reading our site – oh hey! let’s put a Dr Who article up” time of year!  OTOH you gotta love a Dalek in a trilby 😀