I hope everyone is managing to find their happy place amidst all the festive insanity. I spent yesterday evening at two different Christmas performances. The first one, at the music school where I volunteer, featured tiny cellists and violinists and pianists, ,  boys in ties or tee shirts, and girls dressed up like little members of the Ballets…[Read more]

Bad Arbutus! I have failed to keep up with things in this lovely little music lounge. I brought a glass in from the pub and spent some time this afternoon enjoying the offerings.

@TheKrynoidMan    I don’t know that I have ever posted “Waterloo Sunset”, but it is one of my favourites. Thanks! I never actually saw Phantom of the Paradise, but I ag…[Read more]

@lisa Thank-you for putting up that link. Very enjoyable interview. I think a few parents on this forum will be relieved to hear S.M.s reassurance ‘re Santa/Father Christmas/Nick Frost.

Re’ the foot twitching I noted that by the end J.C. had stopped and M.G had started .Must have been catching.

Cheers

Janette

@lisa don’t worry, I’ve only given you PART of an army, I’ve got the rest and I assure you my notions are not entirely sane 😉  wah hah hah hah etc.

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@lisa and @arbutus  yes. Army storage is available in the Nethersphere. Just sent a wee note to SEB and he’ll sort you out.

OOPS! I may have revealed too much 😮

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You are all terribly nice!    🙂    I actually find it quite fascinating that the continuity works so well, given two showrunners with very different styles, and four actors, each bringing his own unique take to the character. Serendipity, or a deeper truth?

@lisa    I’m sure that the army must come with some Time Lord Tech for storage purposes?

@Arbutus  absolutely second, third and fourth what others have said. Spot on.

@lisa The quote “I couldn’t agree with you less”, nope not politician or a comedian. Was Avon from Blake’s 7 in the episode The Web. 🙂  That line always comes to mind when I read nonsense that trolls like to spout.

But since you were the only one to bite you win the p…[Read more]

@lisa @purofilion -lol but wait there’s more – they also had a flashback to dalek caan in this episode!
why that particular flashback? It’s feeling to me like we are heading for lots more great and
grand deceptions

Wasn’t that a flashback to Rusty from Into the Dalek?

@ScaryB you are correct, I hadn’t quite thought that through. The issue wasn’t that people who chose cremation wouldn’t have their souls uploaded to the Nethersphere, but rather they couldn’t be downloaded into a Cyberman body. Hence Seb’s question to Danny about cremation. So Osgood and others who got zapped into cremains by Missy could be in the…[Read more]

@lisa  @ScaryB   you were discussing the difference between the cybermen in the mausoleum and those manufactured in the graveyards.  My understanding was that the cybermen in the mausoleum were the ultra rich who had been conned into financing 3W and who had knowingly elected to have their remains preserved in the mausoleum and their min…[Read more]

Hello @lisa

I’ve never heard of Regina Carter.  That’s a really blues-y piece and both uplifting and calming at the same time.  Thanks for sharing.

Hello @scaryb

Is ‘Do Not Stand at My Grave and Weep’ your soundtrack for the Death in Heaven ep?

Hello @arbutus

Ahhh, Louis Armstrong!  Nice riff on the Santa teaser in the DiH credits.  You int…[Read more]

@lisa No worries here either. I’ll let it go for now unless I get asked to take it down. We’re not that big that your posts will bankrupt the BBC. Not yet anyway 🙂 In fact, you’re helping them out if they want to shut things down.

Just by calling this site The Doctor Who Forum we are, I think, technically in breach of copyright and I keep…[Read more]

@lisa @Ozitenor We don’t have any rules on this, but the unwritten rule would at least be no direct links, which you have avoided, thank you for that, and that you remember that your posts are your own and do not represent those of the site owner, i.e. me.

The whole thing about copyright and the internet is now difficult to deal with. In America…[Read more]

@lisa – you can get it on Hulu, I think they have all that is available. But where you can get it for free I don’t know, sorry.

@DanMartinUK

Nice to see you. Hang in there! We still love your blog, It’s great that it has your very personal touch, it’s one of the things that makes it stand out, and nestles into its own very special space in the Whoniverse!

There are still a lot of people there who swam over here for a while but prefer the G side.  The first 5 weeks were d…[Read more]

@Lisa The cybermen in the graveyard are described as “newborns”. They are still developing. I think there was a reference to a second cloud of “rain” which would deliver a chemical to complete the process to make them seriously scary

@BadWulf Agree with you re Jacobi’s prtrayal. I felt as much shock and loss for Chantho’s death as I did for…[Read more]