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  • #63987
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    Look at the cast and enjoy! https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b0bgppt5

    #62752
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    I like very much Christmas special. I think it was funny and moving and I can only regret that it was the only time when 12th met 1st. They were a great pair and in my opinion, 12th works the best when he’s not the quirkiest person in Tardis (I didn’t like all that misogynist jokes of the First. One joke was enough for me, I got the message). I disagree with those who criticize the return of Bill and Nardole and argue that it soften those characters’ departures. Why? Because of the message of their appearance. I don’t have to tell you what that message was but the main point was that it wasn’t about people but about our memory of them.

    I like the introduction of the new Doctor. I didn’t like her accent (that’s strange, I know nothing about English accents and her accents sounded to me a bit hollow, I can’t explain that). I’ve heard Jodie Whittaker on BBCRadio6 today and she sounded alright to me. And when Tardis kicked her out I thought that’s not the best start. But this Christams special moved me much much more than the last two.

    #57363
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    @thane15 Actually the first Doctor who had psychic paper was 9th.

    #57331
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    What if the TARDIS is going to be killed or regenerate and the Doctor is growing the new one in the vault? He did such thing in audios, he even told that new Tardis children stories.

    #57252
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    I feel sorry for the Doctor. He seems so lonely. It’s apparent that he needs Bill more than she needs him. And he has no one except her (and freak in the vault who is happy to hear that someone got killed) and in her normal life he is like a fifth wheel.

    What is the status of Susan? I’ve watched The Five Doctors recently and there was Susan accompanying the First Doctor (played by Richard Hurndall) and when they met The Fifth, The First asked him ‘Do you remember Susan’? And Fifith said ‘of course’ or something like that and they greeted each other but there were no family feelings between them.

    #57056
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    @thane15

    Please show me a companion who wasn’t slim and pretty? There’s one, only one, Donna Noble. And I think that’s why she’s perceived as one of the best companions ever. She’s average everywoman but at the same time very unique. Clara was slim, pretty, intelligent, sweet, educated with job and flat, independent, without ties (they tried to change that with Danny) and more and more special with every episode. Really hard to identify with such character. I never had impression that Clara is a real person from our world.

    @jimthefish @pedant

    And it’s really unfair to mark those who doesn’t like Clara as sexists.

    #57037
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    I don’t know if anyone has spotted that:

    Martha vs. Bill via chakoteya.net

    MARTHA: But are we safe? I mean, can we move around and stuff?
    DOCTOR: Of course we can. Why do you ask?
    MARTHA: It’s like in the films. You step on a butterfly, you change the future of the human race.
    DOCTOR: Tell you what then, don’t step on any butterflies. What have butterflies ever done to you?
    MARTHA: What if, I don’t know, what if I kill my grandfather?
    DOCTOR: Are you planning to?
    MARTHA: No.
    DOCTOR: Well, then.
    MARTHA: And this is London?
    DOCTOR: I think so. Round about 1599.
    MARTHA: Oh, but hold on. Am I all right? I’m not going to get carted off as a slave, am I?
    DOCTOR: Why would they do that?
    MARTHA: Not exactly white, in case you haven’t noticed.
    DOCTOR: I’m not even human. Just walk about like you own the place. Works for me. Besides, you’d be surprised. Elizabethan England, not so different from your time. Look over there. They’ve got recycling.

    BILL: Wait, you want to go out there?
    DOCTOR: You don’t?
    BILL: It’s 1814.
    (Bill points to her face.)
    BILL: Melanin.
    DOCTOR: Yes?
    BILL: Slavery is still totally a thing.
    DOCTOR: Yes, so it is.
    BILL: It might be, like, dangerous out there.
    DOCTOR: Definitely dangerous.
    BILL: So, how do we stay out of trouble?
    DOCTOR: Well, I’m not the right person to ask.

    (…)

    BILL: So, what are the rules?
    DOCTOR: Rules?
    BILL: Yeah. Travelling to the past, There’s got to be rules. If I step on a butterfly, it could send ripples through time that mean I’m not even born in the first place and I could just disappear.
    DOCTOR: Definitely. I mean, that’s what happened to Pete.
    BILL: Pete?
    DOCTOR: Your friend, Pete. He was standing there a moment ago, but he stepped on a butterfly and now you don’t even remember him.
    BILL: Shut up! I’m being serious!
    DOCTOR: Yeah, so was Pete.
    BILL: You know what I mean. Every choice I make in this moment, here and now, could change the whole future.
    DOCTOR: Exactly like every other day of your life. The only thing to do is to stop worrying about it.
    BILL: Hmm. Okay. If you say so.

    #56980
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    I want to emphisize that recism is not only about skin colour but also about ethnicity. Skin color only let racists to identify people of different ethnicity. People who suffered the most during WWII were white jews, the worst of all races and slavs, the lowest of aryan race, inferiors fit only to be slaves. I was really disturbed when I read the news that after Brexit vote some Poles received cards with such notice as ‘No more polish vermin’ or ‘Go home polish scum’ and the number of racial and xenophobic attacks has risen.  Moffat didn’t bring up this issue and I think it’s a very urgent problem these days.

    #56975
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    @jimthefish @mirime @idiotsavon @thane15

    I think we have here two stylistics mixed, the first is drama with all this conversations and speeches about morality, killing and moving on, and the second is comic-book in which bad guys get what they deserve and an urchin becomes an heir (after what had happened with Ashildr, Doctor should be very cautious with giving corruptive fortune). And I think Doctor just wanted his screwdriver back.

    The question is not who is in the vault but what. I think it’s crack in the wall xD

    #56952
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    @jimthefish

    Don’t mind me, it’s just my usual moaning. I’ve noticed that because for the last two days I menaged to rewatch the whole season 1 and now I’m watching season 2. Both are full of memorable characters even in the first three episodes. @morpho has pointed out that Thin ice is the Beast below II and I agree but I like Beasty better precisely because of the memorable characters as Liz (Maybe Bill is her ancestor, she’s gay but so what, she can have baby), Mandy and creepy robots.

    Nice to see that someone else appreciates season 5. That’s my favourite season but I’ve had the impression that it hasn’t many fans here.

    Funny thing that when the boy died under the ice Bill was devastated but when Doctor practically killed the guy with tattoo (made him died under the water) it was all fine. I can see the difference, but it was still human life. And Doctor was merciless.

    #56942
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    So far this season lacks characters, interesting and memorable people whom Doctor meet, who help him or quite the opposite, who oppose him. It’s two or three characters show right now.

    #56825
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    @ichabod

    So it’s Barthes’s The Death of the Author vs. Eco’s Model Reader, isn’t it? I’m an art historian (and a painter, have two masters) so loose clues are my biggest enemies. If you enjoy Moffat’s wilderness good for you.

    #56811
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    @mudlark I think I can have my own view on the matter, can’t I? It’s not all gibberish what I have written. And it was me who mentioned Big Finish’ s Waters of Amsterdam.

    #56804
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    @jimthefish @juniperfish
    But how much more satisfying it would be if all those clues were relevant, pieces of a bigger picture? There was no meaning in Tarot’s card (were there any cards in the series or it was only a concept from the forum?) and because of that now you sound disappointed and skeptical. Do paintings hold any meaning? I don’t know, I’m poor at bonkering but they are there and it’s nice to pick them up. It’s not difficult to build a chain of subtle clues but many clues from the series point at something which don’t exist (like Clara’s breastpin from the Caretaker or Orson Pink’s soldier from Listen). They build up expectations and leave people disgruntled. And I actually prefer Russell T Davis’s approach.

    #56692
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    @jimthefish

    That’s my main charge against Steven Moffat. He leaves too many meaningless cluess (don’t tell me he doesn’t, he does). Look how it works in Agatha Christie’s books or any other really good detective novel. You usually know all the clues, know all the suspects and yet you are still surprised at the solution. And that’s the trick!

    I didn’t believe in the Tarot card meaning and I treat that paintings thing as a funny game althoug as a painter I find it arrogant to change such masterpiece as Rembrandt’s self-portrait only for meaningless play.

    #56616
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    When it comes to the pictures in DW we have another self-portrait, this time it’s Van Gogh’s Self Portrait with Straw Hat, 1887

    #56600
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    I like Smile better than the Pilot. I like how they succeeded in creating the mood of creepy idyll and the fact that Doctor is stranded in this closed space (like in classic Who). I also like that Bill could show all of her potential and she’s different from previous companions (for now). Funny how they see history. Until the late nineteenth century everything was peaceful and beautiful and only then everything got wrong.

    @wolfweed that can interest you

    #56513
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    @mudlark @smallgreenplant so do I but after months I knew you so well that it didn’t occur to me that you didn’t know me so I do not recall I have ever officially said hallo.

    5th Doctor actually met Rembrandt. Believe me or not (it sounds far-fetched) but today I wanted to listen to Big Finish with Nyssa and Tegan so I chose the first story with both of them and it was with… Rembrandt. What’s a coincidence. Of course Big Finish is not binding by any means.

    I’ve been wondering why unlike most of you I’m full of praise for Nardole. I didn’t like him at all in Husbands of River Songs, thought he was silly, but now I think he’s a great addition. I like that he has already established a bond with the Doctor and become his servant-pal. I also like  the fact that Doctor took him with himself when no one in his right mind would do that. And I haven’t seen Matt Lucas in anything except Doctor Who so he has a clean slate.

     

    #56444
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    @wolfweed

    You are 100% right. I haven’t noticed it on my cell phone. I thought the picture is visible only in the first shot and the circles are just darken. But I watched it on my computer and it’s so obvious. The circles definitely have a texture.

    #56439
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    @wolfweed a new Doctress.

    #56345
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    I forgot about Cornelia, Rembrandt’s daughter whom he had with his lover Hendrikje Stoffels. She of course outlived her father.

    #56344
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    I posted this yesterday but it’s a ghost post so I post it now again.

    @whisht

    I think I will watch some episodes with 7th, I’ll start probably from those mentioned by @jimthefish. Thanks for that. It’s somehow refreshing to watch Doctor with completely different personality from last three Doctors, less emotional but at the same time more expressive (I think it’s McCoys’s voice).

    @blenkinsopthebrave

    Thank you for mentioning the Five(ish) Doctors. I didn’t know anything about it and now I’m completely hooked. I’ve watched it for three times already. Hilarious and so well written. All four Doctors were really charming. McCoy and McGann have amazing, deep (and in case of McCoy screeching) voices. But the whole show was stolen by Russel T. (and Peter Jackson and Ian McKellen). I laughed out loud. I like it even more than the official 50th anniversary special.

    @mudlark

    When it comes to the Big Finish it’s either love it or hate it. Some of productions are just ridiculous (last week I listened to one of the 50th anniversary stories with 6th and Peri in which a Russian cosmonaut flew to the Moon, found an american base on its dark side (in 1963) went back in the body of the dog Laika but with brain and larynx transplanted and started a rebellion against humans) or plainly too complicated for radio (hard to remember and recognize who is who). But there are also really amazing stories to which I class another 50th anniversary production with 5th and Nyssa who traveled to 1963 again to watch the Beatles and found that history was changed and Paul missed his chance to became famous. Great atmosphere with fantastic duo Doctor and Nyssa. Interestingly 8th mentioned all his Big Finish companions in his regeneration short movie before he drank the potion and regenerated into War Doctor.

    There was a point in which I was sure Matt Smith was the perfect embodiment of the Doctor… but then his personality changed, he become depressed and the story went in wrong direction. Smith left too late or too early. He should either left with the Ponds or stay with Clara longer although I don’t think he had anything to do with her. No chemistry at all.

    Capaldi’s Doctor reminds me 4th (prominent eyes, a bit curly hair, timbre of the voice). But when 4th was a bit out of touch with reality or even moony, at the same time he was cool and calm and slow and very concentrated. 12th has been in constant rush bursting with emotions. I like him but I feel he could do better with different companion and after yesterday’s episode I’m sure Bill is the one.

    (I’ve bought Kalanchoe and found one neglected specimen at home. I’ll try to keep them alive).

     

     

    #56343
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    @ichabod I would agree with you if it was any of the other Rembrandt’s late self-portraits in which he did depicted himself as an old man who stares in disbelief how the young man full of self-confidence and self-esteem he was turned into this tired and lonely old man. But even than the sense of humor didn’t abandoned him as he painted himself im one of his self-portraits as an ancient greek painter Zeuxis who died of laugh in front of an old woman who demanded from him to paint her as Aphrodite. But the Self-portrait with the circles is exceptional in many ways. Look how monumental this picture is. Rembrandt didn’t depict himself as an old and tired man. He painted himself at work with his palette, brushes, and maulstick. But in the moment he cached he broke the work, put his hand on his hip and looked straight ahead like he would like to say defiantly ‘Look at me, I’m Rembrandt, I’m a genius’. There’s no other painter who devoted so many pictures to paint himself. Such a great number is exceptional. This series of late portraits can be compare only to earlier Titian’s self-portraits who, what is interesting shared similar fate to Rembrandt, loosing his wife and children and died in loneliness. But you won’t see those loses and so many bad decisions Rembrandt had made in his life in this portrait. He finished it the year he died in poverty and loneliness with a granddaughter as the only relative he had. But this self-portrait is a kind of exegi monumentum manifesto. Rembrandt from this painting is proud and fully aware of his talent and skills and just like Horace knows his place in the world of art and that he will defeat death. Funny thing is that for many years after Rembrandt’s death his paintings were very low valued and in 18th century a box of chocolate was more expensive than Rembrandt’s painting. Of course chocolate was a highly luxury good, but come on, food? There is one more fact I love about Rembrandt (it has nothing to do with Doctor Who). One of Rembrandts’s pupils was Carel Fabritius who is known as Johannes Vermeer’s teacher. There’s no proof for it and some historians (maybe even most of them) question that but it’s unquestionable that they knew each other and Fabritius highly influenced Vermeer. I like the fact that two of the best dutch painters were connected and Vermeer was a grandsuccesor of Rembrandt.

    And one last thing. Doctor played again 5th ‘Fate’ Symphony. The goddes of fate was Fortuna and her symbol was a wheel which itself symbolize cycle, repetition or change.

    Knowing that I’m usually 100% wrong this picture means nothing but it’s nice to speculate for once about something I’m passionate about.

    #56318
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    @kharis you are right, there’s Shakespeare too, on a different window silk.

    #56317
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    @wolfweed @blenkinsopthebrave

    I think Moffat wanted people to spot them. The painting hangs in the background and thin circles as they are in the oryginal could be missed.

    @kharis the bust I’ve mentioned has a mane of hair and chubby cheeks. I think it’s Beethoven.

     

    #56313
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    @whisht

    I think I will watch some episodes with 7th, I’ll start probably from those mentioned by @jimthefish. Thanks for that. It’s somehow refreshing to watch Doctor with completely different personality from last three Doctors, less emotional but at the same time more expressive (I think it’s McCoys’s voice).

    @blenkinsopthebrave

    Thank you for mentioning the Five(ish) Doctors. I didn’t know anything about it and now I’m completely hooked. I’ve watched it for three times already. Hilarious and so well written. All four Doctors were really charming. McCoy and McGann have amazing, deep (and in case of McCoy screeching) voices. But the whole show was stolen by Russel T. (and Peter Jackson and Ian McKellen). I laughed out loud. I like it even more than the official 50th anniversary special.

    @mudlark

    When it comes to the Big Finish it’s either love it or hate it. Some of productions are just ridiculous (last week I listened to one of the 50th anniversary stories with 6th and Peri in which a Russian cosmonaut flew to the Moon, found an american base on its dark side (in 1963) went back in the body of the dog Laika but with brain and larynx transplanted and started a rebellion against humans) or plainly too complicated for radio (hard to remember and recognize who is who). But there are also really amazing stories to which I class another 50th anniversary production with 5th and Nyssa who traveled to 1963 again to watch the Beatles and found that history was changed and Paul missed his chance to became famous. Great atmosphere with fantastic duo Doctor and Nyssa. Interestingly 8th mentioned all his Big Finish companions in his regeneration short movie before he drank the potion and regenerated into War Doctor.

    There was a point in which I was sure Matt Smith was the perfect embodiment of the Doctor… but then his personality changed, he become depressed and the story went in wrong direction. Smith left too late or too early. He should either left with the Ponds or stay with Clara longer although I don’t think he had anything to do with her. No chemistry at all.

    Capaldi’s Doctor reminds me 4th (prominent eyes, a bit curly hair, timbre of the voice). But when 4th was a bit out of touch with reality or even moony, at the same time he was cool and calm and slow and very concentrated. 12th has been in constant rush bursting with emotions. I like him but I feel he could do better with different companion and after yesterday’s episode I’m sure Bill is the one.

    (I’ve bought Kalanchoe and found one neglected specimen at home. I’ll try to keep them alive).

    #56306
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    @kharis

    Thank you, that’s nice. I think this picture is significant (or maybe not, maybe Rembrandt is Moffat’s favourite painter and he wanted to pay him tribute, it definitely tells something about his excellent taste). But Rembrandt throughout his life painted plenty of self-portraits, as a young man, as a middle-aged man, as an old man, as a rich man, in woman’s dress, in armour, he liked to dress up. But Moffat chose this portrait (probably the most famous) which has those mysterious circles and you’ll find many of them in the episode. Those two in the portrait, in the Tardis (galifreyan alphabet), on the machine, in the bar in Sydney and on the Dalek’s ships (circles in girders).

    The bust on the sill was Beethoven, wasn’t it?

    #56295
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    @kharis Doctor gave Bill her mother’s pictures. She didn’t look at all like Donna.

    #56293
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    The circle can also represent a full circle either for the Doctor or for Steven Moffatt or return to the beginning. That’s why Susan’s portrait would stand on a desk. This portrait of Rembrandt is one of his last if not the last and it’s a coping stone of his life-long series of self-portraits. Rembrand died in 1969 outliving his wife Saskia, his later partner Hendrickje and beloved son Tytus who left a baby daughter, Rembrandt’s granddaughter Titia. Sorry if I’m boring you but that really intrigued me.

    #56278
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    So the new companion is an orphan or a half-orphan, most of the time she’s happy-go-lucky but sometimes she’s sad because her mom died. She quotes her mother, who was a charming, lively woman. Bill is also very friendly, sociable and protective. How inventive. I hoped for something a bit different this time, not diffrent from Bill but from the previous companion introduction. But I like Bill and love Nardole.

    The oil painting which hangs on Doctor’s office wall is Rembrandt self-portrait painted in 1669. It’s one of the most mysterious Rembrandt’s paintings as scholars still haven’t decided what the circles in the background mean. The original is on the display in Kenwood house so it’s not a coincidence that this picture was hanged there (the circles in the picture reminds me the circles in Doctor’s machine in the cellar and circular mirrors in Australia). Last year it was Beethoven and breaking wall, this year maybe Rembrand but I don’t know what exactly but definety the circle. Some historians interpret Rembrand’s circles as circles of life.

    #56152
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    My first encounter with the Seventh Doctor didn’t go well. I saw him for the first time in Doctor Who movie when he was so stupidly killed by the Chinatown mafia in San Fransisco. I thought he looked pitiful and stupidly with his awful vest and question mark shaped umbrella, a kind of a whimpish good uncle or loser. And of course it was during his time when the show was cancelled so he had to be a real failure. (I didn’t hear about Sylvester McCoy so I couldn’t appreciate his talent). So you can imagine my big surprise when I listened to one of the Big Finish productions (Protect and Survive, really claustrophobic story about atomic annihilation, I strongly recommend), with Seventh and it become one of my favourite Doctor who story ever also because of McCoy’s Doctor. As I said I never thought Seventh as an interesting character and here he was completely different from his predecessors, very determined and composed, not in the clouds but above all rather vindictive and even cruel. In his companion’s words “This is just his style. It’s not enough to defeat the bud guys. He has to punish them. What right does he have to hand out judgments. Sometimes he gets so close to the monsters it’s hard to tell him apart”. Earlier Doctors didn’t hesitate to punish the villains of course but I never felt they did it with pleasure. Those traits were examined later in Tenth case but it was more an excuse to introduce Donna and make her important and I think really compassionate (and more emotional) Doctor was rather modern development. I’ve heard more Big Finish productions with Seventh and I think this picture of him is appropriate though I haven’e watched any TV episode. I’m worry that this impression will change. That’s my few reflections on Seventh. He’s rather rarely discussed.

    #56151
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    @mudlark I’ve been thinking about something easy but with flowers to make them blooming again, so it should be a biennal or perennial plant. My windows look on north-west and I have very intensive and really hot sunsets on summer but not very bright sunrises. I will be very grateful for any tips. They predict snow on Easter 🙁

    #56104
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    @mudlark

    It would be great if Gardeners’world last one hour with half an hour of Monty Don wandering in his garden and half an hour about interesting gardens. The current format seems a bit cramped. The next episode is one hour long so I can’t wait. The interview with Beth Chatto was very inspiring. My favourite moment was when Beth touched Carol’s chick as if she was a teenager asking her for advise. You Britons have very rich tradition of gardening, much more richer than in Poland when most people live in blocks of flats and winter is longer.

    Puro (@thane15)

    Drought? It’s April and I still wear my winter jacket. 8 degrees C outside :-/

    The only plants which can stand my company are cactuses (which boom every year). I decided to change that and bought a pot plant with actual leaves and flowers and keep it alive. Any recommendations?

    @thane15 and @whisht as we are talking about books

    I’ve been reading the Ranger’s Apprentice of an australian writer John Flanagan.  I’ve heard it’s  rather successful (it has to be as it was published as audiobook in Poland) series. Have you read it? Nice books, but rather for teenagers than for adults, at least first four books which for me should be one volume. The author has interesting ideas but I feel he chooses the easiest, not to say fairy-tale options. I don’t know how many times I thought ‘Oh, what a good idea, what a good story’, and then ‘so, that’s it?’ or ‘that’s quite unbelievable’ or ‘it couldn’t be more staged’.  But I can see in his prose a trace of medieval stories such as Iwein or Erec or any other chivalric story. I’ve heard that male authors concentrate more on action and female on detailes. I think Flanagan could concentrate more on detailes. I can see the difference between Flanagan’s and J. K. Rowlings books. Harry Potter has many staged situations  which seem very unlikely not to say really stupid. But you just don’t question them. Why? I think because Potter’s world is fuller and has more distractions.

    I read 3 and a half book and decided to give a chance to the 4th volume.

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    @mudlark

    My imitial thought was ‘No!!! Another spoiler!’. I decided not to watch any trailer or read any news on the new season so I was disappointed that I came across this news on Facebook. But than I thought this is a good news for me. Although I like Michell Gomez’ s portrayal of the Master I feel that Missy is someone like an antihero (like Marvel’s Loki whom I love) not a villain and she is for me like Master’s older sister. I long for cool, cold and cruel Master Missy is too much likeable). I would not describe Simm’s as cold and cool but at least he’s a proper villain.

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    @mudlark

    You didn’t upset me at all. I’m very grateful for your suggestions about other Monty Don’s programmes. I’m not sure if I can say that I have watched Gardeners’ World  for 16 years but 16 or 17 years ago (definitely before 2001) I saw several episodes with Alan Titchmarsh for the first time. On Monday mornings I was alone at home I watched Gardener’s World before I went to school on a small tourist tv with only one channel. And it was magical and so british when Titchmarsh was sitting on his veranda and sipping his tea (or at least this is how I remember that).It’s one of my special memory from my early teenage years so I have a sentimental attachment to the Gardener’s World. So don’t worry I won’t stop watching it. The first episode of the new series with Beth Chatto was just amazing. Early spring is my favourite time of the year.

    #55995
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    @pedant I have your point and I agree with Moffat although the announcement itself contradicts his words but if it’s because the press is so vile so be it.

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    @miapatrick @pedant @mudlark  @janetteb

    The fuss is not about Bill’s sexuality but about announcing it now. I can accept that it’s a PR move althoug I don’t like it. Sexuality shouldn’t be discuss as something sensational. And as the announcent has become a kind of sensation I feel it took some power of the fact that Bill is gay. I think it shouldn’t be announced but showed when it’s time as completely natural. That would be a real statement. But it’s only my view. And I will never believe that Moffat is afraid of the Sun or Daily Mirror or people who share their views.

    #55979
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    @mudlark

    I’m sorry that I enraged you. I cause only trouble :(. But I think you misunderstood me. I said that I know nothing about gardening and because of that I can’t really asses those voices of critique. My point was that critical comments or any other comments let me look from different point of view and reconsider my view on Gardeners’s world, Doctor Who or anything. Sometimes my view changes sometimes don’t. Maybe I shouldn’t  wrote that ‘I started to think that maybe Don is wrongheaded’ but ‘I started to consider that matter’. That was what I meant. You have to forgive me my languege blunders. (I thought ‘maybe’ is enough).

    I like Monty Don very much and that’s why I watch Gardeners’World. He is a brilliant presenter and his garden is amazing. I don’t doubt in his knowledge. Maybe it’s Titchmarsh who is bigheaded (any enraged Titchmarsh’s fans here?). Thank you for explaining about pest and chemicals.

    As to Stephen Moffat I hardly know about his critics. The only british newspaper I read is the Guardian and I think he has many fans there. The fact that I’m not a fan of the last two seasons doesn’t mean I hate Moffat. My favourite season of all time is season 5 which was the first Moffat’s season as a head writer and I can assure that any critical comments on Moffat or this series won’t change my view on it.

    #55977
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    @jimthefish @blenkinsopthebrave

    Maybe Missy will kill the Doctor. That would be rather dramatic and it would fuel their conflict as lately there are rather pals than enemies. The last one who got killed (kind of) was 7th so it was long ago.

    #55968
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    @missy

    Quite the opposite in my case. I value your opinions and ideas very highly so I wouldn’t say that they do not sway me a jot. I believe that everyone can say something inspiring, spot more things and understand them better than me. Of course there are things that I like and no one can convince me that I’m wrong in my conviction (I can’t be wrong that I like something, maybe the things I like are not as good as I think but it’s a different case).

    @ichabod

    I don’t think it’s sad when you relise why you don’t like something. In my case I don’t need to discuss things I like. I prefer to discuss things I don’t like because it helps me to ease my tension as I really care about Doctor Who. But I was talking about situations when you feel or know that something doesn’t fit, something is to much staged, inconsistent or could be better written. How to explain that?

    I like to watch Gardeners’ world. I know nothing about gardening and don’t have a garden but it’s really entertaining. I’ve watched it regularly only for few years but I’ve seen few episodes with Alan Titchmarsh. I would never thought that one can say a bad word about Monty Don the current presenter of GW. But I read some words of criticism about him that he said some rude words about some flowers and people took offence, that he is completely against chemical methods of dealing with pest and never speaks about them, that Alan Titchmarsh who is a professional felt hurt that Don, an amateur took his place as a presenter of GW. My points is that after reading those critical comments I started to think that maybe Don really is wrongheaded, has no professional knowledge or is just rude. And it has nothing to do with my vision of GW. It lets me expect something more from the show. I have the same with Doctor Who. Of course when something is perfect it’s perfect. And most viewers and readers share that belief.

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    @thane15 Thank you, that’s very kind of you

    @pedant and All
    What would Moffat like to debate now? I thought you Britons are open-minded with civil partnerships and gay marriages and you don’t need to discuss such matters beforehand (preparing/warning people (of what?!!!)?. Maybe I’m wrong about that but I listen to the Archers and there’s a lovely gay marriage and last year a new character was introduce, a lesbian lawyer who saved the day and I had the impression that everyone was 100% positive about her. So the fact that they would like to debate Bill’s sexuality now is a bit incomprehensible at least for me. Maybe they want unusual buzz but Power Rangers was first.

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    @ichabod @janetteb I couldn’t agree more. I think announcements like this about Bill’s sexuality spoil the fun a bit (as a fun I mean discovering the character). And I would love to see Clara kissing Jane Austin but it never occured to me that she’s bisexual.

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    @missrori @joshamus @ichabod @thane15

    The more I discuss Doctor Who the less I like it as your comments and theories make me realize the whole potential hidden in the storyline and left me disappponted as it’s usually not fulfilled. But this forum is a bit addictive.

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    @missy I disagree with your ‘for kids’ label. ‘The Lion King’ and ‘Pocahontas’ and other productions were also for kids and you can’t say they didn’t bring up serious stuff. But yeah, it was much more lighter than the Last Christmas.

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    I think this episode shows that Capaldi’s Doctor comes out better as a comical character rather then a drama person (Don’t say that there are plenty dramatic and really brilliant episodes with Capaldi. I know that). There’s something joyful in Peter Capaldi (I think it’s the fact that he really really enjoys playing the Doctor) that makes those dramatic episodes a bit forced to me. I think comedy suits him better.

    I find this episode much more better than the last Christmas special. Actually it was the best Christmass Special since the Doctor, the Widow and the Wardrobe. Especially Matt Lucas was a big surprise for me. I didn’t like Nardole at all in his first appearence but now I’m very pleased that he joined the Doctor and I think they make a really good couple. And because of what I’ve said earlier and of what was said about the next season I really can’t wait for it. Cheers

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    @missy, sorry I didn’t tagged you in the post above.

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    Thanks for the suggestion. A gobelin is a kind of artistic textile made on canvas from linen or cotton warp and woolen or cotton woof. This one below I finished last year.

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    Can anyone recommend me some interesting but not very depressing audiobooks, radio programs or music (classical)? I’m weaving a gobelin and it’s a very long and sometimes tedious occupation and I have had enough of Harry Potter, Agatha Christie and BBC Radio 4. I feel bored and it influences my creative powers.

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    @bluesqueakpip Shame the wizards didn’t lock the time of the events which led to the Second Wizarding War as the Timelords did. Smart people.

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    @puroandson @ichabod

    It’s funny how it goes with these things. We’ve had 5 companions so far and only one had both parents. And Martha was the least successfull companion of the renewed series. I think it’s not the case of the family as a load but the fact that they were rather unlikable. I love the relationship which 9 had with Rose’s mother and 10 with Donna’s mother. Those things made the stories fuller. Shame we didn’t see more from Clara’s family but it wasn’t the hapiest family ever. And it was Danny who was the only true orphan of the series and he didn’t want to travel with the Doctor. I think as an orphan who lived in an orphanage he had time to sort his life out and realised what he wants in his life. He didn’t want to run. Doctor’s companion are the people who want to run away from their lives.

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