@everyone- incidentally, the Guardian thread not too bad.
After Moffart doubled down in Sherlock, I did wonder how he was going to approach this last season. I love the complicated stories, the mysteries and insane theories they generate. But I also loved the freshness of this.
@kharis– though of course complicated theories can still be found!…[Read more]

Lovely, i thought.
Loved the clockworkeque Nardel, the two doors like those huge mechanical clocks. And the ‘illusion of time’ montage.
I’ve always liked Capaldi’s doctor, but he’s never been quite so doctor as he was when Bill entered the Tardis.
Doctor what?
And the long route to ‘bigger on the inside.
Though I will always love Victorian…[Read more]

@than15 ack bugger! Yup, condescension. Thinking of @JanetteB‘s point about irregular spelling in the 19th century… good times.
Case in point with John Donne: The Canonization.
Another thing people bitch about the Americans for is making new words by putting a sequence of words together. Which is thoroughly Germanic and a fantastic way to…[Read more]

@mudlark– oh Austen is wonderful for evolving language. The double meaning of Mr Collin’s and Lady Catherine De Bourgh’s ‘condensation’. He means it, or thinks he means it in an older sense, as something admirable in a higher class persons interaction with the lower classes. But when he says it, we read it as the word became, insufferable…[Read more]

@Missy– for the English language to evolve not into another countries language… isn’t that how English has always evolved? I see the English language as a kind of carnivorous blob, absorbing words and structures from everything it touches.
I don’t know if it’s just me, but to me a ‘garden’ is the space attached to the house with some kind of…[Read more]

re: Bill, I suppose the difference was that Clara’s sexuality was more of a nudge when it came to women- we only saw her romantically/sexually interested in men. Jack was, well, Pansexual, but again it was mostly nudging before Tourchwood, the most serious it got was, I think, in Ten’s goodbye tour where Ten seemed to set him up with Russel…[Read more]

Really liked it. And this episode works equally well as the final ever episode, or a kind of re-boot, that I, either it won’t come back, because of the main actor’s film careers, or if it does, the arc’s been resolved. Moriarty is most likely permanently gone (feel a bit sad about that). Now I love a good arc, but they can lose integrity if they…[Read more]

@Craig-same to you! no worries. Our home insurance is due for renewal late December. We always end up with a few riskey, uninsured days.

Was that just me or did something weird happen to this site today?

@missy I loved Mr Huffle, and her use of it is entirely logical- but why would that thing exist? It’s like a child’s toy designed by a cat. Though I do rather want one myself.

@missy– yes, his grief was wonderfully done. And they managed to make it entertaining at the same time. Though I personally like Last Christmas and The Husbands of River Song more, this was also more of a stand-alone, a sequel to the last Christmas Special, but also something of a re-set. The Doctor handling his grief over River in a more mature…[Read more]

OK, I liked it. The doctor takes 24 years off for date night, fair enough in the circumstances. The doctor accidentally creates a superhero by handing a small child a small object saying ‘I’m a doctor, take this’ more or less. The doctor seems at least as interested in the love story as he is in the threat to earth- well the latter is a Christmas…[Read more]

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@Arbutus– yes, just woke up to that. Fucking 2016…

@JanetteB– interesting quote, who was it?

I think, from a non conservative side, I’d put it like this. Simple, selfish arguments have a punchy power. Appealing to more direct self interest is easier. ‘Take our country back’ sounds more powerful than ‘most of the votes in the EU go our way’. ‘This much a week goes to the EU’ than ‘actually when…[Read more]

@Thane15– thank you for your lovely words. Just a morning bitter ramble, really, when I should be studying Spencer’s ‘The Faery Queen’. Quite appropriately, I’m studying (or should be) a passage where people come across a personification of Despair, who attempts to talk them into suicide by using their weak points. Despair is about right, around…[Read more]

@thane15, @janetteB– just woke up to what feels to me, here in Britain, like the sequel to Britix: Amerix: this time it’s global.

I try to console myself with the thought that I do truly believe there were thinks Obama wanted and intended to do, but was unable because of the need of his parties support, cross party support etc, so if he couldn’t…[Read more]

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