I’m so sorry to hear that, but glad that @HTPBDET could see his son’s wedding.

My thoughts are with the family.

@Craig– that is very Doctor Who. (though some areas of fandom would feel the need to insist, that it is a satellite of platonic love, and nothing whatsoever to do with River…) It is hard to choose a song from an artist who was so versatile in style, yet so consistently himself in whatever he did.

@FatManInABox– heh, he’d probably disapprove of…[Read more]

I had forgotten this was where all this got started. @Craig provided one of my best Christmas presents ever!

I agree with @PhaseShift– this episode followed the conventions of a Christmas episode: Lonely doctor, a story that makes sense on its own. The Paternoster Gang may not have been brand new, but no prior knowledge was really required.…[Read more]

@FatManInABox– just came on here to post about the same thing.

He really was one of the most gifted and interesting people in the music industry. (Hence Leister Bangs’ obsession with him.) There are very few people who can switch between being very dry and cynical and violent in their imagery, to being so sweet and tender. I think what first drew…[Read more]

@Chickenelly– ‘of some sort’. Accidentally got on the channel just before it was broadcast, my boyfriend turned to me and said ‘oh, what’s that?’, I said, ‘it’s a trailer without footage from the actual episode, and well played’. It’s lovely. I think he lost interest after that, though he did turn around and grin at me when the lost episodes were…[Read more]

@ScaryB– but I would suggest, even older. Think of what we know: That the library is, if not a fixed point in time, a fixed point for River and the Doctor, so he possibly needed to think, the second time he met her, that she had died for him.

We know that fixed points can’t be re-written- but they can be subverted. So long as the relevant people…[Read more]

Re: River- this is probably quite a tiresome suggestion, but do we know, for an absolute fact, that River really died? We know that she said and ten believed that the way she is supposed to have died wouldn’t allow for regenerations, even if she still had them, but to be fair we’ve seen the Doctor die, his body burned, and it turned out not to be…[Read more]

@Bluesqueakpip– it is indeed and thank you, that would be great. I was actually working myself up to ask you since you’d mentioned that you did it a while ago 😉

@Shazzbot: Right! I’ll have pitcher of margaritas please- and one glass! Not exactly weeping, just feeling a bit shakey.

@ScaryB: thank you! you can uncross them now. Think it went ok… its weird doing exams on a computer, I kept getting worried about the structure, having to remind myself they’re not marked in quite the same way as a…[Read more]

@DestinyRose– don’t apologise, that’s what this space is for (both the sofa and the site as a whole) 🙂

@everyone else: ok, got exam this afternoon at half two, so please spare me a thought between half two and half five.

(Unless any of you have mastered telepathy, in which case, spare a thought for relics and iconoclasm, cabinets of…[Read more]

@chickenelly– sounds more like dyspraxia to me… there is a tendency to lump all the ‘dys’s under ‘dyslexia’ which irritated me when I was younger, because  I read very well (I am however very clumsy, so dyspraxia suits me far better…)

@Bluesqueakpip– yes, I love my kindle for that. I’m increasingly worried that when my current one…[Read more]

Agents of SHIELD: I like it but I think I might be giving it a bit of a free pass because my boyfriend is (probably-mixed feelings) facing surgery and then three months of almost complete immobility- and he really likes it, and it doesn’t seem like it’s going to be one of the more dense, complex, really need to remember all the details from…[Read more]

This episode might have it’s flaws but it has some of the best moments- the opening, when Amy is talking to her baby about its father, very old etc. I will admit that for a second I was thinking no, don’t you dare at the idea that the Doctor would turn out to be the father after all. I’m not a member of the Doctor Who is asexual society, but I’m…[Read more]

@PhaseShift– ah, I didn’t mean the characters seemed similar as such. Just that Steel could manage that kind of dialogue without driving me, shuddering, away from my laptop. (Similar thing with Blake’s Seven for […]

@Bluesqueakpip– that’s interesting, because Davison’s doctor did say something along the lines of ‘I think I’ll regenerate… it feels different’. I wasn’t sure if this was just creating uncertainty, or pointing […]

@Bluesqueakpip– I agree. In fact, I think the last half series, in CW, Hide, and a bit in TCH gave us a few doctorish characters to remind the audience that the doctor can take different forms but- I’m taking it […]

@JimTheFish– MED-I-TATE

(Why did that Dalek remind me of my dentist…)

mmm- new doctor unpleasant from the start- I have heard bad things about him, of course, and suspect this is why my parents stopped watching. (Interestingly, though, David McCallum, in something like his character […]

mmm- how much are taxis? Then again, you’ll probably end up with the option of saving about £20 max , and at the end of the day you’ve got to put some value on a good nights sleep. Just don’t do what I once did […]

@Shazzbot– have you tried going into the station and asking ‘what is the cheapest fair I can get to London on this date’? You’ll end up going quite late at night or unforgivably early in the morning, but they […]