@missrori—

thank you. Very kind.

@Missy  @ichabod

I, too, remember the rag-and-bone man who came round with his horse and cart collecting scrap metal, old clothes and other items for what we would now term recycling. I don’t remember if he collected meat bones as well, but he may well have done, presumably for glue making, or grinding for fertilizer.  We used to have a knife g…[Read more]

@jimthefish;

Thank you for that, it’s very true. Unfortunately as you say, I too slip on occasions.

@janetteb:  I do wish Capaldi was staying on for at least one more series after this one.

So do I.  Half of me is looking forward to tomorrow, and half is dreading it. It looks as though he regenerates in the final episode, instead of a Ch…[Read more]

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@missrori  Yup, we’ve got screenings next Saturday night and the following Wednesday evening, at a theater near me (and one on the other side of the river).  Local Whovians make it a bit of a party, these occasions; and — very soon now — off we go!

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@joshamus @ichabod @craig

Now that’s what I call a gay agenda….

(If Moffat’s writing – all the way back to Press Gang – has a consistent theme it is about loneliness and the desperate need to companionship and how connection makes us better, being isolated breaks us. The many and varied ways he has found to explore that, to riff time and again…[Read more]

@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.

@missrori:

Ah, I thought you meant the actual actor who played the part of TGI., so point taken.

Missy

@missrori:

Re- Beauty and the Beast. Damn, my husband and I are going to see this.

We are talking about the same film aren’t we?  Richard. E. Grant played The Great Intelligence in The Snowmen.

Missy

@missrori  Thanks for the review.  Sounds about as expected, unfortunately.  Yesterday’s NYT had a long article on a new musical being planned for Broadway — a musical version of the film “Groundhog Day”.  Well . . . who knows, I guess.  IMO, the best movie ever made about reincarnation.  I don’t give much for its chances on a stage.

@missrori: What a fun  and bonkers idea. Perhaps they did try to help, but the Time Lords wouldn’t let them in. In my opinion, they loved him enough, especially River Song.

@conchobarre: Class is too violent for me and I can do without Ishildir, but that’s just me. *grins*

Moffat and Gatiss can do anything they put their minds to.

@winston: Your lack of computer knowledge is surpassed by mine, I assure you.

@missrori. Good advise from Janette. I also find that walking away for a week or two can work. Thank you for missing me. *hugs back*

@craig: Thank you for that, I am already a big follower of BBC 4 Extra, always listening to plays and stories, so I shall definitely li…[Read more]

@cathannabel @missrori @jimthefish @Thane15

There is a small possibility I might have commented on the Graun thread…

Anyway, worth noting that RTD and Moff have both explicitly acknowledged the debt to Buffy.

Season 5 of Buffy remains, to me, the finest single season of TV storytelling in any genre, ever. Matt Smith’s first season (S5 also,…[Read more]

@missrori  I have watched that show but sadly missed that episode.  Too funny!

I am slightly worried about any “operation Dalek” that may be out there.

@thane15, @cathannabel and @missrori (and all) Yes, happy Buffy Day. Was thinking to mark it I’d repost the original Buffy blogs and we could revisit our own Buffy experience. Might keep us occupied till Series 10 actually shows up. I’m intending to re-watch a few choice episodes over the weekend anyway.

@Thane @MissRori

Yeah good one. And in the episode called – aptly enough  – Choices there is this entire exchange, which covers pretty well every base of who gets to choose while – with hindsight – teeing up what it can lead to.

The point being, that you don’t do the right thing to earn a reward. You do it because it is the right thing,…[Read more]

@thane15 @MissRori @ichabod

Becoming, Part 1

Whistler: No one asks for their life to change, not really. But it does. So what are we, helpless? Puppets? No. The big moments are gonna come. You can’t help that. It’s what you do afterwards that counts. That’s when you find out who you are.

@missrori  rewards that sometimes seem like “small potatoes” compared to the ones he’d reap if he chose not to be the Doctor (i.e., if he took command of the Cyber-army of the dead and conquered the universe).

What “rewards”, though, would the Doctor have gained by conquering the universe with Missy’s Cyber-Army — rewards that would have had so…[Read more]

@alexwho  Why hasn’t he been on Doctor Who????

Glad you found that!  He’s probably not been asked to do something on DW, assuming they could afford him (or, if he’s a fan of the Doctor, he’d do it for less just for the fun of it).  Acting is a very unpredictable profession; who knows!

@missrori  You might try doing something completely diffe…[Read more]