@missrori My only advice is just keep trying. Try to do something a bit different, maybe just write prose or a different style of verse or edit some old works. When I really don’t feel like writing I edit and that lures me back. I can never just passively read through work though sometimes I really mess it up, adding something that was already…[Read more]

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So if he’d left children & civilians on G’frey die that would’ve been better? 

Well, in the sense that it would have been less grief for the Doctor in the long run, [and every word that follows]…

I can’t even…

This is just drivel.

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if some pattern, something greater than he put the memory of Pompeii in his head at that exact moment.  He’d been wondering since his regeneration why he had the face he did

This is a self-answering question if ever there was one. No greater thought, just a intellect reflecting on things.

Stop looking for the Ghost In The Machine. Th…[Read more]

@missrori  . . . Titan Comics miniseries Supremacy of the Cybermen (which ran last year) shows the Doctor’s mercy in banishing Rassilon to backfire badly.

I haven’t thought about that as “mercy” — in Hell Bent, the Doctor seems to me to be far more intent on rescuing Clara than on vengeance.  What he does to Rassilon is simply carry enforce his…[Read more]

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Also, the Titan Comics miniseries Supremacy of the Cybermen (which ran last year) shows the Doctor’s mercy in banishing Rassilon to backfire badly.

Well, yeah – it was kind of predictable.

@missrori  I don’t see how the Doctor was turned from a sword to a plow through his ordeal in this story.

The Confession Dial was the forging fire, but remember, the Doctor is now, per Moffat, one half of the Hybrid.  He acts as a sword carried by the strength of his anger and his determination.  It’s not until he rejoins his “other half” that…[Read more]

@missrori   @thane15 and @ichabod This is a time of stress for so many people in the world. (the understatement of the year) A time when it seems like the bad guys are winning, like they can do no wrong. In a fair life the bad guys would be punished and the good guys would be rewarded but that doesn’t seem to be happening. But that doesn’t mean w…[Read more]

@missrori   Recently I started reading a series of books by Jonathon Stroud called Lockwood and Co.. These are called young adult books but I like them and believe me I am a long way away from being a  young adult. As I told the Librarian “I refuse to limit myself to certain sections” and I am glad I don’t because I found these books. This is a fa…[Read more]

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Hmm. That’s pure fanwank. There is a simple explanation, shown on screen, that supports the story far more effectively than silly melodrama.

he wound up losing instead of winning

No he didn’t. He ‘won’. But in storytelling, winning always has a toll. Always.

@thane15 @ichabod @missrori

Who says the dial was discarded in the desert? It manifested right where it need to be: next to the people who love him without condition. Much like the Tardis it took him where it needed to go, not wanted.

@thane15  We are trained to look for huge discoveries and enormous loud lines and act but Moffat, Gattis and the rest write with such economy that you are required to look for the good. Why?  Because that’s exactly how it is in real life, not the movies.

What a great way to look at it!  Nicely put, too.

I think physical life is harsh by its natu…[Read more]

@thane15  ”mum will run me over even if I’m dead” (source: one of the Chinese Australians

Oooh — a Tiger Mom!  As if life weren’t tough enough . . .

@missy @thane15  My sister’s favorite dog (of the many she’s had) was a Great Dane that died ated 12 yrs, apparently a very unusual age for such a big dog.  They usually only make it to around 8…[Read more]

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Or the memory wipe is lifted and he can be happily reunited with Clara….or River Song? Unlikely.

@blenkinsopthebrave:

It  doesn’t matter. Here is as good as anywhere.

Missy

<p>@mudlark  It is great to have new enthusiasm about your research. I hope the archives prove useful in you work and admit to some small envy. As a Canadian with British roots, it is my dream ( not yet my budget) to visit the UK and explore and of course Oxford is on my list.</p><p>     @missrori   I also hope the Doctor has a good regener…[Read more]

@missrori: My eyes will be peeled!

Missy

@missrori:

I saw DM advertised, but have been caught before. twice I’ve bought the special only to find it  included in the series box set.

Damn!  I shall have to wait to see “A New Kind of Hero”.

Thanks for sharing anyway.

Missy

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Or just more grown up.When you’ve been around the track as many times as a few of us here, you just adopt a CBA attitude to the worst fuckwittery.

@missrori: Indeed he does. Lovely man, I’m really going to mis PC *reaches for the tissues – again*

Missy

@Missrori and @missy.  I doubt they have even began auditions for the role yet and there will not be an announcement until after the next series.

Cheers

Janette

@missrori  Sure!  Goodness knows, he’s earned it!