This starts off really well, with Clara waking up – the numbers on her bedside clock are reversed, her toothpaste is labelled ‘This is toothpaste’ (and is black) – her subconscious is trying to tip her off that her ‘world’ is being generated by the Zygon pod that imprisons her. Reminiscent of Last Christmas, but sufficiently different that it…[Read more]

@Missy    Is there anyone who doesn’t like Death?

Just prompted me to start re-reading my Discworld collection.     Maybe start with Sourcery because apparently that’s what Sir Terry suggested starting with.    Not sure where to go after that, back to Colour of Magic presumably.

@missy  Thank you and I hope you have a nice and peaceful Christmas .

Stay safe

Ho Ho Ho!

@missy  — thanks; here’s hoping!  And here’s hoping this link works, for a long and interesting look-back with Moffat that sounds as if was taped just before Chibnal’s seasons started.

@janetteb, @winston, @blenkinsopthebrave, @dentarthurdent, @nerys, @mudlark, @missy,  thank you all. And yes, I live with my partner, who actually found her (I didn’t see her) and he’s been fantastic, doing most of the sorting through of things in her rooms upstairs (she was something of a hoarder) while I try to plug on with finishing my disser…[Read more]

@missy   The 12th Doctors distrust with how merry the merry men were was very funny. I’m not sure I would trust anyone that merry either.

stay safe

@missy — Hell, the inside of MY Tardis looks better than all that melty wax with lights inside — and I don’t even have a Tardis!

@dentarthurdent — 57 of anything is a bit much for me — I’m trying to clear out tons of detritus (lived in this house since 1992, so you probably imagine; sort of.  Why isn’t the Tardis chock full of space…[Read more]

@davidwho  — Oh, I don’t forget the eyebrows!  I treasure the memory.  Thanks for congrats on making it to 82 — I forget about it a lot of the time, but then I have to get up and walk somewhere . . . and boy, do I remember!  The Doctor is very old; I can relate!

@mudlark — thanks for the reminder about birthdays!  Libras are the best, espe…[Read more]

@missy

Thanks for the reception

I personally do not feel that the new series and methodology has taken that much of a turn to be a different kind of travesty for sure. That is one thing I like about Whoniverse the most; the long-running legacy and the fact that one completes and complements the other. Both classic and new Who. Both have their…[Read more]

@missy   Of course, the Doctor was equally prejudiced about Danny.   But I personally was inclined to give the Doctor a pass on that, he tended to be equally rude about almost everybody – in a quirky alien way that helped make his character intriguing.   Call it a double standard on my part, I don’t really care.   Show’s called Doctor Who, after all.

@missy I never liked Danny very much. His first introduction military-drilling the kids counted against him (first impressions and all that) albeit it was quickly made clear that he was a maths teacher. He was starting to get very prickly in Listen, and I actively disliked him by The Caretaker, I felt he was being altogether too possessive and…[Read more]

@missy must have missed a post or two didn’t  realise you we’re actually talking about Elementary, which in my opinion is probably a good example of why Americans TV  shouldn’t attempt to Americanise what is a British  literary character there is always something off about the production.

@missy what on earth do you mean the real doctor, though I do agree RDT’s return might repair the damage Chibbers  lack-lustre  story writing seems to have created. If RTD had been in charge for Jodies stint I feel her tenure would have been so much better. Not that I have any issue with the Timeless Child concept in general terms,  I’ve always…[Read more]

@missy

You’re evil.   But you know that already    🙂

Maybe RTD will be able to revive it – again.

@missy Generally speaking, I agree with you that the U.S. should not redo British shows. They’ve managed to ruin a fair number of them. However, The Office is one exception, maybe because I started watching it before I watched the British original. I enjoyed the U.S. version, but toward the end it seemed to be chasing its own tail and wasn’t funny…[Read more]

@missy  Glad to see you are good.  Our covid cases were going down so things were opened up a bit and now our numbers are on the rise again. We have a really good vaccine rate so that is good but the Delta variant is still finding those that are not jabbed and some that are. We still have to be very careful and are still behaving like we did at t…[Read more]

@missy ‘Allo allo was, I think, very much in the traditional ‘music-hall’ style – full of cartoonish characters, double-entendres and risque jokes. That’s not normally my favourite style of humour – too obvious – but Allo Allo did it so supremely well I couldn’t help but like it. And (SPOILERS!!) I loved it that Rene finally got to elope with…[Read more]

@dentarthurdent Thanks for posting that additional info. I had already read through it, and I appreciate that they did think of non-techy people … to a degree. If they really wanted to consider non-techy people, then they would allow for printouts. But, the bottom line is that you still must upload the information, whether it’s using the…[Read more]

@missy  That was a great scene, in a great episode. He likes to sleep when other people are talking because it saves time. Such good lines.

I hope you are keeping well and watching lots of Doctor Who.

Stay safe.

@missy

” And don’t look in that mirror. It’s absolutely furious.”

That whole scene was absolutely hilarious.   With the Doctor, just regenerated, getting everything backwards or, maybe, just at 90 degrees to reality.

He had me at  “Oh, you two. The green one and the not-green one. Or it could be the other way round, I mustn’t prejudge.”…[Read more]