@missy and @ichabod    The writers have of course showed us that Time Lords do sometimes change gender when they regenerate so the door has been opened for that possibility. Since so many fans seem to be so  against the idea maybe not yet eh. But why not a female Doctor? She would still be the Doctor with all those other Docs inside her.Who nose?

@missy  No, no, Billie Baggins, or maybe Wilamette.   Think, Granny Weatherwax in her youth, about to set off and gain wisdom and experience.  Saurona, the Devilish Dame?  But what’s wrong with “Spider Woman?”

People can’t leave things alone because things, and people, and times change, and so do expectations.  TV is marketed to people, so peop…[Read more]

@missy  @mudlark  I think my interior, emotional age is maybe 30 — but then, I don’t really remember more than just fragments of having been a child; maybe I got a late start of some kind.  Raising my younger sister (my mother worked full time, plus half-time free lance work) might have something to do with it; but that aside, I think my si…[Read more]

@ichabod  @Missy

I like you; you make me feel young 🙂

In reality I don’t feel old most of the time. Arthritis and other recent health problems are just a trick that time has played on me; inside, and very close to the surface, there’s a 25 year old who insists on being heard.

@missy  You know, I never could watch The Musketeers, even though PC was a major character in it.  Something about those costumes just makes me uncomfortable — all that fabric and leather and great big boots.  I get distracted thinking about what it must feel like lugging all that around.  (trailing rags of memory from a past life, mebbe . . . ?…[Read more]

@missy   Dang.  Guess I’m just a loser, then!

@missy  Yes, when we see it!  Seen a lot of Doctors and favored some, but this guy just blew me away from the get-go. Something to do with the profile, maybe?  I used to draw an imaginary face very much like that when I was in art school — long, expressively topographical, with that thick, vigorous hair.  Friend of mine says, “Oh, you’re just an…[Read more]

@mudlark   I do believe that is the only book (the second volume, I think) that I actually stole from the library.  After I’d read it, I felt so guilty that I took it back, under my coat, and furtively replaced it on the shelf . . . It was just too wonderful to keep to myself.   I must report, though, that I began to read the trilogy again, fo…[Read more]

@missy  Oh, they play those moments, those glimpses into deep feeling, brilliantly, don’t they?  Have we ever seen another TL show those kinds of feelings?  If we have, I don’t remember it; and in S8-S9 we do see the Doctor yanked back from what seems to be a default TL setting of no positive emotional involvement (“She cares so I don’t have to…[Read more]

@Missy  @Nerys

Julius Caesar had himself appointed Dictator for life after decades of social unrest and what amounted to intermittent civil war among those of the ruling class, and he was a self-publicist – as those of my generation who had to read and translate his Gallic Wars can testify; he also had a reputation as a womaniser and he was s…[Read more]

@missy Well, his Brutus is not likely to be Steve Bannon, who scares me even more than Trump, and who seems to be the one in charge of this show. I too am sick to death of Trump … yet I know of people who are thrilled with him and what he is doing, and also irate with all the “fuss” being made. Those who oppose him are characterized as “sore…[Read more]

@Missy @janetteB

Watch this. Best antidote to ho-wh-shall-not-be-name ever. Strong language advisory!

@Missy  I was in the library. Trump was on the screen. (Don’t know why it is necessary to have a screen in a library)

Walked out towards the shopping centre. Passed a guy in a gopher and a cleaner. The later was saying to the former “Trump won’t last long. Someone will knock him off.”

Couldn’t tell if he thought that was a good or bad thing but…[Read more]

@missy (hugs)  I heard the news about Capaldi leaving just after I got up and it soured my whole day!  But beyond any issues with pay there might have been, I think he’s just ready to do (more) other stuff.  The role has been part of his life since 2013 after all.  I know some fans are wishing there hadn’t been such a long gap between Series 9 and…[Read more]

@missy  Oh, I don’t think so; Hitler meant to build an empire spanning Europe and Asia, the Third Reich.  He was prevented.  Trump will fumble it so badly that I don’t think there will be a US empire, at least not in the near future.  The Pax Americana will be a joke in his hands, and what else does the US have to offer anyone swearing fealty to…[Read more]

Hello everyone. I wish all of you the happiest of new years. And I hope for all of our sakes that Pete Tyler comes across the void one more time to bring us all over to Pete’s World. All of us except for the Master and his minions, that is.

@whist, so sorry to hear the double whammy of your friend’s passing and your employment situation.…[Read more]

A sign of the times: Orwell’s 1984 is No. 1 in the Amazon book sales charts   This statistic does not reveal how many of those buying the book think it is a ‘how to’ manual

@Missy   That clip  is certainly going the rounds, and I’ve come across it several times in the last couple of days.  The Trump impression is pitch-perfect, isn’t it ?

@thane15  @missy  @mudlark  @winston  @ichabod  Thanks for all your support.  (hugs)  I wish I could do more than sign petitions and give to local and not-so-local charity groups.

@janetteB  @missy (hmmm)  Thinking back on the Doctor’s story in Series 9, it’s hard to see what lesson to take from it that can apply to me in these grim times.  As Missy tells Clara, and Clara points out to the Doctor later in that season, the Doctor always wins in the end because he goes into situations knowing that the way to win just needs to…[Read more]

@thane15 @missy @alexwho  Thank you for your kind words.  @ichabod, I’m afraid I live in the middle of Illinois, so I don’t think phone conversations would be feasible.  But being able to talk about things here does a bit of good in and of itself.

Yeah, I am trying to do kind and charitable things — not always easy under my circumstances — bu…[Read more]