@missy I loved London too, the two times I visited (1995 and 2014).

How’s everyone in my country (the U.S.A.) handling all this icy weather, huh?  🙂

I’ve noticed a lot of anxiety for this year to come everywhere, including on these boards.  I’ve been feeling it too — I was heartbroken by the presidential election.  I’ve noted before that I’…[Read more]

@missy   Oh yeah, anyone who’s seen it knows that desperate, wall-eyed stare by heart.  I was thinking about how the only “animal companion” the Doctor has ever had, that I can remember anyway, is — K-9.  Of course he can’t lug a dog around with him in the Tardis — a cat would be okay if the Tardis would consent to have mice for it to hunt an…[Read more]

@missy   I’ve had both, often at the same time (you know that thing where your dog stands there looking up at you imploringly because the new kitten is clinging enthusiastically, with all its miniature and needle sharp, teeth and claws, to one of her back feet?).  Love ’em both.

@missy  — My pleasure, as always.  Puss cats agree (which is rare among that species, to be honest); tomorrow is another — WOW!  What was *that*, that just zipped by?  I expect to become more cat-like over the next 4 yrs; one of my personal forms of resistance.  I have good teachers.

@soundworld  You’re entirely welcome, and here’s a thing, if I may, that I learned from a good friend and colleague (someone with some chronic conditions stemming from childhood illness).  You’ve been brave; you know you’ve been brave, although you probably don’t like to talk about it.  You know (I think) that’s it’s a choice.  Give Yourself A Med…[Read more]

@Missy

The link:

(It’s called copy and paste)

@missy  Thanks for your good wishes — I’m finishing up these health things, and have a physical therapist giving me exercises for the recalcitrant leg, so I expect to be planted more solidly again by the time the next wave of whatever hits.

@winston   Mmm, yes; I like to add a glass of nice red to that particular medicine.  It’s amazing that th…[Read more]

@missy and @janetteb   I did not realize that different actors playing the Doctor were payed different rates. It seems very unfair and I think that PC should be payed as much as DT. It must be a very demanding work load. I say pay him what he wants as long as he stays.

@ichabod @thane15

Kind of Blue is most definitely Miles Davis. But Cohen has plenty to offer this discussion (‘<i>Everybody knows that the dice are loaded</i>’).  Goodness, the internet has so changed music! In my mid 20s I started listening to a weekly jazz programme here, the presenter played lots of world music and world-jazz too which I just…[Read more]

@MIssy I think the BBC is subject to similar cuts as the ABC and for the same reasons; conservative governments who are too pally with a certain former Australian who wants to rule the world so your comment was apt.

Fingers crossed PC will get his well deserved pay rise.

Cheers

Janette

Over at Tumblr, some fans noted that Mr. Huffle’s hair, all dark and done up, looks kind-of-sort-of like what we’ve seen of…Bill’s hair!  Could it be foreshadowing of the help he needs coming along this spring?  😀

@missy, @ichabod, et.al.  — Talking about kids and Doctor Who — in the United States, Doctor Who has never really trea…[Read more]

Ooops – looks like I didn’t make myself clear (yeah, new year, nothing changes ;¬) )

So ( @pedant @missy @thane15 ), what I meant to say was that there’s a common misconception (or at least its my perception that there’s a common misconception – you can never be too sure in this post-Truth world just what is going on) that Londoners are…[Read more]

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Spare my blushes

The London School of Economics & Political Science.

@kbranagh I also enjoyed it.  I liked the characters and the love story was very cute.

My least favorite part was the constant brain hinge, and me wondering why no villain ever just shoots the doctor once the gun is aimed?

Like @missy my favorite part was the Doctor; I think Peter Capaldi is brilliant.   Also, I really liked Nardole.  (: I th…[Read more]

@missy I wouldn’t wait too long, or someone is bound to accidentally throw a spoiler your way.   (:

@missy I disagree with your ‘for kids’ label. ‘The Lion King’ and ‘Pocahontas’ and other productions were also for kids and you can’t say they didn’t bring up serious stuff. But yeah, it was much more lighter than the Last Christmas.

@missy  This special stands alone, and most definitely for kids. I don’t think you (you generally) can compare it with the others.

I’d agree with that; it’s definitely family viewing, and reassurance for all those who got really rattled and upset about their beloved kid show from when they were kids, suddenly (and quite deliberately) grown up fo…[Read more]

@pedant Yeah, I’ve wondered if we’re on a trajectory to allow the Doctor to have another member of his family travelling with him too. Let’s see if that has a bearing on how things play out with Bill. To be honest, I’d enjoy having a new companion/Doctor dynamic. I think Peter would enjoy playing that as well.

@missy Mr. Huffle is the companion…[Read more]

@Missy

I did of course mean the NAME of the Doctor. Tired posting

At the end, after the snogging and the “goodbye”, River ask how it was possible that she was still present after Clara died (since she was psychically linked to her). At first blush this just says that she was saying that Clara is not dead, but when the Doc asks “how” she sasy…[Read more]

@missy I loved Mr Huffle, and her use of it is entirely logical- but why would that thing exist? It’s like a child’s toy designed by a cat. Though I do rather want one myself.