@Missy and @Miapatrick <waves> Yes Capaldi did grief very well. Wouldn’t he be a lovely face to sculpt!

The only thing I was disappointed about was that, with a baby in the mix,  I was expecting some “the Doctor speaks baby” jokes and we didn’t get them! What a missed opportunity! Maybe Moffat felt he’d overdone that one already, what with Baby…[Read more]

@missy– yes, his grief was wonderfully done. And they managed to make it entertaining at the same time. Though I personally like Last Christmas and The Husbands of River Song more, this was also more of a stand-alone, a sequel to the last Christmas Special, but also something of a re-set. The Doctor handling his grief over River in a more mature…[Read more]

I rather enjoyed this one!  I would rank “The Husbands of River Song” above it as far as the Twelfth Doctor’s Christmas shows go — to be fair, I haven’t got around to “Last Christmas” yet so I can’t make a final ranking; shame on me — but “The Return of Doctor Mysterio” is definitely well worth the wait.  And I think you’ll like it too @missy .…[Read more]

I’m not sure where you are, @missy , but DW was on the 25/12/16 in the UK, so people will have seen that. Maybe you can use the BBC iPlayer to watch it?

I myself did not see it. Too busy playing with our ten month old! Glad it sounds like it was good, though.

@missy  Thanks for your good wishes; I’ll just stay clear of any discussion (or discussion page) of the Christmas Special until after I’ve seen it Tuesday, so please, feel free to rave away!

The year is almost over . . . all best to everyone for a (magically?) better 2017!

@missy  Thank you!

I’m feeling a bit lonesome today myself.  We have friends coming over to the “family homestead” tonight, but they all talk around me; I’m no good at small talk.  A close family member spent part of this last week in the hospital with a concussion from a fall, though they’re recovering.  And all the sour news in the world is cas…[Read more]

@missy, I didn’t attend Chicago TARDIS 2015 so I haven’t met Billie Piper yet.  😉  Actually this was the first Chicago TARDIS I attended since 2008, where everything went a little pear-shaped with the schedule and the lines were insanely long for the guests!

Oh, @missy — to answer your question, Chicago TARDIS, as a regional, fan-organized convention, can only get so many special guests from year to year — and Capaldi and the key creative team are busy filming right now, after all.  Professional commitments always take precedence over conventions, unfortunately.  Last year Jenna Coleman was all s…[Read more]

@nerys @Missy @Ichabod @JanetteB

It also turns out she is an international super spy.

And possibly in need of exorcism.

Either that or she has done something really bad and the Feds are after her.

@missy  are any of you finding it hard to wait for the Christmas Special? Or is it just me?

It’s not just you.  I am gnashing my teeth to gnubbins!  Come ON, already — !

Hey everybody!  Finally managed to get back in here.  I’ve been busy the past few weeks — and it’s not always easy to log into these forums!

Best wishes with the surgery @missy.

I attended the Chicago TARDIS convention over Thanksgiving weekend.  Compared to the general-interest Wizard World Chicago, this was much more rewarding when it came to…[Read more]

@missy Post-surgery, I really don’t need my glasses for anything except reading text close-up. So I ended up with an expensive pair of reading glasses. My eyesight is the exact opposite of what it was before surgery. I was nearsighted (couldn’t clearly see things far away) before, and now I’m farsighted (can’t clearly see things close…[Read more]

@Missy

Glad to hear that things went well.  I am not conscious that the cataracts have affected my colour perception, but I suspect that once I have had the implants I may have to adjust the colour balance on my TV 🙂

@nerys

In my case, also, the cataracts seem to have developed very quickly.  Last year when I had my annual eye check-up I wa…[Read more]

@missy

Puro is medded up to her eyeballs, but in good hands and has promised to send me a copy of her letter to the eejits who effed up her kitchen installation.

Spawn is currently on a soccer tour of Europe and in Spain, so has yet to see the last two eps of Class.

@missy Best wishes on the cataract surgery. I’ve had both eyes done. My surgeon was perplexed at how quickly mine developed. Cataracts are supposed to be slow growers, but mine became a problem within a year, after my previous year’s eye exam showed no cataracts. As my husband drove me to the hospital for my first surgery, I covered my “good”…[Read more]

@Missy

Good wishes for the cataract surgery.  My two younger brothers, both of whom have undergone the procedure, say that it is well worth it.  According to them there is a bit of discomfort for a day or two, but the results are spectacular, especially as one tends not to notice how much one’s vision has deteriorated – apparently the brain a…[Read more]

My brother, ever a source of unconsidered trifles, drew this to my attention

Salvador Dalek – The Persistence of … something or other

The image is copyright, so I can’t reproduce it here.

I was assessed for cataract surgery last Wednesday and could have had the first eye done tomorrow on the NHS, but the NHS optometrist suggested that I might…[Read more]

@missy  This multiple-channel mind process hit me first when I was watching rehearsals for a stage play. The actors would do a scene, everybody uptight and emotional, and then one would stop, completely dropping the “act”, and ask the Director if maybe *this* would be more effective, and then bam, he’s back in that charged dramatic moment again…[Read more]

Happy Doctor Who Day!

@ichabod, You put Capaldi’s skill into words better than I ever could!  @missy, I feel the same way about his work — the way he gets under the skin.  Just a few minutes into “Robot of Sherwood”, the first Twelve episode I watched, and I wanted to give him all the hugs.  “Listen” was even better in that regard.  The pre-…[Read more]

@mudlark  @missy  Too much for me; I can’t get past needing the sum of the interactions to add up to one.  Why?  Is there an explanation graspable through lay English?  The imaginary object, though, is wonderful — it might be timey-wimey, but how can we tell whether it’s also wibbly-wobbly or not?

Nice, though; intriguingly simple-looking, espe…[Read more]