@missy  — Yep; the meaning, I guess, of this one or that one is my type — or *not* my type.

@janetteb, the rumors never seem to be about Capaldi leaving by choice.  In fact, he said in an interview eariler this year that he’s been asked to stay on for Series 11, and who are we to trust if not him, especially in these troubled times?  If the world is just he’ll stay on at long as he pleases!

Actually, over at Tumblr me and other fans ar…[Read more]

@missy  “Parades End” was pretty good; I just watched the BBC version of “A Dance to the Music of Time”, and right now another series (on Acorntv) from a novel I’d never heard of, “The Camomile Lawn”, all about a sweet and pleasant England blown to smithereens by war.

I put a critical comment about “Strange” on the movies discussion — I enjoyed…[Read more]

@missy  Got it — Terrence Stamp!  In “The Limey”, and that thing with Matt Damon, I think, running about chased by a bunch of future bureaucrats through lots of doorway from one street to halfway across the park or something . . . He’s got this weird, sort of dried up beautiful old gangster look to him now.  Stamp, not Damon.

Timothy Dalton –…[Read more]

@missy  Oh, you’re very welcome!  I recall him mentioning somewhere in an interview that he had a bad time at school himself, socially at least — fat kid being bullied (his own kid, the one who did that interview with him, is very round); fat, *clever* kid, all the worse.  So maybe there’s a bit of getting his own back and (however subtly and in…[Read more]

@missy   the really good looking actors seem to coarsen with age

Yes, but then the standard of male “really good looks” in the US is always been (I think) a sort of square-jawed face, like Rock Hudson, Burt Lancaster, Clark Gable, Brando, Matt Dillon, et al, and that tends to soften and squash out laterally with age, as musculature succumbs to…[Read more]

@missy   I know the feeling; although I’m one of the mob that was charmed and delighted by Tom Baker.  The rest I could take or leave, until Peter Capaldi came on the scene.  Holy moly, I was a gone goose in no time — though I’d checked out TToI (once we knew he was the oncoming Doctor), so I was pleasantly anticipating interesting work from hi…[Read more]

@missy  It’s sometimes pretty hard to catch up around here — but always worth the effort!

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Moved to ‘t pub

Why, oh why, do some people carry on about racism?

Probably because it is one of the great evils of society, and the antithesis of civilisation, which when allowed to fester results in the industrialised genocide of 6m Jews and 2m other minorities.

Our idiot new Prime Minister got the faithful all excited by saying “…[Read more]

Hi all, I’m back. Apologies for being away. Will try to back on more regularly.

@pedant @blenkinsopthebrave new pub has been started, in outer space.

@nerys @missy @ichabod and others, the lovely Soniya has been dealt with.

@badwolf11 @cathannabel and others. I too sometimes have trouble logging in and have to wait. It’s not anything you have…[Read more]

@missy  Why, oh why, do some people carry on about racism?

Well, either you see why, or you don’t; if you don’t, you don’t.  But once you do, you can never “unsee” it again, which IMO is a very, very good and long-overdue thing.

Let me be clear: I didn’t mean, above, that I disapprove of raising race issues about our entertainment (in this c…[Read more]

@missy  A natural — swearer?!  Now *I’ve* got the giggles, remembering bits from that film.  He’s said that he picked up swearing from being around Burt Lancaster while they were filming “Local Hero”, way back when, but I must say I have my doubts — could he seriously mean that as a boy growing up in Glasgow, he’d rarely heard or used foul la…[Read more]

@cathannabel  Did you see any of the American remake of “The Returned”?  Awful, awful, awful, like a badly cracked bell.  I’m sure the producers would have just strung it out into six seasons if they could have . . . although even in the US, the idea of closed-ended series working for higher quality and an actual story has taken root.  I await the…[Read more]

@missy  “Miss Peregrine” opens here this weekend, and I’m going to see it asap — Burton’s work is always worth a look, IMO.  And after “Penny Dreadful”, I’d follow Eva Green anywhere — well, almost.

@cathannabel  @puroandson  The zombie theme has always seemed to me to be hermetically sealed with nowhere to go but in circles, so I steer cle…[Read more]

@missy  Great; thanks for checking!  So different for most of us, with our various notions of  “the afterlife” where we’ll supposedly meet our lost relatives and friends and lovers again in some sort of — happy, timeless stasis? For a space wanderer who has never met a real “God” or glimpsed the paranormal — an existential space wanderer st…[Read more]

@missy Hello. Thanks for the welcome!

@missy   Ah, okay; I’ll take another look when I get a chance . . .

@missy and @theconsultingdoctor  It was good to see the show get the Emmy as it is a brilliant show. I am a fan of Sherlock Holmes in general and I have loved this version from the first time I watched it. Taking this beloved Victorian character and landing him in the 21st century and still keeping the feel of the original stories is due to…[Read more]

@puroandson @Arbutus  @blenkinsopthebrave @Missy

I love these few weeks when the year is on the cusp of Autumn, especially when the weather is as perfect as it has been here for the past few days. Last week it was unseasonably hot, with high humidity and temperatures in the high 20s to low 30s C.  Now the weather is calm, with hazy sunshine and t…[Read more]

@missy  Thanks for thanks; I think the full line, though, is “I’m so sick of losing people”, and refers in the first place to Ashildr — ?  He doesn’t actually *lose* in the larger sense — the monster is dealt with, the people on the train are rescued and the mummy soldier is freed, etc., usually (“Sleep No More” is an exception — he and Clara g…[Read more]