@missy  Thanks; of course!  See you over there.

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@missy

I too would visit the past first and then go out to space and see all those wonderful planets out there. I’m a bit fearful of the future so would probably avoid it anyway if I go back in time I could save all the missing Doctor Who episodes that were wiped!

@missy  Hugs and all; it gets a but rocky up here in the mid-plus seventies, but f**k it, I ain’t dead yet!  2 miles on the treadmill at the gym Friday, that much at least tomorrow, trying to get the bones back in shape after lots of calcium loss.  Sleeping life away, as calcium is a soporofic, so . . . dopey, sleepy, lotsa coffee (great little sh…[Read more]

@missy  Gawd, sounds awful — a flu-like thing, is it?  Ugh.  Sympathies, especially for the depression after-gloom.  One good thing about having been officially grounded for most of this year (by post-op medical considerations) is not gadding about and coming home with illnesses from hot spots elsewhere in the country.  It’s been a healthy year…[Read more]

@pedant   But the puerile comments section was fun!  Wow, what a flame war over definitions of class, and over having flame wars about class.  I thought Guardian readers were supposed to be *smart* or something . . . Well, apart from venom-crazed DW anti-fans, that is.

@missy  I’d want to visit planet Earth as far into the future as it would tak…[Read more]

@missy  @thedentistofdavros  Still watching, actually, 5th episode today, I think.  I’m not expecting any singing and dancing, but the story is, as Dentist says, very good and very well done.

Then, as recommended, I’ll watch some DW, and start smiling again.

@Missy. I disagree. Far from the Madding Crowd has a happy ending. Ok after that he piles on the tragedy but I find his works sad not depressing. I do think he tends to overdo it with Jude but I am fond of the novel if only because I scored an A for a third year history essay on it. (Subject was Victorian culture.) I also really love the first…[Read more]

@missy, sorry I didn’t tagged you in the post above.

@Missy

My experience with people complaining that actors mumble is that they frequently seem to be over fifty and have attended rather a lot of rock concerts. 🙂

But if it’s only some actresses (and not the ones with the higher voices), then the explanation might be their regional accents anyway. Accents are often gendered – the rising tone…[Read more]

@Missy

If you’re going slightly deaf, it’s the higher frequencies that go first. If you also have a problem with distinguishing children’s words as well as some of the women actors – possibly time to get your hearing checked out. 😕

@bluesqueakpip

Thanks for the answer. This Telegraph article made me laugh but to be fair the script was arvertised as the 8th Harry Potter book so I can understand why so many people feel cheated. But I mentioned it only because it was the reason I decided to read the Cursed Child plot summary. I don’t criticize the play as I haven’t seen it (I…[Read more]

@missrori  @missy    I agree with you both on the forceful words the Doctor has for the Zygons and humans in this episode. It must have been the wind but I had a few tears in my eyes during his impassioned speech. A superb  2 parter and one of my favourites. I wish we would all listen to the Doctor.

@missrori  Thanks for the comments on the Titan comics.  Gotta go look for that, sounds interesting.

@missy  The Clara/CapDoc chemistry is what got me, too — I think it was so strong that they could play a great number of variations on it and it *worked* because of being grounded in that natural and solid connection.  There are people you fee…[Read more]

@ichabod @missy @thedentistofdavros @whisht @janetteb (I hope I’m not forgetting someone)

Thank you all so much for your welcome! It’s a long wait for the new episodes, I kind of wish I hadn’t been hooked with the series until later in the year, but I think time will pass swiftly with you guys!

@janetteb
I absolutely adore Douglas Adams – althou…[Read more]

@missrori  @missy  Thanks you both for comments above — I think I share some of your thinking there, about the ways in which #12 is a-neurotypical for human behavior (and possibly TL behavior as well, since the TLs we’ve seen don’t seem any more different on average from stuck-up, over-privileged humans than the Olympian gods seemed in c…[Read more]

@Missy To be fair to Danny the Doctor immediately assumes that because he was a soldier he must teach P.E. He couldn’t possibly be intelligent enough to teach Maths. I think they misjudge each other and yes, at the heart of that misunderstanding is good old fashioned jealousy over Clara. The Doctor is being quite possessive too.

I always like…[Read more]

@puroandson The negativity surrounding a lot of reviews, etc. of Series 8 initially scared me off from it, and when I finally saw it I was heartbroken to have not given it a chance sooner!  I think it’s terribly underrated, in fact.  It does have rough spots — a little more script polishing might have worked wonders — but the story arc of the D…[Read more]

@missy   I also laughed at when the Doctor said to Clara if she had  a wash

@missy  — Funny, I don’t care for McGann either — maybe he’s just to smooth for my taste.  I like ’em a bit spiky, myself.

@missy I’ll protect you!  I wasn’t a big fan of Danny either; Series 8 just didn’t need to give over sooooo much time to a romantic subplot.  Clara adjusting to the new Doctor, and the Doctor having his identity crisis of sorts, could have been enough.  Still, it was tolerable.  (I think Samuel Anderson was put to better use in some of the aud…[Read more]