@blenkinsopthebrave How did the cats cope with snow? We were fascinated by the way cats just ran over it in Sweden but they were raised with it.

@kevinwho now that is some proper bonkerising. My head is still swimming after reading it.

and  @missy Analysing a film or TV series adds to my enjoyment rather than lessening it and I think it is…[Read more]

@missy  Right back at you!  I hope your year is everything you want it to be.

@missy

I overlooked that comment, Missy! Yes, Thane is not only “mostly patient” he is incredibly patient pretty much all of the time.

Puro

Hi everyone!

Miss me?

I have a few things to show you!

They made me giggle so I thought I’d share.

How’s @winston and @missy these days?

@missy Ooh now, no-one upset Thane. And neither did he set out to be harsh etc.

You like morals don’t you? If you’re absolutely perfect then I guess you wouldn’t. As I explained upthread, at length, Tennant’s eps were Lessons In Morals. So were Capaldi’s -which, I believe, you would’ve watched at least once?

I think the issue raised was that th…[Read more]

@missy  Me, too.  Me, too.

@missy

As far as I can gather from posts, most of the recent episodes are a lesson in morals?

Are they? For me to understand that I’d need to watch them twice 🙂

As for “lessons in morals” I’m not sure what you mean?

Lessons in morals ARE what the Doctor does best and has thru every iteration including Whittaker’s.

You like morals don’t you? If…[Read more]

@missy According to IMDb, Rachel Talahay directed seven Doctor Who episodes: Dark Water, Death in Heaven, Heaven Sent, Hell Bent, World Enough and Time, The Doctor Falls and Twice Upon a Time.

@missy Thanks. You have not missed a thing by not watching it. I did and each week I was hopeful for improvement. And each week i was let down all the way to a season finale that just completed the misery. I think more people than will admit feel the same but to many scared of this ridiculously stupified PC world and scared of being called a…[Read more]

@thane16  Puro  . . . a few people thought “the Doc, on a TANK wearing sunglasses and playing an electric guitar?” That’s not gravitas! That’s baloney!” Except we describe him like this: proud and noble, dignified, dutiful, lofty enough to shit marble when I don’t think 12 was like that much of the time. @ichabod -would you agree?

G…[Read more]

@missy That’s wonderful! (the purse, I mean).  I think they’re not over because (I suspect) after another 2 years they may well return to a male Doctor. Also, you chat with us -so you haven’t deserted the ship Tardis yet 🙂

@missy

this season is a series of lectures.

But you haven’t actually watched it? 😉

Alas, no, it isn’t. Frankly, if it WAS a season of lectures then good: we bloody well need them. But as I said on the other thread -the Battle of…. (except it’s a long post) I never felt deceived or preached at. The villains are us: perhaps we need to allow the…[Read more]

@missy  Although only fiction and an actor acting out that fiction, PC’s Doctor always made me feel safe. Strange isn’t it.

I felt both the same, and the opposite — never knew, particularly in S8, which way he would jump, or how far he would go, but simultaneously there was no doubt whatever in my mind that this Doctor’s two hearts were posi…[Read more]

@missy I understand your comments about Capaldi, and I do miss him. But then, I’ve said that about all the Doctors after their regenerations. It’s not enough to keep me from watching, so I do continue on and am finding a lot to enjoy with the current Doctor and her companions. Not without complaints, mind you … but that’s always been the…[Read more]

@missy  Yes, many of us do . . . Funny, but it was always quite clear that Capaldi himself was not “his” Doctor (“He’s the Doctor, I’m just a guy”), and that the Doctor was separated from human by eons of not-human experience although electrifyingly connected to humanity at certain emotional points.

The thing with Whittaker that I’m finding is…[Read more]

@the25thdoctor I agree with @missy – and that’s kind of the point of the name.

@missy

Come on, the St John’s sign had been absent for most of the series post-early Hartnell. And the sign was white on black through Pertwee, Baker, Davison and beyond…

@miapatrick  the things I love about Moffart Who the most are the things that made it difficult for him to follow

Exactly!  So heading in new directions, in search of different strengths, is an excellent strategy for Chib & co.  It feels a bit ploddy by contrast, but that can make room for good character work — which is definitely needed for Ja…[Read more]

@missy

Yes, watched all the series of Line of Duty. They’re currently filming the next one.

Have had a check through the thread, can’t see any mention of Inside No 9, a couple of the episodes have been as good as anything I’ve seen of late.

@missy

NI is nothing to do with funding the NHS. It is used to find the current state pension pot. The NHS is funded out of general taxation.

But anyway, when talking about free everybody knows it means free-at-the-point-of-delivery. Nobody is ever invoiced for having a medical emergency, even if it turns out to be a false alarm.