@jimthefish

Yes, if we are comparing the various iterations of the Doctor, Davison’s is the one who springs to mind, but although his characterisation might seem relatively low key, I always had a firm sense of Who he was, and that is something which I still don’t get with Jodie’s Doctor. Your observation about gestural shorthand and her…[Read more]

@dentarthurdent

It’s a long time since I last viewed Time Heist, but it remains in my mind as one of the more memorable ones of the Moffat/Capaldi era; the plot was so ingeniously and elegantly constructed, the production very stylish and, like you, I found much to savour in the dialogue. I don’t recall feeling that it was a come-down after…[Read more]

@Scot-C

Welcome to the forum.

It occurred to me, also, that it was a little strange that the Lupari, at least as represented by Karvanista, weren’t particularly enthusiastic or consistent in their attitude to humanity, given their assigned role as protectors. Karvanista doesn’t seem to like even his assigned human very much. On the other hand,…[Read more]

@juniperfish

As @bluesqueakpip says , Williamson’s tunnels do exist, date from the 1820s, and are nothing to do with mining.

Williamson, who was a wealthy businessman in Liverpool, bought an area of undeveloped land in the Edge Hill area of Liverpool and proceeded to build houses there of very eccentric design, and to excavate an extensive…[Read more]

@juniperfish

Yes, time can be rewritten but, so far as we have been told, only in very narrowly defined circumstances – that is, if the change is not perceptible to the universe as a whole; otherwise the results of any attempt are catastrophic. The rewriting of events in ‘Day of the Doctor’ were possible because, as far as all observers in the…[Read more]

For me on first viewing this episode amounted to an information overload delivered much of the time at a machine gun rattle. I may be getting old,* but my hearing is still pretty good, and even so at times I had to resort to subtitles to keep track of what was going on, which didn’t help. There were plenty of intriguing and very promising…[Read more]

@cathannabel

So very sorry to read your sad news and, like others here, offer my sympathy and condolences in your devastating loss.

A funeral should, ideally, be the celebration of a life, and in that context quotations from or references to the Doctor, the epitome of all that is life affirming and humane, are a lovely idea. I am rubbish at…[Read more]

@nerys

To be fair, the Fatal Natal Day, as it came to be known, was 79 years ago (less 11 days), in the middle of the war and, as I said, several years before the NHS came into being; and the regime in hospitals at that time tended to be more authoritarian and strictly regimented than it is now. Nor, I think, was that hospital necessarily…[Read more]

@dentarthurdent

Just to say that I have greatly enjoyed reading your commentary on your marathon re-watch of Doctor Who episodes.

Given that I have spent the greater part of the past two years mostly housebound I had the ideal opportunity to do something similar, but for some reason I haven’t. In fact I have watched very little television of any…[Read more]

@devilishrobby

Re your post 72157:  that is the first time in many years that I have seen/heard anyone use the word nesh. In fact, I don’t think that I have ever known anyone other than my family use it. I’ve always assumed that it was northern English dialect, since my father’s family were from Lancashire/West Yorkshire, and my mothers from…[Read more]

@thane16

Greetings Puro.  Forgive me if I find your account of that episode funny, in a blackish sort of way. That hospital sounds to have been gruesome; one a par with the one in which I was born, six years before the inception of the NHS.

My poor mother was not to know. She was new to the area and, of the two hospitals in Halifax (Yorkshire,…[Read more]

Happy New Year everybody, although I hesitate to utter those sentiments aloud for fear of tempting fate. Certainly the immediate future doesn’t look particularly rosy, but thank you, @winston, for listing some of the positives of 2020.  I’m not entirely sure that slopping around in pyjama bottoms counts entirely as one of those positives: at…[Read more]

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@blenkinsopthebrave

Strangely enough, it was this k.d.lang track that was running through my brain for much of yesterday, and I even thought of signing in to post it myself, not being aware that you had already done so several days previously 🙂

@thane16 (puro)

Good to see you too, but I’m so sorry to read the news about your mother. As you say, it hits hard whenever it comes, and if, as I suspect,  you were not able to be with her at the end, as has been the case in so many C-14 deaths,  it must compound the sense of loss. You are in my thoughts or, as the Quakers say, I hold you in the light.

@blenkinsopthebrave

In one sense, yes; we can breathe again and experience at least a brief interval of euphoria.

On the other hand, Davros and the Daleks are still out there, lurking, and unless the Orange One resigns in a massive fit of the sulks, there are still 73 days in which he can continue to ignore the ravages of the Covid 19 virus and…[Read more]

@blenkinsopthebrave

Strange that it should have occurred to you to post this particular clip at this particular time 😉 , although for some reason it does seem apt and has the effect of pouring balm on my troubled soul.

Rassilon  had at least achieved much of benefit to his people – or so we are led to believe, even he had outlived his time…[Read more]

@thane16

Puro; as @blenkinsopthebrave says, it’s great to see you back in the pub and to be reassured that you and yours are surviving the vicissitudes of the pandemic. At least Aus managed to cope pretty well with the initial onslaught of the virus compared with us in the UK, notwithstanding the recent upsurge in cases in Victoria.

Your…[Read more]

As the Doctor says, ‘… never give up, never give in’, and in the time of Covid-19 that is something to bear in mind. Hence this

The original context (Catalonia) is not necessarily relevant, but it speaks to the times.

Hope that everyone is keeping well and managing to prevail…[Read more]

As today is the 75th anniversary of VE day I thought this might be of interest

Sidney Stevens, the man whose reminiscences are featured was the father of one of my brother’s school mates and also, apparently, a friend of my father’s, although I wasn’t previously aware of that fact. He…[Read more]