• ps1l0v3y0u replied to the topic Empress of Mars

    @dentarthurdent @nerys

    Well… is it genetic heritage that makes you a Timelord? Or in vitro exposure to the Time Vortex? As per River, immediately following the Roman kissogram party in volving two humans (presumably in the room with bunk beds)?

    Surely, the Mondassians specialise in human conversion because, as Dalek Sec pointed out, we get e…[Read more]

  • Dentarthurdent replied to the topic Empress of Mars

    @ps1l0v3y0u @nerys Interesting point about the High Council lady. Is it possible that Bill is an orphaned Time Lady? And the Doctor ‘stole the President’s wife’. Is the Moff hinting that Bill might be the Doctor’s (other) daughter? (But if so, shouldn’t she have regenerative powers? Maybe not, if they were a technological feature…[Read more]

  • ps1l0v3y0u replied to the topic Empress of Mars

    @nerys @dentarthurdent

    Yes. Amy says something like that. The Doctor is the ‘damsel’ in ‘the husbands of…’ Donna introduces the idea… by her absence. “Things went wrong…” (The End of Time)

    The point being… I think… is that The Doctor benefits from interaction (even with Rusty?) whereas The Master, in his thirst for power, never considers it……[Read more]

  • Dentarthurdent replied to the topic The Winchester

    @nerys I really liked the first one, Goldeneye. Natalya Simonova is one of my favourite Bond heroines, and Robbie Coltrane as the Russian gangster is one of my favourite Bond allies. And the second, Tomorrow Never Dies, as I said, Jonathan Price as Elliot Carver is the best villain (IMO). And Michelle Yeoh was great as an action heroine…[Read more]

  • Dentarthurdent replied to the topic The Winchester

    @nerys Silva? Was he the guy with the private island? (Reminds me a bit of Blofeld’s ‘suicide garden’ in You Only Live Twice (the book version). As does Malek’s garden in No Time to Die, of course). He was good, as I recall. But I need to re-watch the arc.
    My favourite arch-villain (straying from the Craig arc) is Jonathan Price as…[Read more]

  • Dentarthurdent replied to the topic The Winchester

    @nerys I’m going to have to do a mini-rewatch of all the Daniel Craig Bond films, since I’m quite hazy about them (in contrast to the Pierce Brosnan ones that I know quite well). The mention of an arc intrigues me. No Time to Die certainly linked back to Vesper Lynd who was in Casino Royale I think.

    I didn’t find Malek particularly…[Read more]

  • Dentarthurdent replied to the topic Extremis

    @nerys I share your feelings about 13. (I’m shortly about to experience them again, I’m almost up to there, only 5 Moffs to go. I’ll just skim the highlights of 13.)

    @winston Eve of the Daleks was, in my recollection, far the best of 13.

    Ah well, on to Empress of Mars which IMO was the weakest of Season 10, very Edgar Rice Burroughs,…[Read more]

  • ps1l0v3y0u replied to the topic Extremis

    @winston @nerys

    sorry for the incoherent post. I was briefly incoherent

    But pizza… pineapple? Stuffed crusts?? Jonathan Nathan Turner? Even the more foolish parts of Graham Williams’ tenure…

    The man who doesn’t care what he eats will hardly care at all.

  • winston replied to the topic Extremis

    @ps1l0v3y0u  and @nerys There is a saying that there is no such thing as a bad pizza and I always thought the same about Who.  I am a very forgiving fan and usually find something I like in every episode but many of 13s leave me feeling baffled. What is wrong and why don’t I love it as much? I can’t put my finger on it but it didn’t work for me. I…[Read more]

  • ps1l0v3y0u replied to the topic Extremis

    @nerys

    Chib… virtue/unforgiveable sin/urghh that man REALLY is an ijit… signalling… until the very end.

    The man WAS part of the problem. The sooner RTD admits it, the better. (He won’t)

    Moff is laughing like dog.

  • ps1l0v3y0u replied to the topic The Winchester

    @nerys

    Midnight: bbc iplayer has an embarrassment of riches on this side of the pond. Hope it’s there for a while!

    that whole series was quite excellent; RTD must work like an auxiliary script editor beating everything into shape.

    Shame about the barking mad season ender – great one liners though…

    ’it’s YOU!’

    ’Oh yes!’

    ’Your naked…’

    ’Oh yes…’

  • @nerys

    I just hope, loon that he is, The Master has been told it wrong.

  • @nerys

    Chibnall. Whitaker. I won’t start ranting again. Everyone is probably being a bit unfair, conscious of a previous show runner who may have saved the show for a few years but ultimately got it cancelled. We don’t want that again. The people involved with the show don’t either, so they stay schtum and we won’t find out what went on for a f…[Read more]

  • @nerys Everyone says Jodie Whittaker is a fine actor. I’ve only ever seen her as the Doctor so I find that hard to credit. Intellectually, I recognise ‘everyone’ is probably right, just that I haven’t seen it myself. Part of that is the scripts, I don’t think Matt Smith or Capaldi could have done much with them either. And part of it is…[Read more]

  • Dentarthurdent replied to the topic The Winchester

    @nerys   My email doesn’t do italics, I was just going to say how much I agreed with your first paragraph when I looked on this website and realised it was a quote from me.   🙂

    The ending could have gone in several ways.   The DVD is still on my little stack beside the couch in the lounge and I’ll probably watch it again soon, I think it may b…[Read more]

  • Dentarthurdent replied to the topic The Winchester

    @nerys    Well, ‘Layer Cake’ finally arrived in the mail.   I just watched it.   Yes, I did have some trouble following the complicated plot, though that did help with giving the impression that things were spinning out of control of XXXX (Daniel Craig’s character).   Interesting how they managed to never mention his name without that ever bei…[Read more]

  • Dentarthurdent replied to the topic The Winchester

    @nerys     I would say (from memory) that the TV series quite closely followed the book.   As I would expect, since Neil Gaiman was apparently closely involved in the TV production.   (I think in general it does make a difference to ones viewpoint which version one saw first, since the first-seen tends to establish itself in ones brain as the yar…[Read more]

  • Dentarthurdent replied to the topic The Winchester

    @nerys    In related news, I’ve almost finished reading Neil Gaiman’s ‘Neverwhere’  (having watched the DVD series with Capaldi as the Angel Islington a short while back).    I find Gaiman’s writing style rather plain, which is interesting as his scenarios are truly fantastic (they are fantasy after all).   But quite absorbing.    If he wasn’t s…[Read more]

  • Dentarthurdent replied to the topic The Winchester

    @nerys     The DVD of Layer Cake hasn’t arrived in the mail yet.    Um, it certainly should have done, thanks for the reminder, I must chase it up.    I’ll probably comment on it when it finally arrives (whenever that is).

  • Dentarthurdent replied to the topic The Winchester

    @nerys I always tend to mix up those titles, because surely ‘Hell Bent’ should apply to the Doctor in his own personalised hell – the confession dial? And surely the chance to rescue Clara could be termed ‘heaven sent’? But that’s an aside.

    I just find Heaven Sent a little too dark. It starts off well – “My day can’t get any worse. Let’s see what…[Read more]

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