@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]

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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.

@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]

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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.

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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…’

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

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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]

@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]

@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]

@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]

@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]

@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).

@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]

@nerys. First fires then storms. Mother nature is not being kind to Canada at the moment. It seems that this year we are really beginning to see just how pissed nature is though humanity has a frightening capacity to forget a crisis very quickly. I think it takes a couple of days from memory. My S/O did some research on that when he was…[Read more]

@nerys  I have watched the 1st series of Annika and I really enjoyed it. I am waiting for the 2nd series from the library. It has great acting and writing and the beautiful scenery sometimes steals the show( for me at least). I think you will like it if you like Nicola Walker because she is very good in this.

stay safe

@nerys and @winston    I’m pleased the fires have missed you and I hope you continue to be safe from them (and your daughter, winston).   Sorry for my mangled syntax but you know what I mean.

I’m sure we’re pleased to help.    The extent of the fires seems staggering, also surprising, I think we have a mental image of Canada as a cool climate…[Read more]

@nerys  I am so happy that your area was spared these horrible fires but of course heart broken for my fellow Canadians who have lost everything.

It seems that Canada is burning from coast to coast. Here in Ontario there are hundreds of fires burning as well as in Quebec and the smoke was dense for a few days. No going outside for long because…[Read more]

@nerys    Good to hear the fires missed your house.

@janetteb    Into the Dalek is a good one.   My next one (if I stay in sequence) is In the Forest of the Night, I think the best thing about that episode is the title, sadly, so I haven’t been in any hurry to re-watch it.   As I recall, it had a bit of mysterious New Age-iness in it that wasn…[Read more]

@nerys Hope that you are still safe and well.

It has been quite here of late and so i just wanted to say hi to everyone and hope everyone is ok and enduring the long wait till November.

We put on an old episode “Into the Dalek” tonight for background viewing. I have posters to design and the s/o is busy with 3d printing stuff. We have watched…[Read more]