@blenkinsopthebrave @janetteB @nick

It is very easy to get sucked into a distorted perspective. I have been around the tracks enough times to remember the IRA letting off bombs without warning, including trying to assassinate Thatcher and her entire cabinet, but also detonating bombs in many places with no regard for civilians. The centre of…[Read more]

@nick Yeah, if anything he’s actually moving forward on his relationship with Missy by letting her out of the Vault and onto his TARDIS, and certainly being honest with her about his misgivings.  If anything he was avoiding the matter by keeping her in the Vault, the “safe” but static choice.

I do put a little stock into the theory that he may b…[Read more]

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@nick and @blenkinsopthebrave yes sadly it  seems that hate had struck again, and as Blenkinsop says it is about hate, about exacerbating division, mistrust and resentment. An eye for eye makes the whole world blind. There are some that want a blinded world. It is no coincidence that in the latest series especially Dr Who has been promoting a…[Read more]

@nick, yes, I read about this. Coming so soon after Grenfell Tower does not seem like a coincidence. If there was one thing that came across in the coverage of Grenfell Tower it was that, when it came to the residents, race didn’t matter, religion didn’t matter, they all came together as…Londoners. There was this sense, through what I read and…[Read more]

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@Nick  The Romans left loads of primary evidence (Such as letters saying ‘Thanks for the socks.’). The Picts remain a bit of an enigma…

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‘I’ll put your name in the air.’

In Celtic belief, birds are the messengers of the Otherworld. They can represent prophetic knowledge or bloodshed. The behaviour &  flight pattern of birds could be used to predict the future…

@Nick The Vikings & others had similar dragony designs because they’re all from the same ‘Celtic’ era. The Pictish be…[Read more]

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@nick and the 2008 Outlander was loosely based on the  Norse Beowulf story which was my first comparison. Like you I also liked the Missy interaction at the end but I got the definite feeling that the Doctor isn’t  entirely convinced of Missy’s  reformation.

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@nick:

In Hell bent, he made a mistake, he went too far, he admits it. That to me makes him  as  human as the rest of us – just for that one time.

Clara had (although I liked her) grown a little too big for her boots. She got carried away by her performance in Flat Line, so much so, that she thought she was as smart and as invulnerable as the D…[Read more]

@nick:  I suspect that we will need, in a couple of years, to rewatch the whole of Capaldi’s run, using hindsight to fully appreciate what both Moff and Capaldi actually achieved.

I have watched the whole run  quite a few times – up to now – and fully appreciate their achievements NOW. I don’t need a couple of years. Perhaps I am easily ple…[Read more]

@missrori:

Hmm, I suppose we shan’t know until we see it. Of course, it also depends on Who the Doctor is.

@tardigrade:

Babylon 5? Really enjoyable and a great shame when it was axed. The X files never interested me for some reason.

@thane15:

Like @nick; I to wish him well and hope for the best.

@wolfweed:

I didn’t know there was such an…[Read more]

.@Blenkinsopthebrave  @thane15 (puro)  @JimTheFish  @Nick

Thanks for the good wishes.  It was a rather disconcerting attack of tachycardia – for no apparent reason my heart rate went through the roof and stayed in the stratosphere for the better part of an hour, which to say the least felt weird. After things had settled down again the med…[Read more]

@nick  Re the Doctor in HB being “cowardly” — He had the chance to say a final goodbye and find the beginnings of an emotional closure (an overused word) to companion Clara. But he fails that test and runs from the best answer, which would be to stop and return Clara to her grave.

Okay, got it now.  How interesting!  I’m seeing what you’re see…[Read more]

@nick—

Alternatively, it means ‘we’re too chicken to go for anything other than a white, male vanilla Doc but we’ll make up for it in other ways, honest guv’.

But agree that CC should be given every benefit of the doubt in the meantime. I’m hoping to be pleasantly surprised and noshing down on some humble pie next year….