@pedant

Forgot to say – nice fireworks pics over on the Kerblam page

@thane16

Oh, Puro! I was having such a good day and you go and spoil it all by mentioning Theresa May. Grrrr 🙂

@pedant

I think they did show 1984 a few months ago but, due to my sieve-like brain, I forgot to watch it. They have a tendency to repeat films every few months so I dare say it’ll be on again soon.

True Entertainment have The…[Read more]

Thought I sent a version of this message a couple of minutes ago, but it seems to have gone missing in action.

@pedant Last year the BFI was about to release a restored version of the Cushing-led 1984 until Hollywood released an unloved version of their own. I really want to see the restored BFI print.

@pedant   Kerblam!   I think you just nailed the thing on the head, for me anyway. I absolutely agree that fear is the thread that ties these episodes together. Fear of the unknown, of change , of differences and fear of others. Being scared is horrible and it drives people , animals and aliens to do desperate things to avoid it. Sometimes tha…[Read more]

@pedant – I agree.

If we can’t attract the right level of troll, are we going to have to do it for ourselves?

“We’ve alredy had the War Doctor – we don’t need the Social Justice Warrior Doctor!”

Well, at least I’m trying…

tsk

he he – @pedant thanks for that, you’ve also made me think of this song about man-power* versus machine

*its a man called John so… anyway…

@JanetteB

I think Bradley Walsh was or is a host on a question/answer show? mum hadn’t seen it but I used to watch it. It was pretty silly. I saw it again last night and it would be a repeat: his hair was brown and he was a bit less heavy. Not that he’s a fat guy! He just seemed younger. I wasn’t sure about him either but I like him a lot. He’s…[Read more]

@seeoswald

You’re back. Personally, I’m SO glad that there are SO many people who are clever, who are thinkers, who are thoughtful who like this new series.

Things change honey-bunch. And that’s a good thing.

If you hate it, sweet. More for me to like. As for tweets, the people you like do it: Capaldi, Moffat …. even Whedon. I forget, you m…[Read more]

Things are a bit stupidly chaotic here in Savon Manor. If I had time to spare, I’d be able to explain why I started out fearing I might hate this new series, but have now really started to get into it.
In bullet points…

• The new music has grown on me.
•  None of the companion characters wear their heart on their sleeve à la Moffat. But t…

[Read more]

@pedant

Yes, I agree absolutely about Charlie. This was no union man, concerned about keeping humans in the workforce. He was, if you like, a ‘Human Rights’ terrorist. Kid brother to the mass murdering racist in Rosa.

I agree that The System was completely wrong to kill Kira in order to get Charlie to see that what he was doing was wrong, but…[Read more]

Well, a satire on Amazon can’t be bad, although their inner workings hardly need satirizing, they are so dystopian all on their own.

Charlie was essentially a Luddite and I can’t help but have a lot of sympathy with the Luddites, who didn’t wish their traditional crafts and skills to be undermined in the labour market by industrial machine…[Read more]

So far this series has, while being watchable, left me feeling a bit underwhelmed.

Bloody enjoyed this one though. The first half had a whiff of ‘The Beast Below’ about it – the delivery bots bearing a passing resemblance to the ‘Smilers’ added to that feeling.

Bubble wrap as a weapon – it can’t fail really. After all, who can resist popping…[Read more]

BBC APPROVED SPOILERS...

@pedant  @thane16  @JimTheFish  @KevinWho  @blenkinsopthebrave  @Bluesqueakpip

Thanks everybody. As I said, I have been through this before and it turned out OK. Been through it twice, in fact. if you count the time they thought I had ovarian cancer, although I was reasonably certain then that it was just a very large cyst. And boy, did I feel…[Read more]

@pedant Dammit you just made me cry.

@mudlark

Sorry to hear that. As @pedant says, always best to get these things removed as early as possible. Hope it all goes OK.

@mudlark @pedant

I think P’ting was satire nicely done.

Thane16

Just finished winding my way through about a month’s worth of fascinating pub conversations to get here, and good grief. @pedant, I gather that you are okay, but how scary. I trust you’ve continued to recover. And great news on the blood sugar! I’m about to get my own checked as it was a little dicey last spring, and I was told to ease off the…[Read more]

@pedant …oh…coughtrumpocalypsecoughcough lol

Interesting to see the views of Jodi Whittaker’s Doctor. I seem to remember a description, in an interview about the new series; “fizzy energy”.

I think I relate to it as a fabulous well channeled version of the ADD brainstyle, with bottomless brilliance. Since we’re only six episodes in I…[Read more]

More and more I’m shouting “THIS IS THE SERIES I WANTED WHEN I WAS TWELVE!!!”

Meaning, Hero Girls, adventure, heroes who aren’t warriors but save the day, humor, exotic locales (including Sheffield), a quirky spacetimeship, random forays into living history (which I grew up to do a lot of), space the final frontier, aliens…

@drben I agree,…[Read more]