This is a great discussion and the only thing I could really add to it is ‘what @pedant said’….

@pedant

And what they all have in common, but which Moffat pushed to the foreground? That they are women who had the brass-bound audacity to talk back to the Doctor.

I hadn’t really considered it in that light. Because I don’t often have the patience to stick around the kind of fan site where this sort of push-back figures largely, I have tended…[Read more]

@pedant

Your talk of vintage cars prompted a memory of the most glamourous car my family ever owned, back around 1950/51 when I was a mere sprout. It was an  MG WA 2.6 litre sports saloon, of which less than 400 were produced between 1938 and 1939 and, to cap it all, the registration was MG 6277.  It was going cheap – maybe because, if I r…[Read more]

@Missy

Not your point at all, I’m afraid. My fault you misunderstood, because I realised after I had hit ‘submit’, but too late to edit, that what I had written was ambiguous and could be taken the wrong way.

By ‘cod science’ I meant the kind of specious reasoning peddled by the hirelings of oil companies and their like who have a vested…[Read more]

@pedant

Yes, you could be right. Another thing which probably saved him was speed – or the lack of it. The accident happened in a side road, so the driver of the other car wasn’t going fast. Thanks for your warning about whiplash, but my OH seems to be all right and it’s been over a month. We’ll still be vigilant though.

I trust that your new…[Read more]

@pedant

There could scarcely be a more graphic demonstration of the difference between the local and the global in terms of climate trends,  but none so blind as those who refuse to see – or who allow themselves to be convinced by cod ‘science’!

@pedant must also check out the light weight nature of cars -when they’re not!  Didn’t realise that. Also, traversing the narrow path that is nuance.

Puro-goodness-it’s-late.

PS:   @Cathannabel I shall find more Aretha choons (the latest from @whisht I think) but no J. Strauss 🙂

@pedant

Yes it is like that. I think the fast beat, rhythmic repetition, manic singing style -a touch of righteous rage    – alongside similar chords & there’s an eerie resemblance   🙂

On the other thread you mentioned the fucker that is PTSD?

Puro

@pedant  My apologies for this delay, which I’ve explained.

We will never agree and  I haven’t the energy to argue with you, life is too short. You keep your opinions and I (along with many others) will keep mine.

Missy

and to @pedant!

Mr P has had a day or so of illness so a fun & totally nutty song (with some coarse language I’m afraid) will get your head happily noddin’ up ‘n’ down. My I present: Screeching Weasel…     🙂

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@bluesqueakpip @pedant

But was it that they didn’t like Capaldi or was it because they didn’t like (what some saw as) “depressing” stories without escapism in Series 8, 9 or even 10?  Was it a left-over annoyance at Clara -the actress? Could it be there was an issue in this 30% to do with Pearl Mackie?

To keep this Who-oriented, there’s a big…[Read more]

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@pedant

Yes, that’s why I mentioned the other programmes. They’ve dropped by an average of 5%, but Series 9 and 10 dropped by more than 5%. Blogtor Who has a rather nice graph in which you can actually see the difference between the averages. What’s noticeable to me is that Peter Capaldi’s first series was fine. The ‘fall’ for that was exactly…[Read more]

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@bluesqueakpip  Ah, thanks; yes, that makes sense.  Love the kiss story!

@pedant   I’ll go find your post — this recurrent issue drove me nuts back when it was hot and dripping vitriol.

@craig  Thanks so much for the whole set of interviews with Moffat — I’d not seen the third installment before.  With  Moffat, there’s always something fresh or new — to me, at least.  Always a pleasure.

@thane16  @blenkinsopthebrave  I try to see “Close Encounters” about once every 5 yrs or so; love the optimism, the lack of paranoia and gener…[Read more]

@pedant – thanks for the link to that restaurant – it sounds amazing and some of the dishes made me laugh out loud (which I kinda needed)

(do you think there’s another one themed at the end of the universe? If so it’d better have a good lightshow…)

@pedant I suddenly feel the urge to go to the U.S. (most unusual) That place looks great. Funny to watch Caitlin eating fish fingers and custard. she is remarkably like her cousin.

Cheers

Janette

@pedant

Young Amy has grown up!

I like the painting very much. The plating not so much.

Puro