@pedant

As small a step as it was, the girls on the council estate where I grew up – few of whom would end up at the Girl’s Grammar – were given a role model in Sarah Jane and how sometimes it’s right to talk back to people.

Agreed; I just wish that it could have been a larger step, for all concerned.

My mother and one of her younger sisters…[Read more]

@pedant

Not alien to me because  -see my post above – I lived through it, even if in a privileged position; and I don’t think the subject  was ‘over-egged’ exactly, just treated clumsily by people viewing the issue from a largely contemporary perspective.

As for Jo Grant, she may have represented a slight advance in thinking, but she n…[Read more]

The trouble with arriving six days late at the party, when the discussion is far advanced and so much has been said and so eloquently, is that it is difficult to add anything original or to tag everyone whose comments have chimed with my views. The best I can do is to set down my initial thoughts and reactions from my own perspective, and to…[Read more]

@puro  Despite their youth (and I certainly don’t speak for all) they’re not always equipped for subtlety and in their wish for youthful easy action they’re stolid, conservatively prurient and just a bit-behind-the-times. They miss the magical enactment of two Doctors making a decision, one creating the other; all moderated by Bill Potts. The 1s…[Read more]

@Pedant Cheers. I’ve just driven back from Scotland and all the way back I was thinking, damn, I haven’t renewed it yet and it runs out at the end of the day! Have done it now.

@bluesqueakpip:

Very well put and it makes perfect sense. Thanks for that. *thumbs up* Sorry can’t access smilies.

As for the ring business, I thought about it, and you are right. Same was done with CE DT and MS.

@thane16:

Beautifully put thane. Brilliant hands has Mr. Moffat and brilliantly presented by Mr. Capaldi.

Regarding Sherlock, so,…[Read more]

@pedant Yes, “we are all stories in the end.” The ‘how’ and ‘why’ is oftentimes irrelevant. As I said once on the latest Sherlock episodes we know the A and the C sections therefore the B has been ‘done’ or explained and Moffat trusts us to work it out anyways.

The A to B and A is/= C isn’t to  be confused with Locke or Reid by the way 😉

Overall, I loved Twice upon a Time.  I was more tense than usual beforehand – there seemed so much riding on it, Twelve’s valedictory appearance, and Thirteen’s inauguration, swansongs for Moffatt, Gold, and Mackie.  But it gripped and moved me.  It not being an evil plot, the Captain being the Brig’s ancestor (OK I was saying under my breath fo…[Read more]

@scaryb @pedant @bluesqueakpip

I think there may be a simpler reason why Bill doesn’t know/remember what happened to Heather. Bill, or at least the version that exists within Testimony, didn’t travel with Heather. The moment that Heather touched Bill and converted her to ‘Puddle Bill’ is the moment that Bill/CyberBill died and her memories became…[Read more]

@ScaryB and @pedant

I was thinking that, because the Testimony have time travel, they might have a’spoiler’ cut-out available.

Bill didn’t remember what happened to Heather or why she wasn’t with her because that happened (from the Doctor’s point of view) after this meeting. She’s avoided any possible spoilers by not remembering the ‘future’.

@pedant

Indeed, haha. Or maybe the Doctor just wasn’t remembering her, so she wasn’t “called”.

🙂

Some thoughts on second viewing–

Generally great and a fine end to both Moffat’s and Capaldi’s time on the show. As others have said, it’s definitely more of a character piece than a full-blown adventure — which I think is wise — just how often has a Christmas episode had a memorable or enduring plot? Moffat, I’d argue, has always seemed…[Read more]

@pedant I guess I missed that. I know that Smith and Tennant’s Doctors mentioned they didn’t like to think of that incarnation of themselves, and Hurt’s Doctor mentioned not considering himself worthy of the title. But I thought he came around when they ended up saving Gallifrey (though they also noted that none of them would remember doing it). Thanks!

@scaryB

Hey! It’s good to see you back on the Sofa or couch sprinkling all the gold & glittterrr.

Meow!!

I haven’t watched the episode as yet and neither has mum -she’s doing OK but not last night so we are hoping the new DVD player has worked and taped it otherwise we will be watching it on the ABC on a tiny screen.

@xad4 good to see you…[Read more]

@pedant

Why the but?

Because Doctor Who is usually more plot-orientated, but this Christmas morning it got out of bed as a character piece.

Also, because ‘and’ sounded crap.

Merry Boxing Day. Nice to see you back. 🙂

@wolfweed  @pedant  @jimthefish @juniperfish  Great!  Love yous, for the jokes!  And confirmation that we’ll get enough of the new Doctor for Rachal Talalay to direct.  Oh, this is going to be good.

@mirime  Good point about your mum.  I’m within uncomfortably more than squinting distance of 80, myself, and the more I think about it, the more I…[Read more]

@pedant

I’m going to slap a fiver on the table and say that that scene will be viewed again, from a slightly different angle, on Saturday.

It may have taken more than a week – four years more. But in the end you were right!

Blimey! Well I guess it was a finale so explains @pedant and @craig rolling out the big guns!
The End and Morricone!

I’ve gone with something opposite (cos…. well, just cos).
Tiny tears…

Mainly for the song title but it does have this lyric:
“How can you hurt someone so much your supposed to care…[Read more]

@pedant—

which is what made it so devastating

But that’s just it. I personally didn’t find it devastating, not in the way that WEAT effortlessly achieved. And I really, really should have. All the elements are in place that it should reduce any fan to a Heather-esque puddle on the floor but for some reason it just didn’t for me. Don’t get me…[Read more]

@pedant @Thane15

Pedant, I don’t see anything bizarre about it. You both have seen something that, to a greater or lesser extent (each in our own ways), @bluesqueakpip @jimthefish and myself haven’t. You think the three episodes were, combined and individually, a masterpiece, whereas we see something with greater flaws, that didn’t quite convince…[Read more]