@blenkinsopthebrave   Yikes! That does look like a very dark version of ye olde Christmas Carol. I will probably watch it but I kinda like the Alastair Sim version and  Bill Murray’s Scrooged  to get me in the spirit. I agree with @pedant about the Muppets Christmas Carol being pretty sweet and it has some nice songs also. There are so many ver…[Read more]

@pedant I must confess, I have not actually watched it but that may be about to change.. Just as long as there is no Elmo..

Cheers

Janette

@pedant

Great kinds of minds!

@pedant @toinfinityandbepond

thank you. Yes I recall this, now. Tennant was very good at this -if that’s the right word

Also @Jimthefish @craig when I click on a user’s name or on the discussion thread I notice we go right back to page 1? From 2017. Do we need a new place?

Syzygy.

@Winston @JanetteB @pedant

Amazing. I loved the “erm, the bit with the headphones? but not the bit with the noise?”

Gorgeous. Also everyone & I mean everyone was saying they wanted Phoebe to be the next female Doctor? I had no idea who she was! Her name was distinct, though, which is why I’ve remembered it.

Oh yep @pedant Tennant did 500 miles…[Read more]

Everyone in general:

I must be the only person on this forum, who doesn’t agree with Halloween. It’s become very commercialised, with children going around dressed up to cadge sweets. The Celts have a lot to answer for. *grins*

@pedant

You are right, I’ve watched the clip many times.

@Winston @JanetteB and youse all 🙂 @Blenkinsopthebrave the “youse” is for youse. 😉

We had kids around from 4 pm but by 6 pm when it’s still light, they’d gone. I normally do have choccies but forgot about them. Thane asked his mates (most drive) if they could go out by they were without spirit as well & thought as they’re 18 a bunch of tall…[Read more]

@pedant @winston

Beaut, just beaut. Boy, one thing to say (I’m never ever nit-picky!) but if she’d drop her chin on the high notes, her palate would open up & it would open up the head voice. Small thing. But I’m saying it anyway. Anywaaay.

She has a gorgeous voice, she’s a beautifully sensitive person. How do I say this? She comes across as a…[Read more]

@pedant   That was so sweet. To see Jodie Whittaker react like that when she sees who is going to play backup is pretty cute. Thanks.

@mudlark @pedant and @winston this is a SPOILER so please look the other way.

Dickens was an extraordinary perfectionist, and a man of the people. On many occasions he would repeat, “I had at one point many stories I could tell, but, here & now, this is the only story I feel I can tell.”

He was repetitive at times & acknowledged a level of…[Read more]

@winston

Avert your eyes now, there be spoilers ahead.

@thane16  @pedant

Fair enough, although I did in fact realise that it was a riff on the Hammer Horror Dracula – and possibly on vampires of more recent literature; my point was that I found  it so jarring that the satire didn’t work and any subtler intention was lost. Put it down to p…[Read more]

@pedant thanks for that trailer. I had not seen it and  I have been regularly checking up on news about WotW as I am really looking forward to it.

@winston, it is the first adaptation to be set in the U.K. There is also another version in the works which is set in present day. The book passed out of copyright just over a year ago, hence the rush…[Read more]

@pedant  I never even heard about a new War of the Worlds and it looks so good! It seems to have cast the includes…everyone. I really want to watch this. So much good TV, so little time.

@pedant bummer. I didn’t do scrabble with the PnTTBg thing. 🙁

OK, I’ve just recognised writing in French when a soon to be Scoobie is in Canada is kinda redondante.

@pedant agreed.

@pedant @mudlark.  The other soon to be scoobie (OK, Winston) look away 😀

I never listened, 2 years ago, to this particular TPN guide. Only at about the 5:44 mark did I latch on to that dude from above. The echoes are brilliant. And this may make you yell with frustration but I think this is the best of the Season openers closely followed by…[Read more]

@Winston I’m doing this now too  LOOK AWAY NOW! (One exclamation mark must do). It rhymes!

@pedant @mudlark

then there’s this.

@pedant

Got it!

@mudlark

Oh no. No. No. The Buffy Dracula was DELIBERATE. It was supposed to be almost laughable.

Syzygy

@pedant Now, w/o a brain *don’t read this Winston spoilers might be ahead.

So, pedant. you said something about the erm, ahem, most unsolved mystery in the world (possibly).

OK, so a) who are the brin***s or the Fir**? No, not that.

b) why does one vampire have a hint/sniff of hu*an*ty & the others not? See Ame*** in …..  I think this is it…[Read more]

@pedant @blenkinsopthebrave  “they are coming.”

Whoa!! I hope we end up accessing both….sounds good