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.

Whoops, that was a fiver down the drain!

Not sure if @pedant posted this? He nudged me earlier about Arvo Part. So Da Pacem…

Did someone mention Thin White Duke? This is mum’s favourite -amongst (or ‘among’ we need a @pedant when we NEED one!) or one of her favourites!

But I’m not sure which is best…..

Syxygy the young one

And, of course, we know where Sacha Dahwan met the Doctor before…

Mmm, could’ve be in Wired … 😉

At the time, I thought they missed a quip when the Doctor rumbled O’s game:

DOCTOR: No, no, no. I read your file. You were a champion sprinter.
O: Mmm. Got me. Well done.

O should have added, “YOU were always the expert on running.”

Agreed. It’s not phallic. I have absolutely no idea why that happened !

To the rest of the gang. I’ve mentioned before,  about 3 years ago, that the internet’s great. Except when people start using terms that others copy. It echoes.

Two years ago: new Doctor. Only now, we have one person ‘admitting’ “oh, actually, it’s flat. No…[Read more]

How could he take a bunch of humans calling themselves a master race seriously?

I found Whittaker’s performance here brilliant. When the Master makes her kneel. When she asks “what do you want?” Chills. Her pacing was superlative & the direction of both parts was beautifully done though a few edit…[Read more]

@juniperfish I don’t know – she was in hospital dying, so they would probably have run tests on her – she was asymptomatic when she drank the blood. It’s possible that the pain was the process of regeneration rather than the…[Read more]

Don’t bother @craig with yet another complaint about me. Yeah, we know, you’re ‘special’. He’ll get the gist. As a wise man once said (it may have been @whisht) “go fuck yourself”.

@pedant

Reviewing your conduct towards other members has made me reach for the mind bleech. You really are an objectionable tit of the most massive proportions. I will take pleasure in…[Read more]

Thank you, very droll. Let’s face it, you are a bit of a dick aren’t you?

Oh good, we are discussing Moffat and Gatiss’ Dracula!

I said this on T’Other Place, after seeing Part 3:

“I think it played with the source material quite beautifully (“bloofer lady”) and found a way to incarnate the Victorian gothic themes of sublimated carnality, purity, corruption and death into the…[Read more]

Another easter egg: the ward Zoe was in was ward AD 72.

Yep, I noticed that too but forgot to mention it. By the time I remembered it was too late to edit my post.

@miapatrick

Thanks for confirming what I heard even though I attributed it to the wrong character.

On Sunday nights at 9pm, Talking Pictures (freeview 81) have been showing…[Read more]

Episode two- The Master! The actors had a pretty good new year period!

@pedant – additionally, I felt as though he realised that he’d always thought he could die any time…[Read more]

Before I comment on the series, I need to get something off my chest…

Claes Bang -yes I bloody well would be his bride.

@Pedant

Well I thought it was a hoot

Yup, but I must admit that once I realised this wasn’t going to be a faithful adaptation I spent a good few minutes huffing, puffing and shouting obscenities at the TV. I wasn’t…[Read more]

Why do I seem to be the only one who thought the electrical charge thingy going down the stringy things, when Yaz was there, seemed neurone-y rather than DNA-y?

You’re not the only one. The stringy things with sparks of light coursing down them, even though not dendritic in form, evoked the idea of nerve fibre/electrical firing, therefore…[Read more]

Overall response? Sure, I liked it but…just like the previous season, why is everything filmed to be dark ? (I mean photogentically dark.)  To be…[Read more]

Def need a re watch before Sunday. So glad shes finally got better writing. Still a lil bit of over explanation but a drop dead reveal. Loving the nod to Sims manic and hilariously psychotic Master. Excited hand clapping in a villain, always good.

But you had a special line, all for you. Didn’t you notice?

@pedant
I now want to re-watch so I can spot the clues – agreed, it was a world-class fakeout. But Dracula is in twenty five minutes.

To have seen him in concert…I envy you, @pedant.

Does this mean no U.N.I.T any more? (Dominic Cummings probably sacked them.)

Oh, well, I ‘m still looking forward to it.

@thane16  After Doctor Who, Boston Legal is my fave! I love Alan and Denny Shore. Thanks.

But the other bit, it’s “and we can do it together.”

Lovely The Buff. So, good. We haven’t watched anything yet. After our evening meal on Christmas ‘eve (Czechs do this on the 24th so the 25th is a very lazy day) I went straight to bed. So hot & humid the jelly was melting.

Ah yes Toby.

But I think this luverly scene fits round about now. Don’t YOU??

Niice. Sounds a lot like Patrick Doyle’s thing even though this is 400 years old!

@pedant Thanks for the clip and “ditto”.

This is for you. At this time.

Bertie the ‘Wonder Dog’ survives 11 days on Sumas Mountain

Fuck off.

You called me an enabler of racism.

Fuck off.

I’ll listen to music and reply to that but fuck off.

Merry xmas

In my anecdote, when the person made the comments about the strain on local services and it being the fault of “the Poles and Lithuanians”, my family member and myself both made the point that the person’s belief needed to extend to… my family member, two other people in the conversation and others they’d…[Read more]

Well, I realise that I’ve left an important part out.
I guess I tried to use the anecdotal info along with the general, as “they” are not a homogeneous bloc.
And yes, I mean “they” in every sense of Poles, Blacks, Muslims, ‘others’… Leavers.

The group I was talking with were lumping all the Poles and Lithuanians together as ‘them’,…[Read more]

Hey YOU! You’ve been gone a very. Long. Time 🙁

I hope all is well in the Arbutus manor?

And that reminds me of another manor!  The @idiotsavon castle!

I spent, ooh, about 3 hours last night watching Listen & reading all the comments. I’m a-watching all of the Peter Capaldi years again. How beautiful. I was reading a…[Read more]

I realise that the only thing I have close to the Dixie Chicks in sound terms is REM.
Or…[Read more]

“They’re not racist but… they’re uncomfortable”

I can’t get back into my head and so can’t exactly remember what I was trying to get at.
Whatever I was doing I was being too clever by half.

Maybe I was trying to write a phrase with far too many things ‘between the lines’ (or ellipses).

So, while I don’t think…[Read more]

Thank you. We do need an uplift.

@whisht @pedant

Dixie Chicks

If you think that the adjective ‘decent’ applies in any shape or form to Cummings you are either ill informed or your judgement is seriously askew, and one of the most dismaying things about the House of Commons as currently constituted, and more particularly the Conservatives, is the lack of talent on the front benches.

As for Alexander…[Read more]

@pedant
The Cocker is… amazing. I think that’s the word I’m left with.
How many do I need to buy/ download??!?
Also the Dixie Chicks – I’ll admit I’m not a fan but always good to need to listen to music I don’t think I’ll like. I need to confront my prejudices far more often and I cannot fault the sentiment in…[Read more]

Yes, exactly Hannah Arendt.   What more to say. 🙁

Fair enough Lisa. You came back after 2 years away, knowing there’s a 1% “i’m a Leaver” on this Forum, by the regulars, to ‘rub it in.’

Also “hope the next season of Who is better than last year!” comment. If you read many of the regular’s posts in the past year or more, the new season was welcomed by & large. Sure, like anything,…[Read more]

Triggered?   Seek help

Nope, I didn’t know that.  That’s me told!   Skittering off to do homework, whilst listening to this song live on YT. Thankyup, totally new to me.

Oh Fuck me you owe me a keyboard.

You should tweet that flippin’ everywhere!

Absolutely! In fact, I be a tad envious [ahem] I didn’t put that up before.

It’s his usual arpeggio & chordal treatment but one loves the …..it’s coming ….it’s coming…..chord 1  but not yet…not yet….pedal point it a bit more….& ……da. duuuuum.

OK. I’m being very silly.  It’s terrific & I love it.

@pedant  rough tr…[Read more]

Well, I suppose you could say an 12.8% rate is rare. Sorry, I didn’t know you’d lived in the States (so have I).

Look, I seem to be misreading you. Please remember that I’m dyslexic and that it’s very easy for me to miss nuances and subtleties. You asked if busy folk have time to read pamphlets and I picked up on that. Your real point…[Read more]

Man! I didn’t see your reply. Despite the ‘tick’ I’m not getting notifications from the music thread. Possibly because, I’ve been naughty & not nice so yes, a tad of a trigger but also because you know, Thane really liked him & then really despised him. The memes on the internet are pretty funny unless you’re …him. This is like He Who…[Read more]