@janetteB, @Arbutus,

Too kind.

I was sitting on a train at the time, on a four-hour journey, and the brain starts to wander after a while.

@PhaseShift

The communicator bearing the seal of Rassilon? Are you sure it’s not a portable CD player…?

@Phaseshift @JanetteB MiaPatrick @puro

I am so sorry not to have answered the above posts. It was not my intention to be rude.
Not being on here every day, posts pile up. Also when I receive notifications and click on one, I lose the rest. Obviously I’m doing something wrong? HELP!

Regards with apologies,

Missy

Hi @phaseshift – Afraid I haven’t seen any ‘new’ TV and have been trudging through a “the complete first 3 seasons” of Fringe.

And after far far too many exposition-filled episodes that left me cringing (otherwise fine episodes clanged with moments like “you mean St Claire’s – the asylum you were in for 17 years?” said by the son who got him out…[Read more]

@craig – ah, a new home (this thread is 3! awww its so cute!)

Now, I’ll be honest and thought “oh, not Morricone again. Maybe I’ll get around to listening…”

and then I did listen.

And its effing awesome!

;¬D

Honestly its impossible to hear that and not have a racing heart and a hoooooge smile!
btw the titles at the end are Deborah’s…[Read more]

@PhaseShift Just caught the first ep of Fear the Walking Dead last night – much better than I was expecting, I’d heard some negative feedback that it was too slow but I didn’t find it so at all.  I’ve always been fascinated in apocalypse dramas by the phase just before the tipping point, and The Walking Dead parachutes you in after that, using…[Read more]

@PhaseShift

Re: Things to watch — While you lucky people in the UK have already had the opportunity to see it, and I suppose it is on BBC iView if you haven’t, I have ordered in the DVD of the new adaptation of Agatha Christie’s “Partners in Crime” with David Wallaims and Jessica Raine:

I have always…[Read more]

@Phaseshift

Yes, proud.

As a direct consequence  she later got to present to, and be taken up by, Barry Cunningham.

If you don’t know who Barry Cunningham is look up the history for the Harry Potter franchise.

So yes, very proud. As proud as she is grateful.

A stonking finale.  Most of the things I might have said have been (I’m late to this party, by about a year and a half, having just acquired the box sets of series 1-3 and rewatching for the first time since they were broadcast).

Captain Cheesy’s regen/resurrection – now, was he immortal before this, or did Rose/Bad Wolf’s channelling of the…[Read more]

@Phaseshift. I really like that ideal Clara becoming teacher to the Time Lords who are much in need of some “humanitarian” lessons. Having just re watched Death in Heaven and the Christmas special I see you point re’ the depressing tone. I was having some eye difficulty throughout. Every companion departure in AGWho with the exception of Martha’s…[Read more]

@PhaseShift BTW – Why couldn’t Clara stay on Galifrey to attend Time Lord school? Didn’t Ace
attend TL school? A lot of people theorized that there is something unique about Clara that
we haven’t yet been told about. Maybe there is an additional thing that made her Missy’s choice.
I have long suspected that there is still something more than…[Read more]

@PhaseShift Well Clara has always been a kind of ‘fixer’ and she always cares how situations
shake out. She did talk the 11th into finding a different choice about whether to push the big
red button or try to save Galifrey. She is a sort of psychoanalyst at times too so yes,
she can certainly be the outsider conscience. The Galifreyans may…[Read more]

@Ichabod  Don’t worry. I think@phaseshift was only trying to nudge the conversation re’ Capaldi’s tenure over to the news thread for housekeeping reasons not because it is in any way spoilery for it that were the case he would be dispatching the discussion to the Spoilers threat poste haste.

What we all need right now is some actual Who to…[Read more]

@craig  Right, then — thanks to @Phaseshift for a delightful read.

@ichabod Don’t thank me, it’s all down the the fantastic @Phaseshift and his marvelous prose.

I enjoyed this.  Simon Pegg, Tamsin Greig, Anna Maxwell Martin and Agent Weaver from SHIELD – lots to enjoy.  The satire is, as @TheKrynoidMan says, not exactly subtle and the adult audience will be sceptical from the outset.  But the line that @PhaseShift quoted is a damn good one, and worth wheeling out on a regular basis.  We know, as gro…[Read more]

To echo @phaseshift‘s call-out for The Killing Joke — it’s a small but perfectly formed work.

I’d never heard the the dual-role rumour regarding the first Batman. That’s an interesting idea and I think Keaton could have pulled it off. But I always got the impression that he got the gig because Burton saw something beyond the overtly wacky in…[Read more]

@phaseshift I’ve seen The Killing Joke in several book shops around town, so I should easily be able to get it.

@phaseshift

Bloody brilliant. The Dalek Control room is the one. Thank You!!

@PhaseShift    I am intending to watch Strange and Norrell, but I picked up the book for summer reading as I usually prefer to read things first and then view them. But I also appreciate @janetteB calling my attention to it, as I hadn’t really known anything about the book previously. I’m enjoying it as far as I have gotten.

@phaseshift —

mutters to self ‘must watch Strange and Norrell, must watch Strange and Norrell’.

But, yes, if I were a betting man, I’d be thinking that a small flutter on Harness being Who’s next showrunner might not be an entirely ridiculous wager.