@miapatrick

in this light of this I do have a first Pratchett recommendation: going postal. It’s very much on this theme.

I’ve just finished reading this. Most excellent, and I’m now going to go onto Making Money and then Raising Steam. I went on t’interwebs and discovered a whole Discworld Reading Order “map”. It’s a whole new world I tells ya! A…[Read more]

Greetings all.

Sorry for not posting for so long. I have been trying to keep up with all the discussions but always seem to be either too busy or too tired or I start a response but never finish it.

@ps1l0v3y0u It would be so cool for Susan to reappear but she is a timelord and can regenerate. Maybe in fairness Carol Ann Ford should be the older…[Read more]

@ps1l0v3y0u You may well be right about Rose (2). I had assumed that the final scene with 14 and the Noble family was a farewell, effectively losing track of him, the same way 10a was ‘lost’ with Rose(1) in another universe. But of course in Dr Who this is not a foregone conclusion, as we saw in these three episodes (and the preceding one), old…[Read more]

@ps1l0v3y0u I agree bringing Tenents 10 back as 14 was I think a situation extingency Jodie had left the show and I believe Ncuti was not available for the filming of the most of the 60th specials. Given that a showrunner handover was going to occur  they could possibly have tried to persuade Jodie to have hung on for the specials and then they…[Read more]

@janetteb  @dentarthurdent   @ps1l0v3y0u   @nerys    I really enjoy the Christmas episodes and watch them again every year in order. I like them all though of course I have some favourites like The Husbands of River Song and Doctor Mysterio and Voyage of the Damned. I like the fun ones I guess and I appreciate some others for being great episode…[Read more]

@ps1l0v3y0u I think that’s quite a good summary. Voyage of the Damned – I though Kylie Minogue made that episode. There was something refreshing about Astrid Peth’s slightly naive enthusiasm, and she managed to not be annoying (which is always an occupational hazard with such characters).
Christmas Carol was, as you say, made by Michael…[Read more]

@janetteb I think The End of Time deserves a second chance. It has a lot of good things in it – the climax was the sort of three-way duel between the Doctor, John Sim’s Master and Rassilon, where we’re not sure which way they’re going to jump. Sarcastic spiky green people. The Master turning all of humanity into replicas of himself. And…[Read more]

@ps1l0v3y0u  @nerys   @janetteb  @dentarthurdent   I am late to the table but here goes my attempt at my favourite non Moffat episodes for each series.

1.  Dalek     The 9th Doctors reaction when he saw the Dalek and his frenzied attempt to get away let me know  how dangerous they were and the Doctors contemptuous rant  was some pretty great…[Read more]

@janetteb I wouldn’t say The Doctor, the Widow and the Wardrobe is a _bad_ episode. It just didn’t do anything much for me – I guess that’s a matter of personal taste.
In general those vaguely Dickensian ones (Lewisian ones?) don’t appeal to me. One that I did really like – which surprised me – was A Christmas Carol.

Of the specials, I…[Read more]

@ps1l0v3y0u the challenge are to find the best episodes NOT written by Moffat.

Ah, OK, thanks for clarifying! Often I am slow on the uptake.

That really is a challenge for me, because obviously those Moffat episodes are my favorites. The only ones I can think of are:

“Smith and Jones” – March 2007 season opener introducing the Doctor’s new c…[Read more]

@ps1l0v3y0u @winston @janetteb @nerys

I can’t resist a list like that, or rather, making my own.

Best non-Moff eps. (By the way, was there any season to which the Moff contributed in which the best ep of the season was NOT one of his?)

Season 1 – The End of the World was fun, visually, and satisfied the classic sci-fi trope of space…[Read more]

@janetteb   The Doctor’s Wife is excellent!  Such a wild combination of sheer terror experienced by Rory and Amy and the fun weirdness from Uncle and Auntie and the strange bitey lady who turns out to be the Tardis. Have fun.

@nerys   That is what makes this site so good. The people are great. I agree with you about these 2 episodes, they are…[Read more]

I just read @ps1l0v3y0u ‘s comment in the Website thread and now I get it. Innuendo. Yes. It goes with Captain Jack really. Captain Jack, talks in double entendre. (Most of which probably goes whooshing over my head too.)

Doctor Dances/Empty Child are classics. I think they are now old enough to have acquired that status. Nearly twenty years…[Read more]

@ps1l0v3y0u  Yay!!   We (and when I say we I mean them) finished the roof today. I was grounded,literally, due to my leg but I “helped” from below. The mister and our #1 son did it over a couple of weekends trying to dodge the hottest days. Nice shiny new shingles.

Somehow when I watch Doctor Who I miss loads of stuff and that is why I like it he…[Read more]

@winston @dentarthurdent Thank you for your kind replies. Yes, my in-laws appear to be safe from this wildfire, which thankfully did not spread in their direction and is still 25 kilometres away from them. It is now classified as “being held” (meaning that given the current resources and anticipated weather, the wildfire is not expected to grow…[Read more]

@robertcaligari I am NOT saying FX are more important than other factors, in fact they can’t compensate for inadequacies elsewhere (though some producers try). I don’t disagree with you. If it doesn’t need FX then it doesn’t.

Army of Darkness was a product of Sam Raimi, who, along with Rob Tapert, founded Renaissance Pictures which for five…[Read more]

@ps1l0v3y0u   I will address just one comment – your last.   It is formally rejected (grin).   These days I wear sandals if catching a bus or a train (because bare feet for some reason make operators nervous) or – usually but not always – at the supermarket.    But not otherwise.   I used to have to wear shoes to the office but now I’m retired,…[Read more]

@ps1l0v3y0u   @nerys    I would take any comment by tRump as the exact opposite of its face value.   That is, if he thinks Kamala is ‘very, very nasty and disrespectful’ I’d regard that as high praise for Kamala.   Only slightly diminished by that fact that almost *everybody* is ‘nasty and disrespectful’ to the narcissistic, malignant tumour…[Read more]

@blenkinsothebrave @ps1l0v3y0u

I honestly preferred the days when the showrunners focused on the show rather than the publicity. I know you need both, but there seems too much of the latter at the expense of the former.

And, yes, Rule 2: the showrunner lies. But it becomes tedious if it’s all the time and, I’d argue, self-defeating.

And the…[Read more]

@whohar @dentarthurdent @nerys @ps1l0v3y0u

Whovians I hope the weather gets better…..