@ps1l0v3y0u You would be thinking of Phineas Finn? I was a young teen when the family inherited a 50s vintage black and white tv set and The Pallisers, (BBC) was airing along with such classics as War and Peace and I Claudius. (oddly it was several years later that I discovered Dr Who)

@winston I love our library and try to actively support it as…[Read more]

@ps1l0v3y0u that is a good list and nothing that I would disagree with. “chucklegramps” always makes me chuckle.

I look forward to your list of old Who companions. that might take some time.

Cheers

Janette

@janetteb  @ps1l0v3y0u     Libraries are great. I love our local library, in fact I could live in the library surrounded by books and archives and dvds. Ours now lends out life preservers and park passes and gives weekend craft kits to kids. They give tech help which I have needed now and then. They also have a Lego club! My librarians help me g…[Read more]

@ps1l0v3y0u We do have a good library system. Can borrow from any library in the state which is handy though Fftd is in our local library. I have seen it on the shelf, did not realise that we did not already have it.

cjeers

Janette

@ps1l0v3y0u Really glad you drew attention to this. I realised that we don’t have the animation and so have ordered the DVDs from the library. Really keen to watch it. It might be the story I remember from when I was young..

cheers

Janette

@ps1l0v3y0u

Distraction most welcome!

I’ve never seen FftD, but it’s on my 2nd Doctor hitlist. There’s something about Troughton’s performances that I find very engaging. The first episode of his I watched was the Three Doctors, and I’ve been keen to complete my education since. Only seen a few to date: Tomb, War Games, and a couple of animated…[Read more]

@winston  @ps1l0v3y0u   The Moment is definitely and memorably in the cell in the Tower, in the TV episode.  I remember the phrase ‘different case, same software’ and probably said by her.

BUT in the book, that was an internal thought of the Doctor (probably 11) – “The case was new, but the drives and software were the same as the old boy…[Read more]

@ps1l0v3y0u    I should be able to answer your ‘little nit picks’, having just read the book.   But I can’t, quite.   So now I’m just going to *have* to watch the episode again**.   As for the witch/well discussion, as I recall  (dashes off to get the book – damn Moff’s non-sequential chapter numbering…)   Elizabeth ordered them to be taken to…[Read more]

@ps1l0v3y0u    I think Day of the Doctor is the only Who novelisation I’ve read.

Getting a bit further in the book, I’ve notice that the Moment (Rose) doesn’t seem to feature at all in the dungeon in the Tower of London.   I distinctly remember, from the TV episode, her leaning against the wall in the background, invisible to the two later Doct…[Read more]

@dentarthurdent I read the book a few years ago and really enjoyed Moffat’s writing style but It is more of a companion to the episode which was almost perfect. (Only imperfection that springs to mind is Liz 1’s very modern hair style)

@ps1l0v3y0u I read a lot of the early novelisations when I was a teen back in the dark days before video. The…[Read more]

@translatorcircuit  @ps1l0v3y0u

Memory can be very misleading.   Things get conflated, or attributed to the wrong person.   I once attended a party where the host had a huge Union Jack as a bedspread.   Years later I met him on a bus and he invited me to his wedding reception in a couple of weeks.  I reminded him that last time I saw him he was…[Read more]

@ps1l0v3y0u I can barely keep track of plot lines, much less timelines, so I’m a poor choice for any kind of meaningful exchange on your date theories. But bravo to you for taking that on! I could not do it.

@dentarthurdent I’m much the same as you … and getting worse by the day. I never considered your point about the inherent logical flaw in…[Read more]

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I’d like to comment but I’m afraid I’m hopeless about dates.   I can remember 1066,1588,1805,1812,1815,1914-18 and 1939-45 and that’s about it.   Also 1923 (when the british railways were ‘grouped’ into the ‘big four’) and 1948 when they were all nationalised as BR (‘cos I’m a train nut) – and that’s it.

If you told me an ast…[Read more]

Hi @janetteb   Nice to hear from you.    I was planning to re-watch from the three final Chibs ‘specials’ up to current, but I might push my start point back to this episode, and see if the subsequent Fluxisodes make any more sense to me than first time around.   But that will be in a couple of weeks time, I’m currently watching Red Dwarf season…[Read more]

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I love the names “chucklegramps and kid” so apt. I might watch this episode after reading your review and if it is half as entertaining it will be worth it.

I really appreciate your and @dentarthurdent‘s reviews of these episodes, ‘watching them so I don’t have to”. I am being lazy though and really should try and watch them,…[Read more]

@ps1l0v3y0u    ‘Apple-converted-space’ – does that mean that Apple’s ‘walled garden’ has now expanded to include substantial chunks of the Universe?    😉

I think part of my failure to appreciate the Flux came from impatience – we knew the season was supposed to be a six-parter, so when successive episodes seemed to relate to some compl…[Read more]

Well now, re-reading *all* the comments, it seems most people found it an improvement on the previous episode.   With the occasional fractious nitpicker such as – me (Hi everybody 🙂  who found the plotholes more easily than following the plot.   Frequently Chibs is sadly predictable in the PC-ness of his stereotypes – the stupid British gene…[Read more]

@ps1l0v3y0u    I wasn’t aware of the attempt to speed up story development of which you speak.    Maybe just the 6-ep season which were all ‘chapters’ of the one story passed for that, I don’t know.   I tend to be a couple of years adrift of the majority of fans here, right now is as caught-up as I’ve ever been.

@ps1l0v3y0u
Wow. You really are boldly going where no man who values his sanity has ever gone a second time. (That came out rather clunky, didn’t it?) The Flux.

With respect, I do your posts somewhat – gnomic. I have to scratch my head (or the episode list) to catch some of your references. (As an aside, I’m running Debian Linux, and I’ve never…[Read more]

@ps1l0v3y0u   I think the reason for 15’s regeneration was to use some of the regeneration energy to disturb the universe sufficiently to being into existence Poppy, a virtual kid of which he had no memory and only existed in Conrad’s dream world.   (Or something like that).

@whohar    Jodie Whittaker’s appearance wasn’t cringe, but it did seem a…[Read more]