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@mudlark Dark is definitely worth a watch: the key to it all is a fabulous character based study where crossing timelines (not necessarily the most important part of the drama) creates a stunning backdrop for the story.

I’m pretty sure -& no spoilers here- one of the female characters is her own mother…. There’re a few instances of  timey whimey plot points – though not repeated exactly.

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@devilishrobby

Goodness, I echo others in wishing you a quick recovery: my husband had a heart attack approximately 6 weeks ago but thanks to one of the best Australian cardiac units located a mere 5 minutes away, he was home within 5 days. This isn’t often the case & it was definitely nerve inducing but I believe he also took advantage of the free wi-fi,  essential in these situations.

You’ll have plenty of insane bonkerising on these threads to keep you sufficiently distracted interspersed with fantasies of appetising & colourful meals you can happily chomp on once home -hospital food generally soft & flavourless.

I’m now wondering about Ruby’s origin story & if indeed she’s her own mother? I’m reminded of a friend who recently introduced me to the wonderful 1980 film, The Flipside of Dominick Hide & its sequel, Another Flip for Dominick …..starring a young, lithe, Peter Firth, later a main character in Spooks.

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Just been told there are only 8 episodes this season! 🙁 🙁

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Schrödinger’s Cat … the point at which Ruby *doesn’t* read “I miss you” is where the Doctor both exists and doesn’t exist ….in the ‘box?’

Puzzled.

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I don’t know, I think it’s great to reference previous ideas..Moffat’s Boom shows us the themes, chapters and characters that exist in his Whouniverse which are now ever-present and I like that. I hadn’t thought of the Mummy Train, though, but it did remind me of The God Complex.

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Oooh wow! I remember my first ever post on this forum many years ago writing of my love of Old Who -dirty, dilapidated corridors, rain & wind, quarries… and a general tremble of dis-ease as occasionally, on a different planet, or a different earth – nothing seemed quite right…. This episode held that and more for me. And Sian Phillips, all of 91! (I Claudius).

Puro

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@mudlark yes, one thing about RTD is that ….lack of delicacy …but in rewatching the Tennant years, and of course the Ecceleston years also, RTD has ….I was about to say “matured” as a writer which is a tad arch of me. Still, great to see a completely different episode in this season: more dialogue and less shouty shouty..And I love a callback.

This episode came at the right time too.

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Cor, it’s lovely to read everyone’s wonderful ideas and memories of past episodes: the doctor’s ditty “the moon and the President’s wife.” I KNEW I recognised it from time past….

thank you to @juniperfish and to @scaryb @blenkinsopthebrave @mudlark and @craig

So much to read and ponder on and respond to! whee-hay!!
Puro.

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Whoo-hoo everybody ! Wonderful introduction to New New New New Who….

absolutely loved The Aeolians. Rip roaring joyous stuff which hits home during difficult times. I think it’s what we needed -without knowing we needed it.

Old Puro.

 

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@juniperfish I love the goblin market & recall it was referenced during Moffatian times here too.

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@juniperfish exactly, to all your points. And @jimthefish and
@robertcaligari

I think we’ve had excellent responses covering points as to why it’s acceptable -if not necessary – to consider a non-white Newton.

The argument, that an actual famous person shouldn’t be black or brown because he’s an actual white guy, folks, neatly summarises our problem: in 1666 how many non-White guys or gals with sufficient familial prosperity confidently marched into Cambridge in 1665 to pen a discovery of fluxions?

To me, it’s interesting WHY Davies chose Newton…. The issue of colour is as interesting as Mavity, perhaps ….wherein he investigated the nature of sunlight refracting thru prisms, leading to a conclusion that different colour rays of light must also differ in refrangibility.

I hadn’t heard of The Meep but really enjoyed that episode. However, *this* episode was on another level of happy terror & addresses my own nightmare since childhood: a large hand connected to an enormous long arm, sweeping out from under the bed to grab my ankle…..

Halllooooo & love to all! Puro.

(oh, & the new theme is grand)

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@dentarthurdent

I think that the undercutting of the message in Local Hero, is part of the message. At least to me.

I think there were no larger messages in Doctor 13 than other historical series. There were fascinating moral quandaries in The War Games, from memory.

The very first serial examining the Thals, & the subsequent anti-war & anti-pacifist stance (confusing) then reminds me of The Brigadier’s horrendous choice in Dr Who and The Silurians -with a similar undertone in Chibnall’s Hungry Earth. Then I think of the Curse of Peladon & its ‘unique’ set of messages.

Aaand then there’s Inferno…. also laden with messages about protecting earth’s natural resources & the horror of …rubbish dumps… 😀

I think we can agree that climate activism in stories is important but that sledgehammers are tricky devices to be used occasionally. Perhaps we felt flattened once too many times?

in the end I did love Doc13. She had a passion I engaged with & behind the rapid fire talk, or the lack of existential debate, there was sadness behind the eyes as if she was running from something.

The Doctor does evolve & change to some extent, but doesn’t grow or have permanent relationships: they don’t want the way humans want or need? It reminds me, actually, of how to describe the ensouled Angel in the Buffyverse as he can’t grow or feel the sting of human hunger or sense time passing in the way humans do, thus his conscience (& so the Doctor’s) is affected differently.

If the currency of life is time, then how much we have of it & how we use it, is a gift. The Doctor & Angel have plenty of it so throw themselves into helping others -into persuading them to recognise their time is short so they must protect & manage their homes, their planets, & systems.

Effectively they often recognise they have to make that event or choice happen or at least narrow the choices before a devastating event occurs <i>- </i>by throwing themselves at it -like the sledgehammer.

The stories need a certain delicacy but that’s not always possible: we’re not learning from the consequences of our decisions & the Doctor and her companions are frustrated by this, hence the style in which these stories are told.

Mmm. I’ve been rambling …😀😉

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@janetteb @dentarthurdent

I think Local Hero is a gem, isn’t it? Definitely, as you say, a fresh faced Peter Capaldi adding to the film’s quirkiness & as for “hero,” I think one could debate for hours as to his/their identity,  when, yes, Janette, it’s the town, even Happer & Mac, who’s faced with the contrasting, hectic lifestyle of his own city when the job’s complete.

The messages are pretty infused throughout the entire film, I would think: over reliance upon oil, the concept of community & the death of, community elders themselves and their own ancestry (& the significance of their stories), the “everyman executive” & the loss of individualism within corporate empires or entities: but it’s been awhile since I’ve seen the film!

Kindest, Puro.

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@dentarthurdent

indeed we do. Mother and son. There are times when he types and I think, other times when I don’t have a clue he’s on and other times when for 3 years he’s not on Forum at all.
but he’s still in the house -I smell his socks when I pass his room.

I believe he vacuumed it yesterday, though.

you’re right about the hellish weather. It’s worse everywhere & it’s climate change.

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@dentarthurdent

I think you should give Tolstoy a whirl. Not a bad story teller…. 😀

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@dentarthurdent

Hallooo! It’s the elder Syzygy reportin’ in. I’d thought I’d head to the new Sofa.

yes, it was certainly a freak storm: not surprising in Brisbane at this time of year but certainly the worst in this suburb we’ve seen for quite awhile with respect to the amount of rain,  hail & wind causing furniture & cars to be pushed about. Thane mentioned the weather warnings, which, again, were poor & far too late: not unusual in itself.

Also not a surprise that people were dashing past on the nearby streets, failing to pull over so there were the typical accidents as well as those who believe “I can take this storm! My car will handle it easily…”  🙄

also, yes, the storms in NZ were all over the news in separate countries. Glad you were OK.
I recognise Thane mentioned @winston & possibly @blenkinsopthebrave regarding any previous storms and winter rain in Canada but that was on the Spoiler thread. Hoping you’re alright & doing well.

Kindest, Puro the Old.

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@dentarthurdent

You thought the most worrying part was escaping on the dinosaur? Wouldn’t it be that they’re in space, in a Time Machine, and there are actual dinosaurs?  😀😆😆

It is a weird episode though. It’s not one of my favourites but I persisted probably because I loved Amy even more than Clara and the Queen is brilliant as well. I think it’s probably supposed to be farcical comedy.

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@dentarthurdent hope  you didn’t need a young Doctor for your head injury: that would’ve been quite worrying? Head injuries can mean, like you said, a lot of blood. As a matter of fact, we had 2 nasty head injuries at soccer last weekend, and the blood flowed!

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@dentarthurdent

@dentarthurdent A Killer Zombie! That sounds pretty scary. We’re glad you weren’t ….scathed… well, it still happened but not quite what you were expecting.

Today, we were sleeping and this enormous explosive howl sounded, with a huge racket like the roof blowing off and it was a terrible thunderstorm. In all the years in this house dad was saying we had never experienced such a white-out, with winds, HUGE hail & massive rain so you couldn’t see more than an inch out of the window at one point.

When it cleared so you could see, chairs  were blowing down the street! Someone’s car floated gently past us. It was in slow motion. It’s funny how our brains stopped working. We were staring, slack jawed, not saying a word (though the wind would’ve stopped us hearing anything else) as this chaos swarmed around the house.

Mum thought the roof would blow off and the windows smash, so she closed shutters & curtains (to stop crashing glass) & then we all got ahold of our minds, checked the power, grabbed matches, torches & towels. Once we got organised, it stopped.

I looked on the Apple Weather App for our area, and it said “possible showers.” 😆😆

The empty pond now has at least 8cm in it. Water in torrents continues to flush down our steep driveway, and a friend’s house looked like Catermole’s job at the ministry of magic, where the baddie says to Ron Weasley, “it’s been raining in my officer for 2 days! Fix it.” Mum’s friend couldn’t believe the water pouring through his ceiling onto his new wood floors, furniture and bedding. So, we were lucky. We didn’t even have a car fall on our heads!

I hope you didn’t need stitches. I know how painful and irritating they can be. And
@winston we are wishing you all the best too. @janetteb mum was checking in with you as the heat in S.A. can be pretty awful in February. I was only there in December and it was nice: not like the humidity we have, for instance.

Happy valentines Day, everybody. ❤️❤️❤️

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Mum and I are looking at some doctor who @dentarthurdent. You’re probably too busy to check in with us, but as mum would say we’re reporting in just to see you’re OK.

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@dentarthurdent

me too. Capaldi is the Doctor to me, but then I remember Season 5 with Smith -one of the best seasons of any show ever (seasons 5 of Buffy and Angel too and House)- and my mind tick tocks back and forth. 😀

we REALLY hope you’ll be alright with the cyclone. Please let us know! ☹️

Thane

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Hey @nerys

thx so much for reaching out about your Chibnall experience. I can get on board with a lot of that. I still look fondly at the poster of Matt Smith’s Doctor on my wall and remember the visit to the Sydney Opera House where we had Alex Kingston and Ben, the composer (?) with daleks, cyberdudes, and others along with all the music. I think I was 10.

My favourite was Smith and Peter Capaldi’s Doctors as well as the clues along with spectacular stories. I loved that NY special you talked about too. I was able to rewatch that many times, and with Flux I thought the assistants or companions moved on a lot?

It used to be, even from Clara, “where is the Doctor? Doctor help us” when the female companion to Jodi actually had her own jobs, didn’t wait for the Doctor’s instructions, and the old companions from the 80s, tended to be active investigators as well. I didn’t know any of those characters, myself from the 70s/80s.

I’m not sure whether it’s just me, but I found the whole Irish Guarda story a little confusing, in that I couldn’t work out whether the tale was about how the policemen (who didn’t die or age)  were actually protective of the Doctor, or were TLs in themselves, or part of a secret anti-TL sect?

I suppose another problem I had with any of the stories from ‘06 on, was the ramping up of disasters such as the earth vanishing, the 2 split universes separating Rose & David leading to a reality bomb, to losing all the planets, to the End of Time itself & then last year to entire universes being destroyed.  What else can they do….How far can they go?

I liked the character development in many earlier seasons but I thought the female   Companion was well developed last year: I don’t recall her name. I’ve seen these eps only once whereas Mum liked them a lot more and was moved to tears by the end and that’s her litmus test -if it really moves her then it’s a big tick.

The way Whitaker left definitely caused more than a dry eye there but I didn’t experience this & neither did Dad who gave it all up pretty quickly. I think he thought the Flux stories could be 10 episodes but he mentioned the insane amount of money the BBC pays for Doctor Who so it’s hard to find a balanced equation.

I liked the Master a lot initially (in the Australian outback scenes) but he became so insanely mad by the end that the character and the stories intertwined were again ofer-amped. Maybe that’s how it’s supposed to play out, though.

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@dentarthurdent you are probably right about Longitude. I needed a dictionary and encyclopaedia (I actually have a large Collins encyclopaedia of History) to work out what the hell was happening.

I like Morricone too. And Lord of The Rings: but once was enough for me.
I’ve realised it’s not War and Peace but Crime and Punishment! I can’t even correctly remember the titles of the books I’m supposed to be reading. 🙄🙄 😆

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@tawnyowl38

welcome to the forum. I’m in my early 20s & recognise Blink182 & Lock Stock etc. Like @dentarthurdent I also know Fleetwood Mac & Dire Straits though I’m pretty sure most of my friends wouldn’t have a clue. I don’t know what lapfox trax, breakcore or speedcore is! I think emo was connected to the scene kids of the ‘10s which I basically kept away from.

😆😆That makes me feel really old: I should recognise those bands or shows.

Mum finally convinced me to watch I Claudius, & in addition to reading Virgil & Homer plus some War and Peace (!) I’ll be doing that pretty much all year.

I recently read a small book about mapping and clocks called Longitude (a seminal work, I’m told, in its description of how the first seafarers went about examining how time works- very Doctor Who) as well as John Ralston Saul’s Globalism as an introduction to how people view economics.

@doctorines welcome to this forum too. I’m at uni but as my semester doesn’t start yet & my part time job chopped back my hours I have time on my hands so caught up on recent Doctor Who & other things (cleaning my room was one of them- not exactly inspiring).

cheers to you all. Hopefully more members will join & post to keep this forum rocking.

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@blenkinsopthebrave

yes, it’s a difficult situation when we are living so far away from our close family. If there’s anything we can do, particularly as we’re in Brisbane, please let us know.

Thano.

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@winston

we’re terribly sorry to hear of your loss & condolences from all us Christensan’s here in Aus. It’s awful that it was so quick and unexpected. That you couldn’t make the funeral either as it was so far away also.

All our love. ❤️❤️😢

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@blenkinsopthebrave @janetteb @nerys

hey everyone!

i like Tardis interior too  (thank you for your posting). I’d like more warm lighting just personally. I really like the round things too Janette )mum says hi).

I read the Twitter accounts & one guy stated he thought the floor was very big and everything so minimalist that it looked a bit like a laptop in the middle of an empty warehouse. Not sure who posted that on Twitter but it’s an interesting observation….

we all liked the Capaldi and Tennant interiors as well. But I enjoy the messy quality of the after Gap Tardis’. A bit like I imagine space travel & ships would be in the future. things cobbled together, and technicians trying to fix things on the fly….

this reminds me a lot of the first Tardis.

@janetteb you stated, I reckon last year, that you didn’t have faith anymore in Chibnall’s writing. Could you elaborate on that all?

Son of Puro (long time no post!) xo

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Whoa! @dentarthurdent -Are you really Mr Dent? Because you’re saying the sea in NZ is warm! 🤣😆😆

I’m being silly, but I can imagine the water would be 15 degrees C? I can do 17 but any lower, & the extremities are virtually lost …

Then again, in Brisbane, it’s not uncommon for swimming pools to be 30C & the beach, a gooey 28C (whilst the air temp is 30C & humidity in the high 90s).

This is when I start missing holidays in the UK, & even living in South Australia where the water, at least coming out of the cold tap, IS cold. Generally, the hose water here, even at 10 pm, is about 31C . Ick and yurrgh!

On programmes, I was looking at Disney & prompted by a mate, saw the works of RTD. I was thinking about watching at least 1 of his series before welcoming in new Who? …

@janetteb I love Staged! I didn’t see the little Tardis prop…. Sometimes I watch/listen whilst ironing…naughty. 😈

our weather has been hot but nothing like previous summers. Still, @blenkinsopthebrave would attest to February, particularly the nights, being the worst, so I await these with trepidation. I loved day light saving, Janette, as our dad would come from work at 6pm & take us to Glenelg for a swim til 9 with hot chips if we stood up on our foam boards. It was exciting being out on a school night in warm water with the breeze kicking up & then rinsing off under the sprinkler before bed.

do the children still finish at 12.30 pm if the temp hits 37.5C? Sometimes this would go for a fortnight & we’d spend hours at various homes with their above ground pools. Ah, childhood. 😮‍💨

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Happy new year to all us Forum Buddies. To @oochillyo @dentarthurdent @nerys @janetteb @winston @nerys @blenkinsopthebrave and many more…

my NY reso is to work more in the garden, despite the muggy heat. I’d like to say exercise & diet but I doubt that’ll change!
Hope we all stay safe from further Covid outbreaks and that the unnerving political situation in the States flattens itself out…

all our love, from the Puro crew.

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@dentarthurdent

yes, indeed.
and the filmic quality of those episodes are intriguing. They really are colour-rich, just drenched in sun & shadow. The Silent’s features filled with hollow spaces & crevices like the moon….

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@dentarthurdent should ‘devices’ just be ‘computer thingies?’
🤔

So my thingy phone is a computer thingie but just a smaller thingy than the laptop because that thingy is too big & I notice it gets quite hot? Could be hot air from it? Or the fluffy doona causing temperature rises.

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@dentarthurdent

yes, my smartphone IS a computer. I use the internet on it to text people, just as I would my laptop.

I also had a very cheap push button phone (a Nokia)  from 2011. It died eventually in 2021. Texts were my main form of communication & they still are but now I can access photos or send links via my phone (which uses an email address otherwise I’d be spending a ridiculous amount to post information, go on Facebook or send links).

My music is loaded up so I don’t need another device to play something should I leave the house.

The phone is surprisingly versatile -with Crohns & pain relief, I can just lie there, use a mediation app or watch YouTube whilst the pain relief gets going & the wifi headphones are terrific. I have to say I’m an iPhone fan but, yes, my actual mobile phone account is cheap.

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@dentarthurdent

hi there. Yes, ‘loading up’ was incorrect. I find, though, that after I click on 22 it takes a few minutes to get there. At that point, on my phone, at least, I have an awful lot of scrolling followed by it (often) going back to page 1 again.

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@blenkinsopthebrave yes, that sounds like a very good plan. Is it that the Doctor doesn’t really connect with Donna? That the story, involves her, but not?
The last couple of The Doctor Donna episodes, had various people (like the Shadow Proclamation) stating, “I’m sorry for your loss.” And when Donna prodded, the younger woman reiterated, “the loss that is yet to come.”

We also have River avoiding spoilers when Donna begs her to divulge where Donna exists in the Doctor’s future in The Silence in The Library.  River looks uncomfortable because she knows.

I wonder if Donna were to regain such memories we’d lose those important moments. I’m not sure I’d like that. Then again it’ll be exciting to see the path RTD takes. It’s often peculiar.

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@blenkinsopthebrave @winston @devilishrobby

well, I’ve missed this! I DO enjoy checking out clues: though that’s not the point of Who I like to imagine what these teasers are a-telling…..

Tennant, who started filming Who in ‘05, is looking relatively young.

Now, in other news, I may’ve mentioned The Detectorists last week & whilst seasons 1-3 are available on streaming services, Boxing Day, in the UK, had a feature length episode.

Wondering if anyone in Aus/Canada (or NZ) heard whispers on the national broadcaster? I can’t see it as yet on our ABC.

@janetteb wondering if you’re a fan?

Thinking of pretending this is The Sofa because we’re well over 22 pages & trying to load The Sofa when it’s overstuffed, is a tad difficult.

Hope we were all Nice, not naughty, & so received some fun under the tree? Thano was given a voucher to iFly, where you effectively jump out of a plane -but not.
It’s a giant air bubble with a VR package enabling you to choose a city to ‘fly over.’ Lot cheaper than actual sky diving.

The world’s gone mad (you’ve just realised this, you say?). In order to do various jobs here, such as making sandwiches, you need a food safety cert (Thane avoided this by learning on the job) but in order to do minimum wage security work, he requires a Security course Cert completed in 6 straight days for ….$999.

Which is the discount. A uni student doesn’t pay the full price of $1400 & yet a person who is NOT a student, has a further discounted price of only $600.

The lack of sense in this, boggles. 🤔

Back to fun stuff: like any good mama, I received face cream from Santa & an enormous amount of lollies. I’m in heaven when I eat fairy floss, Mike & Ike’s & all-day-suckers. Naturally I made enough White Christmas, rum balls, panforte & marzipan to sink the house, but it’s all yummy. @winston I agree! Christmas is not a time to worry about the scales.

This reminds me of the wonderful Tate & Tennant opener, with: The Fat Which Ran Away.

😂

 

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@janetteb and to you! Yes, we’re doing well. It’s hot here but we’ve had no rain & compared with the flood peaks expected today in Victoria (??), I believe, we’re very grateful. I know flood warnings came 7 days ago with expected river peaks effectively at midnight last night. Not good at all. It either never rains, and there’s fires, or it floods… old adages come to mind…

@nerys @winston @arbutus @mudlark @oochillyo  @craig  – sending warm wishes to you & to ALL our Forum peoples for Christmas or Chrimble, Hanukkah, Chinese new year & new year.

warm regards, Old Puro and Thane.
PS The Dectectorists which first came out 5 years ago, is back shortly for a feature length episode. It’s the wonderful Toby! ….once, for a short time, he was a Doctor. xoxo

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@nerys you have restored my memory! Yes, it was Roadkill.

McRory was wonderful. I remember her in Northsquare. Back in ‘98, I think.

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@nerys you have restored my memory! Yes, it was Roadkill.

McRory was wonderful. I remember her in Northsquare. Back in ‘98, I think.

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@dentarthurdent

thank you for that explanation. It’s actually reminding me of Einstein’s equation & seeing as we’re on a Forum about sci-fi (& fantasy) it’s topical.

I should’ve posted this on the Pub or Sofa thread but the moderators have gone rogue (of course I mean busy with other things). Our ‘Sofa’  is threatening to collapse on the back of our energy…. 😢🧐

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@nerys absolutely 👍 for Hugh. His voice -whether as the bloviating House or in an English role is worth a watch. I did see him in a British political thriller 2-3 years ago which was a disappointment, imho, but more to do with the occluded story line than anything Hugh-wise. 😀

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Hey again @oochillyo.
im sorry I didn’t see your other post. You absolutely, definitely shouldn’t give up your dreams of creating art. During Covid I think we all experienced terrible loneliness so doing anything remotely crafty is a must.

Don’t allow people to tell you you are rubbish. Beethoven was called an idiot, so was Mahler, Shostakovich (basically imprisoned & laughed at for his compositions) & David Bowie.

remember Van Gogh & how the population of his town shrieked at him, calling him a lazy fool & making fun of his mental health. The Dr Who episode about him is one of my top 10 episodes.  And I think a healthy reminder of how we need to respect new ideas, new art & music, providing it is as honest & original as possible. I think originality is the most important & impactful element in our art?

Though many of us play, or copy others for our own developed understanding & that’s OK too.

it’s awful that you’ve lost your art or someone has taken it. I used to hide drawings in old books, shoe boxes & under floor boards. As for driving, it’s frustrating but my son was 20 before he passed his driving test & admits happily that he only has an automatic license -so can’t drive with a clutch or stick shift. It doesn’t bother him though his mates laugh. He also hasn’t yet had a girlfriend. In the end, time passes, & good things happen. But only on your own schedule.

Your family holiday sounds great, though. Hopefully you can draw some of your memories? That would be a useful way of combining what you love & releasing your frustrations.

Warmest, Puro (my old name: also easier to write than the other one though the one printed on the site is the only one I can easily read in the in-box).

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Hi @oochillyo

I wish I could help you! My areas are music & history. Yes, I’d like to know that too. I don’t think conservation of energy is a law, though….

I’d add, however,  that energy in & energy out isn’t the same & doesn’t need to be, as per your 5th paragraph.
🙂

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@winston golly, yes, “It” scared me too. And I’m alright around clowns. You didn’t do anything wrong. These things happen.

Thane stayed with a friend 3 years his senior so he saw the 4th Harry Potter at age 8 & spent the next YEAR yelling thru the wee hours, wanting night lights/ stair lights, when, from Year Zero he’d never had those additions.

Bed time was something he looked forward to so there were never complaints or delays.

Boy, did that change! 🙂

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@winston You are a card! (As me dear ma used to say).
“never ask granny for a fu**ing cookie” indeed.

yes, certain films may not be Christmas flicks, per se, but as memories with kids, it’s a great reminder. Two years ago Thane commanded: We. Are. All. Watching. Harry Potter. This. Christmas.

I thought “all? You mean 1 film, yes?” No, it was all films & actually, lovely fun. End 2020, during the Christmas week, we’d tramp upstairs to the A/C & DVD with snacks. The production quality & the score was terrific: though dear Alan Rickman didn’t like the accompanying score apparently.

I saw Alistair Sim in The Green Card yesterday (actually that title is wrong).  His voice is another of the more recognisable – to me, at least. Amazing what is freely available on certain platforms, with subtitles & reasonable sound/audio quality. Any film with snow & rain, when it’s broiling outside, is a good idea at New Year. Though, cross fingers, no more floods.

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@janetteb -podcast sounds great. Thank you.

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Helloo my darlings…

@janetteb @winston

i LOVED Staged! Huge fun. I don’t know Ave 5 but then most anything with Laurie is wonderful. As for Armando, big tick. One day, when I was still working, & home late, I opened the door to a series of hiccuping giggles  belonging to Thane, who at 13 had nicked my laptop & was watching The Thick Of It! I know:  terrible 😣 parenting.

No wonder when PeterC was announced as the new doctor, Thane crowed with delight. Mind you, he started watching The Crown because of Matt Smith.

His knowledge of that period of British History from the PMs: Eden, Macmillan & later, Thatcher was dreadful! Fortunately, he’s being well schooled.

now, do we have our Christmas telly shows lined up? We haven’t seen Scrooge in a while nor Polar Express.

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@winston @nerys Blenkinsopthebrave

ooh, I’m intrigued by Avenue 5? It sounds like something that’s worth a watch. Should I plunge in?

d’ol Puro ❤️

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@translatorcircuit

mmmn. Are you high (& I know what that’s like so no judgement 😁😳)?  You seem, with respect, to be stating opinions labelled as True News.

But look, it seems you’re either an actor or writer, as you stated you wouldn’t want to tackle either (for Who) as you’d likely know the outcome.👍 Which is fair reason. What are your favourite television programmes?

& I *totally* understand where you’re coming from about waiting SO long for new seasons alongside inevitable political & ecological crises: in this way, it was terrific we received some striking scripts during Whittaker’s era addressing current issues.

❤️ ❤️not trying to come across as pompous!

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Yes, the cast of the final Chibnall set of Who episodes was star studded -any more & it may’ve been unwieldy. Tegan & Ace weren’t characters I knew particularly well so I did  research & watched a few excerpts & scenes. It gave a nice boost to do that on Who’s 59th birthday.
– speaking of Olivia Coleman, I was watching The Crown with Thane who was/remains deplorably uneducated about certain aspects of British history. He had the barest knowledge of the IRA, for example; post war rationing & the events surrounding Mountbatten. Mat Smith did a great job as Prince Philip….

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Hey @winston

agreed. I’ll benefit from a re-watch. I found the final episode (or film) a real tear jerker which is usually my litmus test for success.

hellooo to all…

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