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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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Hallooo everyone!
yes, us too: sad about Bernard Cribbins dying…(belated).

@winston indeed, I also found the ep Rose a brilliant introduction to NuWho/After Gap.

Neither did I have any idea the 9th Doctor was to regenerate into TenDoc.

speaking of Tennant, I don’t think ABC Aus receives the TV shows from The BBC in quick time anymore but The Inside Man by Moffat looks interesting. Has anyone managed a look yet?
A lot of Forum pages have disappeared into a ball of timey whimey 😉 so I’ve missed some messages & posts.

all our love, Thane & Puro. 😀

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I didn’t did I? Read “I hope her acting is as good as her looks?” Nah, I wouldn’t have read that.

I think the Nu Rose, is in fact a different character called Rose. But I’m effectively 10 weeks behind. Thrilled RTD is taking over the rains. Chibnall must be knackered. I mean surely “he looks a little tired….” 🙂

old Puro. Hope all and everyone is well.

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@nerys yes, good to see you! We’re all pretty much experiencing major or minor flooding in Brisbane at the mo. I always complain when we don’t have rain but then moan after 3 days -but it’s been more than a week of solid rain but I’m lucky -we’re on a hill.

I think it was made abundantly clear the doctor couldn’t recog Clara. the symmetry compared with previous passengers on the Tardis was pointed out there, so to throw that away would lose tension.  @mudlark mentioned it as just out of reach.

a year or more later, thru Bill, that memory veil was drawn back & he remembered. She was an outline or a tune to him (& the choon had a name)  but she had no face or direct experiences he could recall.
@arbutus halloooo. I owe a letter!  xxoo

@mudlark, yes! I had thought the doctor was “embedded” at university also. He seemed at one, at peace: the photos openly on his desk. On the very expansive room- how true, tiny offices in our music dept so cramped, that the prof of piano studies had her 2 baby grands sitting almost on top of one another, so the keys all vibrated when only one was played.

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@dentarthurdent. @mudlark Hallooo!

I too rewatched Who in the past few months & love those episodes with Clara.

I think the Dr uses his sonic for emergency ATM withdrawals (Tennant in Tate’s bride episode)  but could use his psychic Paper to obtain necessaries? I think he doesn’t ‘know’ Clara at all by the Diner Incident- maybe Clara’s knows full well (her massive eyes well up) but then again Who really knows? I think it’s all happily stored in Moffat’s head. 😀😎

I much enjoyed the new year Dr story: light & silly but a lot of fun for us as a Fam. The 2 other actors did a terrific job. I’ll catch up with the all the comments. I’m sure there’s tonnes.

kindest, old Puro & Thane.

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Aaaand in case that song was a tad maudlin (though still a favourite), the 2nd song on that album which almost pips….3rd place is much happier, Good Day Sunshine.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6e01nNA02vw&list=PLg5pp7nrH0IqV2ESEZmmgWtECbzkS8d3O&index=8

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I’m late to the party: but I’ll choose Rigby, it wasn’t 1967 (my year) but ’66. But McCartney won a grammy in ’67 for this. He’s underrated as a musician. In fact, I’ve found an almost testicular dislike for The Beatles as a band in many quarters, with a lot of sniggering reserved for Paul. But Lennon contributed very little to this. Which is interesting…

Head to YT: because you can find SO many wonderful interpretations under the Yellow Submarine single or the UK edition of Revolver -my favourite all-time album.

Puro.

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our dearest @cathannabel, having heard of your husband’s death last night, I wanted to express our family’s sympathy with some Mompou. It’s a piece of  joy & delight: playful & untroubled; but melancholic & grave too.

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@mudlark helloooo & welcome back!! And there are deer….😊

if bells, trombones, trumpets & timpani don’t accompany this it’s out of respect for your mother’s gruesome situation….

But yes, absolutely, my experiences were funny, in their way. My mother kept up a steady dose of humour throughout this incarceration, for as important as the bone broth, cheesecakes & cassette tapes were (no private, portable CD players then) so was laughter & friendly nurses.

Mum astounded me with her knowledge of the nurse’s children or their husband’s antics – not just out of genuine interest but because she valued their usefulness- “if I make them a cuppa, this will invariably get back to Pete at the car park & he’ll validate my ticket for the week at the cheaper rate.”

This was new behaviour…possibly wrangling with Czech women in bread queues caused a sunny outlook combined with the sly. Or at least mischievous. Certainly she responded to any weakness or reluctance on my part to keep going with steely resolve manifesting physically as a slap on the face -the latter betraying her real fear I’d given up completely.

But your mother’s frustration & anxiety would have been awful – the lack of warmth & stentorian barking unforgivable.

I found – & this might be your experience & your mother’s -that some nurses were drawn to the profession as they could exert control & quiet viciousness, however unethical, because vulnerable people will remain meek & quiescent to avoid abuse & the hypervigilance of a nurse-breed which hollers when a portion of blanket is an inch away from kissing her newly mopped floors….

Yes, I’m sure I’m not alone in wondering how the Manor is progressing & I’m so sorry to hear it’s been a difficult & problematic year, Mudlark.

With love, Puro & the Mad Household.

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@winston

“it totally sucks that…”

love the way you expressed that. Ain’t it true. You are such a strong person….

Good grief, Winston, that is terrible regarding your boy: I really hope he continues to improve & under your care, with your cooking & home brewed tea, in your delightful garden, with its birds & occasional animals flocking for a feed,  I’m sure he will. @janetteb said it very well. That we’re always going to be their parents & economic circumstances mean they’ve little choice but to be ‘home.’

That reminds me of mum. When I was in hospital thru all of 1995, she packed up most  things & camped out at a friend’s house, 5 hours south of home. For 12 months.

Dad was working in Prague for Coca Cola, —transitioning the company into that part of new Capitalist Europe.

She’d been overseas for 3 years & thoroughly sick of Prague, northern Italy, or long weekends in the Swiss Alps, decided to leave dad to it 😁 (that he met a rich Swiss woman is another story).

Meanwhile the hospital had spat me out, still feverish & oozing…But the last time she’d seen me, I was fit. The hospital barber (borrowed from the prison down the road) hacked off my hair (outbreak of lice in the Maryborough base hospital)  & my scalp was covered in cuts & sores, spreading across my face & arms.

I’d stolen the hospital’s backless gown, my teeth were chipped from constant intubation  & I weighed in at 32 kg. My nails had grown ridiculously & I was hunched over like the fella from Notre Dame; dragging a blanket like a patient from the notorious Bellevue.

This strong woman fell right over. I couldn’t exactly rush to her side, though I was close to the floor myself, so stood there uselessly,  squawking like a baby plover, ‘til she emerged from her faint.

Mr Puro, lugging her gear around, was used to the sight of me, so whistled away completely unaware of any drama & eventually dragged  her up, searching methodically for ‘medicinal’ brandy.

But magician-like, Mum revealed a gallon of duty-free slivovice  & though early morning, said, “what the hell, give me another!” so we all sat on the carpet sipping Czech liquor til I properly passed out (better than the hospital’s meagre supply of codeine, where the gloomy pharmacist counted “1, 2, 3….aaand 4” like a kindergarten child repeating numbers depressingly as a punishment).

When I was finally able to eat, Mum tempted  me with delicious food, accompanied by photos of their garden & pets which re -ignited the idea life actually existed outside of colourless hospital wards.

I was fortunately transferred to the new Mater Private hospital (nicknamed the Mater Mirage) with balcony rooms & twining bougainvillea, but it’s human warmth one needs & we’re attracted to it like moths so without mum’s steadiness, I’d have withered away. Mr Puro was working north in a new job so couldn’t afford to stay. I had visions of washing undies in the hospital room & playing poker with the night managers.

My friends were all working & with young children, stayed away some of the time. I think there are feelings, deep in our primitive brain, broadcasting, “stay away from the sick in case we pass it through the tribe.”

Typically, I’ve turned this post into another of my long life stories! 🙄

I could improvise about how this experience crowned me with wisdom but I only learned that some staff are like Nurse Ratchet, surgeons are businessmen, & that John Black was killed by Stefano, twice, in Days Of Our Lives.

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@nerys

“…I adopted a pattern of thinking he was always going to bounce back….

You’ve expressed that better than I ever could.

indeed, the idea that they are the protective parent; they’re organised & practical – your dad was obviously all those things & more – leads us to think they’re almost indestructible.

Thane was thinking along these lines himself yesterday- “dad’s old but he’s fine, he’s always fine, mum: sure his memory’s a bit worse but maybe he’s been like that forever [nope!]. He still plays soccer with me, he must be fine.”

Mr Puro’s memory since retirement has worsened considerably & a lot of it’s down to  no routine. He likes to drive us places (so Thane & I don’t have to)  & watch westerns & other series with which he must catch up  (like Foyle’s War…for the 9th time).

Thane prefers to think he’s the same man he was when Thane was 7 & his dad ran laps, age 63, at the local soccer ground. Now Thane nags him to ‘find’ time for just 10 mins.

speaking of driving, I hope you have a good playlist you can sing along to during your travels to perhaps ease nerves …

@janetteb not sure if you’re watching Foundation (Asimov) on Apple TV?

When I bought my mobile phone I had 12 months free Apple telly which was fun but ABCiview has The Newsreader with Anna Torv in a perfect Aussie accent. William McInnes (must be 60+) is very good.

love to all, Puro & Thane. xo

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@dentarthurdent

yes indeed time will heal these things. Thank you so much.

@nerys my deep condolences regarding the death of your father – yes,  people with chronic /persistent illnesses or are vulnerable are most at risk and often the stipulated cause of death is the most recent. In your dad’s case, pneumonia; but as you say, long Covid is the most appropriate description.

its fingers follow and wrap around us and even those with relatively mild cases have taken to Zoom or Ytube to explain how their energy is sapped: everyday rituals- from making tea or toast and brushing teeth – suddenly exhausting, causing them to return to bed, sometimes- many times- self nursing.

Being a silent participant at your dad’s funeral would’ve helped you (I also saw mum’s on Zoom and the funeral director’s voice was muffled; the eulogy stuttered over with mispronunciations littering the entire thing – but it was _something_ to ‘hang’ on to. He was probably very busy and Zoom may’ve caused  nerves). And you’re right, Nerys, he was your dad and ensured your protection.

Thank you for mentioning the “how could you know?” feeling. You’re SO right but I know I’ll go over this in my head for a while – I should’ve called more, written often, sent more cards etc but I always thought there was something else to do first. For me, it’s a good lesson.

safe travels @nerys.

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@winston

thank you. I appreciate your kindness as always. Yes, you’re quite right, time is necessary. Here, more than most places, we understand this. 😉

my concern was that I could have/ should have  seen her but in very early March we didn’t predict any of what transpired. I guess it’s ‘do what you can when you can because no one knows what’s around the corner…’

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@blenkinsopthebrave thank you. And congrats on citizenship.

@winston the cookout story is amazing!

@nerys

wow, those are some great but nerve wracking experiences. I have had a few quite similar ones.

I wanted to express my concern about the health issues your mum & step mum are experiencing and the long exhausting trip ahead of you. I really hope you can enjoy some quality time with them.

Covid has affected family relationships, including end-of-life situations terribly. Melbourne has been a state with the longest lockdown rate of any state in any country.

In March 2020, I managed to return to Brisbane from 2 months holiday in NSW where I wanted to visit every partially man made beach pool. I’d seen a telly series on Australian pools, particularly those built adjacent to famous beaches, with waves soaring over the top during high tide and dumping delicious cold water onto swimmers  closet to the sea edge.

I missed the one in Newcastle-apparently the largest-  as airports were quickly closing. I found the last flight into Brisbane and as the airline implemented social distancing, I had a seat in business class!

The point of this tale is that Melbourne also shut its doors where mum had recently moved into a nursing home. In September 2020, she contracted Covid and died a week later. She was very old with a number of severe immune deficiency ailments and had explicitly retained solicitors to ensure she wasn’t ventilated. She’d  been missing her eldest brother who died a month before & my dad who’d died 4 years prior. I think she was ready to pass on and we understood that.

We obviously couldn’t attend funerals so someone read my eulogy for her which we all saw on Zoom.

But I spent the last year wishing I’d shortened the vacation to see her – even my brother said he’d drive with me lying across the back seat (with Crohns I can’t sit for more than 1 hour) but I thought “nah, I’ll go back another time” but there never was any.

You’re doing what I wish I had done myself and I blame myself every day for not taking up my brother’s offer. But your trip, solo, sounds much longer & more tiring @nerys so I really hope you don’t run yourself ragged & that you stay well.

Maybe you can look in on Forum for us to see you made this extraordinary trip safely? I know both mums will appreciate everything you’re doing.

All our love, the Syzergy and @thane16 (the latter, in the timey whimey world, is still 16 altho he’d argue he’s nearly 20 😁 )

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@dentarthurdent

as I know others & @janetteb is already aware, @missrori has been told “advice,” stories and help many, many, many times.

None of it is followed. It reappears every few months when people suddenly show up again.

 

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@nerys

unforgotten is brilliant!

Also, another comedy/drama (possibly genre switching) is The Good Place.

– one of the best shows I’ve seen in a long time of that nature.

puro and Thane❤️❤️

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@dentarthurdent I think in lurking above I suggested a Western inclined literary tonality?

we’re more disposed to something western than Chinese, Russian or Korean.

It’s a predisposition. The amount of posters from Western countries could be evidence of this. Naturally it’s available in many other countries but how we interpret the Show, deal with its idiosyncratic tendencies, is Western. From a music thematic perspective, the Long Song, say, & the Companion’s themes, use Western tonal ‘values’ too.

Then on tech, one thing latches to another. I was thinking of Clara asking 11 to “app” the Christmas turkey. 😁

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@dentarthurdent

I lived in the States awhile- East Coast. I found Americans very reserved where I was. It was uni & most people were tired but further down in NY, people weren’t rowdy or lacking subtlety.

but the English are spastic in their telly too sometimes: loud, snarky, incredibly fast talking & sarcastic. At times. I love American telly as much as I do English and Oz telly though.

deep Breath is great isn’t it? Funnily enough I also saw Day of the Doc & read the pages here. Whoo. Rough times. 🙄

I saw Eleventh Hour two weeks ago, & yowsa, that was “brilliant” too.😊 I think 11’s was “brilliant.”

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@winston thank you for the telly info.

I need that! I’ve been watching Schmigadoon which is sweet & hilarious. ❤️♥️

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I think some American humour is brilliantly clever – Eli Attie of House, Westwing , newsroom – does a great job & as you weave your way thru House he’s like (ahem) a version of the Doctor.

The humour in the US Leftovers was stunning & also frightening.

perhaps we’re looking at a “Judeo/Christian/Gallifreyan” undercurrent  mixed with modern western literary tonalities.

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That’s good news @nerys from @dentarthurdent….Mr Blenkinsop….Lady Winston:

I think all the Doctors since the Gap have been terrific in their own way. Took me awhile to glimpse the Dr in Ecceleston but with some stonking great scripts I was properly scared.

Tennant really opened the series to everyone. series 5 with Smith & the Ponds was fairy tale gorgeous & Capaldi in Listen & Flatline was brilliant.

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Charlie Watts died at 80 .

as The Stones played a shadow role to the Beatles, & I’ve often seen the former’s turbulence as outlandish, misogynist but never equivocal or ironic, & whilst I still loved ‘em (sometimes), I liked Watts’ Quintet, & his role in those comps, & in his drawing & art, more.

He was a really clever swing musician; a sardonic guy, a tad more subtle in that life than in the Stone’s personality (except for his 40s when he  danced with heroin & coke).

& he loved Charles (Bird) Parker <i>&</i> Mingus.

😔

 

 

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@nerys

as @dentarthurdent also said paper is good. Paper is wise! I feel secure with a printout knowing it’s going to be there no matter what I do. My doctor sends blood test authorisations & prescriptions to my phone; never mind them being crumpled or tea stained.

I’ve deleted all of them at different times!
♥️❤️

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@nerys

i absolutely agree the system is cr@p! When talking abt negative Covid 72 hour tests when flying if they have to be on your phone. Cross country plans are expensive & if I was travelling , to avoid Roaming fees I’d probably leave the phone at home.

@dentarthurdent is right though. You should be able to upload a test result.

or take a photo of it? Or is the photo easily ‘doctored’/not proper proof? You don’t want to be driving for 2+ weeks either & yes, bizarre, that driving is different to flying -with documentation. You’re all ending up in the same place…mixing in with everyone else,  ultimately. Gah!!

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@winston

sorry to hear about this . I can understand the heat & its energy sapping. & the DeltaV is awful.

We’ve idiot protests in Brisbane & Sydney as DeltaV cases in the latter increase.  ppl have parties & wander round maskless with (fake) doctored letters (I wanted to try that joke) resisting masks. 😡

been reading many comments on the Capdoc season starting with Magicians/Witches Familiar. I’m half way thru the Woman Who Lived. Boy, were there wonderful theories. And  what a bumper season….

I noticed my own incesssnt blather about how Clara was born under a clock . Jeepers, I never left that alone!

But Clara was reborn in the hospital room in Arcadia. If gallifrey ain’t a giant clock, metaphorically speaking,  I don’t know what is.

Still, I’ve also enjoyed the Whitaker (sp) run….

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@winston

the Fez story is luverly & reminds me of something Doctor 11 would do to help a young child….

@dentarthurdent

Big tick on Serenity (yes, there’s a River too). NOT selling DVDs? Sounds like a supermarket deciding to stop selling fruit!

agreed. Streaming🙄🙄

at one point I had Apple (free for 8 more weeks), Shudder (about to not be free so cancelled); Disney (also binned), Amazon (keeping at the mo because of House and Who) AND Netflix

so eventually we’ll keep just the one. Disney had, for awhile, a raft of add-ons  and where I saw Angel again. It was also $7 but a price rise this month caused the sudden binning.

I also realised I’d stopped reading & facing permanent stupidity & possible budget ishoos, thought better of all the streaming.

but if it gets you thru Lockdown…..

still, The Nevers looks to be on Binge so I might take a 3 month offer for that.

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@dentarthurdent

on westerns have you seen Whedon’s “Firefly.”

a space western with 14 eps & BRILLIANT. 9 major characters all dancing onto screen with a full set of backstories rarely seen in telly series – even in Who (barring S5 with our Ponds).

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@oochillyo

I rewatched The Day of the Doctor. 11Doc laughs at bit at Tennant’s “I don’ wanna go” which prompts the tongue in cheek comment,  “he says that a lot.” 😁

@dentarthurdent

Yes, rewatched The Only Water in The Forest Is The River arc & recognised it wasn’t ‘backwards’ but that River & the Doc met out of sync? Hence syncing diaries & the question by River, after a deliciously long pash: “you’re acting as if we’ve never done this before?” [they hadn’t].

I saw it as a meandering glitchy timeline focussing on a complex love & River’s greatest fear- the Doctor’s death & hers didn’t frighten: “There’s a far worse day coming for me, a day when he doesn’t know me at all.”

I realised Darilium from The Library, hadn’t happened perhaps showing the “backwards” arc …wasn’t…

But Moffat wouldn’t leave that dangling, much like the “run you clever boy & remember” ‘signal.’ A reminder to us.

@janetteb

How’s it all going? The outbreak in Sydney’s awful. Maybe its premier should’ve acted as speedily as QLD’s LGA once Delta hit the largest city. But then I’m reminded of 35000 cases across the UK on 13/8 (aaand I could be wrong about that stat)…I think your govt has acted appropriately- but then we get few updates about S.A?

d’ol’Puro.

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@janetteb me too! thank you…❤️

I will have a chat with you later on that pub or sofa thread….now I have to clean the bathroom…😔

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@blenkinsopthebrave

yes! Unfortunately what you’ve said is correct.

for a long time, I thought something was wrong with me because I couldn’t face Inception.

It was inspired, apparently, but I felt dull witted. Spoilers ahead……

there’s a type of bad rap called Mumblerap, & Tenet is SO incredibly murky sounding & the voice tracks so muted & banged up, the definition applies here too.

It’s certainly clever and I LOVE clever, but it’s a lecture about time travel where the actors claim it isn’t: just a small matter of inverting time, preventing the entropy of any living thing or object so with incredible effort, one meets the ‘thing’ before it dies & there’s a collection of soldiers who work within this world, training backwards, in order to complete The Mission.

All of eternity is at stake, all of the known universe, but never did I actually care.

Remember the terror of all the stars going out in Bad Wolf? Then later, the Doctor says to Amy, calmly & with a sober certitude, “does it bother you that your life makes no sense?”

THAT was gripping because we loved Rose & Amy. As well as poor Rory who Amy couldn’t remember because his existence was shattered.

But no lectures were necessary, just “timey whimey” & I used to think this was a Moffat hand-wave when it could also serve as a reminder of what’s important- who you lose rather than the mechanics of why: Nolan didn’t deliver on that aspect, unfortunately.

I love good cinema effects but only if they grab me, emotionally such as with Nomadland. No Daleks in the millions or 10 minutes of backwards/time inversion fighting & bullets flying backwards. In that way it was like The Matrix.

I remember how Doctor 9 saw just *one* Dalek.

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The inverted concept comes from a film on Netflix, a Christopher Nolan movie, Tenet, which was pretty awful.

I love timey whimey worlds,  cleverness and complexity as much as the next person, but if the characters seem cold and …dead, I can’t relate.😁

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