@whisht

Yes, she’s been of a few times and is always charming and articulate. I like her because she is not afraid to show the limits of her understanding. Also, when I disagree with her it is for interesting reasons.

I quite like the idea of Liam Brady as the new Doctor. At the end of his career, with West Ham, he scored one of the best goals…[Read more]

@whisht

Oh yeah, Battlezone rocked – one of the few video games I was any good at.

@wolfweed

God, that’s horrible. I’ve no idea how he could have worked through that.

@Whisht     Arbutus Jr. follows the British and European football fairly closely, so I hear a fair amount more than I would have in times past. Having interpreted your words and extrapolated things from them, I think Arbutus Jr. would ask you this question: “Are you Wenger-in or Wenger-out?”  🙂

@whisht

There’s nothing like a shared disdain for Spurs to build bridges.

@thane15

If your grades take a nose dive, there’ll be hell to pay.

@whisht

No dog in the fight (more of an East London persuasion), but never get tired of seeing Money Launderers FC lose.

I got the impression the specs could help with the digital stuff, but the not the tumblers. Odd things that can see the outline of a pyramid but not a person. Actually, the specs display looks a bit like Battlezone, if you…[Read more]

@whisht

But when re-watching an episode I simply ignore those bits I had an issue with or see them differently and overall like the episode!

I’d usually be the same- I think this one might be a bit too dense with issues for me to rewatch.

@thane15

And yet they were successful.

Successful at earning “love”- no. Successful at gaining anything…[Read more]

@Nick

Yep, saw that earlier. I thought it very affecting, even if the presentation was a little bit Tame Craig Charles.

@cathannabel @craig @thane15 @whisht

I was with them all the way up to “the songs still sound marvellous”. The emperor never had any clothes, he just hid his self-pity behind Johnny Marrs’s fig leaf.

Ugh. I feel the need for…[Read more]

@whisht @thane15 @craig @pedant

I preferred this sentiment personally. IMO the poem by Tony Walsh was the most moving part of the first vigil/memorial (watched it live) at (Prince) Albert Square, even I wasnt convinced that it was entirely appropriate in that…[Read more]

@whisht @thane15 @craig

The preening narcissist Morrissey can fuck right off. This is what Manchester is about:

Goosebumps! The amazing moment Manchester crowd joins in with woman singing Oasis – Don't Look Back in Anger after minutes silence pic.twitter.com/Cw4mOq8yde

— Josh Halliday (@JoshHalliday) May 25, 2017

@Thane15 and @whisht @pedant

I saw this just the other day on Twitter. 🙂

Sensitive young Morrissey, who wrote all those songs I absolutely adore, was killed & replaced by your Brexit voting da. A conspiracy thread pic.twitter.com/br5Is8eATs— Nooruddean (@BeardedGenius) May 24, 2017

@whisht  I agree that an episode that turns out to involve a Freaky Friday-style swap for the Doctor and Missy would be fun, but from the synopses of the remaining episodes this season I doubt that’s going to happen — first the Monks storyline has to be wrapped up with the next two episodes, then there’s the Ice Warriors episode, then an ep…[Read more]

Hey, I’m getting better. It’s only three days later and I’m reviewing Extremis!

I’d find this difficult to rate as a standalone, but felt we were getting a little bit more for our time as the ‘setup’ phase was out the way. It’s interesting that the trend to echo the past is still strong though. Silence in the Library comes to mind, not only for…[Read more]

@wolfweed @whisht

I was terribly excited about the Doctor’s reference to the female pope, because of the mythology of Pope Joan in the 9th century, possibly intersecting with the Benedict of that time. Until I saw @wolfweed‘s post and realized that the Doctor’s pope was Pope Benedict the 9th, not Pope Benedict in the 9th century.  🙁   I said I n…[Read more]

@bendubz11 Might be more than just an Easter egg, might be a hint about the story arc.

@whisht, @thane15, @pedant, @wolfweed and everyone here, I’m really enjoying reading your posts.   I have so much to comment on and say, which oddly enough leaves me feeling like the Doctor’s comment to the Pope, plus there is so much I wouldn’t no where to st…[Read more]

@Whisht

(Grasping at straws) Penelope was the wife of Odysseus…

There must be Bowie somewhere…..

@pedant

I wonder if the Papal role was before or after Brad Pitt in her timestream?

@steffstaff

I didn’t know Sophie Winkleman or what she looked like. Here’s a pic:

We learnt that the Doctor’s killed shedloads of beings but he w…[Read more]

@Whisht

*cough*

Hi @Whisht – thank you! Do you know who I thought the portrait looked like? Sophie Winkleman. Big Suze from Peep Show.

@frobisher

I like pushing the Bowie envelope a bit, so:

It was ‘The Passenger’ that sent us on the Bowie frenzy, believe it or not. The version I posted can be found here (easy to miss as the music thread can take some time to load)

+ @cathannabel & @whisht

I was really surprised noone selected this. The enemy in space – lower pressure. The…[Read more]

@pedant @whisht Just in case you missed it – there was a great little 30min documentary on Waterloo Sunset on Radio 4 this morning – well worth a listen.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b08q6181

To everyone else, I think you can listen to BBC Radio from anywhere in the world – it’s only TV that’s restricted.

@whisht

Original already linked upthread, but here are two version I didn’t know existed until 10 mins ago. The song is 50 years old today: