<p>@whisht   Nice avatar!</p>

@arbutus @ichabod @puroandson @Whisht @pedant @thedentistofdavros

Was it just me, or was there a piece of classical Who music infused in Heaven Sent?

@whisht

No, neither am I. I quite liked his stuff. He doesn’t shine as brilliantly as SM, but he isn’t bad either.

Cheers

Missy

@blenkinsopthebrave You read my mind.

@bluesqueakpip @whisht @ichabod @jimthefish @arbutus and everyone else. The first entry in our Chris Chibnall retrospective is now up.

42

I’m sticking to Doctor Who first but we can do Torchwood as well if there is interest. We gotta do something to fill in…[Read more]

@whisht

do actors paint a world on the writer’s canvas, with the brushes of the technicians?

That’s not bad.  Let’s see what some others can come up with.

@whisht —

well, that’ll be a Chibnall retrospective this year.

That’s probably a good idea. But in terms of Who that means

• 42
• The Hungry Earth
• Cold Blood
• Dinosaurs on a Spaceship
• The Power of Three

We could put a couple of Torchwoods in there too, I guess. And looking at that list, there’s nothing except the Silurian two-parter that I’d r…[Read more]

@Craig and @whisht

Yup. If you ever need donations, please just ask. And good on you for managing to sort it out within the day. 🙂

@whisht

Yes, indeed.

All hail our wise and benevolent Emperor!

@whisht  What you said!  This is a great place, with a very inviting sofa.

Hi @whisht

If you’re into that kind of vibe, I absolutely love this CD from Nigel Kennedy & his Polish Kroke  band –

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ipjt_2As0Ac (how do you embed?)

Best Wishes to you for a happy Christmas.   I’m looking forwards to collapsing into incoherence – it doesn’t take much these days.

I went to a fab gig as part of Gl…[Read more]

@puroandson     We sing this every year at least once. (Carol night tomorrow, yay! Wine, food, and song!)

@Whisht    That album is great accompaniment to a late evening glass of wine. It’s part of my “Christmas mellow” mix!  🙂

@whisht  @puroandson  Enjoyed the Glass — too late at night to play it loud, though.  Tomorrow!

Do either of you know Glass’s score for “Mishima”, the film about the poet and novelist who went sort of Japanese-Fascist crazy (?) and committed ritual suicide in public with his followers in attendance?  Fabulous suite of music, and that one wor…[Read more]

@whisht        Sorry about that last post. It was for you. I have got to check my spelling!

@Ichabod

Well, on a rewatch, I inclined to the Doctor-has-it-all-figured-out version. Watching the lovely acting tics of Capaldi, such as the slow way he raises his eyes to Clara’s face in the diner – it all leaves room for still waters running deep and yet deeper.  I don’t think this reading has to make his grief in the TARDIS at the end of…[Read more]

@Whisht

But what will she call herself?
The Teacher?
The Governess?
Simply Clara?

Definitely! The Governess is too stern, surely? And Professor is what Ace call Seven, iirc.

The Lecturer would be quite amusingly meta 🙂

@Whisht

While I played some small part, the CD of Rassilon was, in fact, called by@Bluesqueakpip.

My contribution was to come up with a rather silly theory based on seeing the Prologue and being stuck on a long and rather boring train trip. The theory went something like this:

OK, I have watched it a couple of more times, and here is my theory:…

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@Whisht

Yup. I (and @Blenkinsopthebrave) totally called the CD of Rassilon – in fact, I’m pretty sure I also called its status as a Chekhov’s CD of Rassilon.

So the I Totally Called It Award 2015 (Mysterious Devices Category) will now join the I Totally Called It Award 2013 (Plot Arc Category) on my bookshelf. The 2013 award was for spotting…[Read more]

@jphamlore  Wow, you have an amazing imagination — wonderful bonkerizing, rich and strange!

if this is their standard of collective decision-making on issues that potentially affect the fate of the universe, this does seem to be another fairly rash one, so maybe it is better they go their separate ways.

Yes.  They don’t even know for certain w…[Read more]

@puroandson

eerm excuse me I say: I mentioned the perception filter first didn’t we boy?

😳  grovelling apologies. I must have missed the post in which you did so.

*sigh*  So many posts, so little time to read them all – and I’m not a fast reader.

So it’s a case of two minds, and all that.  The idea came to me independently of you or @Whisht…[Read more]

Goodness, people have been busy around here!

@ichabod       This:   I wish the Doctor had wiped the Confession Dial and sent that with the old bastard.   gave me a good laugh. And then, later on, you wrote: TMA, Doctor: When do I *not* see you?  If you guys are right, that question has been answered: ever again.  And I wanted to cry, because rea…[Read more]