Disco Stu 15,495 Posted May 16, 2017 Share Posted May 16, 2017 I liked "Oxygen" a lot too!!! But "Thin Ice" remains the season highlight. With 5 episodes in, I'll start a weekly personal power ranking. Right now it's: 1. Thin Ice 2. Oxygen 3. Knock Knock 4. The Pilot 5. Smile I'm so pleased with this season so far. Casting off Clara "Dead Weight" Oswald was long overdue and the show feels much fresher now with Bill, a much more compelling companion. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Naïve Old Fart 9,552 Posted May 16, 2017 Share Posted May 16, 2017 This is all making me very jealous. I don't have a TV, and I refuse to pay well over £120 for a licence to watch it on i-player. The complete series (grits teeth)...36...is not on Blu, until mid July. I'll have to until then Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
#SnowyVernalSpringsEternal 10,265 Posted May 16, 2017 Share Posted May 16, 2017 Just grab a torrent! Search for series 10 though, not 36. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Disco Stu 15,495 Posted May 21, 2017 Share Posted May 21, 2017 "Extremis" was fucking fantastic. Best episode this season easily. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sweeping Strings 2,363 Posted May 21, 2017 Share Posted May 21, 2017 Indeed ... several disparate and intriguing elements, woven together in that singular Doctor Who fashion. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Disco Stu 15,495 Posted May 21, 2017 Share Posted May 21, 2017 And I'm really liking what's shaping up to be the overall season 10 structure. 5 episodes whose main purpose is to establish Bill as a companion and the Doctor being "stuck" on Earth and now it looks like the latter half of the season will be ramping up the season-long arc with these "demon" villains. Cool stuff! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Marian Schedenig 8,208 Posted May 21, 2017 Share Posted May 21, 2017 It does look like Capaldi is about to go out with the bang he deserves, yes. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Disco Stu 15,495 Posted May 21, 2017 Share Posted May 21, 2017 I'm rewatching now. Such a funny episode! So many great lines. I continue to reiterate that humor is the best thing about the Moffat era. "Assumption makes an ass out of 'u' and 'umption'" "Its layout is designed to confuse the uninitiated." "Sounds like religion." This is a classic! Nardole and Bill were so great, they have good chemistry as a duo. Pieter Boelen 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wojo 2,453 Posted May 21, 2017 Share Posted May 21, 2017 43 minutes ago, Disco Stu said: "Assumption makes an ass out of 'u' and 'umption'" Hey, I've used this line myself, I should get credit. I also liked the line about Moby Dick. Over half of the book was about the specifics of whaling. The hunt for the whale was a very tiny part. Good book, but so traumatic I pulled out a tooth and passed out. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Marian Schedenig 8,208 Posted May 21, 2017 Share Posted May 21, 2017 I'm trying to read it for the second time* at the moment (on and off), so I thought the comment was spot on. Would be easier if all the rambling seemed to have a clear purpose. *) *trying to* for the second time, that is. Got to somewhere near the middle the first time, some 15+ years ago. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Disco Stu 15,495 Posted May 21, 2017 Share Posted May 21, 2017 I've never been a huge fan of that mid-19th century American period of literature. Once you get to the early 20th is when you really get cookin' with authors like Edith Wharton, Booth Tarkington, and Theodore Dreiser, who all wrote novels I dearly love. That generation of writers before Woolf, Hemingway, Fitzgerald, etc. I find fascinating. But then again Steinbeck is my favorite American author of all Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Marian Schedenig 8,208 Posted May 22, 2017 Share Posted May 22, 2017 Must be a sign of the times, too. People complain about Tolkien being long winded (perhaps because he's recent enough to not be counted as a historic writer), but his longest mood setting passages would perhaps still be frowned upon as superficial and hastened by his peers from 100 years before. I read Hugo's Notre Dame a few years back (German translation, sadly, since I can't read French). Reading a 40 page chapter on the view of Paris from the top of the cathedral is tough enough if you're not familiar with the city at all and the author describes the view from the medieval cathedral by contrasting it with the view in the mid 19th century. Hugo saying that beyond a certain point lay an area which he's not going to describe, and then devoting another 20 pages to doing just that is tougher. But Melville has this tendency to switch to quaint side stories that give the the impression of supposedly carrying some deeper meaning, and I can never decide if he's deliberately portraying Ishmael as quaint and rambling or not. Same goes for the religious and nationalist/racist passages, which sometimes seem very liberal and enlightened for their time, and sometimes just worrisomely supremacist (whether on Ishmael's or Melville's part, I'm not sure). Which again comes with the era, to an extent, but Melville meticulously arguing his points doesn't make it easier to take. Still, I know some difficulties come with the territory, and while both Notre Dame and A Tale of Two Cities a few years earlier took me a long time to finish, both were, in the end, seriously amazing. So I'm determined to stick with Moby-Dick as well, although I'll happily put it aside for easier/shorter fare at times. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sweeping Strings 2,363 Posted May 23, 2017 Share Posted May 23, 2017 Properly laughed out loud at the 'Extremis' moment when Bill has reassured the slightly nervous-looking girl she's brought home that there's 'nothing wrong' in them being together, only to have the brought-by-Tardis Pope enter the room shortly afterwards. Pieter Boelen 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Disco Stu 15,495 Posted May 28, 2017 Share Posted May 28, 2017 The Pyramid at the End of the World Woah, I am liking this new semi-serialized Doctor Who! And Peter Harness continues to be probably my favorite current Doctor Who writer. I hope he keeps getting episodes to write under Chibnall! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sweeping Strings 2,363 Posted May 28, 2017 Share Posted May 28, 2017 It was really, really good ... Doctor Who tackling contemporary geopolitical/biological fears in its own inimitable fashion. This season is on sparkling form. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
#SnowyVernalSpringsEternal 10,265 Posted May 28, 2017 Share Posted May 28, 2017 Really? Better than the last 4? Hmmm... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Richard Penna 3,694 Posted May 28, 2017 Share Posted May 28, 2017 The blindness phase I think goes as bold as I've ever seen Who go. The idea of only being able to see the outline of everything is quite a disturbing one. Although surely a door would be opened by a keypad, rather than a combination - that seems a bit of a stretch to me to keep the Doctor trapped in there. This season has been a mixed bag for me. Some good standalone stories, but also some 'meh' ones (I really didn't like Thin Ice). The overall story arc feels a bit average, but hopefully they're going somewhere with the monks. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Disco Stu 15,495 Posted May 28, 2017 Share Posted May 28, 2017 Thin Ice is one of my favorites of the Capaldi era! I'm liking this season a lot. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jay 37,373 Posted May 29, 2017 Share Posted May 29, 2017 Hayley Atwell No Longer Interested in Playing Doctor Who Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Disco Stu 15,495 Posted May 29, 2017 Share Posted May 29, 2017 I never took that rumor seriously, not for a minute. Whenever it's time for a new doctor, it's best just to ignore the media. Naïve Old Fart 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
#SnowyVernalSpringsEternal 10,265 Posted May 29, 2017 Share Posted May 29, 2017 Like a new Bond Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Naïve Old Fart 9,552 Posted May 29, 2017 Share Posted May 29, 2017 2 hours ago, Jay said: Hayley Atwell No Longer Interested in Playing Doctor Who The world yawns Anyway, I thought that Tom Ellis is now the favourite? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Disco Stu 15,495 Posted May 29, 2017 Share Posted May 29, 2017 Last I heard it was the guy from Death in Paradise, which seemed like a classic misdirect rumor. Im fully on board with the people who want Phoebe Waller-Bridge (http://m.imdb.com/name/nm3564817/?ref_=m_tt_cl_i1) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Naïve Old Fart 9,552 Posted May 29, 2017 Share Posted May 29, 2017 THERE.....WILL.....NOT.....BE.....A..... WOMAN.....PLAYING.....DOCTOR..... FUCKING.....WHO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
#SnowyVernalSpringsEternal 10,265 Posted May 29, 2017 Share Posted May 29, 2017 Sexist! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wojo 2,453 Posted May 29, 2017 Share Posted May 29, 2017 If they chose to regenerate the Master into a woman, the only logical conclusion is to also regenerate the Doctor into a woman at some point. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Naïve Old Fart 9,552 Posted May 29, 2017 Share Posted May 29, 2017 Missy isn't The Master. She might be The Rani. There's a strong rumour that she's Romana 4. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Disco Stu 15,495 Posted May 29, 2017 Share Posted May 29, 2017 I hope you're joking Richard. Any self-respecting Who fan knows that a Time Lord can regenerate into either gender. It's frankly embarrassing they haven't done that yet. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
#SnowyVernalSpringsEternal 10,265 Posted May 29, 2017 Share Posted May 29, 2017 I frankly blame BBC cowardliness for that! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Naïve Old Fart 9,552 Posted May 29, 2017 Share Posted May 29, 2017 5 minutes ago, Disco Stu said: I hope you're joking Richard. Any self-respecting Who fan knows that a Time Lord can regenerate into either gender. It's frankly embarrassing they haven't done that yet. I'm not joking. Until the recent episode set on Gallifrey, there was no precedence for it...in over 50 years. Moffatt is having a giraffe. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
#SnowyVernalSpringsEternal 10,265 Posted May 29, 2017 Share Posted May 29, 2017 A female Doctor would go a long way in righting some of the wrongs that have been done over the last 50+ years when it comes to the depiction of women in this franchise! #TimeladyInTheTARDIS! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Naïve Old Fart 9,552 Posted May 29, 2017 Share Posted May 29, 2017 10 minutes ago, Stefancos said: Sexist! Steef, when it comes to DOCTOR WHO, you can call me whatever you like. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
#SnowyVernalSpringsEternal 10,265 Posted May 29, 2017 Share Posted May 29, 2017 I'l tell you another thing...it's not series 31 either! Naïve Old Fart and DarthDementous 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Naïve Old Fart 9,552 Posted May 29, 2017 Share Posted May 29, 2017 7 minutes ago, Stefancos said: A female Doctor would go a long way in righting some of the wrongs that have been done over the last 50+ years when it comes to the depiction of women in this franchise! #TimeladyInTheTARDIS! What are these wrongs? The programme has had some brilliant, female companions/associates: Sarah Jane Smith, Perpigulliam Brown, Sara Kingdom, Zoe Herriot, Ace, Rose Tyler, Donna Noble, Kate Lethbridge-Stewart, Clara Oswald, to name a few. 5 minutes ago, Stefancos said: I'l tell you another thing...it's not series 31 either! Oh.......go boil your head! Anyway, it ain't gonna happen. Trust me, on this Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
#SnowyVernalSpringsEternal 10,265 Posted May 29, 2017 Share Posted May 29, 2017 If you have a character who's complete personality changes once every couple of years and is played by a different actor, you can easily fit in a female every now and then! It's not like they are making Bond a woman, or Captain Kirk! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Naïve Old Fart 9,552 Posted May 29, 2017 Share Posted May 29, 2017 Why would they make Bond into Captain Kirk? Wojo 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
#SnowyVernalSpringsEternal 10,265 Posted May 29, 2017 Share Posted May 29, 2017 That's not what I meant and you know it! Naïve Old Fart 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Naïve Old Fart 9,552 Posted May 29, 2017 Share Posted May 29, 2017 LOL Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wojo 2,453 Posted May 29, 2017 Share Posted May 29, 2017 Why is the Doctor always a white male, too? Why can't we have a black Doctor? Sorry..... African-American Doctor. Wait... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
#SnowyVernalSpringsEternal 10,265 Posted May 29, 2017 Share Posted May 29, 2017 Up untill Tennant, or arguably McGann, The Doctor was never defined by any kind of masculinity. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Disco Stu 15,495 Posted May 29, 2017 Share Posted May 29, 2017 The only reason to keep the Doctor male is because that's what he's always been. Unlike Bond, the Doctor is in no way defined by gender. There's not one key characteristic across all incarnations that would limit the character to male. The concept of the show invites changes of gender and skin color. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pieter Boelen 740 Posted May 29, 2017 Share Posted May 29, 2017 Hmm... That "Hayley Attwell as the Doctor" picture didn't look half bad. I would've been up for it! Bring on the variety, I don't mind. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
#SnowyVernalSpringsEternal 10,265 Posted May 29, 2017 Share Posted May 29, 2017 6 minutes ago, Disco Stu said: The only reason to keep the Doctor male is because that's what he's always been. Unlike Bond, the Doctor is in no way defined by gender. There's not one key characteristic across all incarnations that would limit the character to male. The concept of the show invites changes of gender and skin color. This! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wojo 2,453 Posted May 29, 2017 Share Posted May 29, 2017 54 minutes ago, Pieter_Boelen said: Hmm... That "Hayley Attwell as the Doctor" picture didn't look half bad. I would've been up for it! Bring on the variety, I don't mind. She's got a lovely pair of sonics. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Naïve Old Fart 9,552 Posted May 29, 2017 Share Posted May 29, 2017 3 hours ago, I Need About Tree Fiddy said: She's got a lovely pair of sonics. I don't give a rat's ass about her flaming sonics! 4 hours ago, Pieter_Boelen said: Hmm... That "Hayley Attwell as the Doctor" picture didn't look half bad. I would've been up for it! Bring on the variety, I don't mind. AAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Disco Stu 15,495 Posted May 29, 2017 Share Posted May 29, 2017 Out with the old, in with the new! Doctor Who belongs to the young and future generations! Not to old fogies. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
#SnowyVernalSpringsEternal 10,265 Posted May 30, 2017 Share Posted May 30, 2017 You mean old sexist dinosaurs like Richard, who zip brandy in the reading room of their Gentlemens Club, complaining about the decline of the British Empire? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Naïve Old Fart 9,552 Posted May 30, 2017 Share Posted May 30, 2017 Of course. I often retire to my smoking room, to congratulate myself on being master of the universe I never "zip" Brandy, though. How does one do that? Eh? Hmm? Child? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Disco Stu 15,495 Posted June 2, 2017 Share Posted June 2, 2017 I rewatched "Heaven Sent"/"Hell Bent" last night and boy oh boy those are amazing, all-time classic episodes. I really think people are going to realize how underrated the Capaldi era has been in a few years. Seasons 9 and (so far) 10 especially are both among the best the show has ever done. Season 9 is only growing and growing in my estimation as time goes by. His big speech in "The Zygon Inversion" is probably the best acting by any Doctor in the entire new series. I hope Moffat can keep up how good season 10 is and really send Capaldi and himself out with a bang. Arpy and Pieter Boelen 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pieter Boelen 740 Posted June 2, 2017 Share Posted June 2, 2017 2 hours ago, Disco Stu said: His big speech in "The Zygon Inversion" is probably the best acting by any Doctor in the entire new series. I have to second that; that is one helluva amazing speech! In the words of another Doctor: "Fantastic!" Disco Stu 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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