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@nerys   I didn’t put any effort into making my ‘theory’ of the briefcase code work, it’s just a conclusion I came to.   I can’t say I like it very much.   But, to mangle Sherlock Holmes, ‘when you have eliminated every other possibility, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth’.

I don’t like it very much.   This is definit…[Read more]

@dentarthurdent @thane16

You made me watch The Pilot again. Really NOT a problem… indeed from the age when watching Who REALLY wasn’t a problem.

’The Pilot.’ I feel there’s story in the title…

Moff’s given another chance? ‘No no you’ll just scare the broadsheets with your saphic africs…’

Moff given a surprise extra series? ‘Chibnall is…[Read more]

Something I forgot to mention: The scene in the field hospital where Belinda discovers the X-ray blankets was one of the best moments in the episode. Charming (especially when the Doctor uses the blanket to reveal his two hearts) and illuminating, without a lot of heavy-handed preaching.

Belinda asks if Missbelindachandrakind having a second…[Read more]

@dentarthurdent I think you are correct on both counts, re: Omicron and its timing. This variant was much more infectious, yet less dangerous, so people began dropping their guard somewhat. And, frankly, I think isolation fatigue had set in.

As I recall, when the first wave of Omicron hit, Atlantic Canada escaped the brunt of it because…[Read more]

I enjoyed this episode despite the on-the-nose incel and coercive control terminology, which I felt was too much tell, not enough show (as in, “show me, don’t tell me”). Also, @blenkinsopthebrave I too found it odd that the Doctor causing a power outage in a major hospital was played for laughs. Had it happened in a shopping mall, OK. But that…[Read more]

@nerys   I guess Nova Scotia was a bit like New Zealand in respect of Covid, being relatively easy to isolate.    Omicron was, I think, way more infectious than previous variants, but probably less deadly.   Also, I think, by then people were starting to get a bit more blase about precautions.   Part of the rationale for the precautions was not…[Read more]

@dentarthurdent Re: COVID, I’m in Nova Scotia, where we were part of the Atlantic Bubble that saw very few cases in the first two years of the pandemic, compared to the rest of Canada. Then along came Omicron and its variants, and suddenly we had a surge of cases. Before Omicron, Nova Scotia was exceptional for its lack of cases, but once Omicron…[Read more]

@nerys I agree about Anita, I really liked her. I would have liked to see her as a Companion.   The Time Hotel is, of course, a species of time machine. I’m sure it generates all sorts of time paradoxes.

The just-married couple in Anita’s Sandringham Hotel honeymoon suite took the Doctor’s incursion remarkably calmly, I thought. Just a reminder t…[Read more]

Back to “Joy to the World”: Something I forgot to mention in my previous post is the exchange between Joy and the Doctor, when she realized that he’d been deliberately cruel to distract her enough to release her from the briefcase. It struck me as redundant that the Doctor felt he had to explain it to her … twice. Joy’s facial expression told me…[Read more]

I’m finally holding in my hot little hands the Season 2 DVDs from the library!

I’ll start with things I disliked:

I thought it was too bad that Anita and Joy had to compete for screen time. I would have preferred Anita as the primary character. I found her more engaging than Joy (though I’d warmed up to Joy by the end).

The music was way over…[Read more]

@craig   Hello.  We seem to have a lot of strange visitors or spammers. I  just wanted to let you know.

Thank you and have a great day!

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