"Nell" might be a nice nickname for it. (As are the others you mentioned.)

I'm not sure whether the "fifteen times" was meant to be the Kate/Bonnie confrontation, or simply the number of times Kate had found out what the Osgood box was (prior to the events of the episode).

I liked the scene, but it might have made more sense if she'd answered the birth date correctly but not the other ones. It would lend a lot more credibility if she didn't remember something like that, but rememberd the "important" stuff.

You didn't think Paddington was true to the spirit of the books? I thought it did a great job of capturing Paddington's sweetness, naivete and goodheartedness, his tendency to get into trouble with the best intentins, and the atmosphere of a timeless version of London. And that wonderful Brown household, with the…

And a Robin Hood one for the Lynn Redgrave ep. And an Arabian Nights theme for the Marty Feldman ep.

Yeah, that was the novelization of the first one. I think in early drafts, Adrian was supposed to be Jewish with a nagging mother (how original) instead of a ne'er-do-well brother. For some reason, they dropped that but the novelization kept the name "Klein".
But there were a few other oddities in that novel (which I…

"Guess what, Mrs. Brown? I learned LOTS of new words from Mr. Curry today."

Don't want to give too much away, but there's a personal reason for her targeting Paddington, not just for the sake of having a rare bear in her collection…

Although I thought Skyfall worked just fine as it was, I would have liked it if M had survived and her last line in the movie was asking Kincade "…So, do you like poetry?"

Wish I could "like" your statement more than once. :-)

Well, the essential elements of the personality don't change much. (Same software, different case.) And in a society where regeneration's commonplace (and the population has telepathic abilities), it's probably not a big deal among families. I've always had a headcanon that Gallifreyan/TL marriages involve some sort…

"And I would have gotten away with it, too, if it hadn't been for you meddling kids!"

I was mainly thinking of how similar Hoffmann's Drosselmeyer seems like the Doctor in general, and the Twelfth in particular…both kindly and unsettling, mysterious, eccentric, and fascinated with Time (after all, Drosselmeyer's a clockmaker). So it might be a nice touch if the Doctor inspired him. ("I hate good…

Or use a (relatively) small part of the vast fortune on plastic surgery.

I think there was a line in the script (I'm not sure if it was filmed or not) where, during his tirade near the end, Jason accuses Emily of "breaking her late mother's heart—literally" with her marriage to Wilfred. So there's something underneath his resentment of Emily—apparently her marriage was very much…

Why there hasn't been an episode yet with a stammering maths professor named Charles Lutwidge Dodgson, I'll never know.
Then, for a Christmas story, there's a civil servant and budding author in 19th-century Germany named Ernst Theodor Amadeus Hoffmann. (His most famous story inspired a popular ballet. If you can't…

Yeah, and there was another musical-related moment right before that which made me grin.
When the Doctor muttered, "Kids! What's the matter with kids today?" I can't be the only one who sang, "Why can't they be like I was/Perfect in every way?"

Look, guys, I wouldn't write off the movie yet. I'm not MADLY in love with the trailer, but it does have its pluses—that misunderstanding of the sign which is very much in keeping with the Paddington of the books, and the drier British humor that we see in Mr. Brown's character. If it turned out that the earwax joke…

Don't you mean "Texas Toads"? :-)

To my mind, these adaptations have just as much of a chance of being good as being bad. For every Underdog or Inspector Gadget, there's a Hugo or a Matilda.
Of course, they had to give it the storyline of the museum taxidermist out to get Paddington, but it sounds as good as any. Like Mary Poppins, Paddington's…