I get the sense Grammer just wishes he was Frasier.....

Plus it’s not like the Doctor could have politely asked them to hold tight in the TARDIS control room and expected it to work. They were cocooning people in webs for food and they could have run off elsewhere into the TARDIS and basically started a spider city before the Doctor found them ;-)

I’m only just catching up now but I thought this episode was really fun and genuinely scary in parts. The big spiders were appropriately freaky. I can see why the Doctor couldn’t really rescue them as well, since they would have had a whole TARDIS to scuttle round and hide in and since they were killing people with…

Mine will hopefully be happening today, I have to catch up on Doctor Who. So annoying that the wait for the new series feels like forever and then it starts just as I move house and have no time to watch TV :-(

“He joked about answering the door naked and then did it. (He told me he was going to, but I honestly didn’t think he would do it.) I was extremely uncomfortable, and he knew it.”

At the time everyone referred to 10 as the Dobby Doctor and I found that aspect of the episode distracting. Also everyone praying real hard for the Doctor to be restored felt like it was not the most satisfying resolution to the problem.

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I really liked John Simm as the Master. He was a great foil for Tennant and I loved his brand of gleeful evil. I’m just sad they didn’t quite nail the dismount for S3.

I caught up on Doctor Who (“The Ghost Monument”) because life has got in the way of my TV watching this week. I liked the episode and thought it felt like classic Doctor Who (slightly slow pacing but it had a bit of atmosphere and I quite like the multi-companion thing).

I didn’t think the dialogue was terrible but I think the pacing was off. I liked the normal guest and the guest stars a lot but it moved quite slowly to an obvious conclusion. I did like that they didn’t kill Epzo or Angstrom.

I didn’t mind the Doctor’s temporary moment of despondency in this episode. It’s not usual for the Doctor but then the Doctor only rarely looks like being permanently separated from the TARDIS.

That’s a good point because I think a lot of supernatural shows fall into the problem of escalating the threats and also making the characters more and more superpowered.

They didn’t though. At the start of the original series Phoebe had been living elsewhere and didn’t get on with Prue and Piper generally felt like both of them had moved on and she hadn’t. That said I thought originally the three of them were believable as sisters (Prue, Piper and Phoebe).

Man, it seems both this and Charmed sound like slightly better versions than the original TV series’ in both cases. Still tis the season for cool new witch shows :-)

For me that would be Robin Thicke’s Blurred Lines the musical. The perfect awful song musical for the Trump/Kavanaugh era!

I love the weird enunciations in this song (SOMEbody told me blah blah blah) and some of the other similar stuff by Sum 41, Blink 182 and Bowling for Soup.

I went to Cambridge late in Summer and found it almost unbearably warm at points. I tried to have a cup of tea because my sister always told me it cooled you down (this might be bollocks) but the people renting the room to me had put the UHT milk cartons on the windowsill. Anyway it turns out UHT milk can taste even…

This section of the story on earth is the first time the show’s plotting has felt clunky to me. The way they’ve rushed up to this point suggests they wanted to get the characters to a certain place but didn’t necessarily know how to tell the story of the journey there in the best way.

I know ounces and stuff from my Mum’s austere 70s cookbooks where the most outre thing in them is a trifle and they are full of instructions for making things like roast dinners or a beef casserole ;-)

0*C and under = cold and sometimes snowy