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I've watched the first episode. Maybe power of suggestion, but I wanted a drink afterwards. Thank goodness I had some good hot chocolate mix.

Tennant is an accomplished voice actor. He has worked with Big Finish before, and has done both drama and comedy for BBC Radio. He has also done some marvelous audiobooks (I am personally waiting for the next Dragon book). He has voiced several cartoon characters and won an Emmy for that skill. As for Catherine Tate, I know she read somel Doctor Who audiobooks, but am not familiar with other audio work. I am not concerned with their abilities.

Marvel.com/nycc2015 Marvel is live streaming New York Comic Con. On Saturday will be the Netflix panel from 5-6:15. (Feel free to doublecheck me!) (And I will be working. Ah, well.)

Thought I'd mention that Broadchurch 2 just won the prestigeous inaugeral Yahooie Award (yeah, really). And Chris Chibnall let slip that he was writing the script for series 3. It also won the British popular vote award TV Choice Award (Tennant - also a winner, Dooley, and Myles were there), and UK press does seem to assume that filming starts next summer.

They had me at Tennant, and I am sure he will creep us all out. I must have seen Kristen Ritter in Veronica Mars, but honestly do not remember her! I have a little time to go back and look. I have not read the comic books. However, although far too violent for my taste, Dardedevil was well scripted with really good performances and dragged me past the parts where I wanted to squeeze my eyes shut. So - high hopes for this. (Although I may want to shut my eyes occasionally here, too.)

Ah, faux square dancing. Well, at least as far as I knew it in the sixties. There were lessons! Graduations! Clubs! Complicated steps. My Dad was a caller and I loved me a good "Sides face, grand square." Yup, square dancing for those who don't know how, as portrayed on TV. American and British TV. Makes me laugh. And did those nurses just whip up those clothes? I am beginning to think they all have walk in closets somewhere in Nonnatus House.

Obviously Joe did not testify because (levity, snark warning) the glass in the dock was all that was protecting him from the angry laser eyebeams of Ellie, Hardy, Beth and everyone else in town. If he got on the stand, he'd be toast.

Well, I doubt if Ronnie was alive anymore, since there were wasps buzzing in the house. And how is burning the house going to prevent wasps from escaping? And why drag the mammoth outside? I'd think they'd burn the shed, too. And Yuri drilled a hole to a mammoth graveyard. This cannot be good. I think Fortitude needs an exterminator. Actually, what with flamethrowers, perfect hospital rooms for every eventuality, and miraculously developing a test for infection, why don't they have a handy exterminator? I was distracted ... did the little girl live, or do we know?

I think we understand that Joe's arrest cost Ellie Miller dearly. She lost her family, left her job, feels her reputation is in tatters. In parallel, we now know that Sandbrook did the same for Alec Hardy. He lost his family, his home, his reputation, his health. Ellie's trying to pull it together now. At the same time, Hardy is, too. The surgery he so feared. And listen carefully to the tone of his voice when he says, "I miss you, Tess." (Early on, telling Tess he's made a will, etc. Near the end of that scene.) It speaks volumes about his damage and his hopes to fix it. And Ellie has Tom back, but look at Hardy's smile as he speaks to his daughter. He knows he has her back, too.

Whoops and I had just rewatched the episode. Got the timeline jumbled.

I am a woman. I have a TARDIS hanging in the time vortex of the stairwell window. Had some fun a while back chatting with some Storm Troopers about someone's homemade TARDIS that was on display at a craft fair! It's really gotten so mainstream except in AU Big Bang verse. Now, back to figuring out to which cons I can take my granddaugter.

Remember that Ricky did not seem to know where Lee was, and Hardy did not tell him, so Hardy had no reason to think that Lee was "in danger" (altough Ricky seems to vibrate not-nice, possibly dangerous). So once Hardy had his will done, he got a cab and went to see Lee, probably just to question him. And the fight was ongoing when he got there, so it hadn't been long since Ricky found him (probably bumped into Ollie and asked him!)

Well, that certainly answered lots of questions, but... Sad GAAHHHHH!

We did not SEE a body, although it's an easy assumption, as we don't know where Lisa is. Pretty horrific assumption, too. That's not Hardy's way. He'd rather wither you with sarcasm.

Uncle Alec remembering Fred's name and pushing him in his stroller. Hardy offering comfort to Ellie by trying to put a hand on her shoulder. Hardy trying to make conversation with Jocelyn and offering advice. What is WRONG with the man?

One thing I never understood was why Miller did not tell Hardy that Lucy had information she would not divulge to Miller. Would you not have loved that Hardy/Lucy scene? And I am quite sure that Lucy's had a slippery relationship with the truth for many years. Because she now knows that Joe is the killer, she knows she saw Joe that night, so it would be good to say what she knows.

I think, somehow, in the back of my brain, the one person I thought could/would survive this mess was DCI Morton, perhaps because he's off to the side. So, holy ..., my mouh just dropped when Henry shot him. Although I knew his vehicle getting stuck was going to be bad somehow.

Let us not forget that Morton did ask Dan HOW Pettigrew managed to get all the way out there, dressed as he was, without freezing. Either Pettigrew as (1) brought there by someone, presumably with handcuffs, or (2) he was the first victim of the strange antifreeze disease, and perhaps Dan knows more than he's saying. (Yes, Liam had frostbite, but I have trouble believing he could have survived the cold.)

I am a big David Tennant fan and am so happy he had that scene last night. So many people think of his character as loud and abrasive (and the one who falls over) and forget about the quiet character moments = the body language, the facial expressions, the emotions he conveys often in silence. Think back to courtroom scene at the end of episode 3, where he was silently discomfited, appalled and then angry at the accusations thrown at Miller. That reinforced everything the audience felt and gave the moment more power. This scene gave him a chance to play out Hardy's emotions, something that helps explain why Hardy is both broken and driven.

But as we have learned from this show, you end up with someone who is not David Tennant, and who is no fun at all. Please use tools responsibly.

I am quite sure we are not being shown all the trial. For example, there probably was an expert talking about retrieving information from the phones and computers, and where the phones were when calls were made. (I'm pretty sure that calls were made and emails sent when Ellie was at work ... but, of course, she could have dropped by the house at any time to email Danny.) We are seeing only the dramatic bits. And you might have been watching Ellie at the end, but I was noting Hardy's stunned discomfort and anger.

Yeah, I had to hide my eyes too much last night. Not sure why I'm still watching, as I have abandoned shows for too much graphic violence. There is something about this show that keeps me there. How many episodes left? Will I make it?

Paul was tracing a cross on the baby's forehead.

DT has done many things that require him to be shirtless, so hold your shudder and check out, for example, "Fright Night" or "Spies of Warsaw". The appearance of the beard, the messy hair ... I don't know how much, if any, input he has in that. It seems clear that any interview done in the station is taped, so, yes, his confession was subsequently taped. And, given Jocelyn's discussion with Hardy and Miller, it almost sounds like she halfway expected that confession to get tossed, which might be why she didn't argue more about it as it seemed a lost cause to her. In any case, it's good that the mistakes that were made, in this case allowing Ellie to see Joe in the interview room, are going to come back to haunt them. The attack might have seemed emotionally right, but still wrong, and was because of a decision made by DI Trust-No-One.

I knew I'd do that eventually.