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  1. On 10/23/2018 at 8:52 AM, rab01 said:
    On 10/23/2018 at 5:31 AM, Aussie Grrrl said:

    I found it boring. Knowing full well they could just jump in the Tardis and travel back to yesterday if anything happened

    That's not how Doctor Who works.  Wherever he goes it becomes very difficult for him to return to that exact time and place.  

    Yup, you can't go back on your own timeline, well, except for cheap tricks, as Martha learned.

  2. I got a big kick out of what Georgia Tennant posted about this episode: “My daughter hasn’t cried this much at #drwho since she watched her father turn into Prince Philip. #rosaparks”

    Being in the US I saw her post way before I watched the episode, but it still surprised me a bit when I found myself getting teary at the end.

    So far, I am finding that I am more engaged with this show than I have been in years.

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  3. I recently discovered the Australian series "Miss Fisher's Murder Mysteries" and was delight to recognize Tammy Macintosh by her voice. Even in the midst of all the other aussie accents I thought, "Is that Jool?!?" The series is set in the 20's and she plays a doctor. She is in about half the episodes.

    Bonus: several episodes were directed by Tony Tilse.

  4. On 9/24/2017 at 3:08 PM, supposebly said:

    I just started the Nigerian Job and I noticed something I never quite noticed before. Nate was quite happy to see Sophie when he asked her to join. I never realized how much he flirted at that moment with a slight shyness that she might say no. Oh well, I always had a crush on Tim Hutton.

    I love the added info from the commentary that John Rogers shared about the scene in the alley after that first "performance" of Sophie's. During Tim's coverage when Sophie leans forward to deliver the line, "I always thought you had it in you." she was asked instead to say ,"I always knew you loved me." unbeknownst to Tim and it made him blush.

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  5. 2 hours ago, Ripley68 said:

    Angels become Quantum locked when they are seen....it says nothing about Angels needing to see the thing that is seeing them to become locked.

    Yeah, what always really bugged me about Time of Angels/Flesh and Stone was the Doctor telling Amy to act like she could see them so they would stay locked. If that was the way it worked then why the injunction not to blink?! If it's when you can't see them, even for a moment, that they unlock, then what good would pretending to see them with your eyes closed do?

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  6. I am so excited! I just read this on Variety. Not about the movie per se, though I do like quite a bit of Devlin's stuff, but about the fact the David Tennant will be filming in the Portland area WHERE I LIVE!! Right now I am one very happy fangirl!

    I'm going to go breath in a paper bag now!

    I can't believe how many exclamation points I used in this post. I'm usually much more restrained. Thus is the power of DT. :-)

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  7. Re: The Hot Potato Job.

    From the Leverage wikia:

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    Emily Margold, developer of a nutrient rich potato that she plans to make available at no cost to poor families. Agricultural conglomerate VerdAgra is determined to buy, or steal, the potato from her in order to profit from it.

     

    The reason they wanted that one potato is that potatoes grown from seed are unpredictable. From the North Dakota State University site:

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    Potatoes are mainly propagated by vegetative methods (cloning). Potato tubers have nodes or eyes from which the new growth begins. The new stems growing from each eye are called sprouts which giver rise to the new plant. Vegetative seed can be either a whole tuber or a cut tuber.

    So all of one kind of potato, say Yukon gold, are descended from one potato plant. The potatoes are cut up for "seed" with each eye growing into a new plant producing the exact kind of potatoes. VerdAgra wanted control of her one potato to propagate it.

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  8. Yes, I love Leverage commentaries. If you watched Psych, check out their commentaries too. Much zanier, but so was the show. I love commentaries where you learn as well as being entertained (as Elliot would say: "You learn and you con.") and where it's obvious the folks talking love what they do and each other.

  9. I was thinking more of story and character continuity. :-) I read an interview some time back saying that the writers were required to have seen all the episodes so they didn't write something out of character or in opposition to what was previously established. (This was fairly early in the series, so I don't know if they kept that up or not.) What happened had consequences that rippled through subsequent episodes.

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  10. I came to POI thru writer Amy Berg, whom I knew from her work on Leverage and Eureka. I was following her on Twitter and she mentioned her new gig as writer /producer on POI. I had seen the ads, but it looked so grim and taking-itself-seriously that I wasn't really interested. But I figured I would check out Amy's episode, Identity Crisis (two people using the same number/name, which is the victim?) and I liked it enough to watch a few more episodes.

    While the show is serious, the often dry and/or understated humor scattered thru it is right up my alley. In addition to being sucked into the characters and the world, I find I laugh out loud more at Person of Interest than I do at most so-called comedies. Sometimes I have to pause it so I don't miss anything while I laugh. I much prefer my comedy salted into something serious. The ending may be dark, but I have loved the show's humor and the loving attention to detail and continuity.

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  11. At last I am all caught up! So here are Bear's tweets from last week:

    S05:E09 - Sotto Voce

    S05:E10 - The Day the World Went Away

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    • Sorry for the radio silence yesterday ... bespectacled man took my twitter after traipsing mud through the base.

    • Success always depends on an accurate preparation and without that preparation, failure is a fact. #Confucius

    • Disaster brings people together, when the evil that comes to them is the same. #Aristotle

    • How can there be laughter, how can there be joy, as this world is always in flames? #Buddha

    • If I am what I have and I lose everything I have, who am I then? #ErichFromm

    • Those who leave us, do not feel the pain parting; those who stay behind suffer. #HenryWadsworthLongfellow

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  12. Sorry for the delay, guys. I finally got to see the three (three!!) episodes from last week so I have Bear's Tweets for those. I'm hoping to be all caught up by the end of the week so I can watch the final stretch live. :-)

    So, without further ado, here are the tweets from May 23rd S05:E06 A More Perfect Union:
     

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    • Do not understand why I was not invited to the wedding. I could play the Irish lost shepherd.
    • No worries, I'm getting snack time with fuzzy slipper roommate!
    • Wait, now fuzzy slipper roommate goes to the wedding without me !?
    • Whatever. Funny police officer and I do not want to go anyway to the wedding! We have to solve a mystery!
    • Who wants revenge keeps his own wounds open. #FrancisBacon
    • Something tells me this is a bad idea. The voice in my head? Or maybe the glowing shelves?
    • Our walk through the dark tunnels would give most quite a scare, but I feel quite at home under the ground.
    • FUNNY POLICEMAN. THIS IS A TRAP. WE MUST RUN FOR SAFETY.
    • The human heart is a graveyard of buried hopes. #PeterSirius

     

    And for the 24th, two episodes. I put them together here because there is no clear delineation as to where the break belongs. (The Aristotle quote is a little murky, so I'm not sure which ep it belongs to.)  I'll let you each use your own judgement. S05:E07 QSO/S05:E08 Reassortment:
     

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    • I need to keep a close eye on funny policeman. No one should be alone at the vet.
    • The most incomprehensible part of the universe is that it is comprehensible. #AlbertEinstein
    • The deepest blame are those which we regard from broken eyes that speak to us of silent lips. #ASCWallis
    • I tried to tell the truth funny policeman, but you do not understand. Because you do not speak Dutch, of course.
    • All you are is not believed achieved lying if you speak the truth. #Aristotle
    • The medicine makes you die longer. #Plutarchus
    • Wait, I feel like I was just at the vet for man ...
    • You should not make yourself sick by drinking the health of another. #AlbertWillemetz
    • Nothing does more harm in a state than to hold list for wisdom. #FrancisBacon
    • If he calls, I'm the one who should ... as they say, take a bite out of crime.
    • The greatest disease of our civilization is the view that it is sick. #GodfriedBomans

     

     

    An alternate translation for the Aristotle is:

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    the only thing you achieve is not believed be lying if you are truthful.

    which really doesn't clear it up at all.

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  13. I am so enjoying have David back as the Doctor for a few stories, not to mention Catherine Tate' Donna! I got the Big Finish 10/Donna stories and am almost done with the second of three. They've both slipped back into the roles as if they never left. I highly recommend them for any fans of Ten and Donna. Molto Bene!

  14. You're welcome, @fastiller. They're coming a little slower this year. Two episodes a week is a challenge, especially since my week is front-loaded with shows I watch anyway. At any rate, here come the tweets of Bear.

    S05:E04 - 6741:

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    • The heart has friends, the brain is alone. #BranaCrncevic

    • The mind becomes rich by what he receives; the heart is rich by what it gives. #VictorHugo

    • It is a mark of an educated mind to be able to play with a thought without accepting it. #Aristotle

    S05:E05 - ShotSeeker:

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    • If the spirit is willing, the flesh is weak. #WilliamShakespeare

    • A man has two ears and one mouth for twice as much listening than talking. #Confucius

    • The truth remains hidden from who is filled with desires and hatreds #Boeddha

    • People, that many and uninhibited listening, were also the most telling #GodfriedBomans

    I must take exception to Bear crediting Shakespeare for the first quote in ep05, though perhaps it was tweaked by Shakespeare, the original is from the Bible. In both Mark 14:38 and Matthew 26:41, Jesus comments to his apostles when they cannot stay awake to pray with him, "the spirit indeed is willing, but the flesh is weak."

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