The Hall of Fire

I plan to... eventually... when I have a few hours to spare...


You might be waiting for a long time

Not strictly Dr. Who-related, but I've had my eye on this for some time:

Much Ado about Nothing with David Tennant and Catherine Tate

I'll keep an eye out for it when I'm in the UK this October...

A quick ebay search on "region-free dvd player" brought up a whole bunch of choices, mostly between $50 - $100.

Here's one I picked at random for $50

I think after you buy a set of Tom Baker DVD's, the player will pay for itself!

If you do what I did, and convert your DVD player to multi-region, your problems will be solved.

I just watched a few of the old Tom Baker episodes.

It's odd that the people in the civilizations that they visit just happen to all have 1970's haircuts. What an unbelievable coincidence.

I haven't seen Sherlock yet - it's on my to-watch list.

Anyone else a fan of the BBC series "Vera"? Starring Brenda Blethyn as Vera, a detective with "a messy personal life" who's very passionate about her job. Takes place in Northumberland, so you get to see an exotic part of the world (for us North Americans, anyway ;) ) - the diale...

Um... maybe one or two...

Your friends would think I'm hilarious:



...and let's not even mention the LP's

What is the "Ultra-Violet" format they've been advertising? Is that the new high frame rate?

Hey, a Doctor Who thread!

I'm only up to the middle of Season 5. Is this thread full of post-season-5 spoilers?

I've heard a lot of criticism of Palin, but none of it was related to her career choices.


Oh, and send your mother-in-law this way. I'd like to have a word with her.

I like this one because when you look at it on its side (left-side-up), it looks like there's a fossil of an insect on top, and a primitive design for a spaceship on the bottom.

The only reason nobody remade Tolkien before was because it wasn't seen as lucrative. I suspect that has now changed. I think also the technical difficulties account for the delay in filming it (different heights of different races, the sheer length of the book(s), the development of CGI technology...

I went back a couple of pages to get some context and saw one of the best features the internet has to offer - vison holding forth about language :love: (I also see that she committed one of the gaffes she used to rail against and I immediately wanted to call her up and ask if she did it deliberatel...

Thanks for the link - I listened to the samples and I believe I've chosen the version I want.

I haven't heard the whole piece through since my choir did it back when I was in university - way, way back in the last millennium.

Sorry to butt in, but can anyone recommend a good recording of Britten's Ceremony of Carols?

I agree that it was visually stunning - but it opens up an enormous plothole.

I must say that I was pleased to find so many hard-left Democrats expressing their disgust at this thug's ignorant ranting. I would be very relieved to see us return to a day when, however much we argue among ourselves, an insult from someone outside the American family is taken personally by all. ...

A couple of times Faramir was pronounced "Fair - a -mir". Did you notice that?