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> Eh, I’m personally not a big fan of honourary doctorates.

Ditto.

> hehe, boinked

Ditto.

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Sorry Jo – FB has clearly picked up on my kinky chocolate fetish and is trying to turn you to the dark side…

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> We were planning a visit to http://www.boroughmarket.org.uk/ followed by a few Frulis at the Southwark Tavern at some point soon if you fancy joining us :)

FRULI FTW!!!1

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A lot of the guys in my office like Red Dwarf, which makes for FAR more interesting chat in the pub (along with other geekery) than some of the crap TV the girls talk about (we’re talking about the types who watch Living TV and are on Team Jordan or Team Peter here *shudder*)

One of them (who has just got married and is hurtling towards 40) is not allowed to watch Red Dwarf when she’s in the house. I once lent him BTE and he had it for a month. He then gave it back to me and apologised, saying he hadn’t got round to seeing it as his wife wouldn’t let him.

BITCH.

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> Bed… many who like Wispas like this.

Or Wispas IN bed. OMNOMNOMNOM

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Hard day at the office love? :-P

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> Oh good, Futurama quotes. And there was me thinking you were flirting with the internet again…

:-O! Again?! :-P

> So far that’s Carrie & Kiran as a yes for Sunday PM. Anyone else?

We might be quite late on the Sunday but should hopefully be able to make it…

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>/shamefaced/ I’ve never really been into Futurama. Pardon my inability to spot a quote when I see it.

Don’t worry, it’s ok ^__^ Spotting quotes from a show you don’t really watch is a bit of an ask… ;-)

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> I’m not hearing a no…

Thank you Ben! ^__^ At least someone got my Futurama quote…hehe

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> We can all meet in the middle in Texas and melt together. In more ways than one.

….are you coming on to me?

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We’d be able to make a meet on Sunday afternoon/evening but we’re already tied up with the sister in law’s birthday celebrations on the Saturday I’m afraid…

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Episode 3 was great, a really clever idea, especially timed with the new iphone release.

Episode 4 was incredibly funny – LOTS of laugh out loud moments. This is much more like what I was after out of the series.

“I ALWAYS HATED JIM!”
“You wouldn’t know peversion if it put clamps on your testicles!”

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I’ve definitely enjoyed the series so far. However, I’ve not really found it laugh out loud funny like the past series – I think they’re focusing a little too much on kooky storylines. You can tell they’re on a new channel with the whole focus shifting a little more to what they can get away with… ;-)

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Oops double post. Clearly my laptop is very excited.

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Awesome awesome awesome! LOVED the playing around with time.

The bits that really touched me:

1) Rory choosing to wait 2000 years for the woman he loves.
2) The Doctor talking to the sleeping Amelia – “I thought you might remember me. Stupid old Doctor.” Fantastic stuff. He’s never seemed so ancient and tired to me.

Question – the ‘sad/reminiscent’ music – wasn’t that used at the end of Tennant’s last episode? If so, I found the continuation really touching. Lovely piece of music.

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> ‘The Lodger’ was the Gareth Roberts episode. Get it right, girl! :)

*facepalm* Never write about piss-taking WHILST pissed. Never a good idea…

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> I found it amusing when they turned the joke back on him in The Lodger. “Not on my watch. I’m the Doctor, I am the oncoming storm and…you meant the football, didn’t you…?”

I did snort with laughter at that bit. And I’d say that was a bit of piss-taking on Curtis’s part.

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That episode was MADE of fucking win. And a fantastic cliffhanger. The Doctor’s challenge speech to the ships really gave me the chills as did seeing the crack on the screen of the Tardis. And the moment they put the Doctor in the Pandorica was awesome on a stick.

Loved the fact they drew the threads from the rest of the series all together. Nicely done. Can’t wait for next week!

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I love to read about developing techniques and technologies over the decades so this will be a must for me and Kiran ^__^

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> After all, the 10th Doctor’s prophecy was given to him by a woman on a bus

> I wouldn’t hold that up as a particularly good example of arc-building…

Nor would I – I used it in the context of demonstrating that it doesn’t necessarily have to be characters of great standing who deliver the most powerful lines – lines that are central to the slow reveal.

> I don’t think you can equate an entire episode about intangible pain with a single line of thrown-in dialogue.

I wasn’t trying to, sorry if it seemed that way. I thought it was a great episode but for me the positioning (combined with The Lodger) seemed to wind down everything that bit too much before the finale – as per my original point, I almost felt a sense of surprise to learn that next week was the begining of the end as ’twere compared to the earlier DW series.

It’s only an opinion – other people might have found the action across the series to be perfectly paced. But I thought I’d air my thoughts on it.

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> So, what, pushing all three two-parters into the back half of the series, with the last two running consecutively?

Why not? It worked perfectly well in Red Dwarf series VIII and OH WAIT

No, I didn’t mean all three two-parters at the end (my bad if I intimated that), Vampires in Venice and Amy’s Choice would still precede Hungry Earth etc. I guess I felt disappointed in how little reference there came in Vincent and the Doctor (i.e. at this late stage, no appearance of the crack etc)

Yes indeed, the crying inside bit is intriguing but really that line can be said by any vaguely psychic character in any incarnation of a late solus episode, not necessarily Vincent. After all, the 10th Doctor’s prophecy was given to him by a woman on a bus – random. I guess the (as you put it) ‘pause’ episode between the pair of two-parters in my opinion should have still maintained some form of energy and urgency which I guess I felt the Vincent episode was lacking.

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For me, the whole series feels like it’s slipped out of order somehow. That the action and underlying thread built to a crescendo (with The Hungry Earth/Cold Blood – especially the ending with pulling the Tardis piece out of the crack) and has then fallen off again for the last two episodes.

I’d have rewritten the odd line (to allow for the loss of Rory) and slotted the last two weeks episodes earlier in the series – perhaps with Vincent as the new episode four and The Lodger as the new episode six. That way – the first few episodes of the series are suitably dramatic enough to reel in new viewers, and then you get a steady build up to the finale. I was left this week thinking ‘is it really the beginning of the finale next week?’ The only thing that had me geared up was the trailer!

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I was wondering why the hell Zig and Zag were at More London the other day…! Probably promoting BBLB.

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> I heard Ian’s not going to bother this year.

But the website’s looking FAB in his absence…

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Who do you think Lauretha is? The sister of Princess Bonjella?

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Look at its teeth!! Look at the bones!!

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> She, erm, gave me one.

Now see that’s funny, because it has two meanings – a double entendre if you will. *snigger*

It’s one of those witty lines that never fails to tickle me. Like ‘YOUR MUM’ for instance.

If anyone locates my maturity please return it – I think I left it in the pub the other night…

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petergreg101 is clearly under 16. And a retard.

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This has to go down as weirdest discussion of my week anyways…. ^__^

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They say it ‘condem’ so the double syllable isn’t quite as pronounced.

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Epic win!!! ^__^

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Lisa look! Look what Ori made them do! ^__^

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> For all they knew, you might have just had a puppet fetish!!

I know a GREAT show for that… ;-)

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I agree with the others – early Dwarf is great as a lot of the action arose from the interactions based on their conflicting characteristics and personalities rather than external sources. Nicely done. You guys will have to write another one!

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> I think you could always tell that she wanted to shag him ;) (well, it was a childhood obsession that stuck with her through puberty… y’know?)

It’s very reminiscent of The Time Traveller’s Wife which I’m reading at the moment – where they meet when she’s six years old and he’s thirty-two. There, a childhood companion and confidant develops into a loving and sexual obsession….

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Looking forward to it boys

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> I don’t see it as inconsistent. There’s no ‘romance’ here, rather an understandable emotional reaction to a near-death experience.

And the fact she’s supposed to be getting married! Knee-jerk reaction – ‘am I with the right man’, ‘will I ever sleep with anyone else?’ etc. I thought it was well done.

> Looking at it now, do you know what it reminds me of? The rip in space from The Beast with a Billion Backs.

Doesn’t it also remind you of the rip in time and space in the episode Ouroboros?

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Well done Dave! And an amazing time too

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*facepalm Brown*

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> I’ll get my coat.

/joins you

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> Would I survive the day with two crazy redheads? O_o LOL That would be great, and probably much more fun! :)

Hehe YAY! I mean, ahem. Of course, it would be a pleasure. Drop me an email closer to the time with your dates ^__^

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When I head out on a Saturday into the city I love going to Borough Market (the food market near London Bridge – where they filmed a load of Bridget Jones too) then walk along the southbank, past the Globe (you might be able to get a ticket to a play if you’re going in the summer) then across the river to Kings College London (woot!) which links to Somerset House, along to Covent Garden then back to the Strand to walk up to Trafalgar Square for the galleries, through to Leicester Square and then drinkies!! A fab walk which takes up the day nice and lazy.

If you’ve got time come to the east (mine and Seb’s part of town) where you have shopping in Canary Wharf and most importantly Greenwich! Gorgeous in the summer, picnic is a must.

If I’m about (and you actually want it, you can tell me where to stick it, I won’t mind!) I can take you around for the day. Let me know.

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They’re great! XD

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> Ha ha! Was the camera person taking part too?

It was my husband and indeed he was ^__^ But it adds to the realism, right? hehe. He took an early dive so he could film the remainder. Did you hear the blonde guy to our left get the knife in the head ala Tim? hehe.

> I take it that was you in the blue hat (glimpsed on the right).

*nods* Indeed. I was most excited.

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> You?ll proabably even enjoy Fear Her.

*shudder*

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> Karen Gillan

I would.

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> This is fascinating (in a bad way, but nonetheless). I grew up thinking that red-haired people getting mocked was a clich?. Maybe it?s better in Germany or maybe I just never got to witness it. And one of my best mates in high school is ginger so I would have witnessed it?!

I got bullied for it between the ages of 9 and 17 (ugh fun) – I dyed my hair before I went to DJ2002 to ‘fit in better’. So young and foolish…

> I think red hair is awesome and while I?m happy enough as an almost-brunette I know I?d just love to be ginger. I think it?s very sexy and it?d go great with all my favourite clothes? colours.

XD Thanks – any excuse to try and nick some of your amazing t-shirt range…

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> Spike her drink with your pubes.

Oh now THAT’S an idea. Cos, you know, it’s catching, like.

Her hair does look pretty awful actually. Like a bottle blonde who’s tried to make herself ginger and failed miserably. She did get ribbed when she walked into the agency. Mwaha.

Thanks for your support guys, sorry I’m being all bitchy mopey.

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OH ARGH! She came into the agency this morning with her boss and their newbie to have a meeting about my main client (as the media were keen to catch up on my ?1.3 million account). She seemed very twitchy when she knew I’d have to be in the meeting too.

So I embarassed her in front of her boss by repeatedly pulling her up on her mistaken knowledge of my client, like the adult that I am.

> Anyone who doesn?t realise that ginger hair is awesome must be destroyed. You know what to do, Carrie.

Hopefully that’ll make her think twice before insulting redheads. >:-(

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Well you’ve finally encouraged me to watch it (I’ve been avoiding it for ages) and it was a lot less painful than I thought it was going to be. I did find the gun bit in the cream puff store quite a giggle. ‘That’s the safety!’ But where’s the kooky music and edits?

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