I found a film on Netflix that was absolutely fascinating. It is called The Man from Earth.
 
The premise of the film is a university professor has decided to pull up stakes and move on much to the dismay of his friends and colleagues. They throw him a going away party that he ducks so they bring it to him at his cabin in the woods where he is packing up the belongings he plans to take with him.
 
Over the course of the afternoon he decides to tell his friends that he is leaving because they have started to notice that he isn't aging. He tells them that he is a caveman, or really a Cro-Magnon from the Paleolithic era and is 14,000 years old. Naturally they think he is kidding them so they play along and have a discussion about this.
 
The discussion goes in a few surprising directions. I like the whole thing all the way up to the last scene. The author of this rather provocative script took the last bit in a predictable direction that was mildly disappointing, but overall the film is excellent and quite thought provoking. I would recommend it to anyone.
 

madwitch58 wrote:

I love cross overs so , Spencer Reed from Criminal Minds is in London and is asked by the police to help with a case. Sherlock is not too pleased and does his observeing on Reed who in turn profiles Sherlock. 

Now that sounds like a fic I would Reed! Pun intended 

Hello All! We just got back from our European trip. One of our first stops was Cardiff and the Doctor Who experience. It was brilliant with one exception. We wound up at the back of the pack. There is an interactive (sort of) part in the beginning of the tour where you see a recorded video of Matt Smith talking to you (the visitor) and guiding you through the different venues. At one point you even wind up in the control room of the Tardis. The problem is each tour is started with a group of 50 people and if you wind up at the end of the line you miss a lot when moving through the different venues. It takes a few minutes for 50 people to go through a doorway you know.

My advice for anyone wanting to go to the Doctor Who Experience: If you end up at the back of the pack, wait the extra 20 minutes and let someone else go in ahead of you. If I had it to do all over again that is what I would do. The non interactive part is brilliant and my husband was ready to go long before I was. I could have easily spent another hopur or two looking at and checking out all the costumes, props, actual Tardis(es) from all the way back to the beginning.

The gift shop: I could have spent hundreds of pounds (really I could have!) I had to limit myself to 200 pounds though. When we got back home after 3 weeks away and we were walking up the ramp to the security gate where the kids were waiting at the airport I saw my son (7 yrs old) jump up and run almost through the gate. He was stopped by the security guard and he stood there at the threshhold bouncing up and down. I was expecting him to throw his arms around me because he had missed me so much. Do you know what the very first words out of my little cherub's mouth were?

"Where's my sonic screwdriver?"

 

We are set to leave for London in less than 48 hours and you just have to know that after months of planning disaster will strike!

My 15 year old daughter and her friend were mugged tonight. They were attacked by two men. One of them was a Marine or ex-Marine according to the police and he was the one who needed a sledge hammer to go after a 15 year old girl who is 5 foot 2 and weighs 110 pounds! Big man ya know!  

The other guy was 6 foot 2 and there was a third guy who stayed in the car with it running ready to bolt if they got in a tight spot. The 6'2" guy grabbed my daughter from behind in a choke hold and lifted her off the ground by her neck. He carried her back toward the car to abduct her I would assume, but she fought very hard. She couldn't breath very well so she couldn't really call for help. He was also trying to prize her cell phone from her hand but she wasn't letting go. He got frustrated, I guess, because he ended up throwing her to the ground and falling down on top of her when he bit the back of her neck. You should see the bite marks. This guy had a very large mouth!

That was when she started screaming. This drew the attention of the guy with the sledge hammer who had been busy beating her friend and taking his cell phone and I-Pod. He came over yelling obsenities and telling her to shut up. He hit her in the left side of her head with the hammer and then again on the right side behind her ear. The second hit was only a glancing blow, but she kept screaming her head off and the neighbors started coming out so they took off in the car. Another driver took down the licence plate number when they peeled out and cut him off and he gave that to the police. Within 2 hours the three men had been apprehended and they took the kids to the scene where they were being arrested and had them identify their attackers.

The kids got off lucky. These guys had committed 6 robberies over the course of th

Russell wrote:

Just wanted to add some love for the heartfelt-ness of the Vincent one as well… although about on par, 'The Girl in the Fireplace', and 'The Doctor's Wife' always tugs at my heart and adorable funny-bone every single time as well.
As far as other 'wow' episodes for either being super creatively sweet/scary, and/or impressed by it as a whole, I loved…

Empty Child/Doctor Dances (sure, Nine doesn't always get a whole lot of love, but that one ep was quite well done… another ordinary thing they managed to make scary! playful side-kicks! it had heart!)
'Blink' and 'Midnight' for equally scary creativity and awesome story
Asylum of the Daleks
Bells of Saint John
both of the 'Library' episodes, for again making something ordinary creatively scary, interesting story and one-liners, and… obviously… River. ;_;


Also totally agreeing with the perfect sequence of hilarious back-and-forth Doctor in The Big Bang. Plus, not to forget the emotional intensity and action between Ten and the Master's 'final' showdown episode, hmm?

You have touched on almost all of my favorites, Russell. There a couple of two part episodes that were stellar. The Impossible Planet and The Satan Pit / Human Nature and The Family of Blood (I loved this set), also The Waters of Mars was excellent as well as The Voyage of the Damned. Actually I think I have liked just about all of the Christmas specials. 
 

Hello everyone! It is just under a month before we leave for Europe! Tea is going to be a big thing for me now for two reasons: 1. I am sure I will not like coffee in Europe. I drink very weak coffee. According to my husband it is not much more than dirty dish water! LOL 
2. I have quit smoking and frankly a cup of coffee (regardless of strength) seems rather pointless without a smoke, so I have quit coffee as well I guess.

For me tea should be sweet if it is flavored or unsweatened if it is like green tea, or black tea or white tea without added flavor such as lemon, or fruity or whatever.

New question that is related - sort of. I have recently begun juicing. (That is extracting the juice out of fruits and veggies - awful looking stuff actually) Can you get that sort of thing easily when visiting? I have become kind of addicted. This is the first time in my life that I have actually felt an abundance of energy and I would rather not go without. Somehow I don't think packing my juicer would work very well! LOL

This may seem a stupid question mainly because I do understand what it is, but what exactly does CV stand for? I am assuming that it is equivalent to what we would call a resume here in the states, but the way I have heard it used it sounds like it is something more official than a resume. Honestly when I was in management you would not believe the crap that people would put on their resumes and expect a perspective employer to believe it. I just don't see how a 19 year old could possibly have flown a fighter jet for the US Air force for a whole year! Yeah, I actually had that on a resume that came across my desk for a kid trying for a customer service position.

I give you my 2 cents on the I/me question but am unsure how the grammatical rules change from country to country. Here in the states the way to know if the word should be I or me is to take the other person out of the sentence.

"Me and Harry traveled all the way across town for a very special cup of coffee."
Take Harry out.
"Me traveled all the way across town for a very special cup of coffee." Instant cave man speak! LOL

In the case of what Sherlock said:
'Did you know there were other people after her too, Mycroft, before you sent John and I in there?'
Take John out of the sentence.
'Did you know there were other people after her too, Mycroft, before you sent I in there?'

Here in the states the dialogue should have been 'me' or the sentence re-written so that the question of I/me never comes up. Such as:

"John and I went in there not knowing that other people were after her. Did you know that, Mycroft?"

Speech patterns are different in different parts of the world. The thing with dialogue is that it really does not need to be grammatically correct because that isn't how people talk. If you are writing a paper for school or a thesis, or a work document then, yes, you should pay close attention to grammar. When dealing with written dialogue, however, you should write it the way people talk or

How do you guys do that? Get images from the shows for pics to put in your posts?

Where is that made canon?

beekeeper wrote:

tardis wardrobe-just had a look at a few. Honestly, I'd say they'd be pretty easy to make! Or at least mod an existing wardrobe. Certainly for the amount it would cost to buy and ship it back.

Thanks for that tip. My daughter is a HUGE Dr. Who fan and she does not have a closet so I thought the Tardis wardrobe would be the perfect sweet 16 present.

Ok. Thank you for all the info. This is our honeymoon trip so no kids. We never took a honeymoon when we got married so now that we have the time and the funds we are finally taking it after 20 years of marriage. 

The whole reason for taking extra days in London is so that we could fit in the Cardiff trip. I have been watching Doctor Who since I was a wee little child. I really want to go to the Doctor Who experience and see that square with the towers and the waterfall sculpture where the rift is supposed to be. I have also become a Torchwood fan (not surprising). In any case yeah we will get the train. The most advanced I can buy tickets would be when we arrive unless I can get them from here before we even leave for England. No worries. We planned on spending money while abroad and have set aside for it. I'm not worried about a 20 pound train ticket.

Thank you so much for all the tips and advice. I am so excited for this trip. I have been a fan of everything English for as long as I can remember and I'm finally going to get to see your country.