Hello @Barnable

Just never bring up Justin Bieber again, please?!  😉

Now, I’ve made my morning break last a half hour so lunch will be similarly curtailed – must off back to the trenches.  See youse later.

Hello @Arbutus

I suppose I am old school enough that it didn’t occur to me to worry about the companion needing to sustain a story arc. And in fact, even in AG Who, it hasn’t always been that way.

Sorry, I used ‘arc’ when I could just have easily used ‘development’.  Each of the RTD companions (what is ‘AG Who’?) had a clear development of char…[Read more]

Hello @Barnable

I’m glad you went through each of those Danny Pink ‘issues’ in detail.  Fwiw, I had no problem with Danny’s character at all.

1.  The first thing we learn about him is how all the other females at school are drooling over him, so why shouldn’t Clara, too?

2.  Far from controlling, I thought Danny was bending over backwards to ac…[Read more]

Hello @Bluesqueakpip

Regarding John Simm’s Master, you have a better memory than I do so I had to revert to the Tardis Data Core.

Hypnotism was clearly defined as at work through the Archangel Network in Sound of Drums; Martha says that everyone likes Saxon and there’s the fact that no-one worries about his obviously forged biography.  I’d…[Read more]

Hello @Arbutus

I think Oswald would be a great companion. Yes, she is very bright and “sciencey”, but also timid and insecure, probably idealistic as well. She would have lots to learn from experiences with the Doctor.

My own opinion is, that might not sustain a whole series’ arc.  We saw a bit of that in her scene with Missy.  Now that @Bluesqueak…[Read more]

@Whisht – hah hah hah.  Spoken like a true ginger!

How could we have two gingers on screen interacting – if the actors are within ten yards of each other, the static electricity interferes with the studio equipment.

Well, you and I are here sequentially on the same thread, and the DWF servers haven’t blown …. yet …. 😀

Hello @Arbutus (and @ everyone else who replied)

On second thought, DiH’s mid end-credit scene with Santa was equivalent to 11 seeing Donna-in-a-wedding-dress materialise in the Tardis.  That ep’s bolt-on scene, however, was inserted as the actual end of the ep.

Inserting this one into the end credits of DiH made it feel like a ‘coming-next…[Read more]

Hello @bluesqueakpip

Thank-you for the links to Terror of the Autons comments.  Reading down on Part 1, I found this paragraph in your 1st comment:

It’s interesting how many different ways they find to play the companion. Liz was definitely felt to have not worked – not because of the actress, but because she was also a scientist. Worse, she was…

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Hello @bluesqueakpip

as I said on the Graun, the Master historically has hypnotic powers

Sorry, I’ve never read all the comments there.  I only went back to look (at the last page) because of JimTheFish’s comment here.

Apologies for making you say something again, you’re obviously frustrated about that.

Also, I’ve never seen a Delgado Master…[Read more]

Hello @JimTheFish

Why read The Guardian BTL?  (except for the laughs at the same names coming on every week to say they’ll never watch again)

I have a problem with Missy’s guards in this ep.  They obviously didn’t notice her get out of her handcuffs, they didn’t care that Missy said she was about to kill Osgood, but most of all:  they were sw…[Read more]

Hello @herisson

Your point in comment 35090 is a very good one, re Les Revenants and how the Afghani boy’s parents will react to having a son return from the dead many years later but at the same age as he died.  Many people everywhere (mostly not here, though) have complained how dark it was in Dark Water to posit that the dead can feel pain.  B…[Read more]

Hello @Miapatrick

Moffet played it really fair.

Oh no he didn’t!  I can forgive him character and series arcs I don’t like.  (not many)  But I will never forgive him pissing on the spoilerphobe fans by inserting the Christmas preview in the middle of the closing credits.  I could just imagine the evil cackling he was doing when he agreed tha…[Read more]

Hello @Mudlark

even if it were possible to miniaturise someone to the extent that they could be inserted into a computer hard drive, all they would be able to perceive would be the hardware; they would not be able to read or make use of the information stored on it. The miniature people exploring the interior of the Dalek were in the Dalek…

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Hello @stormintheheartofthesun

Another thought, the Nethersphere even looks like a Toclafane. Small floaty sphere thing. Hmmmm

In response to that comment and your previous one, tying the similarities between what we see physically of The Nethersphere and the plot of Utopia (v good btw!), I had a search because I thought I had said something…[Read more]

Hello @demafromua

Interesting thoughts about self-sacrifice and suicide, and The Master.  Even more interesting when it is put in context of what the original theories were about HFM and Gretchen, and how/why they were scooped up by Missy:   Because they sacrificed themselves for the sake of The Doctor.

If any of this is true, it could be s…[Read more]

I said back on the Kill The Moon thread that I thought Clara was pregnant.  And I only had a few replies, all of which were derogatory.  Now I come back today, and loads of people are thinking Clara is pregnant.

“Three months” (like on the post-its) is invocative of pregnancy, when its safe to tell about it.  But Clara didnt tell Danny she was pr…[Read more]

There are ructions over in The Guardian about a potential future female Doctor.  Reading the (ritually depressing) comments BTL, I had a thought which was originally prompted by someone on this site (sorry for not giving proper attribution nor making an exact quote):

The Master is now female.  This is testing-the-waters time for a future female D…

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@ everyone -Im re-watching The Mind Robber tonight, and just came across this gold Zoe quote:

You see, they dont want us to find a way out, only a way in.

Im probably doing too much of my namesake but I still think that there are stellar comparisons between The Mind Robber and the entirety of this Peter Capaldi series.  Its all been about the way…[Read more]

As BBCBackHome said:

ARE YOU A FAMILY LIVING WITH SEVERAL GENERATIONS ALL UNDER ONE ROOF?

Some people with new avatars appear to have several people living all under one skull.

@FatManInABox – LOL at Conchita Wurst!

@PhileasF and @mudlark

You two seem to be very knowledgeable about the whole of Doctor Who history.

Im re-watching The Mind Robber this evening and I thought I saw some parallels with this series, and its arc and details.  Obviously, that there is a (potential) dream world, and that people see what they want to see / what they expect to see.  O…[Read more]