Does anyone else think maybe there’s something significant in the trailers saying “The next Doctor” and not “The twelfth Doctor”? I mean, probably not but… well… possibly…

I’ve just watched a wonderful episode of EastEnders with an almost entirely female cast. Quite superb. And it makes me want a female doctor all the less. There are so many strong female parts, and so many in the […]

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@HTPBDET and @Shazzbot:

Yes, “explicitly” was the wrong word. “Thoughtless” would be better. I don’t really mean Rose personally meaning a lot to the Doctor so much as how her presence seemed to make him […]

@Nick,

You know, that whole 9/10 – Rose thing made me lose a lot of respect for RTD. It was as if he didn’t trust the audience to like Rose, so he felt the need to keep telling us how bloody wonderful she was. […]

@HTPBDET, @ScaryB — I might be coming across as a naysayer with regards to the Dalek Invasion of Earth, so I’ll be clear: it’s wonderful. And unique. There’s something uniquely frightening in the fact that the […]

@JanetteB — The Mind Robber is actually one of a rare species: a 5-parter! The first episode is almost standalone, and the rest of the story can be told without it (except that the first episode is also utterly […]

@HTPBDET, @JimTheFish, @ScaryB, @JanetteB —

So far as Troughton goes, I’d favour The Mind Robber or Tomb as the best fully extant stories. I personally prefer Mind Robber, but I think Tomb would perhaps be a […]

@HTPBDET — yes, only Troughton had his regeneration deliberately triggered by someone else, and by the very people who’d be extra careful that they didn’t kill him. Even McCoy can be ruled out as his Doctor […]

@Nick —

I don’t recall seeing a Time Lord actually dying in BG Who although the Master came close quite a few times

I would suggest The Deadly Assassin as the answer to that one. The President is indeed […]

@HTPBDET — Yes, the Invasion introduced the concept of UNIT, which is clearly a big deal, but the The War Machines introduced the idea of the Doctor joining forces with an contemporary Earth forces to defeat a […]

@PhaseShift — thanks. The animation was made by the Viz team themselves and is rudimentary to say the least, but the voices aren’t too bad. It would never fit into canon for one obvious reason, but for anyone […]

Does anyone remember the Doctor Poo strip that once appeared in Viz? And would anyone object if I post an animated version here? It’s full of rude words, like the F one, so I wondered if it would be too adult.

I think I’ll side with Ghost Light, too. It does indeed seem to sow the seeds for AG-Who some years before. Funnily enough, I realised yesterday that Doctor Who seemed to do this surprisingly often. They say The […]

And now, I’m going to do something that I think needs doing here: I’m going to stick up for Anthony Ainley.

I rewatched Logopolis today, and I was struck by the fact that I really enjoyed Ainley’s performance. […]

Okay. I’ve been struggling to think how to put my thoughts because I was still at primary school in 1989, so what I say I will say from the heart: I love Sylvester McCoy.  I love Sylvester because he was the only […]