However, if the […]

Yes – the good stuff in the eighties does tend to get ignored by journalists in favour of the bad. I can remember posting an excellent written interview with him on the Faces strand (which @whisht certainly enjoyed) where he starts off by asking the writer about an editorial in the Radio Times. It was when Matt Smith s…[Read more]

A thirty year old reporter would’ve been five when the BG series went off-air. At that age, if your Mum wants to watch Coronation…[Read more]

Anyway, I take your point @Arkleseizure I too have worried about the fact that the Cybermen leave an army on a ship that’s basically a flying missile. I suppose it comes down to how much plot holes matter, compared with other things that make you love a story. For example:

The early…[Read more]

I had to look up the Cessair of Diplos and can only say that if I shaved with your razor I wouldn’t have any scalp left!!

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Brilliant!

What I love is that there’s a really straight line I can’t see!!

On the other hand, why do you say Earthshock gets worse on repeat viewings? It stands up for me. Who doesn’t like a well-prepared meal?

Just a flying-in visit to wish everyone a  Happy Who Day

@JimtheFish @Bluesqueakpip Thanks for missing me! And yes, been doing that cultural overdose thing in…[Read more]

While I agree that this lot of companions were on the whole not a…[Read more]

Yes – good point re the MC in Cabaret. Though the “I mean that most sincerely folks” was pure Monkhouse in full cheese mode. 🙂

As an ex-Goth I think I side with Ford on this one. Looks great stylistically, but trying to do anything in that ship with all the black would make your brain bleed (I think that’s why Zaphod is imper…[Read more]

It amazes me how familiar – and still relevant (taxes, food sources, privilege… and overloud extravagant rock bands!) – a lot of it is……[Read more]

I quite like the guide flagging up that the Human race have a gullibility rating of 9 following this sudden and unexpected rescue from sudden death. Shortly followed by the waiter asking:

“Do you have a reservation?”

To which…[Read more]

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@Arkleseizure

re Rassilon – my fav theory is that could have been the “alternative plan” that the High Council were cooking up while the rest of Gallifrey was out fighting Daleks in the streets. Defrost the nearest, most powerful megalomaniac and set him to work. The MTL (and 1 other?) covered their…[Read more]

Framed Oil Painting by Second Doctor Who Patrick Troughton

http://www.kasterborous.com/2014/01/framed-oil-painting-second-doctor-patrick-troughton/

Hello, one and all.

Happy New Year!

And Happy Birthday, dear wonderful forum!

And jelly babies, celery, and Jammie Dodgers all around for reaching, nay, *exceeding* the 1000 member mark.

Should be some sort of prize for our emperor @Craig — another regeneration…[Read more]

I know! A lot of that had me laughing my head off. Especially the “Slash Fiction” interlude between Sherlock and Moriarty. Brilliant fun, and very knowing about the internet speculation surrounding the final. Has the truth actually been revealed though?

@Blenkinsopthebrave

Ah – apologies for that. I’d forgotten what gets on…[Read more]

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@Bluesqueakpip – Also, if it didn’t look like he was starting to regenerate, then his enemies might want a closer look at the body, to make sure they’d…[Read more]

*Apologies to whoever pointed that out, I can’t find the relevant post at…[Read more]

A bit like @Arkleseizure I’ve been reading like mad of late but not posting. I also was a bit taken with the tick box under the login section – “Remember me”. Very Clara-esque, although it’s not unique to this site 😉

Anywho (sorry, can’t…[Read more]

Ahhh … TimeFlight. I actually looked at the novelisation of it when I was doing the blog on Target. My mind seemed to self edit what I was reading so it went:

“Tegan, Nyssa …. I just can’t go back on my own Timeline”, protested the Doctor, as he did his happy dance.

I always thought that the SM way of having the fact that the…[Read more]

my autocorrect excelled itself and turned “female characters” into “farmable characters”

Freud could have a ball with your autocorrect! (I switched mine off cos of that sort of thing; gets you into all sorts of bother)

@Bluesqueakpip

New blogpost cooking – woohoo! ::overexcited…[Read more]

I didn’t like the article that much; partly because any argument which lists an entire series of people dying and then says ‘but they don’t count’ is…[Read more]

this site could sometimes be seen as a bit cliquey and unwelcoming to new members

Kind of intimidated is what I’m guessing.

I think we agree here. I think “we” who entered the site in its first days are o…[Read more]

It is in the text that it was remarkable to give River one, so don’t take my word for it, take Moff’s. He “took it on the chin” when it was pointed out that the big “use the red settings” etc scene leading to

DOCTOR
So some time in the future, I just give you my screwdriver.
RIVER
Yeah.
DOCTOR
Why would I…[Read more]

Great night, lovely to […]

I am doing something similar @TardisBlue. I invited the only friend who…[Read more]

Hope you all have a great time meeting up and I am genuinely sorry to miss it. Looking forward to the post meeting stories and also how your impressions of each other in RL compared to the online perception. Also…[Read more]

Especially liked this http://www.buzzfeed.com/danmartin/this-fans-open-letter-will-melt-the-heart-of-every-doctor-wh

Hopefully see you on Friday* – call it research! (C’mon where else are you going to get such massive, bonkers, insights into our fave programme?! (How many of us – 14? That’s a whole (almost) random sample in…[Read more]

Direction was superb as well. A fitting end to a fine era.

The soufflé isn’t the soufflé. The soufflé is the recipe.

I wonder if it means ‘Clara isn’t the Clara. ‘Clara’ is a recipe.’

That is, Clara-from-Blackpool isn’t the original template. And the original template was created, like a recipe.

I like your thinking on this, it’s a line that bothered me from the first ti…[Read more]

See my post http://www.thedoctorwhoforum.com/sidrat/the-trailer-discuss-it-here/comment-page-4/#comment-1520 (and the following one at 08.44) re why the timestream/scar tissue and the big tombTARDIS no longer exisist by the end of the episode.

(No doubt there is a…[Read more]

I wonder if it means ‘Clara isn’t the Clara. ‘Clara’ is a recipe.’

That is, Clara-from-Blackpool isn’t the original template. And the original template was created, like a recipe.

Have closed the site. Am in two minds about it, would like to be open to all, I really would, but just can’t be bothered with the grief right now.

It does have the added benefit that if I delete someone they can’t just sign up again! Wooo!

I’m in complete agreement with the one formerly known as the Cute Little Green Cartoon Creature with a Straw Hat (what a difference an avatar makes LOL). Close to new members NOW!

(Any doubts, go and check out the fracas on the YouTube trailer sites which were hijacked by 1 Direction fans for a while (and most of the Who…[Read more]

I’ll sleep on it, but I think you’re right. I think we’ll survive without […]

@Phaseshift Re the…[Read more]

@Arkleseizure – you’ve regenerated 🙂

I love the hive mind. @Whisht @Arkleseizure @ScaryB Brilliant idea. Trailers thread is great and one I’ll keep for the future, but I’d like to keep the thread number down if possible and discussion of the trailer would seem to…[Read more]

This is why I posit some impenetrable valley in South America where a small group survived

Something tells me you might enjoy this: The Country of the Blind, by HG Wells (as might everyone else)

The marsupial human is an interesting idea, and I think it may be one that could actually feature in the new series of books written by Terry Pratchett and Stephen Baxter, The Long Earth series. […]

Marsupial humans – very intriguing idea; certainly beats the 9 months inside and big head/birth design concept 😈

The silicon based monster episode was the first Star Trek […]

<waves @Timeloop> welcome back. Keep an eye on the websites, cinema listings are starting to come through now

Great pic. I met Michael Kilgarriff at a fan event when I was younger. I was about 6 ft at 15 and he towered over me. Lovely bloke though – very self deprecating. Did you see the footage of the Tomb Cybermen event at the BFI? He was a guest.

the appalling Attack of the Cybermen. I’m still convinced that didn’t really happen

I kno…[Read more]