OK – I decided to watch it using @Craig ‘s embedded link, as my laptop doesn’t have an optical drive.

My least favourite of the BG versions of the theme – the best thing about it is that it has the middle eight prominently featured. The rest of it is too ’80s synthesizer-ish for my taste. I’m not too fond of the intro sequence either, although…[Read more]

@nerys I thought that was Dr. Skarosa’s Cyberman who was housed in Dr. Chang’s office, then emerged to confront Clara. My sense was that maybe that had originally been Dr. Skarosa’s office, which Dr. Chang took over.

Were we ever given any convincing proof that Dr Skarosa was a genuine person, and not just a name made up by Missy to be intrig…[Read more]

@Craig – Is that the Director’s cut or the originally aired version? I was going to watch my DVD, and I wanted to make sure I had the right version.

Well – I’ve now just seen the Edge of Destruction two-parter, and I must say I was very impressed. Some memorable firsts:

• The TARDIS revealing that is is more than just a mode of transportation
• The Doctor’s speech being the first *really* Doctorish thing he has done
• The first “Inside the TARDIS” story

I really enjoyed it – the direction was…[Read more]

@Apopheniac Late last night, I watched The Tenth Planet (so now I have three First Doctor stories under my belt so to speak, having also seen An Unearthly Child).  It was interesting to see the Cybermen in their original outing (please someone correct me if that wasn’t the first Cyberman story), and compare them to what we’ve recently seen in Da…

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@Apopheniac @purofilion – Re: attitudes to gender in very early Doctor Who

It definitely does place The Daleks in its specific era – it is very peculiar to me to see how Barbara seems to automatically defer to Ian, and how Ian sends his fellow teacher and  a female alien away when dealing with the dying mutant inside the travel machine, just…[Read more]

Has anybody here played Mass Effect 2? Part of the soundtrack *really* reminds me of the 11th Doctor – especially the bit from 1 minute and 11 seconds mark in the track “Suicide Mission“:

@bfinch Welcome – you’ll find this site an enjoyable place to while away your time before the xmas special.

It’s a shame that you find Clara shallow – I’ve found her much more enjoyable as time has gone on. Her appearance as the soufflé-girl Claricle in Asylum of the Daleks I found very smug and irritating, but as ClaraPrime she has grown a lot…[Read more]

Yay! I’ve finally watched the original <i>The Daleks</i> story! Only 51 years late!

I can really see why it made an impact on beople back in 1963, and why Dalekmania became such a phenomenon – the design of the Daleks themselves, and the Dalek city, and really the rest of Skaro (particularly the petrified forest and the swamp) came together to…[Read more]

@PhaseShift Gosh – what a coup. Jacobi has dabbled in the world of the Whoniverse in audio, but it was a delight to have that reveal on TV, and see the cosy charm of Yana gave way to the hollow, bitter, megalomaniac who’d quite happily kill the lovely alien who’d been helping him. Because he didn’t like her.

The Yana Master is, for me, the one…[Read more]

@Rob Well in the eternal triangle of Bucks, Oxon and Northamptonshire  where the winds blow, the rain cascsdes and the earth slowly liquifies into a soul sapping gelatinous ooze….

Does it continue to ooze all the way down the M40 to coagulate on the M25? This would explain a lot…

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On a philosophical note … why was it so important that the person themself press the Delete button?  Why wasn’t that something Seb (or Missy) could just do themselves?  Since 2005, Cyberman creation hasn’t required that the person delete their own emotions – quite the opposite in fact.

Is this another one of the holes in The Master’s…

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@lisa Cheers- it was actually a lovely day for walking around the City today – it was warm enough to do in shirtsleeves and no need for a coat! Thankfully, I don’t live in London, I just work there – living there would drive me even more nuts that I already am.

Hmm – is the photo in my post above not showing?

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Well – I went down to St Paul’s this morning:

And there is definitely no red telephone box there!

I would say we have proof that the telephone box was Missy’s TARDIS! (unless there was a perception filter on an ordinary phone box to render it invisible, for some reason)

@janetteB @cathannabel Alas, I believe that CIF on the Graun is irredeemably troll-infested. I’ve been reading it for years, and I’ve realised that the only effect it has on me is to angry up the blood. I’ve never bothered posting there, although I was sorely tempted to because of a recent article where my local MP was justifying the fact that he…[Read more]

@lisa Agreed, it is tricky to discern whether there is a figure in the reflection. One observation, though – the phone box in the reflection is the same model as the one it is reflected in (both appear to be the K2 design – if only there was a K9!).

Still, given the Master’s TARDIS has always had a functioning chameleon circuit, then minor…[Read more]