@blenkinsopthebrave We probably shouldn’t have cable. We are the opposite of you and watch too much TV. But we try to let good taste dictate our choices. We do watch Doctor Who, after all!

I agree with you about the different Doctors/companions/seasons. I confess that initially I avoided Matt Smith’s Doctor, because I was so enamored of Tennant’s…[Read more]

@blenkinsopthebrave I guess I’m cheap. We get Doctor Who in our cable lineup, and can view it on demand … but it still has commercial interruptions until it goes to Crave. So I don’t feel like paying more for something I’m already getting (even though what I have cheapens my enjoyment). Ack!

It’s strange. Last season was, for me, very similar…[Read more]

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Them other brains -the newbies!  And @mudlark too.

I’m re- watching Who -the 3rd run now – as a desperate way to avoid comments on the thread to do with the… Dead One (I aint looking, no spoilers: I’m up to episode 3).

Syzygy the Old

@Claire54

maybe I’ve been sleeping through some episodes,

I think probably so. 😉

@mudlark

It is perhaps significant that the Master’s words evoked a flash of visual memory for the Doctor, suggesting some kind of embedded, perhaps racial memory…

Agreed. I think as @blenkinsopthebrave suggested that there’s a deep seated memory, hidden from suc…[Read more]

@blenkinsopthebrave and @vervain

I’m kind of inclined to a sleight-of-hand that involves a Moffat loop. Mainly because Chibnall was so careful to re-establish that the Doctor can solve a current problem after the solution to the problem has already happened.

I’d say the Capitol is in shreds, Gallifrey is burning – but ask if the Gallifreyans…[Read more]

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Spellcheck or autocorrupt.  Sometimes it is best just to disable them and resort to an old fashioned dictionary printed on dead trees 🙂

@blenkinsopthebrave @miapatrick

Yes, this is going in a good direction…. An existential “shattering” which corrupts the very basis of what the Doctor has chosen to be: so that he/she is not really a Doctor... But as you say, something to do with the vortex & the child who is timeless, also empty, who is buried deep in nightmares?

What if the…[Read more]

@blenkinsopthebrave at the moment the Doctor believes the Time Lords are they way they are because of exposure to the time vortex, isn’t it?  There has to be some kind of truth to that because that’s how River ended up with regenerations. Direct mutation of a human embryo.

Could this be more about how the Time Vortex came to be in the first…[Read more]

@blenkinsopthebrave up there, apologies.

@Blenkinsopthebrave

True, we are supposed to forget about the fact that if he was on Earth for 77 years he (presumably) managed to miss all the other Masters who were around London and the environs during the ’70s and ’80s, not to mention Prime Minister Saxon. But, as Mrs Blenkinsop wisely reminds me: “You are not supposed to ask those quest…

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@blenkinsopthebrave  Actually my boyfriend and I were discussing this earlier.  Gallifrey left the pocket universe at some point and ended up at the end of the universe temporally, as established in “Hell Bent”.   But going by this episode, IIRC, the Master visited and razed the planet while it was in the pocket universe.  So perhaps there is some…[Read more]

<span class=”useratname”>@blenkinsopthebrave “77 years on earth in the 70s and 80s”  Now there is an idea for a an episode – The Two Masters</span>

@phaseshift

I’m not loving the new you, actually. Not at all. I thought, you know “friendly place.”

What the heck’s happened?

@blenkinsopthebrave

I think there was some genuine confusion about the Wicked West of the West-type of thing. From what I read?

@blenkinsopthebrave

Er, what?

Golly & heck & up with it all! We have some mods back!

I’m seeing in my Netflix in box what looks like Dracula with 2 nuns? Is this the great Dracula of which you speak?

I ask only because of the blobs of blood which looked especially suspicious -in a 16th movie of the Twilight Saga-type of thing – during the credits. I really didn’t want any…[Read more]

No m’dear @blenkinsopthebrave. He’s a massive bellend with no sense of when he has gone too far. I have awakened and any further infractions will be deleted.

@pedant

Reviewing your conduct towards other members has made me reach for the mind bleech. You really are an objectionable tit of the most massive proportions. I will take pleasure in…[Read more]

Could it be Missy that  has taken over the body of this O ?   Cause if the Simms Master destroyed

her ability to regenerate did he also destroy Missy’s ability to take over a body.   Didn’t that happen

in BG Who?    I like the notion of  ‘Army of Ghosts’ Cyberman being the light creatures!   It fits into

a nice story arc if Chibnall goes there.…[Read more]

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Well. if the white ghosty things start singing Ding Dong The Witch Is Dead we’ll know you were on to something…

@blenkinsopthebrave   Whimsy is such a lovely word and I agree that we need more of it as well as imagination and fantasy and wishes. Doctor Who is full of all of that and more and I can’t wait till tomorrow night to start a brand new series. I have my Who slippers, t-shirt,scarf  and TARDIS mug all cleaned and ready. Treats will be eaten and te…[Read more]

You’re welcome, @blenkinsopthebrave and all! It’s rare that a Christmas film holds me spellbound, from beginning to end, the way this one did, so I felt a need to recommend it. It was such a pleasant and unexpected surprise to come across this film I’d never heard of, and discover a (sadly) hidden gem.

Living in Canada as I do, many of the…[Read more]