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@blenkinsopthebrave You read my mind.

@bluesqueakpip @whisht @ichabod @jimthefish @arbutus and everyone else. The first entry in our Chris Chibnall retrospective is now up.

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I’m sticking to Doctor Who first but we can do Torchwood as well if there is interest. We gotta do something to fill in…[Read more]

ah, that might have been my suggestion @blenkinsopthebrave

I’m neither ‘for’ or ‘against’ Chibnall, but as the list of episodes is quite short, I’ll be interested what other ‘watches’ it leads to (or is this year I actually finish my boxset of Fringe and open up Twin Peaks? Thank goodness for Oxfam!).

I’m vaguely interested as to what kind of…[Read more]

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I’d recommend also including the webisode series Pond Life, and P.S.

Sorry I’ve been very silent; but since I’m deeply non-angsty about Chibbers, it became rapidly apparent that it was best to let everyone … angst, rather than sit here plaintively repeating ‘but I like his work.’ 😉

Hi All

Didn’t watch Broadchurch, but have enjoyed his Who and Torchwood work, 336 days to wait 🙁

Maybe the Beeb will re-run PC’s seasons to keep us all happy?!?!?!?!

May have to join @Blenkinsopthebrave in the cellar 😉

@blenkinsopthebrave and Puro mere,

From what little I know of Puro mere and Puro fils, it’d probably be best if Puro fils saw it in a couple of years. There are a number of deadly sins on display in the scene with partial nudity, and … SPOILERS OMITTED… I think the moral implications are somewhat more troubling than the amount of skin exposed…[Read more]

Well I found it thoroughly enjoyable. I am frankly not surprised that a lot of fans of the show were left confused since many only have modern Sherlock to go on.  Gattiss himself remarked that he heard fans ask outloud “How can Sherlock solve crimes without his smart phone?” That pretty much says it all.

@blenkinsopthebrave Mycroft is definitely…[Read more]

@blenkinsopthebrave — the directors thing is a fine idea. Many were just jobbing directors who just did Who as a gig and probably didn’t contribute anything that distinctive to it, but many did leave their mark. The obvious starting point is Graham Harper who straddles both the old and the new series. Also Morris Barry is probably worth a look…[Read more]

I like that idea @Blenkinsopthebrave. We have never looked at Old Who from the perspective of script writer or director either so maybe that could be “a thing”.

@Ichabod. thanks for that. I noted on skimming over, (will read later when time) that she discusses the choice of location which reminds me of something I have often thought lately, that…[Read more]

@missy   Yay, missy!  I thought it wasn’t going to be available in full until March, though — ?  With the two Xmas specials, I mean — Last Xmas, and Husbands?

@dralygonix  I would just LOVE to get to know folks around here, but where oh where to start.

Fret not, you have already started.  Maybe go back and read the forum material on the eps…[Read more]

Great fun & in effect a big teaser for the next series. Agree with @blenkinsopthebrave that Moffat and Gatiss are brilliant at the “meta” stuff.

In the bit when Holmes bones up on the obliquity of the ecliptic, we had another reference to the discovery of Neptune as the astronomer who had published a paper with the Royal Astronomical Society on…[Read more]

@blenkinsopthebrave — the list (I thought) was of Sherlock’s latest pharmaceuticals of choice. And that the deal they had was that Sherlock would always furnish such a list in order to look out for his brother. I liked this as it added yet another layer of complexity to their relationship.

@bluesqueakpip — I liked your explanation of the…[Read more]

You were right, @puroandson , there is something that I needed throughout my professional life without ever realising the lack. Forget my trusty WHS forged steel 4″ trowels;* so much labour could have been saved with a trowel that was sonic 🙂  I’m not sure about the design of River’s trowel, though – far too baroque.  What was with the blunt, w…[Read more]

@puroandson

I have an issue with Clara’s confidence -my issue. And yet I do not with River -is it an age thing? I don’t think so. Is it an actress issue? Did Clara simply underperform? No I don’t think so.

I suspect that you are skirting around the superficially fine, but in terms of underlying causation very different, distinction between obsess…[Read more]

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Has just come from talking Space Captain Smith. “Colonials” has a more specific meaning in the British Space Empire!

@blenkinsopthebrave: I like the speculation that the Doctor did much more than that:  The Doctor went back in time and arranged for the construction of the Singing Towers of Darillium himself.

@ichabod: I agree completely with your ideas on how to transition the Doctor to a more balanced emotional relationship with his companions.  U…[Read more]

@puroandson  Puro Solo,  the little reference to Clara’s tune when River begs the Doctor to find a loophole and he says “sometimes things end”,

Okay, that answers my major question: this is CapDoc *post-Clara*, having traveled back in time to a Christmas season between Angels Take Manhattan and Silence in the Library.  This is the echo we need…[Read more]

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 The first (the Christmas pantomime Diamond heist) had less of the feel of a Moffat story and more the feel of a RTD story.

I think you are right, but it would not at all surprise me if Moffat aimed for exactly that effect.

This is not the River Song we have travelled with since season 5. It is the River Song from immediately…[Read more]

Happy Christmas everyone

Waves, especially @Blenkinsopthebrave, @JanetteB (Technical glitches, rips in the space time continuum, being kidnapped by space gremlins… you know how it goes! Usual everyday timey wimey stuff!)

@XAD4 Thanks so much for the Dr Puppet Silent Night – rather great

And No 1 achieved (quite comfortably in the ed, for which all credit to Beibs – the bookies stopped taking bets almost immediately after he Tweeted) – and thx to @blenkinsopthebrave! Right back at ya.