@ScaryB – oy, spoilers!

@SatsumaJoe – it’s not just not liking Occam’s razor – it would be bad scriptwriting. It would have been so easy to have the Doctor use the nickname in front of Clara – but if there was such an occasion, I didn’t […]

And if he didn’t do what he did in the name of the Doctor, in whose or what’s name did he do it?

Given the importance the Doctor now attaches to hiding his birth name, whatever the Hurt Doctor did was clearly […]

@ScaryB – the gravestones are certainly the same style as at Trenzalore – so Hurt Doctor is not only not running, he’s standing out and staring at the site of his grave.

Which makes me think that part of the […]

@EcclestonTennant – welcome!

“Dumbed down” is definitely the wrong phrase. I have a great admiration for Russell T as a writer, but I don’t find that Series 1 to 4 support the number of rewatches that Series 5 […]

@SatsumaJoe – ‘too simple’ is definitely a drawback in the wonderful world of bonkers theories. 😀

I can easily believe they both came up with the nickname independently; the question then would be why? It […]

 Claricle in AotD uses that phrase as an echo.

@Shazzbot and @Timeloop – except, she doesn’t use it as an echo.

That’s why I put it down in ‘continuity’. Clara doesn’t call herself ‘Souffle Girl’ in Asylum – […]

@Shazzbot and others

So, due to various circumstances, I ended up rewatching all of the ‘Clara’ episodes, from Asylum right through to The Name of the Doctor. I made some notes on both continuity and Clara […]

@LJB19 – yes, your post got moved. Not deleted. We have a thread especially for spoilers, so that those who love insider information and those who love wild theorizing can live in (relative) peace together. The […]

@Miapatrick – it depends very much on your tutor. I had a great tutor for A215 and loved it. It also improved my writing quite a lot. But yes, it’s hard work.

A363 is the more difficult one – but after all, […]

@SatsumaJoe – just finished A363 – advanced creative writing.

@Miapatrick – thanks for giving me a near-heart attack regarding the possibility of the OU losing my EMA – just when I thought the nightmare was over.

But yes, I do have an email with a receipt number.

😀

@Craig – I’d stick with the Rose and Crown. I think, to date, it’s the only named pub where one of Team Tardis has actually worked.

@DanMartinUK – yes, the billing of “The Best Doctor Who Episodes of All Time” isn’t exactly great on the wiggle room, is it? 😀

I think the only way you could get round that one would be by starting your blog […]

@ScaryB 10th April 2010 was the broadcast date of ‘The Beast Below’. Perhaps the Hurt Doctor is the Eleventh’s ‘Beast Below’? The terrible truth that he keeps wiping out of his memory?

@DanMartinUK

Oh, another McCoy fan, great. 🙂 Even though he was about the fifth Doctor I remember, McCoy has, ever since, been ‘my’ Doctor.

Yes, I’d go for the old ‘little-known dictionary definition’ ploy. […]

@LBJ19 – Wrong thread for spoilers! Spoilers are posted in the spoilers forum ONLY and all discussion of any spoilers stays there.

@Craig – can you move post #10871? Thanks.

@blenkinsopthebrave – two thoughts come to mind.

One is that we’ve now found the meaning: oswin means ‘God’s friend’ and she was indeed the truest friend of the Lonely God. Her surname was ‘God’s power’ or […]

@Phaseshift – but does the Master still hate the Doctor quite so much, now he’s learnt who really turned him into the Master? 😈

We’re still stuck with that ‘Last of the Time Lords’ title, though – a […]