@BlenkinsoptheBrave

Time to consider what we’re doing until the next episode, I think. We’ve certainly stopped talking about Twice Upon A Time.

Possible suggestion:A Female Time Lord retrospective.

We’ve watched rather a lot of Susan, but there is The Aztecs, BlenkinsoptheBrave’s favourite Hartnell. The next female Time Lord we see is Rodan…[Read more]

A very brief excerpt from the DWM interview on the costume.

Sounds to me like they decided from a very early stage that off-the-peg wouldn’t work, tried a few bits and bobs that were off-the-peg, then said ‘no, really doesn’t work’.

I do get the ‘affordable cosplaying’ viewpoint, but personally, I’d reckon that when you have to dress an alien…[Read more]

@JimTheFish

Not a fashionista myself, but I think you’re not comparing like with like. Men’s fashions tend to change rather more slowly than women’s fashions and women’s fashions are often seriously short-run.

If I grabbed a coat from a charity shop (or wherever the Whittaker Doctor steals her clothes from), I wouldn’t be terribly surprised to…[Read more]

@JimTheFish

She wasn’t wearing earrings during the regeneration sequence, but it looked like they’d styled the hair to cover the ears (and the presumably already made piercings).

In a Whoniverse where nanowotsits can incorporate gas-masks into your face, I’m sure they have self-piercing earrings. 🙂

Looks like people have spotted the TARDIS crashing…

Okay, Northern accent theory:

In this episode, the Capaldi Doctor is frequently called the ‘Doctor of War’. This, of course, reminds him of the War Doctor.

When he regenerates away from the War Doctor into the Eccleston Doctor, he developed a Northern accent. So, when he regenerates away from the memory of being called ‘the Doctor of War’, she…[Read more]

@Missy

Yes, I have tried the Bay of Biscay. In fact, I lived there for a while, when I was a child. 😉

If we’re going for the Rough Seas Hall of Fame, the Irish Sea has a well deserved reputation for snap gales, high waves, and flying if at all possible…

@Missy

Apologies if I’ve sounded too harsh, or too tetchy. Of course you can state your opinions, even if everyone else disagrees. Heck, I keep stating my opinion that the Moffat-Capaldi period was an experiment that failed, and people disagree with me all the time. 🙂

But I really do think that – while we have exactly two scenes and one line…[Read more]

@karenmarie

It worked! It worked!

Welcome to the forum. 🙂

Agreed.

The place to discuss women priests, women soldiers or woman Doctors 😉 – or any aspect of women taking on previously male roles – is the Pub.

@ScaryB

Ha!

That reminds me of getting on the Calmac ferry to Iona one time and discovering that every single one of the crew were wearing hard hats. 😉

Fortunately, it’s only a ten minute crossing, but it was certainly a bit … bouncy.

@tardigrade

Within Moffat’s Whonivese, ‘soul’ appears to be separate from ‘recorded memories’ – the classic case being Auton Rory. Then there’s the Gangers, where the entire episode is about beings with duplicate memories and duplicate brains – and whether those duplicates are ‘us’.

Moffat’s answer comes from philosophy, not biology’s current…[Read more]

@ScaryB and @pedant

I was thinking that, because the Testimony have time travel, they might have a’spoiler’ cut-out available.

Bill didn’t remember what happened to Heather or why she wasn’t with her because that happened (from the Doctor’s point of view) after this meeting. She’s avoided any possible spoilers by not remembering the ‘future’.

@nerys

You can see why none of the modern Doctors last more than three seasons-plus-specials when you compare them at the beginning and end of their run. I swear, they all of them look ten years older, not three or four.

Not to mention the back operations, knee operations…

@Missy

The ring was still Peter Capaldi, so that would be Steven Moffat. Moffat gave Chris Chibnall the same handover that RTD gave him; Steven Moffat’s script (and era) ended with his Doctor’s regeneration.

Chris Chibnall’s era started with Jodie Whittaker’s scene – so he wrote his (female) Doctor starting her career with the TARDIS throwing…[Read more]

@Nerys

Yes, the regeneration scene (and a couple of other brief scenes) survive. The regeneration scene survives because the children’s programme Blue Peter did a piece on Doctor Who – and included that clip from Tenth Planet. When it came to the Great BBC Wiping of Tapes, Blue Peter’s formidable editor, Biddy Baxter, was having none of it. Blue…[Read more]

@Serahni

I don’t think the ring was ever specifically defined as the Doctor’s wedding ring. It was designed to hide Peter Capaldi’s wedding ring, because he didn’t really want to be constantly taking it off.

I took it as a moment like Matt Smith removing the bow tie. The ring was the only part of the Capaldi Doctor’s costume that stayed…[Read more]

@missrori

I should have put ‘villain’ in inverted commas. I meant Inverted commas. Blasted Internet… 🙂

@Mersey

Jodie Whittaker’s natural accent is from Skelmanthorpe, West Yorkshire, which is a fairly strong accent even by Yorkshire standards. Most people in the UK ‘hear’ a Yorkshire accent as friendly, honest and somewhat bloody-minded.…[Read more]

@pedant

Why the but?

Because Doctor Who is usually more plot-orientated, but this Christmas morning it got out of bed as a character piece.

Also, because ‘and’ sounded crap.

Merry Boxing Day. Nice to see you back. 🙂