Well I generally enjoyed this one and was, for the most part, willing to overlook some of the logic flaws; like the very poor judgment on the part of the male lab worker.

But when the Doctor was trapped in the lab, talking to Bill, they had me screaming at the TV loud enough that they should have heard me:  “You have smart phones!  Aim the c…[Read more]

@thane15  Brewski: Oh you’re never out…..one has to count to 10 first.

Oh I know!  When I would make my mom mad at me she used to count to 10.  And THEN I was dead!

@mersey Please show me a companion who wasn’t slim and pretty?

Well I was going to say Jamie McCrimmon.  But come to think of it he was both, too.

Hello all.  Late to the game again, but the most annoying thing has begun to happen at work.  They expect me to work and not discuss DW.  Talk about bonkers!

I enjoyed this ep.  More classic style Who.  Although I grudgingly admit that it was teetering on the edge of packaged sci-fi. Take one seasoned time traveler, add a companion, marinate one…[Read more]

Hi @pedant.  Thanks!  I know PC has said he really wants to see Susan brought back.  Well, he’s getting his wish with the Mondasian cybermen, so who knows?! :O

Thanks @ichabod. Lily POND.  Melody Pond’s daughter.  Lol…  I wouldn’t be me without the word play…

Of course, I think I also read that Shoshona could also mean Rose.  So where d…[Read more]

Hi @blenkinsopthebrave!  And thanks!

Oh!  Great thinking on the “I shall come back” vow.  That’s one I think most of us would like to see kept.

Hi @jimthefish.  Nice to be back and see everyone theorizing away! 🙂  I would be shocked if any idea I come up with actually panned out.  Hasn’t happened yet.  Why break a perfect record. :p

For…[Read more]

Hi all!

Nice to see everyone back.  I have a LOT of catching up to do.  Have enjoyed the first two episodes.  To me “Smile” felt very much like Classic Who.  If I had seen this story with Three and Jo I would have thought “That looked about right.”

And then I would have thought “Wow, how did they manage those special effects!”

Seeing Sus…[Read more]

Thanks @ichabod and @missy!

Hi all!

I imagine I’m like the rest of your waiting around impatiently waiting the new series.

I have  been keeping occupied and I really REALLY hope it’s not horribly self serving to put this here,  but I just published a book on Amazon is anyone is interested.  Specifically in sci-fi, time travel with a bit of a gay love story thrown in…[Read more]

@ichabod Yes, I recall reading stories of the public outcry over the killing off of the character.  Not quite the same as with Superman. 😉

If I remember my chronology correctly,  Doyle wrote a number of stories after that which predated the final problem. But that wasn’t quite good enough to satisfy the public, I guess.

@ichabod I don’t disagree with you about that. It’s just that Holmes’ subsequent “Guess what, I’m not dead”,  to me, undermines that grand ending somewhat.

Don’t get me wrong. I have adored those books since I was 10 and first discovered the Readers Digest version of them on my parents book shelf.  I hope you don’t think I mean to diminish them i…[Read more]

@ichabod oh I have no doubt that ACD WANTED to divest himself of Holmes, but of course he ultimately didn’t.  After all, that was a pretty lucrative character.

I would be more convinced that he intended no out if at the end Watson was there, desperately holding onto Holmes, losing his grip and witnessing his fall, and then finally recovering and…[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]

How meta fun would it have been if, instead of Stephen Fry, River had married Mark Gattis?

Well add my voice to the chorus of “Loved the Episode”!

@pedant intriguing idea!  And consider that River knows a lot about Clara. Certainly at some point in those 24 years she will mention that. And the Doctor is just as certain to want to learn everything he can from her.

@ichabod That does it; you win the internet today!

Lol.  Thanks!  But I’m afraid I’m in the wrong time zone.

Nothing I can add to these wonderful comments about a wonderful episode!

But, oh! It is time to put the Bonkers Hat on. And I mean the seriously Tin-Foil-Bonkers Hat!

About The Hybrid.  (And don’t put too much stock in the wording of the prophecy because “they got it wrong.”

1. We learned that Asildr/Me has an issue of an infinite experience…[Read more]

@nerys Thanks!  Plausible, but not very bonkers, I’m afraid.  :p

@supernumerary I wonder if it’s possible that these episodes were originally written with a new (still unknown) companion.  Or even NO companion.

If we accept that Clara was going to leave before the Last Christmas episode, she may not have even been factored in to some of the stories originally.

That may be why her character seems a bit “off” now.

@tommo and @purofilion

There is another (albeit tenuous) connection to Amy’s Choice.  The absurdity of the Doctor’s assertion that the monsters are made of eye gunk is like the absurdity of his assertion that they were near a “cold burning star”.

I would not be surprised if in the sequel we hear him say “Eye Booger Monsters? ! Give me a break!”

Her sister being Oswin, the Dalek Claricle.