Good to hear from you!

Absolutely agree with the idea that many young ones aren’t as attached to social media as many others assume.

Just from our perspective only, The Son and many of his mates have virtually no socials with most working 2 jobs & at university/college. There is less time, less disposable income and as @JanetteB m…[Read more]

1963 is also featured so a Sunday in September 1963 maybe? The first episode began on a schoolday but I don’t think it is ever stated which day of the week it…[Read more]

Bringing my Susan/Flood musings from the Boom pages, to get things in their proper place.

Not sure about Mrs Flood (…) but I wouldn’t be surprised if she ends up just being an indomitable elderly side character a la Wilf. (Unless, of course, she is the series 1 main villain — in which case, she might be Bad Wilf. Arf.…[Read more]

@bunface – hmmm your avatar has recalled Stooky Sue from The Giggle for me, in relation to all three of your speculations about the return of the Doctor’s granddaughter.

Stooky Sue = Susan foreshadowing?

Stooky Sue had three Stooky babbies – so it seems the Doctor’s progeny is definitely a thread to pull on.

Oh, I remember reading your flights of fancy now! All the better for their ‘wrongness’, right? 👍 Apologies, I don’t retain anything beyond the next adventure (other than some odd detail that probably means nothing and the general mood), so I’m going to study Flood and ponder.

Also have difficulty with more than one conversation at a…[Read more]

Yes, I guess CAF would be the obv choice for an older Susan, although at time of casting/planning it may not have been so clearcut or possible? It’s sometimes hard to keep a glove on the real life shenanigans and timeframes, always remembering it’s a fabrication we’re dealing with! Ahem.

I don’t think Susan Twist is Susan…[Read more]

 “The One Who Waits” is Susan.

Anything is possible, and in a recent Radio Times piece Carol Ann Ford was reported as saying that if the call came for her return she would be up for it, but even if the references to her so far do herald her reappearance, I doubt that it will have such a weighty significance.

In the conte…[Read more]

@brewski

I’m going to agree. All kinds of twisted things could have happened…

I’m also going to suggest that Mrs. Flood is Susan, not least for the very superficial reason that Anita Dobson looks just l…[Read more]

… no footprints in the snow…? Legolas? Maybe Galadriel… it was an episode with goblins!

Or just bad CGI!

Mrs Flood? Still haven’t given up on River post spacesuit girl, and pre Mel. Maybe Captain Jack rocks up with vortex manipulator and sends her back to Amy’s timeline.

Clearly the no DNA match for Ruby is a big deal. Elf you recko…[Read more]

Welcome back! Very interesting idea about Mrs Flood. It does answer many of the questions I had about her seemingly contradictory behaviour. But her change of feeling regarding her neighbour from the beginning of the episode to the end still still seems a bit puzzling.

I tend to agree with you about the goblin musical number. Am willing…[Read more]

The alternative (given current political factors in the UK) could be a re-generation of alternative versions of Harold Saxon, each version played by the current contenders to become Prime Minister. (of course, all of them would come across as more scary than Harold Saxon…)

But back to your great…[Read more]

Actually, as I think about it, I suppose that could be a resolution to Yaz’s story–i.e. the Doctor discovers her reality, while Yaz either goes off to explore the universe in her reality or returns to Earth (again, her reality), hopefully with the memories of her adventures with the Doctor intact.

However, in my reality, it is time for…[Read more]

Yes, agree with everything you say. And it would be great if it works out.

But…how does one account for Yaz? If the Doctor is the real Doctor, is Yaz part of the alternate reality of the last three years? If the Doctor finds her reality, will Yaz have to disappear?

Bonkers, yes, but in the best possible way 🙂  An alternative reality as the context of so much that has happened in recent Doctor Who episodes would suit me all too well, and would be a very happy solution to some of the questions raised by Chibnall’s clumsy attempt to set a permanent stamp on the show.

It’s not that I have any…[Read more]

Now that is a bonkers theory. I like it!

I particularly like the idea that the Doctor is the real Doctor, but everything we have seen over the last three years has taken place in an alternate reality.  Back then, I always felt that the whole Timeless Children story was an invention of that unreliable narrator, the Master. In your…[Read more]

@phaseshift I dearly hope if Sony are being bought in as production partners that the Beeb have layed  down some serious caveats one of which is that there be a predominately British casting including that of the Doctor. Too often I have felt that when American TV companies try and re…[Read more]

The discussion which I referred to isn’t really  spoilery, just the report that sparked it off.

This gist of the hypothesis which I proposed there is that the coincidence of the paired regenerations of Hartnell Doctor and Capaldi Doctor which immediately followed their meeting, which could be seen in one sense as simultaneous although…[Read more]

Um. The transmat first makes its appearance in the Troughton era – the Daleks have it, I think, in one of the ‘missing’ stories, which is why I’m not very sure. Then lots of people start having transmats; when we turn up on Gallifrey for the Five Doctors, the Time Lords use a transmat to send the Master into the Death Zone. During the T.…[Read more]

The reviewer in question clearly lacks imagination 🙄

There is a relevant discussion which might be of interest if you are prepared to venture onto the Spoiler forum.

P.S. @brewski, good to see you back!

at the very least, perhaps the doctor will find out where exactly susan is, in his current time stream, and it can be like the finding gallifrey theme from a couple of series ago? something for chibnall to tackle in a loose arc, or even a doctor’s quest sort of thing, next series? i could go for that… if she’s not featured in…[Read more]

And, of course, features Richard Curtis, who wrote “Vincent and The Doctor” many years later.

I’m sure everyone is wondering though – is it canon? 🙂

Fingers crossed….

Cheers
Janette

I think we could well see Susan at Christmas, given PC’s keenness for her to come back and the rumours that he is getting a strong input into the special. Now I know many are keen to see some kind of return to the character, but I’ve never been all that bothered myself. I think mostly because of the culture of the…[Read more]

is wearing a black Crombie coat very similar to the Doctor’s blue Crombie Coat?

Whether it could be a thing that matters I have no idea?  The Masters inferiority complex and

narcissism are the most authentic aspects about him so maybe a little competition of the coats…[Read more]

Great point — A Simm Master Confession Dial would have nothing but snarks and boasts, and I don’t think Missy…[Read more]

2 into 3! Yes, I actually wouldn’t put it past The Moffster…..

See two-into-three the comic way! Here on my old blog

Not sure how it fits in with ‘Devious’, though…

Your idea also made me wonder if the “difference” with this regeneration, that Moffat has been emphasizing, is that it involves 2 regenerations, with the 12th regenerating…[Read more]

A continuity error would be something like a piece of costume appearing and disappearing from a character throughout a scene.

Or an entire pirate….

also @nick

And we haven’t even considered spaghettification… 😉

A lot of British TV Drama is filmed in 60 minute episodes. As a viewer I rather wish Who had the same episode duration.

I hope Chibnall will attempt to do a few things differently. I watched all three Monk stories back to back (without any pre-watching), which certainly made me appreciate the whole story line more than the…[Read more]

The average 4 part story would be about 90 minutes if you take out the titles and recap of last weeks cliff hanger. You could probably take off another 4 or 5 minutes running time if you didnt need 3 cliff hangers per story. Its hard to account for the impact of lower budgets, fewer smaller sets and less location filming, but I guess you…[Read more]

You’re reply to @jimthefish sums up the he situation in BG Who better than I wrote.

One thought though re

On the other hand, we all know the Doctor will (and needs to) take control of the situation.  It saves a lot of time and redundant exposition to short-cut him into the leadership role.

Some of the very best Who stories, certainly…[Read more]

Maybe it’s a Time Lord thing.

Unlikely, as traditionally, the Master has been bearded (Roger Delgado, Anthony Ainley, and now John Simm).

I have the feeling that the Doctor’s hair was designed to look strange, and I am attracted to @brewski‘s theory that it is the Simm Master in disguise.

But *did* she know the risks?  As far as we’ve seen, she still doesn’t know what a regeneration is, does she?

[Of Razor]  He teaches her to settle for less, to not be so curious, and soon she’s mopping the floors and no longer treating the world around her as a…[Read more]

Personally, I don’t think it’s going to go that way. It’s too…[Read more]

Peter Capaldi regenerates as Michelle Gomez…that is too brilliant for words!

She would be fabulous. She would be a female Doctor that, as an actress, we know the audience already relates to (well, the civilized section of the audience, anyway). She would play into the “is she…[Read more]

I would absolutely love it if it turned out that Gomez has been bullshitting and Missy is the new Doctor (which could actually be shoe-horned into @brewski‘s bonkerising).

In fact I would listen to an entire Smiths album and only stab myself once.

Yes, you’re right — and thanks for that post, it’s really right on the mark (especially that…[Read more]

Absolutely agree with you there. We can take nothing for granted.