Oh, and last week we had ‘don’t breathe’, this week, ‘don’t not breathe’.  Whatever next…

Just watched the episode, an interesting mixture of daft and dark…  Lots of interesting things developing here, notably the Missy mystery (agreed that it must be significant that Gretchen was the only one of the soldiers who died to make it to ‘Heaven’ and that that sheds light on Humpty’s demise), and Danny Pink (being a firm non-believer as…[Read more]

@FatManInABox – I didn’t even try, years of working with physicists and mathematicians have taught me to nod sagely and say nowt.  I should have put a health warning on the link  though – ‘may cause spontaneous cerebral combustion’ …

@Steve-Thorp @ScaryB – re the Doc’s scribbled equations, wouldn’t you know it, someone has analysed them all:

http://www.tychosnose.com/the-science-at-the-end-of-the-whoniverse/

Doesn’t sound as though they will contribute very much to our bonkerising, but just in case anyone is interested!

On another point – the dinosaur.  Do we know for sure…[Read more]

@fivefaces – no problem, we’re all independently coming to (some) of the same conclusions around here, and it’s impossible to keep up with who was first to spot what!  I’m @cathannabel here I think (so many identities – hard to keep track!).

Over on Reddit they’ve identified the specific location that was used in The Girl Who Waited and other…[Read more]

The Guardian blog’s comment section seems to have spontaneously combusted….

BTW a colleague and Eng Lit scholar has just tweeted this: ‘Caught up with Dr Who. A dinosaur and spontaneous combustion in nineteenth-century London? Echoes of Dickens’s *Bleak House*!  ‘  I’d thought of the spontaneous combustion reference but had completely forgotten this quote from the beginning of the novel: “it would not be wonderful to m…[Read more]

Well, I had to wait till this afternoon to watch it as is traditional with the family gathered on or around the sofa, and I was getting rather agitated as various people created various entirely unnecessary delays (some of them devised solely to wind me up).  And then I ended up holding my breath for much of the episode, so I’m not sure I’m in…[Read more]

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My son sent me this …

@ScaryB – can’t complain that much, family watching chez Annabel has included not only Who, but also Walking Dead and Misfits (so inappropriate!), and have been spared X Factor or any programmes of that ilk.  And at least now she’s older she doesn’t take umbrage when I mock a little bit…

Yeah, what is this ‘casual viewer’ nonsense?  On the occasions when I sit down with my daughter to watch a bit of Hollyoaks (in the interests of mother-daughter bonding, you understand), she has to pause the recording every few mins while I ask idiotic questions about who /what/why.   So on that basis, Hollyoaks is unfairly alienating to the ca…[Read more]

Derren Brown again, eh!  And does Molly make anyone think of scarf geek girl in TDotD?

@ScaryB – all slightly fragile here too.  We spent the afternoon watching Transamerica, and then for contrast Goodbye Mr Chips…. then found ourselves watching one of those collections of YouTube clips which seemed to mainly comprise people vacuuming their cats.  And then three Big Bang Theory episodes in succession.  Have now recovered su…[Read more]

@idiotsavon – (a), thanks! and (b) no such thing as coincidence…

@Monochrome Dimension – welcome!

Splendid!  Keep bonkering on!   My motto for 2014.

Indeed, happy birthday to this forum.  So glad I found this place, where all the things I enjoyed about the Guardian blog were present and correct (all you lot, basically), and the things I hated and found depressing and tedious are banished.  Here’s to 2014 – looking forward to speculation about the Capaldi doc, to keep us all going till he a…[Read more]

I’d love a musical one.  It absolutely has to have a narrative justification though – as the Buffy ep does – not just randomly have an episode obeying conventions from an entirely different genre.   It also has to have great songs – as the Buffy ep does.  And yes, it would cause mass apoplexy in certain quarters, but is that necessarily a bad thi…[Read more]