The Doctor Who Forum | Charlie Cook | Activity https://www.thedoctorwhoforum.com/members/charlie-cook/activity/ Activity feed for Charlie Cook. Mon, 27 Jul 2026 02:56:51 +0000 https://buddypress.org/?v=2.9.1 en-US 30 hourly 2 bb5684c24b98434b8f01e8036de89be2 Charlie Cook replied to the topic The Power of the Doctor in the forum The Thirteenth Doctor https://www.thedoctorwhoforum.com/forums/topic/the-power-of-the-doctor/#post-73595 Mon, 24 Oct 2022 19:17:37 +0000 “I assume it was that they did not want to distract from the surprise of Tennant. But I also wondered if there was a gendered assumption that the audience could not cope with a male Doctor appearing in the clothes of a female Doctor. I hope not”

they left the master in her clothes (I know that wasnt a ‘proper’ regeneration)

Ace looked pleasant…[Read more]

]]> 0814e18443322e03bf34bebfc2062c6e Charlie Cook replied to the topic Eve of the Daleks in the forum The Thirteenth Doctor https://www.thedoctorwhoforum.com/forums/topic/eve-of-the-daleks/#post-72803 Tue, 11 Jan 2022 08:58:05 +0000 @miapatrick that’s the one! Obviously I misremembered the plot and the  end but otherwise… 🙂

Thank you.

]]> 37321909de8f7cf14621475c3ee62694 Charlie Cook replied to the topic Eve of the Daleks in the forum The Thirteenth Doctor https://www.thedoctorwhoforum.com/forums/topic/eve-of-the-daleks/#post-72795 Sat, 08 Jan 2022 12:38:04 +0000 That was more like it! Loved the idea of accepting their death in one loop to set up the next one – a time travel version of Memento.

on the subject of time travel films, I saw a spanish film a couple of years ago on BBC4 when someone travels forward in time and see themselves  getting shot and (spoiler alert) in trying to avoid it actually…[Read more]

]]> df23c8541d97cd7e8cfcc3c0ee280a28 Charlie Cook replied to the topic Part 4 - Village of the Angels in the forum The Thirteenth Doctor https://www.thedoctorwhoforum.com/forums/topic/part-4-village-of-the-angels/#post-72497 Tue, 23 Nov 2021 10:21:16 +0000 @mudlark – excellent background. That certainly unmuddies some of waters for me. [no pun intended!]

]]> cae6862ff718c2338b940114dddcdb31 Charlie Cook replied to the topic Part 4 - Village of the Angels in the forum The Thirteenth Doctor https://www.thedoctorwhoforum.com/forums/topic/part-4-village-of-the-angels/#post-72490 Mon, 22 Nov 2021 09:57:49 +0000 @blenkinsopthebrave thanks for the heads up about the extra scene

]]> 2b1dbe1738bc73597efef4970fc5a43c Charlie Cook replied to the topic Part 4 - Village of the Angels in the forum The Thirteenth Doctor https://www.thedoctorwhoforum.com/forums/topic/part-4-village-of-the-angels/#post-72486 Sun, 21 Nov 2021 19:25:25 +0000 This season of Dr Who is like the Star Trek films – one bad, one good, one bad, one good…

]]> 9390a524aa87865b4edef801090bb6fa Charlie Cook replied to the topic Part 3 - Once, Upon Time in the forum The Thirteenth Doctor https://www.thedoctorwhoforum.com/forums/topic/part-3-once-upon-time/#post-72392 Sun, 14 Nov 2021 22:25:33 +0000 At the risk of facing the wrath of fellow Whovians, that was totally incomprehensible….

]]> 74823d63622a91d9c772e3b9fd064589 Charlie Cook replied to the topic Part 2 - War of the Sontarans in the forum The Thirteenth Doctor https://www.thedoctorwhoforum.com/forums/topic/part-2-war-of-the-sontarans/#post-72318 Sun, 07 Nov 2021 21:06:36 +0000 Those Sontarans are rotten shots!

much better than last week –  Azure and Swarm, “translations, but close enough”. Throwaway comment, or possible clue…

]]> 92260b6ae960b7c1804b18bf3bbf9ca3 Charlie Cook replied to the topic Part 1 - The Halloween Apocalypse in the forum The Thirteenth Doctor https://www.thedoctorwhoforum.com/forums/topic/part-1-the-halloween-apocalypse/#post-72294 Thu, 04 Nov 2021 23:49:42 +0000 Well I am pleased that I wasn’t the only that was completely at a loss to describe what I saw in episode 1. As someone above mentioned, I expect each of the plotlines will get an exclusive episode, but will I  remember anything from episode 1? I don’t think so – as a scene setter it failed miserably.

]]> 442a9cfc96871cb348860cc98baa8b77 Charlie Cook replied to the topic The Timeless Children in the forum The Thirteenth Doctor https://www.thedoctorwhoforum.com/forums/topic/the-timeless-children/#post-69922 Mon, 02 Mar 2020 07:52:10 +0000 @miapatrick “it’s most likely a case of how, not if, the Master got away/survived).”

The Master escape was signposted. just before the bomb went someone offscreen said, something like, “quick, come through here”

]]> 12af62cd440c1f3da33a588967fc3066 Charlie Cook replied to the topic The Timeless Children in the forum The Thirteenth Doctor https://www.thedoctorwhoforum.com/forums/topic/the-timeless-children/#post-69912 Mon, 02 Mar 2020 01:01:09 +0000 wow! I am not going to pick it to bits… I loved it…

]]> 10b24514957193636faf5f890f558290 Charlie Cook replied to the topic The Haunting of Villa Diodati in the forum The Thirteenth Doctor https://www.thedoctorwhoforum.com/forums/topic/the-haunting-of-villa-diodati/#post-69781 Sat, 22 Feb 2020 17:09:44 +0000 This series is like the Star Trek films, alternating between poor and excellent. TBH I have only just got around to watching this week’s as I wasn’t all fired up, but what a treat. This was another winner, and as commented previously by others, it was the pacing. One story, stick to it, move it along. Back to being excited for tomorrow… defo hop…[Read more]

]]> 87c41c8033998119a534bd392d5e29d1 Charlie Cook replied to the topic Can You Hear Me? in the forum The Thirteenth Doctor https://www.thedoctorwhoforum.com/forums/topic/can-you-hear-me/#post-69640 Mon, 10 Feb 2020 23:53:21 +0000 At the risk of being attacked by everyone here, I am going to put my head above the parapet and say, with the exception of the truly excellent Judoon episode, and ok plus Praxeus episode, I have found this series underwhelming so far.
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<div>I can’t put my finger on why I am not enjoying them. Part of the problem is with three c…[Read more]

]]> e0efac02f34c10fd26285b209a7b860b Charlie Cook replied to the topic Fugitive of the Judoon in the forum The Thirteenth Doctor https://www.thedoctorwhoforum.com/forums/topic/fugitive-of-the-judoon/page/2/#post-69433 Tue, 28 Jan 2020 10:04:17 +0000 I begin to suspect that the Doctor will be waking up in the a proverbial shower at the end of this series. We mustn’t forget that ‘everything is a lie’.

]]> aeefeb3cfe8794f8d42bcdc57caf0403 Charlie Cook replied to the topic Fugitive of the Judoon in the forum The Thirteenth Doctor https://www.thedoctorwhoforum.com/forums/topic/fugitive-of-the-judoon/#post-69426 Mon, 27 Jan 2020 23:38:08 +0000 @lisa nice spot about the companions not knowing the cybermen or daleks. Mistake or clue?….

]]> 95291ef9ae876a25118f2fd8b5d1c0d2 Charlie Cook replied to the topic Fugitive of the Judoon in the forum The Thirteenth Doctor https://www.thedoctorwhoforum.com/forums/topic/fugitive-of-the-judoon/#post-69414 Mon, 27 Jan 2020 16:33:43 +0000 Wow, wow wow! Best one since… can’t remember!

]]> 2134532c7a592856beb687d8ff38429b Charlie Cook replied to the topic Spyfall part 2 in the forum The Thirteenth Doctor https://www.thedoctorwhoforum.com/forums/topic/spyfall-part-2/#post-68877 Tue, 07 Jan 2020 07:10:57 +0000 <span class=”useratname”>@blenkinsopthebrave “77 years on earth in the 70s and 80s”  Now there is an idea for a an episode – The Two Masters</span>

]]> d49790d8fc248e72e56d5fd5cc062d0c Charlie Cook replied to the topic Spyfall part 2 in the forum The Thirteenth Doctor https://www.thedoctorwhoforum.com/forums/topic/spyfall-part-2/#post-68855 Mon, 06 Jan 2020 11:18:31 +0000 Wow! A lot of name dropping in this episode. Like most, I guessed Ada straight away, but didn’t guess Madeleine – there was a programme about SOE a couple of years ago, and I think she was mentioned in that.

A nice set up of the series arc. Have we seen the last of the Master? (Doubt it!)

]]> 10fe100b08768128625c8884eb64babf Charlie Cook replied to the topic Heaven Sent in the forum The Twelfth Doctor http://www.thedoctorwhoforum.com/forums/topic/heaven-sent/page/3/#post-48198 Sun, 29 Nov 2015 13:10:44 +0000 @countscarlioni funnily enough I was thinking of the Avengers episode The House That Jack Built during this as well. Happens to be my favourite Avengers episode.

]]> 5c5ab77b7afc924d9cc223d97e6d3b45 Charlie Cook replied to the topic The Woman Who Lived in the forum The Twelfth Doctor http://www.thedoctorwhoforum.com/forums/topic/the-woman-who-lived/page/3/#post-45598 Mon, 26 Oct 2015 17:18:36 +0000 Disappointed that the second chip got wasted (as far as the story arc is concerned). Not sure why she didn’t give it the person she wrote about in her journals as being the love of her life.

Re comments others have made:

I thought Me said she learnt of the Doctor from people she met (you have made waves)

Like the theory about Clara still being…[Read more]

]]> 22317b2da6513ab2f6c60635d657096f Charlie Cook changed their profile picture https://www.thedoctorwhoforum.com/activity/p/51729/ Thu, 15 Oct 2015 14:00:21 +0000 0 631a3be0ebdc1f30c39df1d5f4fce0f7 Charlie Cook replied to the topic Before The Flood in the forum The Twelfth Doctor http://www.thedoctorwhoforum.com/forums/topic/before-the-flood/#post-44485 Sun, 11 Oct 2015 12:03:24 +0000 Apologies if I missed someone else saying this, but did you read the inscription on Prentice’s card: May the remorse be with you

]]> 7b58b047dc6775873ee946a01aca5477 Charlie Cook replied to the topic The Witch's Familiar in the forum The Twelfth Doctor http://www.thedoctorwhoforum.com/forums/topic/the-witchs-familiar/page/7/#post-43851 Wed, 30 Sep 2015 15:29:14 +0000 Posts arrive quicker than I can read them, so sorry if someone has already said this, but there have been suggestions that Clara might be a The Master. A character is only supposed to be able to coexist with themselves under certain conditions, not as a norm… Or has that time restriction gone now…

]]> 0dab213af23b1a037feadb8ad44ebf6d Charlie Cook replied to the topic The Magician's Apprentice in the forum The Twelfth Doctor http://www.thedoctorwhoforum.com/forums/topic/the-magicians-apprentice/page/3/#post-43136 Mon, 21 Sep 2015 12:37:07 +0000 I don’t know if we are allowed to refer to The Inspector (US spoof show) here, but when the Daleks were waiting for Clara to run, I couldn’t help thinking ‘less talking, more fleeing’.

]]> 95852bf9df451b48d4fa518262c357c2 Charlie Cook replied to the topic Deep Breath in the forum The Twelfth Doctor http://www.thedoctorwhoforum.com/forums/topic/deep-breath/page/13/#post-37111 Thu, 08 Jan 2015 23:03:39 +0000 da3ea27234d4b93c3980475d443c0348 Charlie Cook replied to the topic Last Christmas in the forum The Twelfth Doctor http://www.thedoctorwhoforum.com/forums/topic/last-christmas/#post-36421 Fri, 26 Dec 2014 12:07:17 +0000 Couple of thoughts to throw in the the pot:

I wondered if the Doctor was waking up in Pompeii.

I was expecting all of last season to be a ‘Bobby in the shower’ moment. Good call about her flat/house.

]]> d8e93ea76fc22f7ed637435885a5e222 Charlie Cook replied to the topic General Open Thread - TV Shows in the forum TV programmes http://www.thedoctorwhoforum.com/forums/topic/general-open-thread-tv-shows/page/10/#post-36150 Wed, 10 Dec 2014 15:59:06 +0000 x

]]> a0f4f82978e06a56713cce2ece9ab9ed Charlie Cook replied to the topic Dark Water in the forum The Twelfth Doctor http://www.thedoctorwhoforum.com/forums/topic/dark-water/page/6/#post-34784 Wed, 05 Nov 2014 13:40:17 +0000 If we return to an old theory about people being transmitted away by Missie before they die, then Danny ought to be safe unless he presses that button – he’s not dead…

]]> 72dc169bc0baf85cefb3a5708d24666f Charlie Cook replied to the topic Dark Water in the forum The Twelfth Doctor http://www.thedoctorwhoforum.com/forums/topic/dark-water/page/5/#post-34735 Tue, 04 Nov 2014 14:59:38 +0000 Apropos nothing, I was quite tickled that one of the key saving places was a copy of The Time Traveller’s Wife – one of my favourite books. Were any of the other hiding places significant/memorable?

]]> 46f07048a0f06fb8d09904a9c7b9589c Charlie Cook replied to the topic The Caretaker in the forum The Twelfth Doctor http://www.thedoctorwhoforum.com/forums/topic/the-caretaker/page/3/#post-32687 Mon, 29 Sep 2014 14:43:00 +0000 @Brewski Nice spot on Floyd

]]> 32bb29a2c13eaac4cf14d1642dadc8c1 Charlie Cook replied to the topic Deep Breath in the forum The Twelfth Doctor http://www.thedoctorwhoforum.com/forums/topic/deep-breath/page/2/#post-30076 Sun, 24 Aug 2014 15:38:31 +0000 Jury out…

Liked the new credits, but got so bored found myself wondering who did Clara’s hair as it obviously wasn’t Jenny.

Intrigued by the Missy/Master idea…

…and let’s get Paternoster Gang on CBBC

]]> 3d7f19025b1287f1f6c77bfa0bb691d5 Charlie Cook replied to the topic The Next Doctor (2) in the forum General http://www.thedoctorwhoforum.com/forums/topic/the-next-doctor-2/page/5/#post-24470 Mon, 20 Jan 2014 10:36:09 +0000 May be a reference to Sussex Vampyre. See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Giant_Rat_of_Sumatra

]]> 644e00f10edf8e1bd55f80f7fca98d05 Charlie Cook replied to the topic General Open Thread - TV Shows in the forum TV programmes http://www.thedoctorwhoforum.com/forums/topic/general-open-thread-tv-shows/page/5/#post-23206 Sat, 21 Dec 2013 15:01:22 +0000 Has anyone else watched the ‘untitled web series about a space traveler who also travels through time’?
http://Www.theinspector.tv
Good spoof series

]]> ac8a360d022ff88243b12cd71c80f038 Charlie Cook replied to the topic An Unearthly Child in the forum The First Doctor http://www.thedoctorwhoforum.com/forums/topic/an-unearthly-child/#post-22113 Mon, 02 Dec 2013 00:21:53 +0000 As someone old enough to have watched from day 1, I was impressed with the quality of ep1 of Unearthly Child, and suprised how poor the next 3 were. Now if only we can get them to repeat the Dalek epidodes…

]]> 1d999a0f169d3feb853094934359debc Charlie Cook replied to the topic The Day of The Doctor - The 50th Anniversary Special in the forum The Eleventh Doctor http://www.thedoctorwhoforum.com/forums/topic/the-day-of-the-doctor-the-50th-anniversary-special/page/19/#post-21281 Sat, 23 Nov 2013 21:22:09 +0000 Wow!

]]> 51d9296002b87ee6955868efd30a915e Charlie Cook commented on the post, Prequels: The Night of the Doctor - discuss any prequels here http://www.thedoctorwhoforum.com/sidrat/the-night-of-the-doctor-discuss-it-here/comment-page-3/#comment-1751 Fri, 15 Nov 2013 13:55:24 +0000 A brilliant appetiser for the forthcoming week….

]]> 4c2beaa80cf9baa76a851a4bccf5475f Charlie Cook replied to the topic The Next Doctor (2) in the forum General http://www.thedoctorwhoforum.com/forums/topic/the-next-doctor-2/#post-15654 Wed, 07 Aug 2013 14:20:02 +0000 As someone knocking on the door of my pension, I am looking forward to a return to an older doctor. Just thought I would say that!

]]> e19fe00c3b3cba439f4a8cdf96be3e83 Charlie Cook changed their profile picture https://www.thedoctorwhoforum.com/activity/p/15998/ Wed, 07 Aug 2013 14:18:09 +0000 0 ff3a15c8b6150ebd2f3c8633f5bb2b95 Charlie Cook replied to the topic The Next Doctor? in the forum General http://www.thedoctorwhoforum.com/forums/topic/the-next-doctor/page/5/#post-11847 Tue, 04 Jun 2013 17:55:10 +0000 @Shazzbot re Mark Rylance – I agree, astoundingly talented, but I tend to think of him as unknown outside of the theatre, and we can but dream…

]]> 28f0c0decfade1487da64c9054530f1d Charlie Cook replied to the topic The Next Doctor? in the forum General http://www.thedoctorwhoforum.com/forums/topic/the-next-doctor/page/5/#post-11844 Tue, 04 Jun 2013 17:31:51 +0000 If we are looking for an older doctor, relatively unknown on TV, but established theatre actor, Mark Rylance ticks all the boxes. Plus, my wife would start watching, so I would get to see the show on Saturday, […]

]]> 44ab6495cade4e509197b0e96e837994 Charlie Cook replied to the topic The Next Doctor? in the forum General http://www.thedoctorwhoforum.com/forums/topic/the-next-doctor/page/2/#post-11667 Sun, 02 Jun 2013 14:32:33 +0000 Scene 42: SM rushes into the Dr Who offices.

“Those people on the Dr Who forum are getting dangerously close to the solution for the 50th anniversary episode. Release the story about Matt leaving to distract them…”

]]> 634402e494654528863ba2b62ca8c32e Charlie Cook replied to the topic The Next Doctor? in the forum General http://www.thedoctorwhoforum.com/forums/topic/the-next-doctor/page/2/#post-11665 Sun, 02 Jun 2013 13:55:02 +0000 Speculation of a female Doctor isn’t new. Many years ago, in the original series,  Kate O’Mara was being talked about as a new Doctor…

]]> 7128668c26de3dfde407b8cd8ef2b71f Charlie Cook replied to the topic S33 (7) 14 – The Name of the Doctor in the forum The Eleventh Doctor http://www.thedoctorwhoforum.com/forums/topic/s33-7-14-the-name-of-the-doctor/page/20/#post-10959 Sat, 25 May 2013 23:16:28 +0000 The clever thing here is – are they all  (nudge nudge) “continuity errors” or are there some continuity errors. Phew!

]]> 4da7126a30ed072ec1c9735109ccd210 Charlie Cook replied to the topic S33 (7) 14 – The Name of the Doctor in the forum The Eleventh Doctor http://www.thedoctorwhoforum.com/forums/topic/s33-7-14-the-name-of-the-doctor/page/20/#post-10861 Sat, 25 May 2013 10:47:51 +0000 Apologies if what I now say clashes with what everyone else has said, but I am struggling to catch back up!!

@Craig thanks for the mini-episodes. Didn’t know about them, and I think they add a lot of back […]

]]> 1ef58023c7b4b5293c1bb2d780df0f06 Charlie Cook replied to the topic S33 (7) 14 – The Name of the Doctor in the forum The Eleventh Doctor http://www.thedoctorwhoforum.com/forums/topic/s33-7-14-the-name-of-the-doctor/page/15/#post-10375 Wed, 22 May 2013 17:13:07 +0000 @shazzbot

– “I wondered whether the tardis Clara tried to get into, and failed [in RoA], was the original”

“Wow, now there’s a thought – you mean, from the time the Doctor was there before, with […]

]]> 8dc53be8dca8ede76e882a46ccd0a3c8 Charlie Cook replied to the topic S33 (7) 14 – The Name of the Doctor in the forum The Eleventh Doctor http://www.thedoctorwhoforum.com/forums/topic/s33-7-14-the-name-of-the-doctor/page/14/#post-10360 Wed, 22 May 2013 16:23:58 +0000 @budicaneup @shazzbot I wondered whether the tardis Clara tried to get into, and failed, was the original

]]> f57475eb6bf6179b1262a515caf74294 Charlie Cook replied to the topic S33 (7) 14 – The Name of the Doctor in the forum The Eleventh Doctor http://www.thedoctorwhoforum.com/forums/topic/s33-7-14-the-name-of-the-doctor/page/14/#post-10342 Wed, 22 May 2013 12:33:14 +0000 Phew, caught up!!

No one seems to have revisited the time in The Rings of Akhaten when the Doctor vanished (although I could have missed it, in which case I apologise)

Was this when the Doctor […]

]]> 03fa43f4db0156176c5c31f807451c8e Charlie Cook replied to the topic S33 (7) 13 – Nightmare in Silver in the forum The Eleventh Doctor http://www.thedoctorwhoforum.com/forums/topic/s33-7-13-nightmare-in-silver/page/5/#post-8808 Sun, 12 May 2013 21:28:49 +0000 Not relevant to current posts, but the ’emperor hidden in plain sight’ was similar to an episode of Blake’s Seven.

]]> 4eb13b93b9f4990655669ff0e8c19a3e Charlie Cook replied to the topic S33 (7) 12 - The Crimson Horror in the forum The Eleventh Doctor http://www.thedoctorwhoforum.com/forums/topic/s33-7-12-the-crimson-horror/page/8/#post-8329 Thu, 09 May 2013 14:00:55 +0000 Re osakaHunter comment about Brain of Morbius’ – in the mind battle Morbius’s past lives show on his ‘screen’ so the pre-hartnell pictures must be the doctor. Mind you if you go by that, the Doctor has passed his […]

]]> 8e59d1daae2b3c5a6d7569a1e613862a Charlie Cook replied to the topic S33 (7) 12 - The Crimson Horror in the forum The Eleventh Doctor http://www.thedoctorwhoforum.com/forums/topic/s33-7-12-the-crimson-horror/page/8/#post-8327 Thu, 09 May 2013 13:53:52 +0000 Re Satsuma Joe comment:”Byron also had an illegitimate daughter with Mary Shelley’s stepsister. They christened her Clara.”

Byron had a legitimate daughter ada lovelace (after whom the programming language is named).

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