Having not seen Jodie in anything, I’m rather looking forward to it.  Whilst I’m a big fan of Capaldi’s, I found last year’s series a bit s…[Read more]

I’ve seen a few Mike Bartlett things @PhaseShift, but this was completely different.  Not sure how effective t…[Read more]

Oh, and whilst I’m here, that Christmas special was cobblers!

I noticed the background music in this episode in a good way for once.  It reminded me of ‘Carry on Screaming’, plus Perkins had a bit of the Hawtreyesque about him:

Perkins Perkins, the railway e…[Read more]

1) Clara with her face coloured in

2) Psi in search of a missing part

3) Saibra looking for that extra something

4) Ms Delphox or her previous clones

5) D…[Read more]

1) Last year was full of Claricles, is this year full of relatives of Danny Pink?

2) Orson Pink states that time travel is in his blood, saying it was stories of his grandparents, then corrected to great…[Read more]

Some observations:

1) When the Doctor is first in Rupert’s room, he’s…[Read more]

The knocking on the spaceship reminded me of ‘Midnight’ which is another one of my favourites.

 (Robin Hood)

Oh and this:

 (Sheriff of Nottingham questioning Clara)

 (Archery tournament)

 (Sheriff of Nottingham’s Castle)

 (Surly Scottish hero)

 (Forest where it is always sunny)

 (Princess Clara/Fiona)

(Sheriff of Nottingham)

 (Faceless goons/robots to do the Sheriff of Nottingham’s bidding)

I’m not…[Read more]

A few thoughts (in the form of a list!):

1) If Missy is collecting those who have sacrificed themselves in some way at the Doctor’s behest, will Rusty the Dalek be part of ‘heaven’ too?  I can’t see him lasting all that long trying to bump off all the Daleks.

2) The Doctor’s attitude to the death…[Read more]

A theme like the eggs and lights from last series perchance?

However, that’s just a distraction.  Just idly watching some bits from Deep Breath and it may have been mentioned above – if not I’ll claim what little glory there is.  The adv…[Read more]

A few thoughts in my traditional format of a list:

1) The cyborg’s ‘Promised Land’ put me in mind of the obligatory Red Dwarf reference which I always like to dust off for every DW episode.  This…[Read more]

1) The Doctor landing in Glasgow I thought was also a reference to Sarah-Jane.  Didn’t she tell Ten in School Reunion that he last dropped her in Aberdeen?

2) Cyborg man’s obsession in a vague ‘Pr…[Read more]

First impressions, hmmm.  Not as immediately accessible as Eleventh Hour but Capaldi did say that h…[Read more]

Turning up like @timeloop just in time for the new series (been lurking for a bit as I’ve been a bit busy).

I’ve got my cinema ticket for Saturday (although I’m not sure how busy the cinema will be, when I booked this week, the seat allocation diagram was looking mighty sparse) and even forced myself to watch the One Show for…[Read more]

I watched the three episodes in a row and really got into it, and was all for jumping ahead.  But, I’ll stick to the spirit of this blog and save myself for next week.  Thoughts, in my favourite form, a list:

1) Pentangle.  It did look like the pa…[Read more]

Judas that I am, I’m busy reading the bonkers theorising on that programme at the moment.  However it’s finishing this weekend so I will be back in the land of sci-fi…

Never mind the Tardis, this last month has been like a trip back to the 90s. No internet at home, only at work. Damn you Talk Talk and your rubbish service!

I’ve switched to BT thhssspp *blows raspberry in the direction of Talk Talk’s dodgy call centre*

Have I missed much?

Need to watch the episode again but the first impression of the chickenelly family was that not much happened. Also was…[Read more]

You saw it at the O2?? Me and @Bluesqueakpip were there too. Shame we didn’t know beforehand. We were the 2 in 3D glasses, fairly near the front, squeeing regularly throughout! 😀 Wasn’t it great to watch as a big communal experience with everyone applauding/laughing etc at the same time?

Aaa, I was near the back with the good view (ie no…[Read more]

Still enjoyed it though, but thought I’d dust off one of my few pet theories for the 50th which I suggested ages ago.  In the book ‘Summer Falls’, the story is about a painting (although technically it is bringing three different…[Read more]

First thing, I did ask for a multiple Doctor story and got one – technically 13 in all.  However if we leave aside the stock footage cameos, and include the McGann prequel I got six!  Not too bad.

Presumably this sets up the stor…[Read more]

My forum moniker is the rather grand The Czar

However my real name comes up with the rather disappointing The Florist

Hmmm *thinks sarcastically* which should I choose?

I have been waiting for this for a long time. I will confess to something almost heretical on this board: I think I am looking forward to this even more than to the 50th.

What! […]

The trailers do look good (about time they made an appearance).  As I’ve mentioned before, the multiple doctor episodes were always my favourite as a nipper.  I wonder if […]

You know, I avoided them like the plague in the run up to TNotD but having waited so long for some 50th action with bugger all to show for it I was willing to take the plunge.

Just have to wait till tonight and tomorrow then.  Does that mean I’ll be forced to watch Atlantis?  Damn you BBC! *shakes fist*

To add my fourpenneth into the debate about the interaction or lack of interaction of new members, I think it simply has to do with lack of new content.  I, probably like quite a few posters out there, really only got back into Doctor Who through the AG series.  Whilst looking at t…[Read more]

*dusts off pipe and gets out numbered list*

1. When the Doctor enters his own timeline…

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Agree with others that it’s no wonder it took so long to produce, it was fantastic.  It really needs to be seen on a large screen, not in a tiny window on a laptop (mine is playing up, hence tiny window).  Thankfully @wolfweed links has identified the Where’s Wally elements for me, ta.

What I’m hinting at is that it was clearly a post embargo story as it named the episodes and where they were found in the initial strap line. The whole thing…[Read more]

Although I wouldn’t consider myself to have dyslexia, when I was at art college we all had to do one of those questionnaires to see if there were any undiagnosed dyslexics in the year.  If I recall correctly, if you answered 10 out of 20 questions ‘yes’ you were likely to have some form of dyslexia…[Read more]

Oooh a lovely new redesign @Craig.  At first I thought my computer or eyes had gone a bit wonky – although I do ag…[Read more]

Another thing I noticed yesterday and again today is that the various edits are appearing at the end of people’s posts, see this for example…

Here’s the link to the full range with the […]

Despite enjoying a conspiracy/bonkers theory as much as anyone on this forum, I can’t help thinking that it is indeed the filming of the Xmas special.  If only for the fact that it would be a huge waste of […]

In the interests of research, I dug out my boxed set to look for said ‘hooded figure’ and I found it.  I see what you mean – curses if only I’d spotted it two years ago, the Grauniad […]

Just off to follow the other links now…

The Pandorica Opens (or was it The Big Bang)?: who was the hooded figure clearly lurking behind the Pandorica in the British Museum?

Eh?  I missed that one, that would have been […]