Hey YOU! You’ve been gone a very. Long. Time 🙁

I hope all is well in the Arbutus manor?

And that reminds me of another manor!  The @idiotsavon castle!

I spent, ooh, about 3 hours last night watching Listen & reading all the comments. I’m a-watching all of the Peter Capaldi years again. How beautiful. I was reading a…[Read more]

It is up there on a par with @chickenelly‘s bow tie and pipe. Talking of which, where is the old crowd? Have they drifted away because of the show or, heaven forbid, because of us? Are our musings less witty and incandescently brilliant than they used to be? Mine, almost certainly. (I…[Read more]

I was annoyed with the Guardian last night. they ran an article quoting comments from BTL and picked…[Read more]

I have been reading through your posts over the last few years. Brilliant. It really is great to have you back.

You are entitled to your opinions like the rest of us.

It was meant as a romp and it was.

@juniperfish; I’ve just posted that on the NEWS thread.

What a long time you have been gone. A “younger model”…well I suppose that that dashes any hope I might have had of applying for the job.

I must say, I am glad there is someone else with street-cred on this forum who thinks as you do about the last Christmas special. I was rather hesitant about expressing my doubts (which…[Read more]

To new friends, old ones, lost ones and those who are just temporarily AWOL

Special thanks to our mighty Emperor @Craig and the mods @JimtheFish, @FatmaninaBox and @Phaseshift (I’m with you on 2014, it started off OK but I’m not sorry to see the back of it! (Loved your snow pic from last…[Read more]

First and foremost, there is @HTPBDET. Gone, but never forgotten.

Then there are those, like @wolfweed, who I hope will be with us again soon.

And then there are those, like @WhoHar and @chickenelly, who have been gone…[Read more]

Anyway another theory time, I don’t know if someone mentions this yet but at the beginning of the episode when Clara and Doctor was discussing about Woods, he said ” that was ages ago ” and didn’t seem like he remember her, but we don’t know how long from the Caretaker’s episode date to Kill The Moon’s date and as we know, Doctor is a t…

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@Phaseshift and @Chickenelly Love your galleries, great stuff

@Mudlark Completely in awe of your Mozart spot. Someone on the production team would be so chuffed to know that was picked up on.

@Handles I see what you’re getting at with multiple timelines but it ties my little brain in gordian knots! Never thought I’d see the…[Read more]

@Juniperfish Hello you! Still not well? It’s about time you kick that thing in the b***.  Yeah, I’d also say it’s been ‘Dad skills’ -we also know what he did. He did it to himself in Deep Breath, remember?

@JimboMcMaster We will have to wait and see if he is still bothered by those questions. He…[Read more]

So much to think about, and will need to watch again, but one thing that struck me very powerfully was…[Read more]

‘Doctor Who’ Series 8 – “Robot of Sherwood” Production Artwork

As to the Shrek thing (thanks @chickenelly ), I’m surprised that Disney don’t own Robin Hood along with…[Read more]

this whole ep reminds me of a BG-who ep, but i can’t put my finger on which one. (maybe one of five’s?) it also featured a crashed ship, a castle,…[Read more]

Nice shout out on the “don’t breathe/don’t not breathe”

And @Wolfweed and @Chickenelly‘s “eyes” motif

Lots to watch out for, including the resurrection of @Juniperfish‘s red/blue strands (thanks @Phaseshift)… or maybe it’s Reservoir Doctors! (And seconding that wish that we see the finny one back here, fit and heartily bonkering,…[Read more]

”Oh, no, that’s good. Awwwwww. Awwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww…

It’s good…”

First of all, thanks to @pedant for helping me understand why Clara found the Doctor’s new look so hard to take

Clara isn’t a Claricle, she is Clara

Secondly, I half re-watched the episode again while reading through the email alerts from this forum and I made sure I listened r…[Read more]

but the impaling of Cyborg man on the church spire I took to be a reference to Troughton’s demise in The Omen.

Surely a reference from your Granny?! But a brilliant reference all the same.

@cathannabel (lovely new avatar, BTW)

“it would not be wonderful to meet a Megalosaurus, forty feet long or so, waddling like an ele…

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Just a flying-in visit to wish everyone a  Happy Who Day

@JimtheFish @Bluesqueakpip Thanks for missing me! And yes, been doing that cultural overdose thing in…[Read more]

I can’t believe I’m working tonight, in the middle of bloody nowhere. I won’t even be able to pop a small party popper at the appropriate time because I’d be in d…[Read more]

I AM getting positively EXCITED though! FINALLY new input in the Whoniverse. And hopefully the explanation how Capaldi could have played…[Read more]

Yeah I kept an eye on the forum just like @chickenelly (welcome back ;D), being more of a lurker now and then. I tried to log in once, the forum wouldn’t let me so I’m glad it worked out now.

@wolfweed and other informants have done a great job collecting everything that concerns Doctor Who, this site is a great archive. That’s…[Read more]

You have to compare the pre-bookings for Who with the pre-bookings for other showings. My local is about half full – which certainly doesn’t compare with the 50th Anniversary. But when you look at other screenings on Saturday night, it’s positively packed.

As for the One Show – Who vets these questions? No one apparently.

Nice to see Capaldi totally unimpressed by Matt Baker’s behind the sofa antics…

I was just playing my (in fact for real) Scottish granny’s (where is @Chickenelly btw?) old shellac 78s on her His Master’s Voice gramophone the other day. […]

Welcome back! Hope your connection is sorted because we have more “homework” starting next week to keep you occupied.

@monochromedimension (and newer members really)

The Doctor retrospectives we do are done in Forums basically. We take a story per Doctor and watch it episode by episode, week by week (as nature, or rather “The BBC”…[Read more]

As @Blenkinsopthebrave said earlier

Have I missed much?

The real question should be: have we missed you? And the answer is a resounding YES! Welcome back from the fog of a pre-internet age.

Absolutely agree. Happy new year, and welcome back to the world of bonkers theorising 🙂

The last thing they’ll want is a blurry image on the internet stealing their thunder!

As when they started filming Series 5 in what they thought was an out-of-the-way location. To discover, to their dismay, that the entire Internet was discussing the new Doctor’s costume almost the second Matt Smith stepped out of the costume v…[Read more]

Have I missed much?

The real question should be: have we missed you? And the answer is a resounding YES! Welcome back from the fog of a pre-internet age.

Of course, there is stuff for you to catch up on: lots of interesting new blogs, lots of new lurkers-who-became-posters, and lots of Who stuff from around the web courtesy of @wolfwe…[Read more]

Hello, one and all.

Happy New Year!

And Happy Birthday, dear wonderful forum!

And jelly babies, celery, and Jammie Dodgers all around for reaching, nay, *exceeding* the 1000 member mark.

Should be some sort of prize for our emperor @Craig — another regeneration…[Read more]

Yay! welcome back, and hope your lack of internet is resolved soon. Greetings to your wee Scottish granny btw.

I wondered that too, about aging Matt up so the contrast between him and Capaldi is less. It also makes sense when this is a much older, more mature, post-angst Eleven.  He’s not sure that he’s not the last of his people,…[Read more]

Apparently, ‘Caves of Androzani this was not’. Good.

Yes, I saw that one and agreed. As hard as I tried, I couldn’t remember a crap “Magma Monster” in this episode at all. The one in “Caves” made @chickenelly (where she!?) want to throw something at their screen. 🙂

Back to the loss of memories theme after the Snowmen! RESULT!

Nice big reminder of the Doctors age as well with the Diary. Strokes chin, and requests the use of @chickenelly s pipe.

By golly, you are right. It might get Kennedy in!

No, the real reason is that it will allow me to revisit the 11 year old Blenkinsop who watched “An Unearthly  Child”. That, and the fact that I […]

@Chickenelly Yay, great to have you back. @Bluesqueakpip has a great theory that it’s Eliz 1 and there’s an assassination plot […]

Enjoy while it lasts…

Leaked The Day Of The Doctor Trailer

The picture in the first video (did stop it right at the beginning) of this p…[Read more]

And Clara’s reflection is – Sarah Jane Smith

Not convinced about that, sorry; I’m more with @Blenkinsopthebrave that it’s Susan. Hard to tell with the globe distorting the reflection, but it looks as if the haircut is much shorter than either Clara’s or  S-J’s.  Which leads to his bonkers theory that Clara is daughter of the Doc…[Read more]

@bluesqueakpip

I thought it was obviously the young Elisabeth Sladen – from the Pertwee era, I thought

I think you’re right. They even got her  massive 70s collar – the “glider”.

Come fly with me……

@Bluesqueakpip– yes, I love my kindle for that. I’m increasingly worried that when my current one…[Read more]

It really is down to PUWS – if it’s not needed, bin it.

@chickenelly The font is actually bigger than it was before. I did have it even bigger in an earlier incarnation as I’m a bit eyeball challenged myself but was worried it might be too much. I’d actually like…[Read more]

I think @arkleseizure msuggested The Mind Robber (at 5 eps) and I suggested Tomb of the Cybermen (at 4 eps, although for people with access to the Watch TV channel, that story will be featured in the UK showing of The Doctors Revisited). If you don’t fancy B&W, he does feature in The Three Doctors (10th anniversary 4…[Read more]