@ConfusedPolarity (and anyone else who has a view on this)

It’s the first time I’ve seen The Mind Robber this way – the way it was supposed to be viewed, one short blast per week – and I have to say, I love it.

I find this interesting, because when we did these last year I found I really enjoyed the episodes we covered, but above all I seemed…[Read more]

Funny. I had no recollection of this serial at all, I honestly thought I hadn’t seen it before, until the moment when the Doctor realized that he had put Jamie’s face together wrong. That hit me like a thunderbolt. I remembered his horrified tone when he realized what he had done, and what was about to happen. I remember being absolutely freaked…[Read more]

@ConfusedPolarity

Remember how shocked Sarah-Jane was in “School Reunion” that he hadn’t even mentioned her to Rose once?

That was also a neat little shout-out – Toby Whithouse had obviously watched a lot of the Sarah Jane stories. Sarah-Jane is one of the very few companions who did have the Doctor mention other, previous companions beyon…[Read more]

@monochromedimension

I think you win the ‘Craziest Theory Award’.

Ah, yes – you are very new here, aren’t you? Believe me, that one is a cliché, hence the laughs. Whenever a new female character turns up someone has to suggest Susan. It’s traditional. Now TimeLords can gender change it seems only fair to extend the courtesy to male characte…[Read more]

@ConfusedPolarity

it seems to me the perfect example of an actor taking on the role to escape typecasting rather than taking it in fear of it.

Definitely what I think. To use David Tennant’s obituary joke, Peter Capaldi probably doesn’t want the first line of his obituary to be ‘famous for playing Malcolm Tucker’. And he’s just taken one of the…[Read more]

Thanks, @MonochromeDimension and @ConfusedPolarity . I am feeling a lot better now, just a few sniffles. The issues is I went out into the deep snow and cold of Minnesota on Friday, to meet my hair appointment. By the time I came back home, my boots were completely soaked and I was frozen, thus getting hit with a nasty cold. However, the good news…[Read more]

@ConfusedPolarity

If BBC Three had still been going they’d probably have updated the “Ultimate Guide” and thrown another embarrassingly awful “party”

Ohhhhhh. Gawd bless you, guv. A timely reminder that things could always be worse. 😀

@ConfusedPolarity @Arbutus – Re: ‘Batches’ – Interesting method, at least you then don’t have to pick just one favourite! Mine would be First Doctor, Seventh Doctor and Ninth Doctor for now, probably will change to Twelfth Doctor though.

@ConfusedPolarity  You’ve pretty much expressed my views on AG Series 1. Like you, I loved Dalek and the Empty Child two-parter, and also the Ninth Doctor’s BG-style regeneration. But Nine never really felt “doctorish” to me, either. Maybe Moffat felt the same way? I love @Bluesqueakpip‘s suggestion that Day of the Doctor makes sense of Nine’s…[Read more]

@ConfusedPolarity   I love the idea of dividing the Doctor into “batches”!  One-Four, Five-Eight, Nine-Twelve (so far). I wouldn’t have thought of a division between Four and Five, but it’s true that Five’s era does have a different feel to it than most of Four’s. Okay, so my favourite “first batch” doctor is Four, my favourite from the second ba…[Read more]

@FaeGrl  – Re: Cosplay – Thank you! I keep wearing the sweater at the moment, I know its meant for my cosplay but its just too awesome to not wear normally.

Re: Nerdiness – The ‘its uncool to watch Doctor Who’ idea was in the late 80s in the UK, unfortunately when the Seventh Doctor’s run was on. I don’t think it was like that in the US however.…[Read more]

@ConfusedPolarity

Nine is the one who really doesn’t tick “The Doctor” boxes for me.

He doesn’t for me, either. Series 1 remains the only AG series to date where I wasn’t bothered if I missed an episode. At the time, I thought I’d just grown out of Doctor Who; it wasn’t until David Tennant that I realised I just hadn’t liked Christopher Eccle…[Read more]

@ConfusedPolarity – Yes, I wasn’t even thought of in 1970 (was born in 1980), so I missed out on this great episode completely, until now.

I’m a bit confused (no pun attended!) when you and others mention that it wasn’t cool to be a girl who loves Doctor Who. I never experienced such a thing, being that my grandmother and great grandmother were…[Read more]

@Arbutus – Yes, that’s true. I don’t believe that a millennium old Time Lord should speak like a teen at all, so I do agree with you. I’m just commenting on the fact that the writers really do seem to want to draw in the younger audience, so perhaps that’s why they’re writing the dialogue in teen-speak for the Doctors? It’s just a theory, I could…[Read more]

@MonochromeDimension, I also loved Seven. When he first appeared, he immediately became my favourite after Four, even in his “silly season”. I liked how he could go from light to dark with just a look. Four did that as well, but (without even realizing it at the time) I had missed it with Five and Six.

Yes, @FaeGrl, it is of course a show…[Read more]

@FaeGrl @ConfusedPolarity @Arbutus Basically just tagging everyone in this conversation!

About the dark side of the Doctor… personally I think no other Doctor has ever been as dark and manipulative as the Seventh. Now don’t go just thinking about his first season, I’m not talking about those serials. He later, in season 25 and 26, becomes an…[Read more]

@ConfusedPolarity  @FaeGrl

I completely agree about missing the Doctor’s dark side. To be honest, although I have enjoyed all the AG doctors, none of them have nailed it one hundred percent for me. But my benchmark will always be the Fourth Doctor, who I think really nailed that combination of silliness and menace, youthful exuberance and…[Read more]

@ConfusedPolarity – Thank you for the compliment of being “brave”, I love that! Although, I figured it to be “stubbornness” and possibly “social suicide” to admit right out that I never got attached to Eleventh. And yes, it’s the quiet anger that caused me to adore both Ninth and Tenth Doctors. They were a lot silly and goofy like the Eleventh,…[Read more]

@Arbutus, @ConfusedPolarity

For a long time I was attracted to the idea of Clara as the daughter of River and the Doctor. Does this mean I am attracted to soaps? I don’t think I am. However, given my fond memory of “A Family at War” (what a great show) I probably am! Anyway, given everything that has happened on the show since Clara first…[Read more]

@Bluesqueakpip  @Nick   @purofilion

I myself would be more inclined to guess that Clara had not been created as such, but manipulated into become what she is. So in a sense, the Clara that we know has been created, not physically, but through the experiences that she has been put through.

That being said, there can be no denying the strong pr…[Read more]