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Here’s a still from Tennant’s regeneration which fits.

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@ardaraith @thommck @jimthefish @bluesqueakpip

I was quite excited about this but, boringly, when you watch it again (it’s at 18:16 on iPlayer) I think it’s just Tennant regenerating, as viewed from above, with the left and right firey glows coming from his hands, and the middle glow his head. In the middle of the two Smiths you can see his leg and foot, and you can kinda make out the line of his jacket above that. 🙁

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@wolfweed That really did make me laugh out loud 😀 Where do you find this stuff? Excellent!

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@wolfweed Great! Have fixed the image formatting issue so it fits in the column properly. Feel free to start more as you find them.

Everyone, if you want to add your captions to the Tom,Lis,Cyberman pic, here is where you should now go:

http://www.thedoctorwhoforum.com/caption-competitions/crazy-captions-1/

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@wolfweed Yeah, go ahead. As a trial run. Unfortunately I don’t think I can move the comments so far to the blog but will see what I can do.

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@scaryb and @wolfweed I’ve made you, Wolfweed, an author if you want to start a caption competition blog.

Just click the +New in the top bar and choose “post”. You’ll need to give each pic a title, and it’s best to be different each time, but it can be anything you want. Then it’s much the same as adding a comment.

After you’re done, in the Categories box on the right choose “Caption competition” (I can change that if you don’t like it) Then hit publish in the box above it. Simple as that 😀

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I hope that ‘s enough to take up the activity stream.

@jimthefish I saw those today too. I did think about posting but decided not to, your solution is much better.

I have to say I don’t think they have spoiled too much, just really raised my excitement levels and lead to more bonkers theories, but I can see how others may not speak to you ever again if they saw them before Saturday.

And that’s all I’m going to say.

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@galactus I’ve made you an author, so please go ahead and post, following the advice as laid out by @phaseshift

Many thanks for doing that. I have every single issue of Sandman in original comic form but haven’t re-read them in years, so look forward to your post. That really was another Golden age for comics around that time.

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@timeloop Me neither!

I have thought about extending editing, but I think I’d like to keep it as it is. On The Guardian you can’t edit at all, so I think it’s nice to have, but I am also wary about people posting things and then editing them after people have commented on them, to change the original meaning, making themselves look better, or making other people look stupid.

So sorry. Re-reading anything you post right afterwards usually catches most errors.

If there is something you really want to change later, just comment me or send me a PM (Personal Message) or PhaseShift or JimTheFish. I have edited quite a few posts for people already, and deleted double posts etc., so it’s no trouble.

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@craignixon Please don’t. 😀 Or any indications of whether you think it is good or not. And I’m sure you know this, but just a friendly reminder as I had to tell someone on Saturday, telling someone their bonkers theory is not correct is kinda just as much of a spoiler (for them at least) as actually giving the real plot away. Cheers.

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@phaseshift @jimthefish et al

As I’m not really running this as any sort of commercial venture I didn’t bother installing any analytics. However, as we’re growing I thought I might as well so did so on Saturday. Our first full day was Sunday and I was mighty impressed. 747 unique visitors and 7,278 page views. In one day!

Good work everyone for creating such a great space and mine of information and bonkers theories.

And we are now truly a forum on which the sun never sets 😀

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@bluesqueakpip @timeloop They eventually corrected it, but the URL is still:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/tv-and-radio/2013/may/04/doctor-who-hide-series-33-episode-11

How much wrong could you do with one post?

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@timeloop The only problem is that there is a large part of the community that loves spoilers. There will probably be many on Gallifrey Base thanking whoever posted the whole plot to the final episode. I don’t get it myself, I think they should be burned at the stake, but if that’s what rocks their boat…

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@lula and @Shazzbot Gallifrey Base has a bit of a reputation for being all about spoilers. From what I hear they actually send people out with cameras to video scenes being shot on location and post them on the site. Used to annoy the Hell out of Russell T Davies. THAT is how they’re the biggest Doctor Who forum on the net. We’re trying to be a bit different 😉

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@phaseshift seeing as I’m up late, just in case, thought I’d post another. Love the Pumpkins and their tribute to Méliès. In a @whisht style return, another US band with a video influenced by early German expressionism such as Fritz Lang’s Dr. Mabuse the Gambler, but mostly The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari (influential Doctors!) directed by Robert Wiene. Love this, more for the video than the song although I still think it’s one of their best even if the fanboys don’t agree.

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@scaryb Thanks. 😀 The signup page now says:

This site is currently closed to new subscriptions. It will be open again after the final epiosde of this series airs.

I’ve also said they can email me (and left my email address) if they really want to sign up before next Saturday. Hopefully that’ll be enough.

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So I’m going to post what was Number 1 in the UK when I was born. And given all the nonsense that has been going on tonight it seems appropriate. For the next week, I will try to be your…

 
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@jimthefish I don’t mind if we lose a few new sign ups. I’d rather keep the people who have been here from the start as free from spoilers as we can. You have all been the lifeblood of this site for the last four months. If people can’t wait till next Saturday to sign up then we don’t want them anyway 😀

I’ve said that if anyone really, desperately wants to sign up they should email me. Then I’ll interrogate them! 😀

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Dear all. After a very sensible suggestion from IAmNotAFishIAmAFreeMan ( @pedant ) I have now closed the sign up page (I’m a bit slow but it IS Sunday night). So hopefully we can remain spoiler free. Is a bit drastic, but I’d rather that than spoil your enjoyment of the show or this forum.

Of course, I can’t stop those who have already signed up posting spoilers, but we will just have to hope that they realise, as my Mum would say, it’s not big and it’s not clever. And it diminishes you in everyone’s eyes.

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@blenkinsopthebrave Why me in particular? I will try to be your guardian (with a small g). Everyone can stay away if they want, but I will be here deleting posts left right and centre all week, if they appear at all. 😀

Sorry I didn’t get here sooner but was blissfully unaware of all of this until now, am half way through watching the BAFTAs. I think one of the burdens of running a forum is that you WILL see spoilers, but if you can keep them from others you’re doing your job.

Will do my best over the coming week. Promise.

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@scaryb Thanks. Head’s beginning to feel better. I think my earlier thoery about the Daleks and Cybermen fighting for control of the Doctor’s head may have been slightly influenced by my own situation 😀

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A bit off topic, but someone posted this on The G last week and I thought it was great. A song by Mitch Benn (well known Doctor Who fan) about how he’s proud of the BBC. The BBC may not be perfect, but we’re lucky to have it – “Did I mention Doctor Who?”.

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@phaseshift I think anything on the BBC site can be posted in the News section. Probably best there rather than here. Please go ahead. And the great thing about a video is that you have to press play, so no one can blame anyone but themselves.

If it’s on Youtube then there are no problems. The one thing I’ve found about embedding the BBC videos is that they are set to autoplay, which is not a good thing (but I may be doing it wrong). If your post autoplays the video you need to edit the code and change the two mentions of autoplay=true to autoplay=false.

Hope that helps.

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@juniperfish Cheers, I kinda like it too. First theory this season I’ve really been happy with as, as everyone has said, much of the stories haven’t progressed the arc much. But having the first episode a Dalek episode, and the penultimate episode a Cybermen episode, both of which involved The Doctor’s exposure to them, I’m thinking I may be on to something. Moffat will no doubt cut me down in flames next week!

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@juniperfish Great. Have made you an “author” so you can write blog posts. Just hover over the “+New” tab in the top bar and click “Post”. You’ll get a screen where you just have to add a title for your blog post, then copy and paste the content of youR post into the main text area. Then just hit the publish button on the right. I’ll sort everything else out. 😀

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@janetteb and almost everyone else. When I watched the tight skirt line again, firstly I thought “I haven’t seen Clara wearing any tight skirts”. She actually seems to wear quite loose skirts compared to Amy. But mainly I thought that was the cyber Mr Clever still in his head. He does shake himself out of it after he says it. And (just with a few Matt flourishes) he looks like he realises the Cybermen are not completely out of his head.

So if he started to become Dalekised in AotD, and is now being assimilated as a Cyberman as well, could that actually be his salvation, with one cancelling the other out. I can actually see that as his masterplan (or at least Moffat’s).

@htpbdet was complaining about why he didn’t get out of the Cyber-whatever earlier. Maybe that’s why?

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@bluesqueakpip Yes, I think more Kubrick than Landis. But then it does beg some questions. Is it just a writer’s in-joke? Just a thrown-in sci-fi reference? Or, in a reflection of 2001, is it a parent saying “See you next Wednesday” before they leave their son alone on his spaceship? Clara as the Doctor’s Mother (or Father, anything is possible)?

Am beginning to feel human again 😀

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And I thought I had too much time on my hands. How the Doctor could have won in six moves, without the sonic:

http://setsuled.livejournal.com/880790.html

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Not got much to add at the moment, too hungover after a very long day yesterday, but thought I should point out, as I don’t think anyone else has yet, that “See you next Wednesday” is a 2001 reference that John Landis incorporated into almost all his films. Why it’s referenced here I have no idea, yet. 😕

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/See_You_Next_Wednesday

@phaseshift Have confirmed @danmartin and @danmartinuk so hopefully he’ll be joining us soon.

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While the conversation above has been fun, I don’t think I’m going to open up next week’s episode early. This was a little experiment but I think it has fractured the forum discussion too much, with some people eager to join in, but others wary to venture anywhere near here.

However, I’d be interested in others opinions. My feeling is that it’s too risky with one episode to go. I think conversation about this episode and theories about next week’s episode should all stay here. And all spoilers should be posted in the Spoilers thread.

Let me know what you think. Will be back sometime after the FA Cup Final is over (I’m not a big fan of football but some of my friends are).

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@fulcanelli A spoiler is generally taken as a fact, or possible fact, that most people don’t yet know. A lot of theorising goes on here, so to have it all shot down by “I know something you don’t and all you’ve theorised is wrong” does tend to irk people. It means they have to cross a lot of theories off their list. And that is what you did, I hope you can see that. I know you say it may not be reliable or confirmed but calling it a spoiler does tend to lend weight to it being reliable. If it is not reliable it’s best to refer to it as a theory.

It would be a shame to lose you, as I’ve said I want to try and create a space where those who love spoilers and those who hate spoilers can coexist. I can see the issue of spoilers is something we really have to tackle head on now, especially with one episode left to go.

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@fulcanelli @scaryb This may be a problem of defining what a “spoiler” actually is. I think the issue is that we like bonkers theories on here, so pointing out that they are all wrong because you know a spoiler is itself a spoiler. If your information is your own theory then that’s fine, and I think that’s what you’re implying. An idea or theory is not a spoiler. A spoiler is a sourced fact e.g. a certain actor is playing a certain well-known character, or a certain thing definitely happens in a certain story etc.

So if what you call “spoilers” are just your own theories then please continue posting them, but don’t call them spoilers if they are just your theories. But if you have real spoilers, real solid fact, then please refrain from hinting at something if you know it to be true but it is not yet in the public domain.

Hope that makes sense.

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@scaryb Done. I wasn’t following the conversation so will take your word for it. Best to be on the safe side.

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@timeloop I know. Sorry about that. Am about to go out and probably won’t be back until late so will miss the episode and catch it on iPlayer. So I just wanted to post that so that people could enjoy after they have just seen the episode. Wasn’t sure about here or in the spoiler thread, but as you have to actually click play I thought it okay to post here. Just don’t give in to temptation just yet 😉

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Okay, don’t watch if you don’t want to know anything before tonight!

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@Shazzbot If you want to watch the first story of the Key to Time arc, The Ribos Operation, you can watch it here:

http://www.dailymotion.com/playlist/xz2jv_tardismedia_the-ribos-operation/1#video=x9fv15

That user, Tardismedia, has also posted the others, which you can find if you go through their playlists. I’m not sure of the legality of uploading them, but until they’re taken down I don’t think it’s illegal to watch them. 😉

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@Shazzbot @pedant and @jimthefish I tried a few things but went for an exploding TARDIS for now. Not sure it really works, but trying to get anything detailed to work in 16x16px is quite difficult. Will have a go at a few other things over the weekend.

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@htpbdet I’ve also moved the Memories and Companions threads up the Home page now. If they don’t quite fit for you and you do decide you want an adversaries or best episodes thread then let me know, although I’d like to try and keep the number of threads to a minimum if possible, to stop too much fracturing of conversations.

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@Shazzbot and @pedant Any ideas what I should use as a favicon? A few sites I’ve looked at use the TARDIS, so that’s an option, but if you can think of something different that would be cool.

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@htpbdet After a bit of struggling I’ve discovered I can’t really post as you, so I’ve made you a blog “author”. Would you mind posting your post again as a blog? Basically I think you just need to hover over the +New tab in the top bar and choose “Post” you will then be given a screen where you add a title for your post, and then in the main box just paste your post. After that, just click publish on the right and your done. I’ll sort out any formatting issues, if there are any, afterwards.

Thanks again, and if you have any problems please comment here or PM (personal message) me.

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Actually, I should move them up to the top, especially as I closed the Series 7 pt 2 speculation thread. Will do tomorrow.

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Thanks @htpbdet It’s not a case of moving things because you posted in the wrong place, we want to highlight your post for posterity (well, the life of this site) because it was so moving and well written. I hope you don’t mind but I sent the link to my Mum, to show her that this forum is not just full of “Doctor Who is cool” posts, and she responded, as Mums do, that she thought your post was “lovely”.

If you go to the Home page and scroll to near the bottom we do have a Companions thread and a Doctor Who Memories thread (both sadly more or less abandoned). I don’t want to start too many new threads but if you could ressurect those threads that would be great.

And am glad this little community has helped you. You have helped this site just as much. I’m always eager to read your latest post. Thank you for joining us and the best of health to you!

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@phaseshift Yeah, re the thumbnail, didn’t expect that myself. I banged his together using Open Source software, some of which I’ve never used before, so am standing on the shoulders of giants. As I said before, is all a bit of an experiment.

Will wait for Juniperfish and HTPBDET to reply.

Do like your R&H post. It may not get any more attention in the short term, but in terms of search, posting it as a blog rather than a topic gives it much more prominence, and is much easier for users to find as well.

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@whisht Thanks so much. Very, very kind. Yes, I guess I underplay what I did because it’s part of what I do and find it reasonably easy. It amuses me, but also makes me feel good, that you say that I bothered to do this, because for the first few days I avoided it. I saw the calls at Christmas for a forum after about day three and thought “Yeah, that’s a good idea, someone will be able to set that up”.

About day five I revisited and there were still calls for a forum, and I really thought that amongst a bunch of Doctor Who fans there must be someone who knows something about websites (I’m avoiding calling anyone, especially myself, a geek 😀 ). So I left it again. Someone would set something up…

I went back to the Christmas special post on The Guardian a day before it was going to be shut and it was clear by then that no one was going to do it. Because I really loved reading all the comments, well the ones by the lovely people who have migrated here, and occasionally, very occasionally posting myself, I finally felt compelled.

So yeah, as the Americans say, I stepped up to the plate, and bashed together a site in a few hours. But it was my pleasure, I didn’t want the conversation to end either.

But you are right, it could have died on its arse, as several sites I’ve built have. That’s why I went for cheap hosting. £30 is a small punt for a year.

However, you all amazed me. Even when we had less then 30 members the conversations continued day after day. All those involved at the start, and I include you @whisht, deserve recognition for keeping it going when there were so few users and nothing happening in the Whoniverse (sorry) to keep it going except your enthusiasm.

It has, of course, taken a few more hours to get it where it is now. But it is worth it for the quality of the posts on here. I may be a bit biased, but I think this is now one of the most erudite, informed (is that the same as erudite?), honest, funny, civil and enjoyable forums I’ve come across on the web. So, okay, I accept that I did something special in setting this up, but all of you did something special too, with every post you made.

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@jimthefish That did cross my mind, it’s such a moving story and a great piece of writing that it really deserves more prominence. @htpbdet would you like to repost your regeneration post as a blog entry? No probs if not.

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We now have a live blog

Another experiment. 😀

@phaseshift has kindly written the first post, a guide to using this site. But the blog can be used for any sort of post, so if you have something you have always wanted to write about, be it a TV show, film, book or anything else that you feel doesn’t quite fit in any of the forums, that’s more article rather than conversation, please PM (Personal message) me or email me (address on home page) and I’ll give you the permissions to post in the blog.

@juniperfish I think your James Bond post would be a great contribution. Let me know if you want to move it to the blog.

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@Shazzbot Thanks. And thank you to everyone who contributes.

The sites are for my work. My company owns about 40 companies and this was a favour for one of them. It was supposed to be just one site, then they decided they wanted a seperate site for each of their 3 brands as well, and then they decided they wanted two of the sites translated into 4 other languages. It was supposed to be a quick job, but what can you do? Thank God it’s almost over.

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@pedant Thanks for spotting that, you are of course right, so I’ve changed it slightly. In my defence I did write it after a few wines. 😀

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P.S. We may be about to get a few more members. Perhaps helped by a proper link from The Guardian, or perhaps because of the SEO I’ve been doing over the last few months, we are now on the first page of Google if you search for Doctor Who Forum. If you search for The Doctor Who Forum we now seem to vary between position 1 and 4 (although that’s a less likely search). That’s another reason I though a post on Etiquette was timely.

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@htpbdet I too thought your posts were excellent and would like to thank you for your excellent writing, your passion and your bravery. And thank you for your kind words (and @jimthefish) but I really do feel that everyone here has helped shape this lovely space, all I’ve done is nudge it every now and again to keep it on course.

The new server hosts automatically provide you with a username based on your URL or a shortened version of it. So my username for the hosting is “thedoctor”, which tickles me every time I type it in. 😀

By the way, to post an image you need to view your post using the “Text” tab, then use the “img” button to enter the image’s URL. It also asks you for a description but that can be anything you like, it doesn’t show up on the page.

@jimthefish, I’m afraid I’m going to have to leave your post till later. Apologies for being a bit quiet but I have 12 websites going live at midnight tonight and there’s still work to be done! 😕

Hope to have my life back soon.

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