@d12345 Hello my old friend! I, too, have been watching True Detective and can’t rate it highly enough. So far it’s been fantastic, fantastic TV. But I like Doctor Who too, as you know, and don’t find it boring. I’m sorry you think it is now as I know you have affection for the show itself, just not recently.

Have faith my friend. I think the new…[Read more]

@d12345 – I suggest you take a look at the ‘Etiquette’ page, under ‘Trolling and derogatory comments’.

@d12345 if you don’t like who why bother to post here this is a site for who fans to discuss all things who and whilst I respect your opinion to not like the show your attitude disrespects our right to like the show

@d12345

You say that “the 50th was supposed to be about the time war” and “it was supposed to be at least 15-20min of daleks with their plan against the multi doctors and their plan , a little bit of fighting ,explosions, and some interesting evil villans plan ,and then the doctors find a solution of the problem in somekind of mindblowing…[Read more]

Ah, @d12345 my old friend. 😀 Welcome back, or should that be goodbye? I hope not.

I’m sorry you didn’t like it, or the 50th. Me, I thought the 50th was, with a few caveats, great, but I thought the Christmas episode had some problems. If you read my post about it you’ll see I had several issues with it. But I still enjoyed it.

Everything must…[Read more]

@Timeloop – ah, thank you. i thought he was saying “that’s how i got HER in the first place.” meaning the tardis, yes, but with a different stress. there were a couple of other bits of dialogue that it took me some effort to decipher (as usual). and i’m going to avoid spoilers in the future, as well. the tasha-as-dalek pic gave away way too much…[Read more]

@Juniperfish

That’s a lovely idea that Lem is a tribute to Stanislaw Lem. I really hope we see more of Tasha (big fan of Orla Brady). Created by the TimeLords, huh?  Interesting, but comes up against the same problem as my “she is a Time Lord” theory – if that’s the case then why couldn’t she call to the TLs thro the crack – her voice would…[Read more]

@Phaseshift  re “brilliant and bonkers” <laughs fishily> 🙂 Well, we have to live up to our by-line, right?

@Purofilion and @ScaryB glad you enjoyed it!

What some of our dear participants seem to be missing, is that fan speculation is a form of play. And play is such an important part of being fully alive, whatever age you are. The Doctor w…[Read more]

@FiveRoundsRapid

I completely agree with you I’m sick of people branding moffats writing as lazy and not having any specific reason other than they didn’t like the episodes. If you didn’t like them then just say and don’t blame it on him.

also @d12345 tell me if Moffat hadn’t addressed all of the unanswered questions and tied all the loose…[Read more]

@d12345

Oh Dear Oh Dear Oh Dear

Crossing genres a little bit here, but as The Joker so succinctly put it… “Why so serious?”

I might not have followed this up except for the comment about Moffat’s writing being “lazy and unmotivated”!! It’s become far too easy to criticise what Steven Moffat has done on the show these last few years, and we’re…[Read more]

@Timeloop I love your explanation for being naked in church. That makes perfect sense.

@D12345 The Specials are brilliant, and I’m so glad they reunited. Terry Hall is a genius. So is M Smith, and Brix for that matter.

Sorry. Somebody had to say it.

Hey guys,

many things have been already said. that’s what happens if you take your time.

Let’s see if I can add some new aspects:

According to the last episode we saw the Doctor was absolutely bluffing in Nightmare in Silver. He could have not got rid of Mr. Clever. (Maybe that is what he kept hidden together with Hurt) with a…[Read more]

@d12345

Your critical insights are astonishing; ‘boring and unintersting’. Why didn’t I think of that? Yes, of course. The Time of the Doctor as an existential meditation on the nature of old age and approaching death. ’50min of big nothing and 5 final minutes of resolution’ indeed. Deeply, deeply profound.

I await your blog post – The Time of…[Read more]

Oh dear @d12345, the time has come to reveal yourself as a little dullard again has it?

@d12345

we didnt found out the doctors name

Errr… yes, we did. After over a thousand years of journeying, from Gallifrey to Trenzalore, his real name is ‘The Doctor’. That’s the one that defines the ‘who’ in ‘Doctor Who?’ He’s The Doctor, the man who makes things better, the man whose job is saving lives. It may have been a mask, a disguise,…[Read more]

@blenkinsopthebrave –

In a way, such a resolution would tie into my 4th wall theory. As the show (and the Doctor) goes forward, it is in a unverse where the previous Doctors never existed, but one where they exist in our (ie, the audience’s) memories, and survive (like the lost episodes) as memories.

I was only looping back about 5 years – t…[Read more]

@osakahatter @d12345

Excellent analysis. I’m don’t really agree about this:

I do like the Doctor-Zero theories, mainly because the Doctor 8.5 concept has never felt right for me

I’m in the other camp on that one. I find D0 concept hard to believe as the Hartnell Doctor seems so lost at the beginning. To me he has little practical experience in…[Read more]

SPOILER, SPOILER, SPOILER...

Having re-watched the trailer, (several times) and the beginning of An Unearthly Child I think the opening scene of the policeman guarding the entrance to Totter’s Lane is endeavouring to suggest no more than the beginning of the T.V. series as a reference to the beginning of the Doctor’s journey, so I don’t think that the policeman at the start…[Read more]

@d12345

Currently Orphan Black, recently Broadchurch. But I think we are just going to have to differ on this. I particularly liked the (mostly) unrelated stories in series 7. But I also like the arc based series – so long as the writers are coming up with good ideas rather than doing the same thing/not doing the same thing just for the sake of it.