• I have to say, @DanMartin‘s review strikes me as a bit mean-spirited.

    Whovians of any era are used to having to absorb change and should know by now not to rely on statements from the showrunner. I remember a friend of the “I saw the very first episode AND the repeat” ilk refusing to believe that Tennant could be replaced – but being open-minded…[Read more]

  • IAmNotAFishIAmAFreeMan replied to the topic Oxygen

    BTW, as highlighted by @DanMartin on the Graun:

    “The nice thing about life is however bad it gets, there’s always one option left – dying well.”

    I wonder if the Doc is fully aware of something unavoidable steaming down the road towards him…

    Maybe The Vault contains the future. That would be a worry.

    (Also @miapatrick – awesome work on the Gra…[Read more]

  • IAmNotAFishIAmAFreeMan replied to the topic The Pilot

    @bluesqueakpip

    I agree, although it is worth noting that where Who is discussed in less…..nerdy…environs, the guitar and the tank were very widely, and wildly, acclaimed. Obviously I exclude the Graun from this, despite @DanMartin‘s best efforts, because it has been largely over run by fuckwits. But, f’rinstance, the various official Facebook…[Read more]

  • Juniperfish replied to the topic The Witch’s Familiar

    Ha ha – the advert pasted into @DanMartin ‘s recap over on The Grauniad is “Boss – for men”. Capaldi’s Doctor would be so wonderfully, witheringly rude about it. “Smells like what? Boss? The boss of Who, exactly?” No doubt some dalekian tracker algorithm placed it there.

  • Juniperfish replied to the topic On The Sofa (6)

    Ha ha – someone at the Radio Times has been surfing the more curmudgeonly corners of the Who inter-webs and come up with top things that annoy (a certain kind of) Who fan. I fear they have been reading the comments section under @DanMartin ‘s blog.

    There are actually a whole lot of other things which annoy Who fans in different spaces. The…[Read more]

  • janetteB replied to the topic On The Sofa (5)

    Thanks for the link @DanMartin. I am happy to hear that possibly/likely? Clara is returning though it does mean that her story arc may not be resolved this Christmas. It also raises the possibilty that Orson will become a Tardis companion which I have been suggesting for some time. (but then if I have suggested the possibilty it certainly won’t…[Read more]

  • Mudlark replied to the topic On The Sofa (5)

    @DanMartin  May I join with those who have already expressed appreciation of and thanks for your blog in the Guardian.  I always read it with interest, although I have never ventured to comment and, these days, seldom venture to continue BTL, for the all the reasons that others here have expressed.   The way you have been able to carry on with…[Read more]

  • lisa replied to the topic On The Sofa (5)

    @DanMartin — I have seen your blog in the Guardian and have also previously made similar remarks
    as you have regarding the comments. So I was just wondering about what you were thinking about
    the new format that they were using? To me it is very much more like ‘tabloid’. So to me I
    was wondering if that might in some way unintentionally…[Read more]

  • PhaseShift replied to the topic General Music thread 2

    @DanMartin

    Oh – we can make a game of anything! Thank our resident musical host @whisht. 🙂

    But surely you can’t beat the Iron Maiden track for relevance?

    “Fear of the Dark..Fear of the Dark!
    I have the constant fear that something’s always near!”

    Fear related, Neil Gaiman related, and possibly a comfort to the little ones who were terrified…[Read more]

  • Juniperfish replied to the topic Doctor Who News (3)

    Has anyone else seen @DanMartin is back at the Graun with a naughty (as in hopefully anticipating howls of dissent of various kinds in the comments 🙂 ] article about Capaldi, Clara and no “hanky panky” on the TARDIS ?

    http://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/tvandradioblog/2014/jul/28/flirting-tardis-peter-capaldi-doctor-who-interview

  • PhaseShift replied to the topic Doctor Who News (2)

    @bluesqueakpip

    Yeah, I think it’s important to realise we’re probably getting a very simplified story of a much more complicated scenario. Philip Morris is a professional archive hunter and as Mark Gatiss said in his intro yesterday “dares to tread” in what can be hostile territories. As a middle man for Worldwide, I’m sure he’s able to grease t…[Read more]

  • WhoHar replied to the topic On the sofa

    @DanMartin

    Evil Doctor Who Journalism Gays

    Well then, finish the 20 Greatest list with the, er 20 greatest eps. and then start a top 20 “Doctor Who Episodes with a Gay Sub-Text” list.  The original list gets […]

  • Hi gang!

    Are we open for new members again now @Craig ? And did @DanMartin eventually manage to complete his registration? He’s suggesting a 50th meet up at ExCel in London in November. Sound tempting!

    I’ve […]

  • chickenelly replied to the topic Doctor Who news

    I too read @DanMartin‘s blog but was too scared to add a comment in case I caught any spoilers.

    There was one the other day about the Star Trek film and of course one kind commentator posted a huge spoiler (ie […]

  • thommck replied to the topic Doctor Who news

    @scaryb That is a good article, thanks for linking.

    I was a bit worried about the comments so I didn’t look but I did add my own (with a plug for our forum of course!)

    @DanMartin is definitely a tease! Even […]

  • ScaryB replied to the topic Doctor Who news

    New unspoilery blog from @DanMartin, with a brilliant little tease at the end. (I’ve made 1 comment (being supportive and excusing absence, LOL) but haven’t read the rest, just in case. Caught a bit of the first […]

  • PhaseShift replied to the topic On the sofa

    Hmmm,

    I just noticed on my profile that @gareth69 has confirmed it’s already on bit torrent sites. Thanks to him if he is lurking at all. Not going back into the thread.

    @DanMartin usually has a thread in […]

  • @ScaryB Diana Rigg was marvellous!

    @Phaseshift Well done for thanking @DanMartin (if that’s the actual DM) for his extremely kind rec for us in his article. Thanks Dan!

    And comrades, ignore the troll. I urge […]

  • PhaseShift replied to the topic On the sofa

    @Craig. I stopped myself from asking Dan Martin if he was the @DanMartin who signed when I posted on the Sea Devils blog, as I thought it may cause him problems. I hope it is @DanMartin and not some Auton […]

  • Craig replied to the topic On the sofa

    Don’t you mean @DanMartin is reviewing “The Sea Devils” 😀

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