@Devilishrobby Yes, I thought the crack looked familiar…  Significant?  Not sure, could just be Moffatt messing with our minds.

Who’d have thought 5 mins of a Dinosaur could lead to so much bonkers theorising (well I suppose we would!).

@silverman @purofillion Regarding the Dino’s size, do we know it was an earth dinosaur (@Cath Annabel)? For all we know, Dinosaurs could’ve been able to time travel or there is some Planet of the Dinosaurs we are yet to visit. It was…[Read more]

@Devilishrobby Complete non-issue for me either. When I read the script I thought “Oh, they’re squeezing a sort of kiss in there for the first time”. Then I saw the leaked episode and thought they’d bottled out. Glad they didn’t.

I just thought it interesting that they may have felt they had to play safe in other territories.

Or maybe they…[Read more]

@devilishrobby – I think you’re probably right on the BBC thing – the other theories I’ll have to give more thought to!

Okay, the mother-in-law is off to the botanical garden, so I have a little time to read and enjoy all your comments! Here are some back. I have been jotting down thoughts as I read yours, so I may end up repeating things that others have said, but oh well.

@Miapatrick    quibble: if thought eleven though he wouldn’t regenerate. I know the doct…[Read more]

@devilishrobby @whisht Of course it must be okay to discuss the episode in the thread of the episode! People who do not want to be spoiled should really stay away from this part of the forum.
@miapatrick Yes, it is good that it has not been shown. But I think we all know it happened. If it were in the episode we would have a Sherlock situation…[Read more]

@devilishrobby

Hi – all the DVDs are digitally remastered to improve quality, but quite a few of the “SE” (Special Edition) and “Revisited” Box sets replace (or offer alternatives) to the original effects themselves. I think that was the question @janetteB was posing. I just had a look and found the video I mentioned on Kinda. It shows, side-by-s…[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]

@JanetteB: One sufferer seemingly on the mend here! @FaeGrl, glad you’re on the up as well!

I’m sure you’re right re: Capaldi: 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.  He’s also too clued-up on the show and its fans to have gone into it as a one-year thing,…[Read more]

@Devilishrobby I like that suggestion though I would have hoped that if they were going to do that they would have used Ian (William Russell) own son Alfie Enoch, aka Harry Potter’s classmate, Dean Thomas. But his IMDB page does look rather busy so perhaps he wasn’t available.

Cheers

Janette

@devilishrobby – Ah don’t worry, I’m the Topic Dalek… not the Grammar Dalek. And no the Monk was not the Master, I think that some form of merchandise once said they were the same character… but no, they are different.

@Devilishrobby – With all of the comments about how terribly manipulative the Second Doctor is, I do wonder if the gist is I shouldn’t like him or I should? I’m pretty sure that his Doctor has a dark side and trickster side, like every Doctor do. Even so, it hasn’t changed my impression that the Tenth is a good alien and very charming, lots of…[Read more]

@JimTheFish

I like the thought of seeing a bit more McGann if possible. I’m not sure if we have anybody who is more familiar with these issues, but I read a suggestion a while ago that to use the Eighth Doctor in the minisode, the BBC had to approach Big Finish, which has an exclusive contract to produce “broadcastable content” featuring the…[Read more]

Blimey there’s a lot been going on here today!

@MissShannonKent: I’d rather like to see Capaldi in the role for a good while before considering his successor – at the moment I can’t think of anyone I’d rather see as The Doctor than him.

@JimTheFish; @PhaseShift: I recall Adrian Hodges saying right after the announcement that if a second series…[Read more]

@tomsscarf @Devilishrobby

I think @bluesqueakpip is talking an awful lot of sense here. I recognise a lot of this from 80s fandom with Tom Baker. He refused an offer to come back for an anniversary and didn’t really engage much with fan events for a good period, and there were always some who held it against him. Fandom doesn’t own these people,…[Read more]

@Devilishrobby – yes, I’m sure we’d have had a great two series with a deeply unhappy Eccleston being contractually trapped in the role. Much better David Tennant; a lot of his charm was how visibly delighted he was to be playing the Doctor.

And given the amount of money the actors can get on the conference circuit, I’d say Christopher Eccleston…[Read more]

@devilishrobby – Oh yikes, I didn’t think of that… it is kinda similar. But probably just a coincidence that they’re similar to the Gods of Ragnarok from ‘Greatest Show’ though. (Even though as I just stated, Family of Blood was originally a Seventh Doctor story.) That and there was only three in ‘Greatest Show’.

@Devilishrobby  @Bluesqueakpip   I must confess that I never saw Sarah Jane’s relationship with the Doctor in that light. To me, they always seemed like great friends. She poked fun at him when he got pompous, and backed him up when he needed it. I never had an inkling of deeper feelings until the implication was made during her AG appearance, wh…[Read more]

This is a continuation of the conversation that started on the Sofa.

@purofilion and @devilishrobby – I do watch a lot of Doctor Who, but I’m not near watching them all yet! Anyhow, yes I’m beginning to like my theory on the First Doctor; that he is principal starting point for all the Doctor’s personalities, and with each different regeneration…[Read more]

@purofilion – I’ll respond to your more in-depth Doctor discussion in the other thread; but yes you may call me MD! And indeed I do sleep, but stay up quite a while usually… of course that does mean I get up pretty late most of the time. lol. I do apologize for waffling on and on in this thread!

Re: ‘My Doctor’ – Yes and it seems to differ from…[Read more]