@DrBen The category averages should be on the “Do Not Edit” tab.

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Also, when I mentioned to my wife the “THREE MONTHS” thing and @Spider ‘s theory that she’s pregnant, my wife shook her head and said “nah, she’s dying.” (As in, three months to live.)
This would add additional resonance to her scene about how Danny’s death was “boring”. Imagine traveling all through space and time and then being told tha…

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The Finale…at Halloween! And promising to be suitably creepy!

My final prediction is…my original prediction. Missy as Master. @DrBen wisely pointed out that Moffat only tends to draw on BG Who if it is pre-JNT. He generally avoids RTD as well. All this narrows it down a bit. No, I stick with Missy as Master. It won’t be River for the simple…[Read more]

I’m having fun reading all of people’s theories on where the series is going.

@DrBen – love your theory, fantastic!, as 9 would say.

@janetteB – interesting, that helps to link up the three characters, as you know I seem to have a bee in my bonnet about Danny, for some reason I find the character interesting. I’ve also wondered if we were ever…[Read more]

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River Songapalooza

This should be submitted to the OED as a synonym of “Totally Rocks, Dude”.

@DrBen It’s funny, I have only thought KtM was a true stinker this season, and have certainly enjoyed all the other episodes, but weirdly, according to my number crunching, unless the last two stories average more than a 3 on my rating scale, this will be my lowest rated AG season, excluding the Tennant specials!

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No, it’s not. We’re talking about giving a twelve year old medication because she hears voices. Maebh isn’t an adult hearing voices – she’s twelve. Kids hear voices, have imaginary friends, do all sorts of things that would signal mental illness in an adult.

Genuine schizophrenia would be an unbelievably rare mental illness for a twelve…[Read more]

@Rob Really interesting,  take it you’re a River fan too, or did that surprise you too.

I do rather like River, but, yes, I was also surprised that the episodes with her in were ones that I consistently appreciated much more highly than average.

@blenkinsopthebrave @DrBen @thommck In other news – I have now emailed the spreadsheet to @Craig, so…[Read more]

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@Bluesqueakpip

I’m sorry to say that I’m not back. I’m just briefly haunting you (well it is nearly Halloween!). I’ve missed you all. However, I’m currently compost, and a full resurrection is off the cards for the time being.

Do keep your eyes peeled for my ghost, though. I’m the one who resembles a…[Read more]

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Fantastic!

There are two types of predictions:

1. What will actually happen

2. What would have been even better than Moffat’s solution

Even if you don’t get #1, I see yours as a strong early contender for #2…

@DrBen– nice! Maybe she got the number from the woman who ran the bank in time hiest?

@DrBen, I forgot about the special dino Optic-nerve, good connection!

@Mudlark, I suppose the “window” behind Missy does look like the newer style Cyberman eyes. Perhaps she has been miniaturised into a cyberman (just like the Doctor in Into the Dalek)

@Ixion I noticed those numbers on the wall and also thought it was to show how the boneless…[Read more]

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In the Doctor Who Extra, Moff clearly points out that Clara is addicted

Yeah, he does. However, he’s always said that he will lie to protect a plot twist. So – yeah, it could be that the plot is one of addiction. Or it could be that ‘addiction’ is the red herring.

@DrBen – I think he could manage a slow crawl. 🙂

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So I found it a little jarring that it apparently turned out not to be that much of an issue

I keep saying this a lot, obviously because it is jarring and it does bug people – but it wasn’t the fault of the scriptwriters or production team. It was the fault of Matt Smith’s knee. 🙂

Originally, the escape from the timestream in Name of…[Read more]

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 to figure out how

Doctor Who – the show, rather than the character – is almost never about the how. The why is always the important question and that was clearly explained in Name of the Doctor.

@DrBen Indeed! Maybe I should multiply each rating by the length in minutes of each episode, then divide by the total number of minutes…

Nah – far too complicated!

I was actually surprised that Eccleston came out ahead of Tennant!

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The spreadsheet was fun to do – I was able to cut the data in many ways – for example I was able to do averages of categories, such as the Christmas Specials, the Paternoster Gang episodes, River Song Episodes or Dalek Episodes.

I was rating stories (BG) and episodes (AG). This means that The War Games gets a single…[Read more]