@Whisht @MartyB @Purofilion @Timeloop @gctv @ScaryB
I thought this would be a better place to respond as we have definitely gone off topic! I hope that I have tagged everyone who has been part of this discussion.
@MartyB
Your “cuckoo in the nest” idea is interesting, I hadn’t looked at those episodes in that light. For me, my problems with “Let’s…[Read more]

In addition to what I wrote earlier @gctv (forgot to copy and paste the newest version)

(…There are more. The YouTube channel GuardianJupiter only produces River/Doctor stuff for example.) But it does look like the Doctor slowly moves on.

I didn’t notice that Moffat has a certain blueprint though. The Doctor meets a lot of his female…[Read more]

@gctv To be fair they spend a whole season on the mystery of River Song. We got to see her before and after season 6 and will see her again if someone comes up with a very good idea for her character. I heard Moffat say that he thinks her story is told, but that there is always a way in for a good story.

Lots of New-Who dislikes River because of…[Read more]

@blenkinsopthebrave Welcome back! I’m glad you enjoyed the episode like most of us.

Could take you days to catch up with everything that has been said and done around here! Good luck and I look very much forward to more of your thoughts.

@gctv Did you know that quite a lot people disliked the River arc (I know, who COULD dislike that?!)? They…[Read more]

@gctv

That’s good to hear. End of the day some people like some episodes more than others, we don’t all like the same ones. Just as well, or it would be mighty boring around here.  It can also be difficult when expectations are built up to the feverpitch of Who’s 50th.  But I do hope you like it better this time round. It’s probably better seen o…[Read more]

@gctv

Sorry you didn’t enjoy DotD as much as some. Please forgive me having a chuckle at your comment that “Doctor Who isn’t what it used to be“. It’s changed much less since the TV Movie (believe me, that got a few fans in a right tizz!) than it has since 1963!  One of the reasons it’s lasted 50 years is that change is built into its DNA.  But s…[Read more]

@gctv  @martyB  @Bluesqueakpip

Personally, I do think it’s okay that they left the specifics of the Time War to our imagination, but fair enough if you don’t agree. Regarding The Night of the Doctor, my take on it isn’t that it was one particular death that pushed the Doctor in a new direction. It was part of a journey that he must have been m…[Read more]

@gctv and @martyB

I’m just going to throw a little thought into the ring. Both of you would, I think, agree with Marty’s girlfriend:

She couldn’t understand why so much was at stake that an entire planet, and all the innocent people on it, would be blown up

Exactly. Now, place all the fans with detailed knowledge as ‘The Doctor’. We know all t…[Read more]

@gctv It could be your luck day. It just became available to buy last week

Linked from the artist Lissa Treiman here

@gctv Now that we would definitely post! 😉

@gctv The story is, supposedly, that they did a longer efects shot but Moffat didn’t think it was convincing enough. But you could be right. He may have wanted to leave it open. Who gets your money if you’re wrong? 😀

@gctv

Did you see this? The person who made it seems to have found the exact shot they used for the Hurt Doctor regeneration sequence.

The Day of the Doctor

:::waves excitedly at all the new avatars, lurkers-no-more and bonkers-theorists:::

@Arbutus, wow.  I agree with @purofilion.  A splendid first post.  Please don’t wait a year until your next one!

@TheMasterOfAllHeSurveys, you’re a Third Doctor fan?  Or a UNIT fan?  Or just a fan of the working class?  (If I can gently kid you with the last…[Read more]