I must agree with my fishy colleague @jimthefish in relation to the quality of your arguments @Glasgowboy

There is no requirement to love Whittaker’s casting (although, as she hasn’t yet uttered a single line of dialogue as the Doctor, judgement on merit seems premature).

You write, “At the moment it [Doctor Who] is nothing less than a column in…[Read more]

@glasgowboy — I argued against your arguments above and I don’t think I need to do so again. You have provided no arguments to support your position except ‘I think JW will be bad so there.’ And ‘I wrote a thesis once’ is not an argument or a defence. You should presumably know that if you’ve actually had any kind of thesis submitted for peer…[Read more]

@GlasgowBoy

I’m pretty sure that Doctor actors are usually contracted on a year by year basis.

Nothing to do with conviction, just standard.

@frostfair

I dont think the dynamic should be that different. How would you write the relationship between the Doctor and Amy/Rory, for example, differently because the Doctor is played by Jodie Whitaker instead of Matt Smith. I dont see anything that would need to be changed from that Moff wrote. Yes of course, Jodie will play a different…[Read more]

@thane15 — great post. Well said.

@exfan — love the name change. Hope your faith in the future is justified. (Actually, I’m sure it will be.) And yes, the wait is going to be excruciating. Not sure I agree about Capaldi being the ‘worst Doctor’. Like @mirime I’d count him as one of the best.

@frostfair — I think I’d love to see Bill back and…[Read more]

@glasgowboy

I’m sure very many of us are sympathetic to the argument that a male character should remain male. I know I am. There is a point though, where I think you have to question why its such a big deal for the potential of roles becoming either gender.

I don’t think “Jane Bond” is particularly believable today, but I think it will be in a…[Read more]

@glasgowboy

“This concerns the changing of a character that has been formed over 50 years.”

Perhaps you haven’t noticed, but Doctor Who is a television show about a character who LITERALLY CHANGES into a new person every few seasons.

@glasgowboy:  I second that. What a flippin; disaster!

<span class=”useratname”>@jimthefish: </span>Well, he Kris marshall, isn’t to blame for bad choices is he. The role (apart from PC) was made for him. Unlucky 13 mayhap?

@exfan: Now that’s where we part. Peter Capaldi was the best, and I’m certainly not an EX fan.

@mirime: I did see her in B…[Read more]

@glasgowboy  According to Steven Moffat, what’s going to happen is that the ending of “The Doctor Falls” is going to have a twist that will lead directly into the Christmas episode’s events.  And Capaldi is coming back for Christmas, one more time.

What might happen?  Who nose?  But Moffat’s gone on record as saying that while “The Doctor Fal…[Read more]

@glasgowboy @Ichabod

I may have misheard it, but I thought Missy said that the Monk’s werent aware that the link passed along to descendents, but thought that there control was maintained through more normal methods after the death of the original link.

@glasgowboy  Why wasn’t Bill imprisoned from the start? 

As the one who made the link, she’s supposed to have a more or less normal life and have kids, one of whom will carry on the link, as explained by — Missy?  That’s less likely in a prison than living a relatively protected life at large.

@pedant  “In amongst seven billion, there’s…[Read more]

@GlasgowBoy

To elaborate on post 58494,  I suspect that the Monks presumed that the only way for the Doctor to defeat them would be for him to remove the lynchpin – to ‘Kill Bill’ – and they knew he wouldn’t.

I don’t think it was the power of love that defeated the monks – As has already been explained, I think it’s something to do with the a…[Read more]