@Missy  It is an interesting theory, but I’m afraid @GrannyM  is right; the text doesn’t support it.  River is clever, but even the cleverest person may be blind sided by their assumptions and expectations.

River had contacted a surgeon specifically, and was puzzled and irritated that the person she assumed to be the surgeon in question had evi…[Read more]

@grannym

Hello there, a pleasure to greet another senior citizen and paid up to date, almost fanatical Whovian.
I was bginning to feel lonely.
Like you, after THoRS I went straight to “Silence in the Library and Forest of the Dead.”
Unlike you, series 8 shone, it was bold and brilliant. Now the 9mpossible, series 9 burns even brighter.
Also like…[Read more]

@grannym  @purandson  I have to admit that I haven’t looked back at BG Who much — I saw most of the classic series as they aired, and enjoyed them for the novelty of this shape-shifting (within limits!) space grampa and his traveling companions, in what passed for outer space on tv in those days; and for the UK wit, which has always appealed to m…[Read more]