@juniperfish – actually if you rewatch Clara’s hand is quite readable (except they cut away too fast, so you need to freeze frame) when Clara is in the corridors on her own for the 2nd time seeing recent […]

@bluesqueakpip @ardraith – damn good point. We’ve already established in AGMGTW that the tardis will not translate high gallifreyan… Hmmmm.

@phaseshift – I did say any tardis, not necessarily his own. The doctors would have been a sweet act of revenge…

However – “massive act of revenge on the time lords” … Yeah, OK, I’d buy that for a dollar.

@juniperfish – not if he didn’t run off in the tardis till past 100 years old …

Continuity boo boo – “big friendly button” is written in a completely different way on the grenade and Claras hand – different justification, line spacing and alignment.

Also worth pointing out that as a plot […]

No no no! Ok even just “an” eye of harmony being in the tardis is hugely problematic. Otherwise the premise of a Deadly Assassin is trashed – anyone needing a new regeneration cycle just needs to take a wander […]

I’m gnashing already @wolfweed. I think we have to accept the whole movie as canon. It’s just so painful because it’s the creation of someone will no love, interest or even vague understanding of the shows […]

@galactus – the link… Or selling your people into slavery in a misguided deal with the daleks?

If the latter, make sure you keep the receipt, there’re right buggers when in comes to returns…

Passing thought – the Tardis seems to have been transformed from the white walled, peaceful enclave of old into some dark, dank, industrial place, which it’s dangerous to wander too far into (he’s mortally […]

@Bluesqueakpip – One facet of Clara=”Pheonix Doctor” I really like is that it looks like (from the next ep trailers) idealistic Clara is about to be horrified by what she discovers she was/will become (though it […]

@Bluesqueakpip – good point, had forgotten about Madam etc. But I also do kind like the idea of River hiding the sprogs from the Doctor, just because he’s such an irresponsible so-and-so; “just taking her in her […]

@ScaryB @WhoHar – I’m happy to change my Guardian handle to HaveYouFedTheTrolls … actually 100% more apt …

@juniperfish – ingenious! Maybe that’s the paradox that caused the crack around Amy, and it gives a get out clause for the “docs mum was human howler” … What he meant was the Mother of all time lords is […]

@ardaraith – and of course don’t forget the subject of my doctoral thesis – the Theta Trouser Uncertainty co-efficient, which is laymans terms is an attempt to define the exact ratio between trouser length and […]

OK a question I’ve been meaning to ask for a few days: It’s implied that some great secret of the Doc is about to be revealed. My question is, not what do you think it will be, be what do you want it to […]

@phaseshift @JimTheFish @ardaraith – right you are sir, my apologies. Have you ever considered adopting PhaseFish as an honorary title 😀 ?

I really like the idea that Theta Sigma is a schoolboy pun on his real […]

Well you learn something new every day – thank you @Ardaraith !

@Lula – I’m the worst person to ask about accents because I have no ear for them at all. From what I’ve heard of Tennant (I’ve seen him on stage a few times before Who, notably in Look Back in Anger in Glasgow) […]

@ardaraith @phaseshift – Greek letters inexplicably crop up a lot with Timelords: the docs nickname was Theta Sigma, he graduated with a Double Gamma, one of the founders of Gallifrey is called Omega. Curiously […]

@Lula – with pleasure (although @WhoHar has already got in an excellent concise answer)

RP is “received pronunciation” – its the accent the all actors and announcers working on the BBC were trained to adopt for […]