@JimtheFish @Phaseshift @Pedant @Wolfweed @HaveYouFedTheFish (good to see you’re still about somewhere btw 🙂 )

Ah, the Graun is just irresistible sometimes 😉 And it’s fun to dip in there occasionally, just don’t get angry.  You all made me LMAO, esp @Wolfweed (a pithy, pointed 6 words). But not quite as much as the person who accused me of…[Read more]

@Timeloop @Bluesqueakpip

I was aiming for an excessively literal translation of the idiomatic “Fishy business” but Google knew I was using idiom and kept trying to help me, which was really unhelpful. Also, according to Timeloop, Google can’t spell!

This is the inspiration, for those of us of a certain age. They used to be available in any…[Read more]

Summarising the bonkers theories for tomorrow’s rewatch.

• @Juniperfish came up with a theory that the GI may represent the ‘Dark Side’ of the Doctor’s character. That’s still a goer, I’d say, at least symbolically. The GI and Clara become the ‘bad and good angels’, so to speak, playing out the two sides of the Doctor within his…

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Dear all, esp. @Bluesqueakpip and @HaveYouFedTheFish I mentioned a while ago that I had been contacted by a PhD student who was doing research into the motivating factors behind active posting behaviour in online […]

@Shazzbot and @HaveYouFedTheFish – I would like to know the reasoning behind that shift.  Has the formula for episodics changed?   Have any of the show’s writers or producers discussed it?  Maybe taking a […]

@HaveYouFedTheFish – I was thinking more in terms of ‘Every planet has a North’ rather than Matt Smith trying to imitate Chris Eccleston’s Salford tones. What Matt Smith was doing was definitely NOT a Salford […]

@HaveYouFedTheFish – brilliant but that’s enough now.

the meme is over.

You’ve jumped the shark.

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[oh bugger]

@HaveYouFedTheFish and @Shazzbot – I think the video was a US / iTunes thing, so didnt get wide distribution. It appears to be full of information about series 7: a hooded monk, children, places the Doctor doesn’t […]

@haveyoufedthefish -maybe they’ll save this for a cbeebies animated spinoff – minus the cigar!!

@HaveYouFedTheFish – I was going to say turn off the auto-correct!

@HaveYouFedTheFish

@Bluesqueakpip

Well it hasn’t been positioned in this season as a Chekhov’s duck, and I suspect it was dropped in simply as a continuity reminder for the slow of learning (rather than mere […]

@wolfweed, @HaveYouFedTheFish, @Bluesqueakpip, etc,

The cot. It seems to me that there are a number of scenarios:

1. The child of Doctor and River was also born in the cot (implied by both Alex Kingston’s […]

@HaveYouFedTheFish

“@HTPBDET – 100% agree with your precis of Season Six! But this season is different – if there has been an equivalent of Rivers bald “imprisoned for murdering the best man in the Universe” […]

@HaveYouFedTheFish

The cot’s a Chekhov’s Gun. It’s certainly quacking like one. 😀

@HaveYouFedTheFish – that’s why I wonder if one solution is that the Doctor’s descendants are going to turn out to be … us. You don’t need to be tortured to be fighting for your (possibly adopted) […]

@Bluesqueakpip and @Zaphod  and @IAmNotAFishIAmAFreeMan and @HaveYouFedTheFish– Whoever else has been in that cot will be a huge revelation. That’s why Alex Kingston teased us about it in the AGMGTW Confidential. […]

@HaveYouFedTheFish – taking up your point that any companion would have done for school hard; it isn’t Susan as a character who’s likely to be central to the plot and/or subplot.

It’s her function as the […]

@HaveYouFedTheFish– jammy dodgers and fishfingers trifle!

@HaveYouFedtheFish Hahaha 🙂 Dark Doctor was awesome and so was the rainbow power of love magic…

@haveyoufedthefish & @bluesqueakpip

My fetching wig and top hat are held on the same way as Frankie Howerd’s ‘hair’ and the occasional wig he’d stick on top of that.  Either that or by the power of […]