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]

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]

• @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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the meme is over.

You’ve jumped the shark.

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[oh bugger]

@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 […]

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 […]

“@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” […]

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

It’s her function as the […]

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 […]

Perhaps.

I don’t see any basis for thinking that Clara won’t continue to save the Doctor and the very fact that the Doctor has given no indication he knows what she is for simply […]

Why do you think Clara is not there to save the Doctor? Do you have a reason or is it just you think that can’t be it? Genuinely I am interested.

It seems to me that we knew that Amy was […]

she doesnt want to save him, she just needs to keep him alive and get him to Trezidor.

@HaveYouFedTheFish – And the Silence are trying to stop the Doctor getting to Trenzalore – or at least stop him answering the […]

Some great posts above – Good to see @HaveYouFedtheFish‘s 11’s Tardis goes to 1 theory has still got great […]

Favourite ridiculous story title?

Toenails of the Daleks

The Armpit of Doom

Good Rill Hunting

The Nostril of Omega

Masterplan of the […]

Some birds eat fish. So there!

@Juniperfish:

On a dark Doctor to come, I refer you to the words of Dorium Maldovar (whom @Bobbingbird once famously thought was “responsible for […]

@ScaryB– not only is she written on, Clara has fairly few […]

I quite like your theory. Well, in so far as it will see Smith intervene in whatever crisis led to Hartnell’s departure from Gallifrey to ensure he or he and Susan gets away safely.

This […]

It may not be related but I just re watched the snowmen which i think is when he first see the new TARDIS interior. When Clara first discovers and walks round the […]

So just to get this straight (keeping in mind it’s a timeloop) – are you saying Hartnell’s actually no 12…? (I come out of partying in 60s psychedelia […]

Gosh I am really hoping that David Warner returns […]

The new control room bothers me – alot. There has been zero explanation of it in show and I can’t come up with a reason why it would just change. I think it’s another supermassive […]

“Ex-cru-ciate”

😉

@JimtheFish

Trollsheep dalek – “ob-fus-cate!”

And some enjoyable physics from the nightshift @Bobbingbird and @Blenkinsopthebrave @Shazzbot and a grumbly @HaveyouFedtheFish

You’ve missed, under Clara:

1m Clara is a regeneration […]

Don’t even get me started on why is there an open gantry going through such dangerous space as the eye, rather than a sealed, shielded tunnel, or why it’s so easy to fall through the […]

It’s a different Tardis.

Tend to agree – my thoughts turned to Castrovalva too. I’m rationalising it by assuming “infinite” is figurative not literal, a bit like when someone says “everybody”.

The Eye of Harmony […]

Three further points.

Why couldn’t Clara touch the other Doctor? The one who seemed suspended and not in this world / time […]

@HaveYouFedtheFish nice combo of our earlier three TARDISes collision theory and […]

It does highlight the differences between the Clara’s- Victorian Clara would look for his name, she did insist on following him- she was a much more […]