@hiker    I agree 100%. PC grows on you and then you love him and then he leaves.

I know what you mean @nerys  ,I watch on Space and hate the commercials, I can’t wait till I own them and can watch them like they were meant to be.(for hours in a row till my bottom hurts.)

When I first saw that Peter Capaldi was to be the new Doctor I thou…[Read more]

Very well put, @hiker. Thank you!

Many of you may remember me whining when Netflix was set to drop Doctor Who. Where was I to find my Doctor Who fix? In Canada, CraveTV has carried on with the licensing, and we signed up over the weekend. I was finally able to watch “Heaven Sent” … sans commercials. What a difference! I knew it was a brilliant…[Read more]

@jimthefish  @wolfweed   Yes, that speech is the iconic moment, to me.  It’s where he’s come to, the penultimate self-realization — and gives him a stake in *not* regenerating [this is me, the kind of good man I am — I’m not giving me up now I’m found!].  Ground laid for Xmas story.

I also like @hiker saying that maybe more than 12 reg…[Read more]

@missrori  I think the defining characteristic of Twelve is his rawness of emotion, even when it’s concealed

Steven Moffat said so early on — that this Doctor is “an exposed nerve” of emotion — and Capaldi played that beautifully.  It helps to have a face that reads like a contour map of the Highlands, of course.

@hiker  Each episode adva…[Read more]

I’d agree with @drben and @hiker that Capaldi does have a definite arc and it’s a truly satisfying one.

Just for yucks, my favourite of his episodes would be:

1. Heaven Sent
2. World Enough and Time
3. The Doctor Falls
4. Listen
5. The Magician’s Apprentice
6. The Zygon Inversion
7. Kill The Moon
8. Hell Bent
9. The Pilot
10. Mummy on the…[Read more]

@wolfweed and @hiker

Yes, the hair seems to be key. (Odd how you can follow the trajectory of certain Doctors in their tonsorial styling. Pertwee, the first Baker, Capaldi.) Oh and that New Statesman article is great.

@hiker

Welcome. I hope we see you contribute your thoughts on Jodie’s version of the Doctor next year as well as Capaldi and Tennant’s era.