@Nick

Ah, you are a proper troublemaker aren’t you? 🙂

The thing is, in my humble and old fashioned view, RTD wrote in a multi-faceted way. You can read the Rose arc as you do – teenage love angst in time […]

@Shazzbot @Bluesqueakpip

Okay – I submit. I am not arguing with you two! 🙂

Maybe we can just agree that different people will see these arcs differently.

I never saw Martha as “rebound” girl because I […]

@Bluesqueakpip

And Martha specifically calls the Doctor about “rebound” in Gridlock doesn’t she?

If she really was envisaged as “rebound” girl why would RTD have her do that?

@Bluesqueakpip

Guilty as charged – I do have high standards for actors. Because there are so many excellent ones to do the work, why use an average one?

But I think you are wrong about Martha being treated […]

@Nick @JanetteB @Bluesqueakpip

I must be the only one who doesn’t really see the problem with Martha as a problem with the actress, but I do see it that way.

Martha is not written any more or less well than […]

SPOILER, SPOILER, SPOILER...

@Nick

Gossip is all it is.

Although, to be fair, the Nicola Walker source was the one to mention Matt Smith first after Tennant resigned…

But still…all with a huge grain of salt!

@Craig  @JimTheFish

Capaldi would have been an inspired choice once – but I am not so sure now.

Fires of Pompeii aside (and we know what a mistake casting a former guest star has been in the past…) I think […]

@Arkleseizure

I went back to look at Parting of the Ways and, again, I am not sure your reading is right.

The Doctor sends Rose away in the TARDIS to keep her safe. He knows he is going to have to use the […]

@ScaryB

please allow @Shazzbot to take your ARSE to the world…

so to speak….

@shazzbot

Send him and Moffat a tweet to that effect – own ARSE!

@Arkleseizure

I would urge you to rewatch World War Three.

I think that Eccleston’s Doctor is “unthawing” throughout. He definitely […]

@Arkleseizure

I confess to not understanding where you are coming from here.

Can you give me some examples of how Tennant treated Martha badly? I do not remember him belittling her nor do I remember him […]

@Nick

One of the things that interests me – greatly, as it happens – is how the passage of time can affect your view of eras of Doctor Who. At least for me.

For reasons I have discussed elsewhere, my initial […]

@Nick

I guess one person’s OTT is another person’s “fully appreciate”.

Doctor Who is an uneven palette – always was and always will be (if it is to continue).  What one person likes another doesn’t. That’s […]

@Nick

Not sure I see the oddness you do?

Can you explain?

@Nick

You mean this:
1. The return of River Song (25.9%)
2. Two-part stories (20.1%)
3. Series arc (11.9%)
4. An older Doctor (11.7%)
5. The return of Jenny, Vastra and Strax (7.4%)
6. Some female writers […]

@JimTheFish

Yes, very true re Lambert and Lloyd.

I find it interesting that the BW era is not last! I imagine not that many voters would have been there for the long haul.

Very interesting, as you say […]

This is interesting…

http://www.cultbox.co.uk/features/poll-results/7392-doctor-who-poll-results-which-era-is-your-favourite

@Nick

No you have missed nothing.

I have not got around to penning my thoughts – but I hope too soon.

🙂