@XAD4    Yes, new to me as well. I didn’t join the forum until after @HTPBDET‘s passing, but as a lurker since inception, I always read his posts with delight and admiration, especially when he was so generously sharing his amazing life story. Such a loss. I’m sure his friends here will be raising a glass in the pub after this week’s episode.

@XAD4

What a lovely post. PP is new to me, good find, and a lovely dedication.   I’ve been missing @HTPBDET too.  I’m sure he’d have loved Capaldi’s Doctor, there’s so much Hartnell and BG inspiration in it, would have loved to have heard him expound on it!  It will be exactly a year ago on Saturday, I believe, since we lost him.

A song from Pippo Pollina, my favourite singer/songwriter.

For @HTPBDET , whom I still miss a lot.

Can we exhale now?

Great to get back into bonkers theorising again, I love reading all your ideas and everything that I didn’t spot! I kept expecting to see the wise words of @HTPBDET, I think I’ll always miss his absence from here :'(

On with the episode then. I “borrowed” a projector from work and we had our own mini cinema at home. We watched…[Read more]

Troughton is just brilliant throughout, just so watchable. I hope @HTPBDET was watching with us in spirit from a blue box circling the universe somewhere. Cheers my old friend.

I too binged on the Mind Robber but it was last year, in honour of @HTPBDET. (I don’t think I could persuade the family to watch it again so soon) I don’t know if Dr Who was ever shown weekly in Aus. When I started watching it was screened nightly and when the new series finished they began repeating. Every year the same old repeats so I have…[Read more]

@Juniperfish – perfect choice for River

@Arbutus Perfect bit of CSN&Y

@Whisht Thanks for starting and keeping this thread going. Harrison was great and Altered Images always makes me smile. Reminded me of this –

Which looks like a great way to bring in the new year

A toast also to @HTPBDET (will always think about you now, when looking at…[Read more]

Seconded! The Doctor Who Forum has almost 1000 members and many more out there glancing at the pages.

Thanks so much @Craig and mods @Shazzbot @Fatmaninabox @Phaseshift @JimtheFish (any others?) and everyone who uploads content and musings!

From @Bluesqueakpip ‘s diagrams to @Wolfweed ‘s crazy captions and carefully sourced fan art  to @ScaryB an…[Read more]

@geoffers Yes @HTPBDET took the long view and his loving critique was definitely an inspiration. Let’s toast him for the New Year!

@ScaryB Ah ha – well my theory is that perhaps the Doctor’s Mother (whom we saw in The End of Time) and a coterie of Time Lords sympathetic to the Doctor somehow created Tasha Lem.

Not all Time Lords agreed with the…[Read more]

@Timeloop – ah, thank you. i thought he was saying “that’s how i got HER in the first place.” meaning the tardis, yes, but with a different stress. there were a couple of other bits of dialogue that it took me some effort to decipher (as usual). and i’m going to avoid spoilers in the future, as well. the tasha-as-dalek pic gave away way too much…[Read more]

So who wants to lay a Who bet (with a fond toast to @HTPBDET who enjoyed betting on the upcoming plots of Who!) that there will be a baby in a crib (the Doctor’s old Time Lord crib to be precise) for Christmas?

This also fits in with the Osiris myth going on under the surface, as Horus was conceived by Isis after she put Osiris’ scattered body…[Read more]

Popping in briefly to say hi and thank you all for this great forum.

I raised a glass to @HTPBDET at 11 a.m. PST, 9 p.m. GMT on Friday. And toasted the Asylum of Whovians at the Dean Swift, the dedicated live-blog hosts, our Emperor, the Time Lord moderators, insightful posters, loyal lurkers, and all the other fantastic forum folk. Not to…[Read more]

@ardaraith I like the idea too (that they are still in the Doctor’s time stream).

I also noticed on a re-watch that Clara is positioned as Barbara (working in a school with a young fellow male teacher coming to tell her about the Doctor). I don’t think Clara is River but she may still turn out to be the nanny – all those Mary Poppins parallels we…[Read more]

Well that was…. Excellent. A fitting tribute to 50 years of time and space.
I’d like to think that perhaps somewhere, @HTPBDET is watching it, with McShe and their little ones as well. May they all enjoy it and rest in peace.

Now, that was fun!

Lots of girls with Baker-like scarfs in the audience, some 10s and 11s, plenty of fezzes, sonic screwdrivers and Jammie Dodgers, and two couples with the girl in a TARDIS dress and the boy as the respective Doctor. Noughty puns, go away!

Loved John Hurt.

Favourite lines:- ‘ the one that regrets’ and ‘ the one that forgets’…[Read more]

We are running a day behind in Oz. The real celebration is tomorrow but we did get up at 7.30 am and raise a glass to @HTPBDET.

Lots of articles in the Guardian today to enjoy between party preparations.

Hope everyone else is having a wonderful time..

Cheers

Janette

@ScaryB, @Bluesqueakpip, @Shazzbot, @Timeloop, @JimTheFish, @Juniperfish, @WhoHar, @PhaseShift, @Wolfweed, @janetteB @TardisBlue, @steve-thorp, @OsakaHatter @FatManInABox, @magnetite, @blenkinsopthebrave, @Whisht, @pedant
@DanMartinUK, @Craig, @mini-HTPBDETs and of course in memory of @HTPBDET
Cheers! Thanks for such a great community