@ScaryB, @Bluesqueakpip, @Shazzbot, @Timeloop, @JimTheFish, @Juniperfish, @WhoHar, @PhaseShift, @Wolfweed, @janetteB @TardisBlue, @steve-thorp, @OsakaHatter @FatManInABox, @magnetite, @blenkinsopthebrave, @Whisht, @pedant

And not least @DanMartinUK, @Craig and @mini-HTPBDETs (and apologies if I missed or misspelt anyone, you have no idea how…[Read more]

I really enjoyed watching this last night. Made me think of @HTPBDET as well, but not just in a sad way.

It was fantastic watching how it all began, and interesting, knowing the ways in which the show has evolved, seeing what was there from the start. I liked the fact the backstory was very minimalist- the Doctor and his granddaughter (and yes,…[Read more]

@Shazzbot @ScaryB @Bluesqueakpip @Juniperfish @Craig @JimTheFish @pedant @Whisht @DanMartinUK @Arkleseizure @Pufferfish @Airedales etc.

Hope you all have a great time meeting up and I am genuinely sorry to miss it. Looking forward to the post meeting stories and also how your impressions of each other in RL compared to the online perception. Also…[Read more]

@Shazzbot 7.30 am on Saturday morning!! : – (  That is going to be one very unusual breakfast in bed. : – )  It sounds like a good excuse to buy some Baileys.. I am honoured to be able to take part in the toast, albeit from a very great distance. I miss @HTPBDET and keep wondering what he would he would be thinking and saying if he were with us n…[Read more]

Just a quick drop-in to the sofa to say that I am beyond excited about the rest of this week. (And not least because it looks like Moffat is going to knock the “haters” into a cocked hat by producing something that is going to blow minds all over the place with something of real quality. (They’ll still hate it, but they’ll be left speechless and…[Read more]

Waves at @Shazzbot and @ScaryB .

Yes, absolutely @ScaryB , I shall go and take a look at those trailers both in red-shift and blue-shift 🙂

Congrats to @Craig on starting to receive PR materials! (re the Gaiman promo from Puffin). You have truly arrived as a Master of this universe.

Two weeks to go? How has this happened?

I owe @Phaseshift a…[Read more]

Dear friends,

I am late (or am I early?). Please forgive me.

I am so sad to hear @HTPBDET is no longer on this plane of existence with us, and damn it is just not fair <shakes fist at universe> that he didn’t get to see the 50th nor we to enjoy his spiffy comments on it.

@ScaryB ‘s image of him off on his travels in a certain blue box was q…[Read more]

@ScaryB: 🙂 Just re-watched the Loose Cannon reconstruction of The Massacre of St Bartholemew’s Eve. It really is a brilliant story, and definitely the number one thing I want to have been on that shelf in Nigeria. So I thought I’d switch to a pic of Hartnell as the Abbot of Amboise.

Also, I remembered that @HTPBDET used a picture of Troughton as…[Read more]

I’ll chuck something else into the mix (btw @Timeloop, this may explain my attitude a tad):

In another place I wrote:

The trouble with SciFi fans is that they have a terrible habit of focussing on the Sci at the expense of the Fi, in practical terms meaning an over-obsession with plotting and puzzle solving at the expense of character and…

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@Timeloop In Mexico only one cinema chain will be screening it, but it will be available in a number of cities and in Mexico City is almost sold out and they’ve had to open new screenings. I’m not sure how that translates into actual numbers, but for a show that you would think is almost unknown in Mexico, I think it’s pretty impressive. Sales are…[Read more]

@DanMartinUK‘s blog on The TV Movie is now up at the Guardian. He has included a tribute to @HTPBDET.

Thanks, Dan.

@ScaryB – Celia Imrie’s final scene is deeply haunting. For one thing, it’s the whole ‘Mummy and Daddy said they wouldn’t be long’ thing – did they ever come back for her? Or are we left to imagine that they’re two casualties of one of the many, many invasions of Earth that we’ve seen in Doctor Who.

Yes, @HTPBDET was pretty close in his ideas…[Read more]

Great posts as ever @Bluesqueakpip  I like your observation about the TARDIS now having circles rather than linear engines

@Phaseshift – Celia Imrie may not have had much screen time but she really made it count.  The scene of her being left devastated when the GI left her could easily be cheesy, but she makes it a tragic moment.   There’s a ki…[Read more]

On October 23, 2013, I saw, in Los Angeles, California, USA, a filmed performance of the recent Menier Chocolate Factory production of Merrily We Roll Along, which took the West End and all of London by storm earlier this year. I’m a big Sondheim fan. The production was superb. It was easy to see why the show received so many five star reviews…[Read more]

Hi all.

I haven’t posted for a while due to personal circumstances (new job etc.), but have still been checking and reading the site.

I checked the site yesterday at work and saw the sad news. In the midst of feeling very sad, I had an idea, and I hope it will be taken in the spirit that it’s given, which is one of remembrance and celebration of…[Read more]