@ichabod…If JW were to play a flirty, moody, openly sentimental, impulsive (etc., all the assumption, both pos. and neg., of sexual essentialism) Doctor…

It didn’t especially bother me when David Tennant and Matt Smith did that, but it would be better for the new Doctor to be, well, newer.

@ichabod @lisa @janetteb @jimthefish

I think I am most drawn to the notion of this being a Full Circle kind of thing.  Where 13 is the 1 of the new cycle.  (I’m sticking with the Classic Numbering System, sorry War Doctor. 😉 )

I do agree that rehashing Susan as she was would never work.  But I don’t think it would have to be like that.  Sin…[Read more]

@nick @jimthefish @blenkinsopthebrave @nerys @ichabod

I knew I couldn’t be the only sane one out there!  (Though that may be a questionable claim.)  I do agree that I see, in some sense, the necessity of Rose but I think that’s also what makes me so infuriated about her.  The idea that we needed that horrendous mush-fest to sell the merits of the…[Read more]

@ichabod  Thanks!

I know others like @blenkinsopthebrave are thinking its more likely that Doctor One will be the Clarence of the story, rather than CapDoc.  However, I am rather keen on the twist of the teacher becoming the taught.

In other words, Twelve is all against regenerating, but when he stubbornly explains its virtues to One he i…[Read more]

@ichabod:     “Death by Scotland.”

As opposed to ‘chocolate?’

I too shall miss Missy would love the Doctor to know that she was coming to stand with him. You never know, if JS is staying as the Master, his love of ‘showing off’ might lure him into telling the Doctor this in the hope that it will hurt him, he has before. He  can be pretty stu…[Read more]

@ichabod

The Master-Missy relationship is, I think, fairly straightforward – insofar as Moffat loops can ever be described as such. The indications in the text are that Simm-Master will regenerate into Missy and that she remembers enough to realise this. She claims to be a bit hazy about the details, but then she has never been particularly…[Read more]

@bluesqueakpip @thane15 (puro) @mudlark @ichabod @blenkinsopthebrave @jimthefish @all

Why was this scene included ? Or rather, while watching it, it seemed like a very oblique way of Bill saying she cared/loved the Doctor, but the more I think about, the more it seems quite a peculiar way to write that sentiment. Is there something more subtle…[Read more]

@ichabod:

Good I didn’t think it was only me who found the actor superfluous to requirements (says she pretentiously.) I agree about the scene you mentioned, very funny.

@blenkinsopthebrave:

The scene with Mycroft and Watson, is one of my favourite scenes in Study in Pink.

@serahni:

Damn! I should have liked that little gem to have been a…[Read more]

@ichabod

But there was a long beat, holding on that hand-clasp, so *something* was sure going on.

There have been several points, including earlier in this episode where holding hands affected Missy, so I don’t think that something beyond it likely being the last time they’d do it was necessarily implied.

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@serahni   I suspect that “Sontarans perverting the course of human history” is a new phrase to use in same sort of way as “Reverse the polarity of the neutron flow.” I wish it were otherwise! The proximity of the Master to Missy caused her to forget things in her timeline. So, it seems we can expect that the First Doctor’s appearance on the s…[Read more]

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@missrori @ichabod and @janetteb  I will admit the although I am Canadian I “hate watch” the American Fox news network when I need to let off steam and shout at the TV but I can only take about 10 mins. then I have to change the channel.

@janetteb. I never got the idea of hate watching either.  I think it was coined to refer to fascinatingly bad shows.  First one I remember that referred to as that was “Smash”, an NBC musical drama from about 5 years ago.

@ichabod Yeah, I wouldn’t want to give up green growing things either.  We used to have a lot of trees around our house, bu…[Read more]

@wolfweed Hum wonder if that counters the evil of rising electricity prices. Surely witchcraft is to blame. (alright witchcraft in the form of stupid and or corrupt politicians)
(random comment refers to Aus’ energy price rise today.)
@ichabod Have heard people talk about “hate watching”. Personally I think there is too much to do to waste time…[Read more]

@ichabod Big pictures, little words. That’s what I need.

@nerys  Insignificance Terrific movie! As well as the explanation of relativity, it also carries a very powerful punch and moral message at the end. Here’s Marilyn (played brilliantly by Theresa Russell) explaining special relativity to Albert:  

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@ichabod

I rather suspect Moff’s “blood bath” is going to be quite a literal description. That said, it’s standard form to leave the Master is a very dodgy situation, so there must be some hope that they both end up in that situation.

@thane15 @tardigrade @wolfweed @ichabod

This is why the tardis has an R in its name 🙂

Keeping the science simple, time passes for each observer at the same rate everywhere in the universe. 5 years is the same duration whether you are on the earth, the lowest level or deck 0f of the ship.

If you travel at close to the speed of light, or get…[Read more]