@thane16 /puro.

Ha ha. I still regret wearing a dry-clean-only top for the snotfest 🙂

It’s such a massive change – writer, composer, companions, Doctor, gender … All new.

It would be weird not to feel weird about one/some/all of the new things.

I’m looking forward to seeing how it all evolves, and quite confident I’ll settle in and end up…[Read more]

@shinymcshine Just my tuppence-worth…

I’ve been against changes in Doctor Who so many times before, I think I can identify with you a bit 🙂

I remember when the DW reboot was being advertised on BBC. The adverts were all CGI graphics and big music. It was a million miles away from the Doctor Who of my childhood. And Billie Piper (as far as I…[Read more]

Hi everyone.

Great to see so many faces old and new. *Tries to think of a more cyber-appropriate word than “faces”* … *Shrugs and waves.*

Really enjoying reading your comments 🙂 Little Savon is growing fast and becoming quite a handful – leaving limited time to read and reflect. But I finally got round to episode 1 at least…

The pro…[Read more]

Re: the first Doctor’s sexism being overegged.

Yes, as a viewer I felt Doc-1’s sexism was being rubbed in my face.

However, I also felt there was a comparison being made.

There was Doc 1, confronted with his future. He will “walk in blood through all of time and space.” He will become “The destroyer of the world” “The beast of Trenzalore” “…[Read more]

I promised to save the Christmas special until I could watch together with my pal. It took some willpower, but we watched tonight.

I loved it.

I confess, much as I admire Peter Capaldi as an actor, I really didn’t expect to warm to his Doctor.

Seeing Matt Smith regenerate into Peter Capaldi felt a little like having an adorable puppy and w…[Read more]

@scaryB Watching Pyramid in the middle of the election campaign, I did feel the Monks’ brainwashing programme was at points eerily familiar! That opening sequence: the gentle lull of the propaganda juxtaposed againt the brutality of real life. And one of Nardole’s observations struck a chord – about how people are prepared to accept a crappy…[Read more]

@thane15

• Re: Romeo and Juliet. Sent a message rather than posted here.

June 9th is my birthday. I woke up to news that the Conservatives had lost their majority and I genuinely felt like the universe had bought me a present. “Happy Birthday. We didn’t know what to get you so we just kicked the Tories a bit. Hope you like it.” (Yes, I very much do like it.)

Then of course the Westboro Baptist Church aka DUP showed up…[Read more]

@thane15 Ah, that’s what I get for reading four pages of brilliant stuff in a rush I suppose. I should have known your mum would have seen the Prometheus parallel right away. Right now, Mr Savon has taken the tiny Emperor out so I can shampoo our carpets, so I suppose I ought to get on with the task in hand, but very much looking forward to having…[Read more]

Cor, this is a really great thread!

Just caught up yesterday with Oxygen and Extremis back to back. Still feeling befuddled – in a very good way.

@steffstaff Welcome. Great posts. “…during the real invasion, everything the Doctor attempts they’ll have already predicted and have an immediate counter for”

I suppose we’ve seen with the shadow test…[Read more]

@winston At the end of Last of the Time Lords, the tenth Doctor resolves to keep the Master in the Tardis, saying “It’s time to change. Maybe I’ve been wandering too long. Now I’ve got someone to care for.” The Master is then shot by his wife so it doesn’t happen, but keeping the Master is, we have seen, something the Doctor would do.

@thane15…[Read more]

@Thane15 I was thinking more along the lines of Episode-6-Capaldi needs Dr-Mysterio-Capaldi to hatch an egg or whatever.

But New Doctor Revealed is much more interesting…

@thane15 When I read your spelling of “penance” I saw the one “n” and immediately hung my head in shame! But yes, it’s an interesting possibility. The question is, what did he do that was so wrong?

Peter Capaldi Mark 2 in the vault – I would love that.

The Valeyard is also a strong possibility for me, if only because Moffat maybe needs to get…[Read more]

It might be interfering with his own timeline, so probably not a thing. But…

Could the Doctor encounter someone in a future episode (say an injured redeemable villain who will take decades to heal) and send them back in time to be imprisoned/brought up/nursed by his past self? The Future Doctor makes his past self promise to give up his…[Read more]

I’m enjoying the bonkers turn that this thread has taken. @Kharis If I’ve read the thread right, I think you were the catalyst. Nice work! @mersey Big box inside a little box inside a size-yet-to-be-determined box. I like it. (I liked your explanation about the combined genres – comic book and drama – in the last thread too. Ages ago I…[Read more]

@geoffers I mean, what do you keep locked away, anyway? a treasure, a weapon, a prisoner… a madman/madwoman? (or all of the above?)

I’ve been wondering about that. In the Doomsday vault in Svalbard they keep seeds from around the world, ready for armageddon. Could the Doctor be protecting/preserving a person/people for similar reasons? Someone w…[Read more]

@thane15 (Puro) <span style=”line-height: 1.5;”>Ah thanks. It’s good to be around a bit more.</span>

I suppose thinking about it, the writer needed a first victim who could disappear without causing any ripples among the people at the frost fair. A drunk vagrant would tick that box. My first thought was that he’d been selected as the sort of pers…[Read more]

Hello, strangers  🙂

@mersey I’ve been thinking along the same lines.

As viewers, of course we’re rooting for our heroes and central or sympathetically portrayed characters. We can’t get too hung up about the deaths of baddies and peripheral individuals, or the show couldn’t work. And writers tend to make it easy for us to “move on” from the dea…[Read more]

The Tarot discussions on this week’s thread and last week’s are fascinating. @Kharis, in this week’s episode, when the Doctor snubs Clara’s attempt at a high five, she says “Don’t leave me hanging.” That particular choice of wording is hard to ignore now that I’ve read your comments identifying Clara as the Hanged (Wo)man. I wonder whether there w…[Read more]

I’m not sure whether this is a spot, or just me – but I think there are musical callbacks to A Town Called Mercy.

At the beginning, there is a prairie “feel” to both the scenery and the music that plays as Clara hangs and Missy whittles her pointy stick.

But far more striking is the music that kicks in at the end. The Doctor says “So long as…[Read more]