@Shazzbot – don’t get me wrong, I think the regen limit will probably be either abolished or significantly increased, but I don’t think it will be because of anything that we already have seen.

What I’m really […]

@Whisht – I think the problem with that theory is that the Master was hardly the kind of person to worry too much about the rules of the time lords, so probably would have just not worried about their […]

@ JimTheFish – I think, and this may be a controversial one, that Sheridan Smith would do an excellent job as a female Doctor – I know she’s played one of Eight’s companions in some audio stuff, but that shouldn’t […]

@JimTheFish I think you’re probably right, and I think from the production team’s perspective revealing what actually happened during the Time War is a lot less risky than revealing too much about the Doctor’s […]

My head is still reeling from watching it yesterday – Can’t wait to watch it again.

A few thoughts occur:

Hurt Doctor can only exist at four points in The Doctor’s timeline:

Pre-Hartnell
Between […]

I have only read one Iain Banks book, The Wasp Factory, which was furtively passed around my school like some kind of forbidden item when we were kids. I liked it very much, but somehow never got round to reading […]

I like this episode. I think the only thing that didn’t work for me was the Mitchell and Webb-bots. I’m sure it sounded like a great idea on paper – pair of funny robots, lets get a comedy duo to do the voices! […]

I’ll limit my thoughts to companions 2005 onward, as my classic who experience is pretty limited.

Rose – At the time, I wasn’t massively keen on Rose. On re-watching, I think it’s just that she’s very young, […]

That was a bit good, wasn’t it!

I particularly enjoyed the sort of horribly corrupted version of the Quakeresque “enlightened industrialism” of people like Cadbury and Rowntree. Sweetville was like a nightmare […]

@HTPBDET I agree that it’s highly unlikely that we will get a name – it’s inevitable that any name would be an anticlimax, and indeed I would be disappointed if we ever do get one.

Years of fan speculation, all […]

@FiveFaces I don’t think there’s a direct link with Clara, although there’s definitely the seeds of the Doctor’s relationship with Amy in his interactions with Reinette – she even calls him her imaginary friend at […]

I don’t know if anyone else has talked about this, but I think I may be forming a theory at last!

I’ve just watched Girl in the Fireplace as part of my New-Series re-watch I’m doing with my son (he’s one – […]

Bronchitis Dalek – EX-PEC-TORATE

Holby City Dalek – DE-FIB-RILATE

@Charlie-Cook – I don’t know about loopy, the correlation is quite striking actually!

Although I’m only 30, and so rather young in DW terms, some of my earliest who memories are Tom Baker ones – I think in fact that my first encounter with The Doctor was borrowing the audio cassette of Genesis of […]

Well. I very much enjoyed that. Very evocative of Alien, as others have said.

I thought the characters were believable despite the minimalistic (not a criticism!) dialogue, and that the story was logical and […]

Then there’s the envelope – tucked in the book. It has DELSA stamped on it.

The top Google result for DELSA goes to a site for some bods called Data-Enabled Life Sciences Alliance, which appears to be a real […]

Hi All,

Total newbie here – I’ve lurked over on the Guardian blogs for ages, but rarely posted due to the ridiculous amount of bumf and moaning that goes on in those threads.  Glad to see things are far more […]