@wolfweed — I saw Davison has quit Twitter and it is a real shame because his original comments have been totally misrepresented. He was very encouraging about JW and did little more than ‘wonder’ about the removal of a male role model. Personally I think he’s worrying unnecessarily for reasons gone into in detail elsewhere but that doesn’t mean…[Read more]

@blenkinsopthebrave—

One would hope that certain sections of the Press take SM’s advice, given here….

I’d agree with @drben and @hiker that Capaldi does have a definite arc and it’s a truly satisfying one.

Just for yucks, my favourite of his episodes would be:

1. Heaven Sent
2. World Enough and Time
3. The Doctor Falls
4. Listen
5. The Magician’s Apprentice
6. The Zygon Inversion
7. Kill The Moon
8. Hell Bent
9. The Pilot
10. Mummy on the…[Read more]

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@wolfweed—

Michelle Gomez is ace. It’ll be such a shame if this is the end of her involvement in the show because she’s been just fab on and off screen….

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@miapatrick—

Belated congratulations….

@drben—

 I want to see his regeneration be much more peaceful — not fire and destruction like 10-11, or crash landing the TARDIS like 11-12.  Just a change, and 13 opens her eyes without confusion or dread, but in full awareness of her past and an eagerness to move forward.  Wouldn’t that be lovely?

Yes, it would be. I really like that idea.…[Read more]

I didn’t mind the Rose/10 thing, although its conclusion was a bit soupy for my liking. My rationalisation was that the Doctor had had loving — and probably sexual — relationships with certain BG companions, it was just that it hadn’t been made explicitly clear before because of the nature of the show. Certainly in my headcanon, Doctor 4 and…[Read more]

That’s sad news. And going too young too.

One of the most persistent tropes of the anti-Moffat brigade is that Capaldi is a great Doctor who was poorly served with more than his share of bad scripts. I’m going to call bullshit on that right now because to my mind he’s enjoyed the best run of most consistent, strongly written stories of any AG Doctor. He’s never had to endure a Boom Town,…[Read more]

@wolfweed and @hiker

Yes, the hair seems to be key. (Odd how you can follow the trajectory of certain Doctors in their tonsorial styling. Pertwee, the first Baker, Capaldi.) Oh and that New Statesman article is great.

Hmmm, SJW — an expression that falls into the same bracket as the likes of ‘EUSSR’ and ‘magic money tree’ that tells you more about the user than it does anything else. The word ‘pandering’ is highly loaded too. It’s not pandering (nor demeaning) to listen to people’s concerns about representation. What is demeaning is any attempt to devalue or…[Read more]