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Thanks to @wolfweed for the behind the scenes stuff. I’d never seen that either. Doesn’t SM look so young and cherubic there?

This is actually a great shout from @janetteb because apart from being very silly indeed, there are lots of clues and callbacks to what kind of showrunner SM would eventually become.

I have to admit, I was never that…[Read more]

@serahni et al–

I personally wouldn’t be too down on Rose. I think Billie Piper played her brilliantly and I think much of the show’s dramatic success in those early years is as down to her as it is to anything else. And her return does pay off really rather well — for me, it’s one of the highpoints of Journey’s End (the other being Donna’s…[Read more]

After the last flurry of post-s10 art, I felt inspired to do a new Whoodle (after realising that the last time I did one was just after Smithy had left the role). Where does the time go?

@serahni—

You can probably count me among your number too. I have a funny feeling that there’s an old and occasionally heated dispute with @HTPBDET somewhere on the site about the relative merits of the 10/Rose scenario. My feeling is that it was something that had to happen to drag Who into the modern age and that RTD should be commended for…[Read more]

@brewski — another nice theory.

I think we could well see Susan at Christmas, given PC’s keenness for her to come back and the rumours that he is getting a strong input into the special. Now I know many are keen to see some kind of return to the character, but I’ve never been all that bothered myself. I think mostly because of the culture of the…[Read more]

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@brewski — I’m hopeful that you’ll get at least some of your christmas wishes as I think you’re definitely onto something with your theories about the spesh….

@brewski — I’ll be very curious to see just what approach we’ll see. Can’t imagine we’ll see all the Doctors though, maybe just edited highlights and I imagine some of them will just be re-edited footage a la The Name of the Doctor. If indeed this is the approach taken. It might just be some kind of Two Doctors. Rachel Talalay has used the…[Read more]

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OK, this is still slightly puzzling me — if the Doctor does indeed regenerate at Christmas, what exactly triggered it in the first place? There’s no suggestion now that the shooting in The Lie of the Land was anything other than false. Was it then the beating by the Masters that triggered it because there was that little inkling of it in the…[Read more]

@wolfweed—

Thanks for that. Thought it was a bit unlikely and would have been a big blow to Cardiff. And I’d lay odds the Beeb got some kind of funding incentive for setting up there in the first place.

Mind you, if it had been true, it would have been rather a drastic measure to appease Alan Cumming….

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