@JimTheFish @wolfweed

Seconded 🙂

@jimthefish  You can hear what was deleted from the video between 6:38 to 8:00 on the podcast…

The trouble with arriving six days late at the party, when the discussion is far advanced and so much has been said and so eloquently, is that it is difficult to add anything original or to tag everyone whose comments have chimed with my views. The best I can do is to set down my initial thoughts and reactions from my own perspective, and to…[Read more]

@jimthefish:

As Christopher Eccleston’s Doctor said to Rose:

ROSE: If you are an alien, how comes you sound like you’re from the North?
DOCTOR: Lots of planets have a north.

Missy

@missrori  Weirdest theory I’ve seen about the First Doctor’s sexism as running gag — a commenter at The Mary Sue genre discussion site argued that it’s actually Moffat’s way of clandestinely expressing how much he hates women, couched as a joke.

Gods, they can be idiots over there sometimes!  Moffat doesn’t hate women, just came with the standar…[Read more]

@jimthefish  I’m inclined to agree with you re the sexism of the First Doc.  I suspect Moffat was taking the piss out of the explosion of idiocy when JW was announced, and all of the comments about nurse/doctor, domestic roles and dodgy driving.  Certainly, apart from the smacked bottom comment to Susan (which is obv super cringy from our pe…[Read more]

@jimthefish

is there going to be an in-universe explanation of 13’s Yorkshireness?

If it hadn’t been for the accent, I’d have said that The Doctor’s recent encounter with Capt. Lethbridge-Stewart may have had an influence. In the next Doctors first, very brief moments, I found myself thinking of Kate Stewart.

@tardigrade However, I have to register my discomfort with the First Doctor being portrayed with 1960’s (or earlier) attitudes to gender roles, even with that being played for comedy. I have difficulty in reconciling that with the Doctor’s character as I know it- I’d have preferred that those dated elements were treated just as a by-product of ma…

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@jimthefish — Aargghh!  Lime green?  I hope someone was put in the stocks for that.

@missy   I never was good at writing down my emotional response to anything. I simply feel.

Well, that’s what us hyper-verbals do in the world: put it out there for people to recognize as their own; or, just as importantly, not, or not quite.

For those who th…[Read more]

@bluesqueakpip  The ring was the only part of the Capaldi Doctor’s costume that stayed throughout. It’s a symbol that this Doctor’s time had finished – the one thing he has constantly worn – no longer fits.

Ah!  Perfectly put.  Thank you.

@jimthefish  I agree that they pushed D1’s out-of-date attitudes a bit too hard, and it grated to have 12 te…[Read more]

@jimthefish The Moff has said that “The Doctor Falls” was supposed to be the regeneration but Chibnall didn’t want to introduce Thirteen for Christmas and the show wouldn’t get any more Christmas specials if they skipped a year, so Moff decided to go with the coda approach you mentioned to squeeze out one more story for Twelve.  And yes, I did…[Read more]

Ah,

*sniff*

I really enjoyed that. Made me laugh, and cry. And very much on a favourite Moffatt theme of keeping people alive through memories  – from Amy with Rory, and now gifting Twelve with his restored memories of Clara. At the end of the day, that’s all we’ve got. I agree with @Juniperfish, I was hoping for a cameo from River, but we’ve…[Read more]

A very happy Christmas to all my fellow Whovians.

Personally I can’t wait to hang with the first again, I’m going to shed a tear or two of goodbye to the magnificent twelfth… and I really can’t wait to meet the thirteenth. (Will be timeshifting tho, so will catch up with you all in a couple of days (NO internet for me till then!!)).

I can’t…[Read more]

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@bluesqueakpip and @jimthefish

Thanks for giving m a kick up the butt Pip. I am being made redundant now, so am neck deep in lawyers and negotiations. But will try to get things back on track – if not today then tomorrow.

But yeah, spoilers needs fixed – I’ll do that now.

Craig

@Craig and @JimTheFish

Also, I think Spoilers (3) has reached its limit.

@Craig and @JimTheFish

Hi, Craig. I realise that Doctor Who may be the last thing on your mind right now, but if we are to watch Tenth Planet before Twice Upon A Time, a forum needs to be created either this week or next week. There are now only five Saturdays before Christmas, including today.

Possibly Jim could create one?
Pip

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