@JimTheFish and @Thane15

I think the ‘problem’ with Rose is not Rose. 😀

It’s hindsight. I remember watching Piper and Tennant at the time and thinking how good they were together – but then we had an entire, series-long ‘but you’re not Rose’ companion arc. By the end of it I was ‘enough about bloody Rose already!’ I’m not surprised Martha was…[Read more]

@nick @jimthefish @blenkinsopthebrave @nerys @ichabod

I knew I couldn’t be the only sane one out there!  (Though that may be a questionable claim.)  I do agree that I see, in some sense, the necessity of Rose but I think that’s also what makes me so infuriated about her.  The idea that we needed that horrendous mush-fest to sell the merits of the…[Read more]

@jimthefish. Yes indeed. Well done.

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Janette

@serahni @jimthefish @blenkinsopthebrave

I thought Rose was handled reasonably well with Eccleston, but it was a mistake in S2 to make the Rose/Doctor love-in. What made it worse was RTD compounded it with Martha (which killed off that character on two different fronts – another infatuation and as substitute Rose). I didnt like the Rose…[Read more]

@jimthefish

Excellent Whoodle!

@jimthefish I just had another thought as I awoke from a nap.  How’s that for hopeless fan?  😉

Twelve takes One to see Susan (played by Carole Ann Ford of course) who is now old and nearing regeneration.  Which she does.  Becoming the new, younger Susan and Thirteen’s new companion!

She’ll be pretty sassy and refer to him as “GranDoc”. 🙂

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@jimthefish [sigh] No, probably not.  I never get my wish.  Even at Christmas.  :p

I’ll settle for the fangasm, though! lol…  (settles in to wait…)

@bluesqueakpip @thane15 (puro) @mudlark @ichabod @blenkinsopthebrave @jimthefish @all

Why was this scene included ? Or rather, while watching it, it seemed like a very oblique way of Bill saying she cared/loved the Doctor, but the more I think about, the more it seems quite a peculiar way to write that sentiment. Is there something more subtle…[Read more]

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@tardigrade  We did get the answer to the question “Missy, would it kill you to be kind for once?”. That answer appears to be yes :). It wasn’t only Bill who was unwilling to live if she couldn’t be herself. It seems the Master felt the same and didn’t want to become what Missy was becoming.

Indeed!  All that “things end because they have to” is…[Read more]

@jimthefish @missrori

I may be wrong (and would need a rewatch to remind me the exact order)  but didnt he show regen signs during the woodland walk with Bill, before the battle. This suggests the opening scene with the Master ? [but that seems to small to damage him that much, if a two or more cyber-blasts werent sufficient to either kill him…[Read more]

@jimthefish It could have been both the beating and the Cybermen zapping him on the roof that started wearing him down, and then the blast to the hearts serving as a “finishing move.”  This could be because he knew he couldn’t regenerate after the hospital because dealing with that would make things harder for everyone else.  After he gets b…[Read more]

@jimthefish I agree that the Valeyard probably will never be revisited on screen and instead remain left to Big Finish to play with.  The contemporary series has done interesting things with the Doctor’s darker aspects as it is, so the Valeyard would be redundant.  And yes @tardigrade, we have to acknowledge the War Doctor!  🙂

@jimthefish In reality, I don’t expect that a Valeyard storyline is planned, or would work. Even if you regard it as something in the Doctor’s future, that can be pushed out indefinitely.

And I think the War Doctor can fully be regarded as the Doctor- by retrofitting him into the timeline it was just tricky to number him- I think he deserves more…[Read more]

To those commenting on the reasons for the Doctor to be resisting regenerating, the experience of a TL regeneration is hard for me to imagine as a personal experience. And I imagine individual approaches and attitudes to that would vary between TLs. From what we’ve seen, most TLs don’t appear to be overly fazed by the experience, but the Doctor…[Read more]