@jimthefish
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And so say all of us!

Cheers

Missy

@jimthefish– I was thinking perhaps modern day Mycroft is lonely- even his dim little brother picked up on it- while Victorian Mycroft seemed in a worse state- and also to be married- which is, of course, Sherlock’s own projection.

(Mycroft is a favourite of mine, as someone whose name is often abbreviated against my will ‘Mycroft is the name you…[Read more]

@jimthefish, @bluesqueakpip,

Wasn’t there a theory doing the rounds during the first series of Sherlock that little Jim Moriarty was just a front for the “real” Moriarty lurking in the shadows? At the time I think Mycroft was the lead contender for the real Moriarty, although, in hindsight it would seem that Gatiss and Moffat had dropped those h…[Read more]

@JimTheFish and @Pedant

Yes, I saw The Secret of Sherlock Holmes when it was in the West End. Both actors, I must say, were wonderful.

So Sherlock reinventing Moriarty, possibly in some kind of schizoid breakdown, may well be something that comes up. But the other question is ‘it’s never twins’. Was Jim Moriarty a twin?

Because when he’s…[Read more]

@bluesqueakpip @jimthefish

And this is my comment

At which point Moriarty appears, because Moriarty has become Sherlock’s internal personification of all that is wrong with Sherlock.

Plus, there is a theory that Moriarty was always a Holmes fiction – I think Mark Lawson wrote in the Graun ages ago about this. In the books they were, I think, n…[Read more]

@JimTheFish and @Pedant

Here it is:

The whodunnit was ‘How is Moriarty coming back from the dead’?

The answer: he’s not. Somebody else is using Moriarty’s death to create a ghostly Criminal Mastermind (TM); possibly pre-planned by Moriarty, possibly not.

Within Sherlock’s head, he creates a highly misogynistic Victorian world, where the women…

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@bluesqueakpip – what @jimthefish says.

That will also let me expand on the comment I made in response to your Graun piece.

Happy timey wimey New Year everyone (in the past now for Australian fans, very close for us in UK, and future for Canadians and US peeps)

And happy birthday to The Doctor Who Forum – we are 3!! We started on 31-12-12 with about 30 members – now look at the state of us! Thanks as ever to the mighty @Craig for setting it up and to everyone for…[Read more]

@pedant    Yes, @JimTheFish is ours now, and we aren’t giving him back!

@midnyt @puroandson @mersey

For me, part of the difference was in the fact that River (by the time we were getting to know her) had to some degree earned the right to a little arrogance. She is closer to being the Doctor’s equal. She has lived a long life, travelled in time…[Read more]

@puroandson @Mersey

I think it has reached the stage where it would be an error to do a @JimTheFish story. He works much better as a sort of Elizabeth Mainwaring-like off-screen presence (colonials will have to look up Dad’s Army to get that (not the new movie, which may well have made catastrophic blunder wrt to Mrs Mainwaring).

And also, we…[Read more]

@JimtheFish Why thank you kind Fish. And you, with yet another “in universe” mention and all!  🙂

@pedant and @Puroandson (Puro half)

Just catching up here… I will have to be (relatively) brief as a) I have a deadline and b) I am sure everyone else on site is starting to roll the whites of their eyes re said topic.

I think you are mis-ch…[Read more]

Oh my giddy aunt!

How good was that?! (Although there seems to be an awful lot of dust particles in my house at the moment! 😥 ). Light finish to a stonking good season… then, oh no! The Singing Towers. I did have my suspicions about that in run-up to screening, but unlike @pedant re Hell Bent (that was SO well called 😉 ) I didn’t put it…[Read more]

We’re going to need a bigger flowchart!  And a special nod to our very own @jimthefish…  or I suppose to his slightly mysterious fictional counterpart.

And that was really very lovely.  River’s speech about loving the Doctor made me cry.  Lots of other bits made me laugh.  And River, as always, was splendid and the dynamics between the two of t…[Read more]

Hope to catch up with you all soon, but just to say happy Christmas to all DWFers with a timey wimey sort of a pic 😉

(And a special thank you to all those esp @JimtheFish (ARSE indeed – that made me chuckle a lot), @Puroandson (you’re a hybrid now…?!), @XAD4 who’s remembering drew me back from the dreaded RL universe!)

And yeah, kudos to…[Read more]

@JimTheFish @arbutus @pedant @Juniperfish

There is an old Irish joke (that is to say, a joke of Irish origin) about an Englishman lost in a rural area of Ireland, who ask a farmer for directions. The farmer thinks for a moment and says: “Well, I wouldn’t start from here if I were you.”  (I am fairly sure that Dave Allen was the first I heard tel…[Read more]

@JimTheFish      But opening with Skaro and ending with Gallifrey and with more than a few serious Who highpoints in between, that was, in my view, one of the most accomplished series of Who, either BG or AG.   Oh, I definitely agree with this. I loved Series 8 but this was better. At the moment, I can’t think of a misstep, and the whole thing…[Read more]

SPOILER, SPOILER, SPOILER...

@supernumery, @pedant, @jimthefish–

I don’t think Gallafray is quite ‘back’- though it can clearly be reached, and left- I have to admit I do hope they keep it to a minimum. I was watching some old Who episodes earlier, and decided I’m not a huge fan of the timelords on screen. Is the Doctor still president, though, or has he lost that for being,…[Read more]

We had a series of electrical brownouts last night (probably caused by storm whateverhisnameis) and so I’ve only just managed to watch the episode. If you happened to hear random swear words cursed into the night, possibly curdling milk and disturbing sleeping children then it was probably me. Even if you were in Australia.

As many know, like @jim…[Read more]

@JimTheFish I’m jealous. I remember having to read ‘Laidlaw’ in secondary school and for once it didn’t feel like school work at all.