@ScaryB. You said just what I was about  to. I am getting really tired of the misuse of the term “soap opera” to apply to any form of human centric drama. Adding a little human complexity to the script does not turn a story into a soap opera and as @JimTheFish pointed out, there can be good soap opera. It is not a term of abuse just a form of…[Read more]

@Spider

Gallifreyans Using Stealth – love it! (Especially as it circumstantially supports my theory that Missy’s world is on Gallifrey (on the opposite side to the bit we usually see).

@wordmuse @JimtheFish

I like the companions having back stories and non Doctor lives, so long as it doesn’t feel tacked on (which is possibly the bit we may…[Read more]

@JimTheFish – I agree with the whole mythos thing relative to DW. So let’s zoom in on the relationships between Rose and Micky, Amy and Rory, and now Clara and Danny.

Rose/Micky – Rose wanted to have a romp; Micky went from being that romp to being a wet sponge. Then he grew up and Rose’s relationship with him shifted through these various…[Read more]

Oh – jinx @JimtheFish – we said virtually the same thing in simultaneous posts – woooooo – through the fish pond looking glass 🙂

The Greatest Sylvester McCoy Episode Vote in the Galaxy – Result!
OK – Collating and reflecting on the votes received, I think we have a clear winner for our choice of Story containing The First Scottish Doctor.

It’s actually pretty apt to reveal it after we’ve seen Mummy on the Orient Express as well. The first victim terrorised by the Mum…[Read more]

Thanks @Thommck for the link to the props photos. Beautiful attention to detail as ever. Did you notice that the guns have “GUS” stamped on them? Couldn’t make out if  it’s on any of the other tech.

@Juniperfish @Jimthefish

Sorry fishy friends but I have to disagree. Tennant on his day was magnificent! <stamps foot> Then again, so was Smithy,…[Read more]

@JimtheFish I really love Capaldi’s Doctor. He’s so accomplished an actor that the smallest of tics or gestures conveys so much.

If I had to rank the Nu Who Doctors in order of their places of affection in my heart, I’d have to say Smithy and Capaldi and Ecclestone all come in ahead of Tennant for me.  It’s a shame but I think Tennant got lost…[Read more]

@Brewski – What was the Mummy’s original mission? If he is acting on buggy code now, what was he SUPPOSED to do? Seek out the weakest and…. what?

excellent question! perhaps he was a medic, whose job is to tend to the wounded? he would have to choose the most wounded to save first, then the next most wounded, and so forth, just like the mum…[Read more]

@geoffers

i’m not so sure. i think he stopped travelling the universe, in that case, simply because of the threat of the time war breaking out again.

Yes. Exactly. That’s why, for the Doctor, it’s not an addiction. One of the definitions of ‘addiction’ as opposed to ‘something the person finds fun’ is that an addiction will interfere with s…[Read more]

@jimthefish @kaervekkun  Yes indeed, I’m starting to get back into the idea that Danny might well be the big-bad of the arc.  It’s something I speculated about before the series started, and then again when we met him properly in Into the Dalek (http://www.thedoctorwhoforum.com/forums/topic/into-the-dalek/page/3/#post-30843)

The Master r…[Read more]

I feel some people are over-egging the gravity of the plot so firstly (along with those awful puns) I present the origin of the moon-egg 😉

Here is some useful official BBC content that helps clear up a lot too
Quiz The Moon – bbc.co.uk/programmes/articles/59bhtcgMnFZrnRF4xzPdvS7/kill-the-moon-the-quiz
(I got 8/10)

Fact File bbc.co.uk/programm…[Read more]

Oh, and I nearly forgot.

In the Caretaker – the Doctor mentions that he spent a month hanging out with otters after a fight with River. Could that be when he met @JimtheFish (building his dam to keep the dam’ otters out)?

@JimtheFish

It also struck me odd that there’s such a negative response on the Graun. Normally they’re up in arms about deus ex machina (that aren’t really) and everything getting neatly tied up and possibly over-simplistic ways. Now they get a story that doesn’t give them that, that shows the fall-out of tricky moral decisions, that shows heroes…

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@JimTheFish

Welcome back! (waves)
I’d also be surprised if we see much more of Courtney this series beyond maybe a scene or two. There was a subtle ‘get out clause’ in one of Clara’s lines – “one of my Year 10’s.”

In other words, Courtney’s in her last year of school before going off to either Sixth Form or a local college.

The other, more…[Read more]

I like what people have been saying about Clara not wanting to make the choice, the choice that puts her in the Doctor’s place for once. She seems to feel, both before he leaves and afterward in the TARDIS, that making these decisions is his job. However, he feels that, this time at least, it isn’t his place to make the choice for humanity. Thi…[Read more]

@JimtheFish

No need for DEMs when you have emotions and character interactions to deal with. Not to mention uppity, ungrateful “assistants” (female natch) who don’t know their place and insist on taking centre stage and it being all about them.

😉

@JimtheFish  Hello fellow fish-friend – I like your idea that Clara is a future version of Missy

Moff does like his mystery female antagonists – Mme Kovarian and now Missy.

I’m still banking on Clara being a relative of the Doctor’s (grand-daughter as top fave).

<throws some glitter just for @ScaryB>

@JimTheFish

No guns and is that really the best team for the job. An old dodderer, an angry cynic and a Michael Jayston impersonator?

It was the only team that was available – I thought that was made rather clear. The Word had stopped caring about space.

Just dashing in to wave hello to @JimTheFish

@arbutus

Definitely one theory (although admittedly not the most popular one) is that the moon is an asteroid that got sucked into our orbit at some point.

Absolutely. In fact, it had rather been discounted since the moon shots, but that didn’t stop Doctor Who from making the wandering planet t…[Read more]

@Arbutus

As @Bluesqueakpip’s list suggests, we all have our own areas of touchiness. For some of us, it’s “For heaven’s sake get the science right!” For some of us it’s historical anachronisms, for some of us it’s “believable” character behaviour, and so on. Fair enough, actually.

Well said. This episode is about a moral dilemma which lies at the…[Read more]