Hi All, thanks for the get well wishes @JimtheFish @purofilan and @JanetteB

Still with a swimmy head – I’m just popping in briefly to note that the Doctor’s spoon and black glove were very striking.

The Doctor Who fan fiction archive “A Teaspoon and an Open Mind” is named after a quote from the 4th Doctor in The Creature from the Pit  – “Well…[Read more]

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@JimTheFish

I love the idea of a solitary Doctor. I enjoyed that aspect of the Tennant specials, that he was traveling without a companion, and hanging out with whomever came along. I’d love to see more of that, and I agree that this Doctor would be great in that situation.

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@TheatreGuy @JimTheFish

I’ll take a bow, and thanks.

I don’t particularly like the approach, but I think it may be beneficial for some people to learn they can take the time to type what they want, but ultimately we have a singular BIG RED BUTTON that can send their ill thought-out mindwank to the ether.

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@JimTheFish   Good point about the similarity to the Seventh Doctor, who was moving in this direction in his later TV stories  as well. The Doctor’s treatment of Clara in Deep Breath was not unlike Seven’s manipulation of Ace in Curse of Fenric. But this Doctor doesn’t hide behind the mask that Seven wore.

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@JimtheFish @Wolfweed (and any others of the Scottish persuasion/location)

It maybe ranks as a pimple on @Craig‘s Snowden scale of intrepid adventuring, but this might be worth exploring for our next DWF (Scottish arm) meetup. It doesn’t involve climbing, and it  includes a pub (and option of other Whovians… ooh! scary!!)

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Hi all,

I’m leaving you all for a few days in the capable hands of @JImTheFish @FatManInABox and @Phaseshift

I have been talked into climbing Snowdon the hard way and we head off tomorrow morning. I shall try not to die.

This is what I will be doing. Keep your fingers crossed for me. If I’m honest I’m a little bit…[Read more]

@JimTheFish @IAmNotAFishIAmAFreeMan Sorry to have taken a while to get back on this, but it’s been a busy couple of days. I think, on reflection, that both your points are fair, and my earlier comment on the Doctor’s morality was a half-baked idea rather poorly expressed. Both ‘bad Doctor’ and ‘impeccable morality’ are certainly overstated. Mainly…[Read more]

I agree with you @Serahni  I hope there is more to the impossible girl story.  I’m still in the Rose is connected to Clara camp. Clara’s mom died on the same day Rose “disappeared.”

I loved the way Twelve said Clara didn’t see him, when it was the opposite that Eleven didn’t see Clara when they met, just the other two verisons he knew of her.…[Read more]

Another quick post while I should be working lol.

@thommck

I’m pretty sure Ten gave the fob watch to Tim at the end of Family of Blood

@JimTheFish

I really agree with your examples of how the Doctor interacts with the lives of the people around him. I have the Who and Philosphy book and there are chapters on his different views of morality. H…[Read more]

@JimTheFish Fair enough. I think one of the big themes of this series might be that the Doctor is out to correct what he (now) regards as his mistakes from the past. I never really agreed with the whole ‘the Doctor is basically a bad person’ idea that M0ffat seems to have been pushing; as far as I can tell, he’s always acted with impeccable…[Read more]

@JimTheFish Was it the typo on Beryl?

@JimtheFish: yes, the scene with the tray is the bit I was getting at. As I say, unfinished business in Pompeii.

@JimTheFish – and it shows what an excellent actor Peter Capaldi is, as well. Not that Matt Smith was any slouch, by the time he’d finished his run, but Capaldi shows that he’s just realised it applies to both of them with one fleeting change of expression.

Gosh, this place is good! So many theories in such a short space of time 🙂 Forgive me if I don’t name-check the brilliant people whose comments have inspired these ramblings of mine – I’ll only get confused, and unlike the Doctor I don’t have the excuse of regeneration to blame…

The new theme tune, which I decided instantly I loathed, is…[Read more]

@JimTheFish – his reuse of the organ-stealing droids isn’t as lazy as it looks. He makes it look lazy by the Doctor’s constant ‘this reminds me of something’. But in fact, the Girl in the Fireplace droids are after one human part (only) and we don’t see the other ones they’ve murdered. They’re clockwork in appearance. They’re based on a ship that…[Read more]

@JimTheFish

I’m slightly bemused by all the comments here and elsewhere about the Doc’s Scottish accent. It’s like Sylvester’s Doc never happened.

Depressing isn’t it? It’s as if we can only accept a Scottish actor if they have a faux estuary English accent. I blame the English. Or perhaps, more accurately, trollism.

@Timeloop

I was harsh,…[Read more]