Hey everyone,

Good to “see” you all in fine discussant form! Ouch to that red hot poker option @Bluesqueakpip 🙂

It’s a scorching summer and a non-sweary Capaldi is almost upon us – hurrah. Did anyone see his little turn as Cardinal Richelieu in the BBC’s hammy Musketeers? He did louche and wicked with a strong hint of “dear gods am I really…[Read more]

@Craig and @Phaseshift Hello and well met again to you both, fellow time-travellers 🙂

The Forum is looking good! Sorry for fishy inactivity <hastily polishes barnacled scales> I got Absorbalof’d by work [yes, that bad :-)]. I have done some homework – a young lady called Foxes will be getting swept into the time vortex, apparently.  I had to…[Read more]

Flies onto the sofa, munches a couple of stray jammy-dodgers, accidentally sits on a piece of a Type 40 lego <ouch! and whoosh!> gets zapped forward in time <waves at everyone> <settles in for Capaldi’s, snarky and sweet? Doctor?>.

@Phaseshift and @JimtheFish <waves> Yes, very sorry to see BBC3 go – The Fades and In the Flesh were the best new BBC sci fi I’ve seen in aeons.

@tomsscarf Capaldi would indeed have made a great Master – perhaps we will get a body swap story to allow him to Master-it-up for an episode or two 🙂

@ScaryB Oopsy – the glitter is still getting all…[Read more]

SPOILERS for Sherlock Power Sign of Three 🙂

@Bluesqueakpip I like the witness protection programme idea.

I think they’ll go with canon insofar as CAM will be a blackmailer, but I doubt Mary’s issue will be some indiscreet letters.

It would be a terrible shame if Moffat/ Gatiss kill Mary off so quickly, because she’s great, but alas, th…[Read more]

SPOILERS for Sherlock The Power of Three !

A knowing opener in which the banks keep getting robbed from within over and over again, and then we were off…

I found myself tremendously moved by this episode. I thought the acting was superb (it is really hard to act drunk well), some beautiful cinematography, as last episode (I particularly lik…[Read more]

@TardisBlue What a lovely post 🙂

DO NOT visit the General TV Discussion Thread yet as there are definitely spoilers for Sherlock: The Empty Hearse on there. You will have to wait until after the 19th, which I believe is the US airdate.

Happy New Year!

@Bluesqueakpip I fully admit that in the original stories there are many well-heeled homes with butlers and maids.

However, there is also a grimy atmospheric poorer London in evidence. For example:

“In rapid succession we passed through the fringe of fashionable London, hotel London, theatrical London, literary London, commercial London, and,…[Read more]

@JimtheFish and @ScaryB I will certainly grant you that Conan Doyle is not Dickens 🙂

As you say, fish friend, the original Sherlock and Watson are Victorian gentlemen and Sherlock’s clients are generally upper or middle class.

However, Sherlock’s investigations do take him to parts of London other than the West End. For example, he visits an o…[Read more]

@JimtheFish Gatiss is actually credited as the principal writer of The Empty Hearse so Moff bashing isn’t really the way to go on this one (although of course BBC Sherlock continues to be a collaborative Gatiss/ Moffat enterprise).

SPOILERS FOR THE EMPTY HEARSE

There’s a lot I could say about BBC Sherlock. I find it seductive t…[Read more]

@Phaseshift Happy New Year!

I agree completely that time is (now) passing for the Time Lords in the bubble universe. In the previous reality, when Gallifrey was not in a bubble universe but in a time-lock, then I think they were in a stasis of perpetual war.

It may be passing at a different speed however. Love the idea that a Time Lord civil…[Read more]

@OsakaHatter Yes, that’s the one <whispers “Skynet” very very quietly, oh oops in public on the interwebs>

I think I’m getting to the age when part of me is grateful there are some futures I won’t be around to see.

@ScaryB Nice 🙂

I think River would have this to say:

@Phaseshift – Yes, your On the Sofa comment inspired me to watch it! It’s great!

I was particularly happy that the stereotypical “markers” for “female” in animation, such as boobs or long-eyelashes were totally absent from EVE. She was a scary mo-fo 🙂 The musical score was marvellous too.

I haven’t read @Cathannabel ‘s blog yet – but I wil…[Read more]

@ScaryB Van Morrison is a truly lovely way to see out the year.

My somewhat darker contribution (but is seems appropriate both for this season’s and Who’s present regeneration theme of death and rebirth) is John Grant’s “Pale Green Ghosts”. Also, the intro bars sound like a version of the Who music…

@Craig I have a small New Year request <smiles fish winsomely> 🙂 Could we have a “Looking Back at the Eleventh Doctor” thread perchance?

Now that Eleven has, alas, regenerated, it would be great to be able to consider Matt Smith’s work as Eleven in its totality and there isn’t a space for tributes to our fallen Doctor elsewhere.

What t…[Read more]

Hi @ScaryB Here we are in the pub again 🙂

The tea-serving dalek gives me the shivers actually – there’s something especially menacing about an instrument of total war with a tea cup.

Are people familiar with Big Dog? The company (Boston Dynamic) is making the robots of the future and they really are scary – imagine that thing with a weapons…[Read more]

Seconded! The Doctor Who Forum has almost 1000 members and many more out there glancing at the pages.

Thanks so much @Craig and mods @Shazzbot @Fatmaninabox @Phaseshift @JimtheFish (any others?) and everyone who uploads content and musings!

From @Bluesqueakpip ‘s diagrams to @Wolfweed ‘s crazy captions and carefully sourced fan art  to @ScaryB an…[Read more]

Hi All,

I’d agree Hush is a great choice from both horror and self-contained perspectives.

In terms of Doctor Who/ Buffy connections there is, of course, Torchwood’s “Kiss Kiss Bang Bang” by Chris Chibnall which features James Masters (Spike the vampire on Buffy) as Captain Jack’s old lover.  Not to everyone’s taste I’m sure, but I like it – it’…[Read more]