Quick luncht-time sofa surf…

Sounds like a few folk, like @vizier and @Thommck and @JanetteB and no doubt others are watching with their kids – be interesting to hear reported kids-eye views as well as your […]

@Craig I heartily third @ScaryB and @Bluesqueakpip‘s suggestion for a by-line for the Forum! Can we have that? <pretty please> 🙂

@Bluesqueakpip

It may turn out that this Doctor-figure was indeed a past or future Doctor, turning up to help save himself. Or it may just be symbolic.

Yes, or, third possibility, linked to the Doctor […]

@HaveYouFedtheFish and @HTPBDET

Mmmmmn – well….. we do know that the Eleventh Doctor’s sonic can act as a communication signal booster – remember he boosts River’s comms signal in The Time of the Angels with […]

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Oh and godsdammit now I’ve actually gone back to listen to Clara singing (again) 🙂

I could catch the lyrics this time. She sings: “I’m lost and I’m found and I’m hungry like the wolf…” a line […]

@HTPBDET

Clara directly appeals to Skaldek’s mercy, during his stand-off with the Doctor, by asking him to remember his daughter, just before the Ice Warrior ship arrives and draws the Firebird to the surface. […]

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It’s in the narrative symmetry. The Professor’s Ultravox sing-a-long aborts the world being blown up (albeit in drill) at the start of the episode. The script is quite clear about that. Clara’s singing […]

@Bluesqueakpip – Oh – the Isis is an actual river too – nice 🙂

Yes, the Egyptian soul is fascinating with all its many parts, Bas and Kas etc.

Whatever. The point is, that she’s a container. She holds within […]

@ScaryB – oh, of course! <slaps head> Mmmn – back to Cold War to apply this 🙂

Yay! Welcome back @ScaryB – we missed you!

<welcoming tipple of your choice provided>

Yes, and all hail to @Craig .

I need to know if there were any song references in Asylum of the Daleks – anyone […]

@HaveYouFedtheFish Ah – I’ve thought about this!

River knows the Doctor’s future before he does, as we know….

So what if she knows that to be brought back from the dark-side she MUST know his name, in his […]

Bit obscure, but in a Seventh Doctor novel by Craig Hinton (apparently), so that’s extant strict TV canon, we find out that the Ice Warriors worshipped the Osirians….

Score another one on the Osiris/ […]

@Lula thanks for the “Rose scattered Clara in time” theory link. Mmmn I don’t buy it either, but I like its thinking 🙂

I don’t know about the Barbie/ Sindy. It does bring the Nestene to mind as fellow fish […]

<Screams> also, on my rewatch travels I see,  as mentioned by @Lula in our Spoilers section (but it’s not spoilers now) – in the stand-off with Skaldak, the Doctor’s screwdriver has a “red setting”. It glows red […]

Thanks @Phaseshift 🙂  Well @DanMartin will be very welcome !

On a re-watch (in progress as I type) I’ve noticed that the Doctor and Clara’s accents both seem a bit all over the place again? As others pointed […]

@Tiddler Ah ha! They did – it was Theseus and it was Ariadne’s ball of string.

Theseus also went on a journey to the underworld (just as Osiris was sent to the underworld and became Lord there).

So yes, the […]

@Tiddler Oh and let’s go for the ball of string next 🙂

So last week the Doctor quotes The Walrus and The Carpenter (from “Through the Looking Glass”) which has the line:

“The time has come,” the Walrus […]

@Mephistopheles Hello and welcome Rory the Roman!

@Tiddler – I’ll have a go at the toffee apple.

Do you remember the exchange around apples in The Eleventh Hour? This was another of the foods the Doctor […]

I’m feeling quite emotional about The Professor being the First Doctor.

How long might it have been for him since he saw his granddaughter (if that’s who Clara is).

And thinking about it, when the Captain […]

Yay! <waves at everyone> I’m back in! Thanks @Craig !

I’m exicted about lots of things – in particular my spotty bow ties = spotty Doctor. Awwwww yissss the bow-ties are back baby!

@Desmondb posted over on […]