@Sheena444 Hi there 🙂

This isn’t (I hope) a “group think” space where some unspoken consensus only permits positive comments!

I think what comrades @JimtheFish and @Wolfweed have been satirising are […]

@nekko Hello and welcome!

I like the ghost references and, in fact, Oswin actually was the “ghost in the machine”, a human soul in the mechanoid body of a dalek, when we first met her. Hmmn…

Rather nicely […]

@Feralcat – On the Egyptology –  I mentioned upstream that Akhaten is so similar to Ahkenaten that I doubt it is a coincidence and @ScaryB pointed out that Ahkenaten was the husband of Nerfertiti whom we’ve […]

@JanetteB Apologies – missed your re-mention of alternative timelines/ realities just before I posted! Great minds etc. 🙂

Welcome to all new first-posters!

@TheatreGuy I like the deduction that perhaps Clara’s Mum died in the Time War.

@Shazzbot Yes – why was the leaf different?! Does that, perhaps, tie-in with @ScaryB ‘s […]

Hello @ScaryB 🙂

In terms of the date of Clara’s Mum’s death – I saw this on Tumblr – source http://m3jcnv.tumblr.com/

On Saturday 5 March 2005 (some three weeks before its TV debut), a rough-cut version of […]

@Wolfweed I’ve been wondering whether “Oh my stars” is a reference to “the Doctor’s first stars”, i.e. the mobile which hung over his Gallifreyan crib.

Crikey, maybe Moff is going with the Doctor having an […]

Oh great detective work to all concerned on the DELSA connections. If Clara is an artifical life-form or a Doctor-virus, that might explain why the TARDIS is so sniffy with her.

@Phaseshift – I missed your […]

Incidentally, Akhaten is so very similar to Ahkenaten that I doubt it’s a coincidence.

You can find out more here http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Akhenaten

Akhenaten was an ancient Egyptian pharoah who […]

@Wolfweed – Jinx on the Lewis Carol reference! 🙂

Hello dear comrades, old and new, with a special shoutout to @Tiddler as the smallest and newest of the Fish Clan! A warm welcome.

I loved this episode, so mark me down as a rank sentimentalist alongside <a href='http://www.thedoctorwhoforum.com/members/phaseshift/&#039; […]

Hello and welcome @Edmund and @Jamesunderscore ! Great contributions already.

Oh if only Elizabeth Sladen could be with us this year. I do love the idea of a tribute to her being incorporated into the […]

OMG @ScaryB that’s actually brilliant! Clara/ Great Intelligence = CGI (and the 50th is being filmed in 3D!)

So Clara and the Great Intelligence are both manifestations of something (or rather, someone) […]

@JimtheFish Of course, comrade fish, you are not getting deep fried with chips like them others… 🙂

The again <twitches and flips doppleganger switch> there is really no telling whom Dark Juniperfish plans […]

@Wolfweed – liking the chess-board metaphor…

@Pedant Yes I see what you mean about a possible resemblance – which would support @JimtheFish ‘s theory that the Great Intelligence has been “Doctorised”.

What […]

@Pedant The shipping discussion is probably “off message” in this thread (not sure where it would go – the sofa perhaps?). BUT, I nonetheless challenge you with my lightsaber, as I have a deep and abiding […]

Well I tell you what @Wolfweed everyone who has ever poured scorn on my long cherished “red/ blue bow-ties = two versions of the Doctor” theory will have to eat humble, humble pie… <villainous fishy eyeroll from […]

Oh, hello @Lula, you are most welcome! We don’t bite, honest…

Join the “Bells of St. John” thread to add your review/ thoughts on the new episode!

@JimtheFish and @Wolfweed – huzzah, other people I can […]

@ScaryB So excited to see Smithy and Tenant together but so very sad we won’t have Ecclestone to complete the NuWho trio – SUCH a shame.

@Pedant Wut? Shipping is fun! Not so commonly practiced in your […]

One of our old friends @HTPBDET has just surfaced on The Guardian (Dan’s blog). Some of you might want to give him a friendly wave! He has good theories, as ever.