Ha! My greeting double posted – a sure sign that all our speculations about doppleganger Doctor as the dark-side villain of the piece are correct!

@vizier Hello and welcome! Nice avatar. Do join us in our merry speculations!

@Bluesqueakpip – yes! Excellent – a cloister. And it was also in “The God Complex” that we hear “Oranges and Lemons” being sung…

Ergo dark Doctor has a full blown God Complex (something “our” Doctor has […]

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I believe River would have the compassion, just not the patience 🙂

Oh how I would like to see a River/ Kovarian confrontation, bearing in mind that Kovarian is, in this reality, still out […]

@Craig Brill yourself 🙂

I’ve just had another River Song related thought (not that I’m obsessed or anything).

Clara has been a nanny with computer skills in the incarnations we’ve encountered, as folk […]

Hey Comrades, in the midst of our Who excitement can I just highly recommend BBC 3’s “In the Flesh” (zombie three parter but so much more).

All three parts have now aired and I think the first part is only […]

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10.2 and Rose happy and detecting together would make a million shipper hearts explode with joy (they are still a much loved pairing in fandom).

Yes, Smithy as the villain I like very much. […]

@HaveYouFedtheFish – brilliant on the John Donne deduction front (I’ve loved his poetry for a long time myself). I am sure you are right!

Maybe that deduction is one to post back on The Grauniad?

This […]

@Bluesqueakpip I know, right? 🙂

Wasn’t trying to nick your great thoughts, just noting that, alas, alas and woe is me, Amelia Williams’ book lends credence to them.

This is the damn trouble with trying to […]

Oh and I forgot to mention that, on the hints and parallels front, we do of course, have a doppleganger Doctor in this very episode <cue Hitchcock-ian music>

@Bluesqueakpip Interesting on the “dealing with fan critique” angle.

Sadly, I think this is an issue for women genre writers. I noticed that the rather wonderful, in my book anyway, Sera Gamble, erstwhile […]

On the subject of women script writers and Who, discussed upstream by @JimtheFish and others and mentioned by @Pedant on the “Bells of St. John” thread, I think Stella Duffy’s original blog post, from which the […]

@ScaryB Yes – and I do find it a very difficult line to walk “squick”-wise (to use a fandom term) these days because, as @Bluesqueakpip was discussing with someone over at The Guardian, an 1000 year old guy who […]

Hello webmaster @Craig and Happy Easter!

Did anyone else enjoy the Doctor’s bad dancing on the bijou roof-top cafe? I do love Matt Smith’s physical comedic abilities so very much.

@Wolfweed Ah ha – the leaf may be another “Pond” reference, when we recall that “the only water in the forest is the River”…

Camels live in the desert, where there is no water? Last one is pure stretch…

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I’m sorta feeling guilty about The Guardian. I prefer it over here, but we did “meet” over there and I’d like to keep a sort of exchange/ traffic going between here and there. There are a few folk […]

@Phaseshift – oh no, so sorry about the back! Hope it de-knots soon enough.

Is everyone else sitting comfortably?

Yes, @IAmNotAFishIAmAFreeMan aka @Pedant we did indeed discuss Peter Pan back in the day, and […]

@Bluesqueakpip  Oh it was @Blenkinsopthebrave who had the fourth wall theory – although he was convinced the Kennedy assassination was involved and it might still be.

But yes, nice catch – the numbers therefore […]

In relation to the lovely Paternoster Gang post-Demon’s run webisode which @PhaseShift posted the links to and which I also saw via a link on Tumblr. All UK links have now stopped working and “removed due to a […]

Hmmn – so page one of Clara’s book has an Autumn leaf which links in with Amelia Williams’ novel “Summer Falls”, and we know we’re going to cry at the eleventh chapter. Clara begins (her page one) when Eleven […]