@Craig

I agree with @Juniperfish!

I think you might be surprised 🙂

(Alternatively, you can threaten them with your Ming death ray!)

@ScaryB I’ve already entered the ballot. I considered phoning them up and saying “I run The Doctor Who Forum”, @Juniperfish said I should do more of that sort of thing, but chickened out and just filled out the form.

Are we big enough for me to do that yet? I don’t know.

Anyway, if I get tickets I’ll need a +1, and if anyone else gets tickets…[Read more]

@Juniperfish – I think the War Doctor’s catch phrase was ‘Oh, for God’s sake!’ 😉

Hopefully we’re not having one, unless one develops organically (like Matt’s ‘come along Pond’). Nice to see you back.

@Juniperfish

You’re surely not going so swim in here, flash your scales, and leave are you? There’s nothing out there but fusballs I tells ye!

At least give us your levels of anticipation for Series 8! 😀

@Juniperfish Hey, glad you could pop in before zapping off. Us in the slow lane will catch up with you soon.

The G has featured a couple of stories on Vikings recently, and I thought I’d mention it because we talked about depictions of them in Time Meddler.

As some of you may have witnessed in my inane ramblings with @Juniperfish, I have a love of Norse mythology, so I watched this, and my experience was similar to Orphan Black. A bit bemused at the s…[Read more]

Well, I’m a little bit late to the party – its been a tough few months, and I have only just watched ToTD (twice now!).

I’ve very much enjoyed catching up on this thread and reading everybody’s thoughts.  The first viewing I was so sad seeing the Dr ageing, alone, and I really did not want to see the end of Matt smith’s Doctor.  On second v…[Read more]

Hi @Juniperfish.

Yes, I thought the Fades was a real missed opportunity for continuing drama. The second series of In the Flesh is being done, and there are rumours of a consolidated six part of series 1 and 2 on BBC2. It may actually find a bigger audience there.

@Juniperfish
YAY!! Furry hugs my finny friend 🙂
Capaldi/Master body swap – great idea. Very BG Who too

And sad to see BBC3 going also. Can only hope the money they save actually does go towards creating adventurous new drama, and bringing on new young writers.

@FatManinABox
😳
You do look rather fetching with that occasional “ping” of…[Read more]

@JimtheFish I can’t remember if it was @Juniperfish or @Bluesqueakpip, but one of them pointed out ages ago that there usually seems to be a plan B for all new Doctors (certainly AG) so that they can be written out at the end of 1 series if it’s not working out (on either side). But the hope is that Capaldi will see it as his dream job and pension…[Read more]

@Bluesqueakpip @Purofilion @MissShannonKent @Faegrl

Interesting discussions, some of which have been touched on before.

re actors “owning” the character – much like the story told at any given time is the story the writer wants to tell (and has no duty to uphold any notions of continuity unless they want to) – each actor needs to “own” the…[Read more]

@Phaseshift!!!!!

you’re back! 😀

<jumps and down and falls off the sofa in still a slightly cosmic-sparkly (thanks @Juniperfish) ball of overexcited matted fur>

Also happy that the Scottish climate round my way could best be described as “mild” (not normal, but I’ll take it). Sympathies for those up to their necks in mud, shivering or…[Read more]

Oh don’t start me on DIY disasters – indoor fountains a speciality!

😳

(I blame the furry claws!)

@FatManinaBox – hope you stay dry, @JanetteB – sympathies on the heat – makes me almost appreciate the grey slush outside (too far south for decent snow).

@Juniperfish and other friends on the south coast – hope you’re not getting your fins…[Read more]

@PhaseShift and @FatManInABox – it’s good news. It also shows that – whatever the grumblers are grumbling – Martin Freeman and Benedict Cumberbatch are obviously having fun with it.

@Juniperfish and @WhoGirl – Molly’s boyfriend is definitely sus. In The Sign of Three, Molly’s looking considerably ‘older’ than in The Empty Hearse. She looks…[Read more]

Probably a bit of an echo, but I enjoyed The Sign of Three (potential spoilers to follow) as well.

I think as others have said on the Gs board, just what would be the point of remounting the tales of ACD once again, and I can’t fault the production team of Sherlock for taking a very different path (I’m just going to acknowledge here, I’m findi…[Read more]

SPOILERS for Sherlock The Power of Three ! And for the Sign of Three too

LOL @Juniperfish

Power of Three

It was a bit. (I’m assuming deliberate ref on your part).  Power of Three is when the Doctor decides to try out life in the slow lane, and share his friends’ (normal) life for a while. Sign of Three shows Sherlock equally out of his…[Read more]

<<<shaking leftover streamers and confetti and *someone’s glitter* off my roof>>>

Hello, one and all.

Happy New Year!

And Happy Birthday, dear wonderful forum!

And jelly babies, celery, and Jammie Dodgers all around for reaching, nay, *exceeding* the 1000 member mark.

Should be some sort of prize for our emperor @Craig — another regeneration…[Read more]

Ummm… @Juniperfish – the first episode included an empty house, a collection of murder victims that included a businesswoman and a student, and the villain being –

– well, I won’t say, in case someone hasn’t watched it yet. But definitely not well heeled.

The second episode involves Chinatown, a graffiti artist and a fringe circus. Also some…[Read more]

@Juniperfish

You are absolutely right in your comments about articles designed to increase the blood pressure. And the more squabbling they get below the line the more clicks they get. Does it matter when the subject is popular entertainment? Or is it a massive big warning sign about the pressure on media writers? I don’t believe any of the…[Read more]

@juniperfish– I love Kiss Kiss Bang Bang. The film that is. Masters was great in the Torchwood episode, although, bafflingly, I like him best with bleached hair and a terrible ‘British’ accent. (Which sounded a little like Elvis Costello, so he always could claim it was meant to be transatlantic…)

Hush was a fantastic episode, which, coming to…[Read more]