@juniperfish

I think the butt of the joke in Sherlock with regard to the “I’m not gay line” is Watson, who is consistently shown from A Study in Pink onwards to be the most sensitive one when the subject of sexuality crops up. Sherlock appears to treat it as an irrelevance, or just to enjoy Watson’s discomfort, and Mrs. Hudson is progres…[Read more]

I did enjoy watching the new Sherlock but I’m not sure I like the 90min format. It seemed to drag out the howdunnit of Sherlocks suicide a bit too much. I hope that’s it done and dusted and can be filed away in the “never really know” pile.

The Underground Network was a good pun but the bomb on the train seemed a bit too big for Sherlock and…[Read more]

@Juniperfish – “I think the fact that there was a crack at Trenzalore lends more weight to my theory that Trenzalore is a special place of quantum superposition, because when the Doctor rebooted the universe the cracks disappeared. The fact that one still, paradoxically, exists at Trenzalore suggests a place where the walls between ‘verses in the…[Read more]

@juniperfish @bluesqueakpip @arbutus @whisht

It’s a great idea for speculation, and I think it’s aspects like “Mother” that makes me think a potential future showrunner could use the idea to accelerate the Time Lords beyond that conflict into new territory.

Like the Time War, they could have exciting references by a future RTD to events that ha…[Read more]

@PhaseShift  @Bluesqueakpip   Yes, I had also thought that some kind of civil dispute on Gallifrey would seem to be the result of what we have been shown. I agree that it might not have lasted long, because most of the Time Lords do not seem to have been as megalomaniacal as the High Council. I hadn’t really thought about it having all happened al…[Read more]

I’d agree with @Phaseshift and @Juniperfish that time is passing in Gallifrey’s bubble universe. Going by Hide, it’s probably not passing at the same rate.

I’d also go with Phaseshift’s idea that there was very likely a Civil War following the end of the Time War: though it may have been short, sharp and conclusive given that the Master was last…[Read more]

@deadmeat3171  @Bluesqueakpip

I wouldn’t think that Ten’s regeneration into himself would have been widely known, so it would be fair to assume that most people/enemies who knew about the 12-regen limit at all, much less had been keeping track, would still believe him to have at least one left.
I wonder if, in the Doctor’s brief moment of…[Read more]

@Juniperfish – perfect choice for River

@Arbutus Perfect bit of CSN&Y

@Whisht Thanks for starting and keeping this thread going. Harrison was great and Altered Images always makes me smile. Reminded me of this –

Which looks like a great way to bring in the new year

A toast also to @HTPBDET (will always think about you now, when looking at…[Read more]

@juniperfish @Timeloop

Brilliant parallel between the writing on this forum and literary criticism. In any kind of mythology, a writer doesn’t have to even try to create layers of meaning. Readers can find them all by themselves! As we do here with Doctor Who. Good writers, well-read themselves, call upon pre-existing tropes and ideas without…[Read more]

@Scaryb and @Juniperfish – thanks sooo much for Camille and John Grant. I don’t know them well but must change that now tout suite!

@Arbutus – not heard that one before, but love a bit of Young (and those other guys!)

😉

@Juniperfish @ScaryB
I like the idea that the Doctor’s centuries of commitment to the people of Trenzalore allow him to “grow up”, something which the War Doctor noted that he definitely was not when the three doctors met in DotD. If the Doctor had not come to terms with his history, redeemed his past self and rescued Gallifrey, he would have…[Read more]

Oops, also meant to say:    @ScaryB  Love it, both the song and its DW reference. And @Juniperfish, yes indeed, that is brilliant.   🙂

@juniperfish

I just had an unpleasant coincidence. I was trying to find out which one of Peter Cook’s Establishment crowd had produced a pithy quote on satire being the indulgence of capitalism and found out one of them, John Fortune, has just died! Oh well, farewell John.

I agree with you btw, but it is unusual for todays Disney to go down…[Read more]

@blenkinsopthebrave

In that spirit, let’s all bonker on into 2014

A sentiment I’m sure we call all get behind!

@Juniperfish

On Matt, we have the Faces thread (link to Matt Smith entry) if anyone wants to add to thoughts, but it may be interesting to have a blog about what his tenure has meant to them that could provide a clean slate, if s…[Read more]

@Blenkinsopthebrave

to bonker

You just made me splutter all over my screen!

To boldly bonker…

@Juniperfish – Big Dog is seriously creepy.  That probic vent looks very vulnerable tho. (And don’t get me started on drones… )

@Craig  I (furrily) second the finny one’s request for a Smithy Retrospective thread

@Juniperfish

Pale Green Ghosts – very apt, thanks for posting 🙂

How about Talking Heads for a River tribute…? 😥

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=puDTZAlCv4A

@juniperfish

WALL-E is absolutely my favourite Pixar film. It’s astonishing, which is why I thought I’d mention it was on yesterday On the Sofa. A great silent movie in the beginning and such an unusual tale to come published by a big corporation like Disney. Its view of humanity is pretty broad (but all the more engaging for it) satire.

It…[Read more]

And this one’s especially for @Juniperfish (Irish /French singer Camille singing Cave (tho she really needs to be seen live)). Happy hogmanay.

@ScaryB, @Juniperfish –

Glad to see staffing concerns have been addressed!  Could be useful come kick out time too although I was also disturbed by the domesticity of a Dalek (in fact it’s a shame that episode is mostly remembered for the iDaleks – seeing them being onside was extremely disconcerting and a good concept for a story)

Are Boston D…[Read more]