Given later developments, I suspect the TARDIS can be retconned as knowing when Tegan needed to leave, rather than when she wanted to leave (which was almost the second she stepped into the TARDIS) – and so simply refused to land at the right place and time until that point was reached.

Well said, @bluesqueakpip, I like this interpretation.

The appointment of Pearl Mackie as the new companion made me think about diversity in Doctor Who.

In the renewed series we had so far 5 companions and 3 of them were Londoners and 2 moved to London. (London, London, London, Leadworth (moved to London), Blackpool (moved to London, I bet Bill is from London).

According to Wikipedia „London is on…[Read more]

@missy

Janet Fielding played Tegan, a companion of 5th Doctor, one of my favourites. Next to Adric, who was mathematical prodigy and Nyssa who was very smart, Tegan was rather dumb. But she never cared about that. She was like I’m a human and I’m not going to feel ashamed that I know nothing about time and space and mathematics and stuff like…[Read more]

@missy

I guess you are right, they should be nosy. But I’ll give another example. Silence in the Library, poor miss Evangelista, a ditsy secretary who had to endure cruel teasing from members of the crew who ought to be her colleagues. Only Donna showed her charity. And she had no knowledge nor skills of these people. I think Doctor benefits the…[Read more]

As we today celebrate the tenth anniversary of  the reunion of 10 and fantastic Sarah Jane Smith I would like to express my hope that one day we will see another reunion as Janet Fielding looks so great.

@craig @blenkinsopthebrave

I get messages only from these freak bot people so I’m in favour too. It’s so disappointing when I get a notification from the site and it turns out to be one of those messages.

How the papers reacted to the Hillsborough inquest verdict.

http://www.thisisanfield.com/2016/04/biggest-victory-history-club-papers-reacted-hillsborough-inquest-verdict/

@jimthefish @bluesqueakpip

They had their chance to print the truth (or just stayed silent). They chose to print lies. I doubt whether there are people who care that they printed their ‘real’ truth. I don’t know why they bothered. Did they expect that people would forgive them (I doubt) or start to buy their paper again?

@jimthefish @bluesqueakpip haven’t you seen this cover? This is such an amazing day for Liverpudlians. Shame not all from Hillsborough families lived to see this.

@blenkinsopthebrave I’m sorry you are disappointed but Martha was the companion who could be respected intellectually and even scientifically. She was one of the smartest companion of the renewed series. And she didn’t have a big career both as a doctor and companion. I think the essence of a human companion is that she or he is not the Doctor and…[Read more]

@craig I turned on silent mode on my phone between 0:00 and 6:00am partly because I got notifications from the site that someone (from different time zone) had mentioned me. No complaints. I love it. But I love to sleep too. It works.

When I saw her name ‘Bill’ I started to wonder if she is a girl or a boy who looks like a girl. I gues Bill is an abbrevation for Billie. A tribute to Billie Piper?

@thedentistofdavros as a regular I meant that she doesn’t look like a girl who was born to save the Doctor. She appears to be a bit silly, happy-go-lucky person who won’t be flight the Tardis. And I got to like her from the first moment.

When I saw the boots in the promo pic I thought it could be Courtney. I was close 😉 She reminds me Rose a bit. I think it will be a nice change. It seems that she is a regular, human girl. I like that.

I will accept every companion except Courtney Woods.

Adric is one of my favourite companions. Shame that 5 was in a such bad mood that he refused to save him.

@jilso11 known also as Valeria wants to be my friend. I bet she wants to be your friend either. Oh wait, it’s adanna again.

I find it rather fortunate that Christopher Ecclestone left after only one season. Not because I think he was terrible. On the contrary I think he was marvellous. The perfect match for that role. I would of course welcome another season with him but it was such a good comback that the next season could spoil that impression. And I think that’s why…[Read more]

@arbutus @puroandson

How weird he looks with this beard and black, leather coat singing (almost) like a castrato.

Funny thing. Only yesterday I was deleting some single tracks from my phone and I was to delete one of them but I left it because it was Sholl’s Ombra mai fu.

@doctordani @kbranagh
<p style=”text-align: left;”>And what about a situation in which Davros kills the Doctor and he can’t save Davros in the past? Would it erase Davros from the history and prevent him from killing the Doctor (and many more)? I think in both cases Davros would survive because of the screwdriver.</p>
 

Poor Adric, you were worth hundred of Clara Oswald. My last five episodes: Hell bent, The Husbands of River Song, The Power of Three, The Angels take Manhattan and The Earthshock, in other words the last Clara’s appearance, the last River’s appearance (presumable), the number of companions which Doctor should travel with in the next series, the…[Read more]