@fatmaninabox– I’m so sorry to hear about that. We’ve just received a notice to apply for PIP cos DLA is running out. We only got it reinstated two years ago, and I’ve pretty much felt sick since opening the letter. My contact with the job centre has been minimal (basically: So, your boyfriend. Still disabled? Yup.) and he’s in the ESA support…[Read more]

@puroandson, @people who know how to do things- could we get the Ukip Brexit music video on the music page? With warnings, like.

@Mersey– that’s interesting. The episode started with the message that Davros ‘remembers’.  I wonder if that simply means for most of his life he had forgotten, which is why he would risk fighting the Doctor, and why he would remember at that point?

I quite like the idea (I don’t want it to happen to myself) of a species who, at the point of…[Read more]

@kbranagh– Maybe Davros didn’t contradict the Doctor because at that moment he was working on the Doctor’s sense of guilt for his dastardly plan! If he realised that in the doctors timeline, he hasn’t yet gone back in time to save the little boy, he can manipulate him, and he doesn’t realise that it is after/because of the failure of his plan…[Read more]

Not great news, not too happy with the choice of showrunner or the gap, that said-

I’ve loved Moffart’s who, I’ve loved both Smith and Capaldi’s doctor. Even if I don’t like the next incarnation of the show as much, there are plenty who have hated the last few years of the show (though they hid it well 😉 ) it is the nature of Doctor Who.

I do…[Read more]

@Ichabod, @puroandson– – I get it over disliking the ‘force of nature’ thing. It sits with me a little like that idea that ‘if women ran the world they’d be no/less war’ (cough Thatcher cough).

You do still see semi serious comments about men having the capacity for abstract thought, and this idea that women are ‘more practical’, rooted in the…[Read more]

So sad, and coming, it feels, so close to the death of Lou Reed.

The wonderful thing about Bowie, though, was the fact that he wasn’t done. In a way, asking when his peak period was is as nonsensical as asking which of my dogs is my favourite (whichever one I have hold of right now.)

I’m glad Blackstar was released before it was known he was…[Read more]

@xaxiomatic– a perfectly grown up reaction.

The final scene is the perfect companion to the last scene in the library.

@jimthefish– I was thinking perhaps modern day Mycroft is lonely- even his dim little brother picked up on it- while Victorian Mycroft seemed in a worse state- and also to be married- which is, of course, Sherlock’s own projection.

(Mycroft is a favourite of mine, as someone whose name is often abbreviated against my will ‘Mycroft is the name you…[Read more]

re: Mycroft- I wasn’t aware that the original Mycroft was overweight. But I thought I saw a wedding wing on Mycroft’s finger and wondered  if this meant that 19th century Mycroft was even more unhappy Than 21st century Mycroft who is lonely, but at least not required to marry in order to seem respectable.

I was confused by the confused ones on…[Read more]

@puroandson– the Cleopatra line- I wasn’t sure if he meant they had both had relationships with her, or if he was comparing a relationship with Cleopatra to one with River. And I think she knew it was the Tardis, she seemed to imply that she turns up and nicks it quite often and he ‘never notices’. Quite a lot of episodes the Tardis ends up…[Read more]

Oh and I loved this: ‘marry the diamond’.

OK, so I was watching that much drunker than usual, and in the middle of an insanely complicated family reunion.

It was fun. Better fun than I think the trailer promised. I liked the reversal of ‘hello sweetie’. We’ve seen so much more of River in love that its nice- oh dear, this is me watching as a female isn’t it? I just cried over a Christmas…[Read more]

@mccottonthedoctorfan: I know, its a ret con theory!

@puroandson– just read my comment back, and to clarify- I’m not thinking of puroson when I’m talking about the complainers, I’m thinking of the Other Parts of the internet. And I do also like an arc, and worry that I will find this episode too silly.

@Mccottonthedoctorfan– re: Cushing, I have read- it must be somewhere on here- the theory that the Cushing Doctor is Ten’s human version, grown old, somehow in possession of a tardis, traveling with his (and Rose’s)  granddaughter. If that makes it at all better…

@puroandson– much as I am looking forward to the special, I will admit it looks like a bit of a ‘romp’- and one for the less intense fans. Thing is, last Christmas very much tied into what had gone on before- Clara’s grief, the theme of whether she should continue to travel with him.  I think the one before that was Eleven’s exit? And pretty much…[Read more]

@juniperfish, @puroandson– yes, definitely boarding school as endurance test, a kind of English take on the Spartans. I’ve always have that feeling from the boy in the barn scene. And the woman was able to recognise him, in whatever body he turns up in. Not quite as emotionally close as a former nurse, but a prep-school age housemistress,…[Read more]

@Bluesqueakpip– I like that idea. She gives him a way out, which is bound to make him arrive on Gallifrey exactly as pissed off as she wants him to be.

@morpho– it’s a nice theory, and in terms of events I like it. But I also don’t think there is any way in hell Rassillion would ever trust her. Last time he tried to use the Master for something,…[Read more]

@Ichabod– I meant he didn’t seem surprised when Missy and Clara turned up at his going out party. I was saying that I thought the big party was to show the difference in his reaction to his own and to Clara’s death, then pointing out that his lack of surprise when Clara and Missy turned up might seem to contradict the idea that he was resigned to…[Read more]