@Nick @thommck– yes I think sentience is the thing. But perhaps also more acceptable between humanoids (what a human-centric term!) interspecies breeding has occurred in the human past, I think? We just happen to […]

@thommck– it is interesting that people are more bothered about a physically visible age gap than the fact he really is ancient.

And I agree both about River and Donna.

Catherine Tate, incidentally, was a […]

@JimTheFish– though to be fair the announcement show was pretty cringe-worthy. I think he was the only one presently connected to Who who even turned up- I’ve decided to think that the whole thing was more BBC […]

@Nick– while I’d say that when DW who created I highly doubt they would have cast a Peter Capaldi, I would also say that although I disagree with the arguments against casting a female doctor, I can not for a […]

@ScaryB– exactly, it carries a kind of assumption that ‘there are white people- and then all these other races’ and I’m starting to find it very disturbing.

On the other hand, I suppose the lack of rioting over […]

@Nick– that article is a wonderful find. So funny looking back. Really makes me wish I could have seen the faces of a lot of them when they watched TEH.

Does make me think though, in a way it was actually a lot […]

I love the interplay between the Doctor and River. He seems (in my opinion as a straight woman) rather ungratefully reluctant at the prospect of what he knows is coming (I think we can fairly say know that ten […]

Very happy about this. I wanted a (physically) older doctor, mostly because I do think there are only so many ways to play a younger one.

It’s interesting to think how it might be different. After all, the […]

watching both this evening, so very late here. Brief thoughts:

clearly ‘crimson horror’ referenced this near the beginning, nice to see it and see how AG who looks back into the past.

Ace’s takeaway comment- […]

Interesting having trollers manefesto on the site though.

@thekaled– ah, the world is so full of you. Nah-night.

@thekaled– the (now edited) attack on SM wasn’t really justified though. I don’t think the identity of the next Doctor Who actor has been a secret till the moment of regeneration once in AG who- I don’t know about […]

@thekaled– no, it’s site for Doctor Who fans, which you obviously knew.

@JimTheFish– well one thing that annoys me nowadays is when people talk as though for a character to be ‘sympathetic’, it has to be good- as though we’re all perfect, kind, pleasant individuals and can’t possibly […]

I’ve just read James Robertson’s first two novels, having picked up ‘The testament of Gideon Mack’ a while ago on a second hand book store.

His first two novels are historical, the first one 50% the second one […]

It’s been interesting watching BG Who in the old format, and it’s made me think that some stories- like this one- really might have benefited from that. There is a great, sinister set up of the mystery during the […]

@wolfweed– thank you! That’s exactly as I remembered it.

@Craig– I know! posh! (three for a tenner, me.)

Is ghost light McCoy? there is a chance I might have seen it. The one image I have of McCoy is him standing in some ruins, taking very manipulatively to someone […]

@Craig– the price of a cheap bottle of wine? You posh bugger. 😉

Hi, bit late to this (damn wiki assignment…)

This episode really made me fall in love with Doctor Who, set my mind to rest after concerns that the change in show runner would diminish my enjoyment of AG who […]