Fascinating watching this after Eleven.  I got a sense of River, in a timey-whimey way, influencing the development of the Doctor. After all her words about ‘her doctor’ we see Ten win more time from the Vashta by […]

@Craig– thank you! I did in fact like that. Not just me on Ten’s contrition then. I love the fact that with the internet, any passing thought one might have about something like this, someone’s made a compilation! […]

Donna is one of my favourite companions- second only to Rory. (River I don’t count as a companion except in a timey-wifey kind of way). I liked ‘ten’ (in inverted commas till the anniversary episode I suppose) a […]

I will admit, watching these, I’m getting some idea why people get so irritated with Tennant/Smith. It even makes me want an older doctor even more (if we can’t keep Smith) because it does give a different […]

@wolfweed– re: phantom of the opera/opera ghost- there was a clear reference in the last episode, so the homage started there, though quite subtlety.

OK, feel confirmed on my ‘Phantom of the Opera’ reference from the last episode- not that this story is a ‘version’ of that just that at least one person behind this story knew Gaston Leroux’s writings. Echoes in […]

@stevethewhistle- you’re quite right. It was a typo, honest!

@HTPBDET– re: 11th- his first episode was the eleventh hour, much later we had him say ‘how much trouble? on a scale of one to ten? eleven’ but I don’t think he ever said he was ‘eleven’. and that last comment in […]

@Bluesqueakpip– yes, should be doing creative writing next. (eek, need to sort out financial aid, thanks for the reminder!)

@ScaryB– I’m 34! dropped out of university after one year, way back. But since I’ve spent the last few years not working because I’m a carer, and since the OU doesn’t involve living with a bunch of students (was […]

@ScaryB– thank you! I honestly think the hardest part of an exam is reading the questions properly. Once that’s done, the rest should fall into place.

I can imagine that with Spanish and Italian ;).

@JimTheFish– thank you.

@Shazzbot– English does in fact have plural ‘yous’, in certain dialects. ‘Youse’ for example. I recently realised how married I was, despite not being officially married, when I referred to ‘oose’, for our,  (I’m […]

Re: racism- as I was trying to say in my original post, I think the episode was more ‘agen’ than for it, I think I was handling my own reaction to the made up actor- it’s a little like my instinctive, almost […]

Loved that. especially, I must admit, the Phantom of the Opera/Opera ghost (better translation) reference- the stage hand saying he saw a moving skull underneath. In the novel, it was the rat-catcher, I think. And […]

@Craig– fantastic- my weekends have meaning again! (rather wish I was exaggerating…)

oh re: BG doctor- I have recently felt a real hankering to watch some pre-reboot who, and would personally really welcome some guidance as to which are the best to watch, as well as discussions on it. I can’t […]

HTPBDET- so happy to see you back. Although your contributions while incapacitated put many if not all the capacitated members to shame, its genuinely good to see that (almost perfect ;)) sequence of letters back […]

@snail42- it’s been set up a bit- The Doctor and the Cyber-Doctor playing chess. (Though while the Game Of Thrones, I imagine, is like 3D-chess+monopoly+risk, the Game of Doctors is, in my mind, more like Snakes […]