@HTPBDET– yes. I think there was a personality difference between ‘Mels’ and her regeneration, and I also think that River Song was greatly influenced by her encounter with the doctor- thinking back, didn’t ten […]

@ardaraith– I don’t know. I saw some difference between ‘Mels’ and ‘River’. They shared traits, which they would, having at that point exactly the same memories, but I do think they were different ‘people’, and […]

Thinking about the question- assuming ‘Doctor Who’ is the question, we don’t really know how it is punctuated.

‘Doctor Who?’ (are you)  Doctor- who?’ (i.e.: Doctor- who (are you talking about)) ‘Doctor: who […]

@ScaryB– need to watch it again, I might be muddled.

If it is

Trenzalore, and this prequel is post-Trenzalore, it doesn’t seem all wrapped up…

Hehe, as River said, The doctor does love a museum. […]

p.s. above only spoilery if you haven’t seen the prequel.

@ScaryB the setting was interesting. Almost as if they set it in the props department. It certainly wasn’t the room Clara went into in JTTCOTT, which seemed to me a kind of attic space/ in terms of the marketplace […]

@ScaryB– last night I dreamt I was a dalek. Now I don’t know if I am a dalek dreaming I am a timelord.

nooooo is sort of my reaction too. Thinking of River- ‘not those memories, don’t you dare.’ I know River […]

@Bluesqueakpip– yes, I’m with you on that one. Incidentally, all the more reason to have a copy of a ‘history of the timewar’ on the tardis. The tardis being the tardis, that could be acquired at any point in the […]

@ScaryB– thank you!

I feel Matt Smith’s always played Eleven as though he is, frequently, having conversations in his head. I even wonder if that is one reason he was so happy to see Ganger Eleven- he […]

@WhoHar– while I found ten’s farewells tedious in places enough to cushion the blow of his leaving, I did also find it an interesting aspect of Who. It bought home, I thought, the fact that although he […]

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@Galactus– good thought. Now we know the Cybermen don’t know about him, previously we only saw Oswin wipe him from the Daleks databases, which presumably gave him the idea. But we’ve been told now that he’s been […]

@Galactus– agree about the ‘monster’ line. Especially coming after the Doctor being ‘named’ monster last week and not protesting. Now I’m thinking also about what ‘Mr Clever’ said about him erasing himself, and […]

OK, interesting: Clara switching into Command mode very easily.

Why did the CyberDoctor (Mr Clever- OK, not good at names, in a rather elevenish way) call her flesh girl? Red Herring? She’s been scanned and […]

@HaveYouFedTheFish– jammy dodgers and fishfingers trifle!

@chickenelly– well that’s just cheating 😉

Shame really- can’t quite find it in me to blame the students, though.

If it had been me I would have just removed the fake  head, and put the mummified one under […]

Oh, another literary reference: Horrors of Oakendale Abbey contain a scene worth of Japanese Horror, where a young woman sees what seems to be a monster or undead, but it turns out

(this is spoilers)

that it […]

@chickenelly– doh! I did know that at one point. Top pedantry.

See, this forum is educative and fun.

I nearly mentioned Bentham skeleton, dressed in his clothes which he wished to have topped with his […]

@woolweed- re: gramophones- I think they were just a mock up of a working factory- no matches were being made, so they provided the sound of manufacture to cover up the real purpose.