By the way, was it explained why the Doctor’s memory was wiped, or is that still a mystery?

@badwolfalice two things I thought – to keep the work of the Division secret and to hide who the Doctor really was and that she’s not like other Time Lords.

I rather enjoyed the whole thing, though it has meant I’ve had to explain the Morbius thing a…[Read more]

‘Timeless Child’ is interesting. I’m torn between wanting to know more and thinking it should just be left as a mystery. There’s such a risk of disappointment and I’m not confident in Chibnall’s abilities yet.

On Grace, there seemed to be a bit of a warning there – I’ve not seen anyone else saying this, but she was enjoying it too much, bit like Clara perhaps? Just caught up with her a bit quicker.

It isn’t just the subtlety with which he has been able to evoke echoes of all the previous Doctors whilst bringing  something extra of his own, it is that of all my favourite Doctors, his is the one to which I have had a strong emotional response – the one who speaks powerfully to and for me personally.

I think @mudlark has described it so perfec…[Read more]

I think @missy and I feel similarly about the Twelfth Doctor – and I also don’t feel the need to have everything wrapped up neatly with a bow on top,…[Read more]

@whofangirl-73 not all long term fans. I’ve been watching for as long as I can remember and I’m not going anywhere.

The fanbase of just about everything is divided at…[Read more]

It must be much easier to sell, for example, the idea of Sherlock Holmes with a twist – Watson is a woman! – than sell a whole new creation.

As a young girl I had a strong connection to and hero worshipped many men and male characters. As I’ve already said, I wanted to be Luke Skywalker, to be a Jedi. I also wanted to be a Ghostbuster, to be the Ring Bearer, to be the Doctor. I don’t think I’m alone in this, but why can’t it work the other way? Why can’t boys want to be a…[Read more]

She will also have to deal an entire season scripts constantly pointing out that the Doctor is now a woman and explaining any recurring characters why.

Doctor: Hello, I’m the Doctor!

Recurring character does double take.

Doctor: I regenerated.

Hardly takes up a whole episode and anyone familiar with Time Lords presumably won’t need it…[Read more]

@thane15

I can imagine little kids -girls and boys -playing Doctor Who and not caring if the girl is the Doctor.

When I was a small child I wanted to be Luke Skywalker. There weren’t any female Jedi, but I wanted to be the one to rescue the princess and do all the cool…[Read more]

So my bonkers theory would be that the Doctor gets halfway through the episode before realizing she’s a woman

@drben I would seriously love it if that happened!

I wonder if Missy will stay female. Either way if s/he shows up while the Doctor is a woman I can see some mickey-taking of how s/he did it first.

If older fans display similar reasons for dissaproval think about how they would feel. It isn’t fear of change, but a dissaproval of what has been changed.

Some older fans.

My mum has been watching since the beginning and is fine with this. I’m 40 and have been watching Doctor Who for as long as I can remember and I think it’s great. I…[Read more]

This is probably why Capaldi appears the worst Dr Who?

Best for me. I’ve only been watching for around 37 years though.

Perhaps this is because she would fancy the new Dr? This is not appropriate for a predominately children’s programme.

Why not? I don’t hide the fact that two men or two women can fall in love from my four year old. It’s n…[Read more]

The extra regenerations have been mentioned a few times with no number given, in fact I think in both Kill the Moon and Hell Bent it was said that the number wasn’t known.

@rorysmith

Sorry, personal opinion but I think she…

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Also a woman in the role is probably the only thing that would somewhat alleviate my sadness at Capaldi leaving. I feel quite excited now rather than despondent.

The only worrying thing is…[Read more]

I’m trying not to buy any books as I have well over a hundred on the waiting to be read pile. On the other hand I have an Amazon voucher burning a hole in my pocket…

I’ve been having a look at the more recent Twelfth Doctor ones because I like Bill, good to hear a recommendation. What…[Read more]

I really don’t want him to go 🙁

I prefer it if the gift is alive and uninjured and I really object to dead rats being dropped on the kitchen tops, but if you have cats and let them out you have to expect the…[Read more]

It strikes me that the dark, nightmarish world at the end of the spaceship where they are converting humanity into the first iteration of the Cybermen is like a dark, inverted version of the Nethersphere.

@Blenkinsopthebrave Yes, I thought that.

although it obviously…

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Sadly Guybrush is rather efficient at hunting…[Read more]

An example of being willing to sacrifice yourself to save others rather than the opposite? A test – if he’d been able to carry out his plan, would Missy have come to his aid – one hell…[Read more]

I prefer cats.

I suspect Missy might well be trying her best, but I too thought of Ohila and ‘hope is a terrible thing on the scaffold’. No wonder he’s looking weary, all…[Read more]

@nick the implication of the BSOD moment and ‘you don’t understand’ line is that it’s only then that he remembers at least something of the previous times.

OK, short, rough version.

Losing Clara – different to the other losses in that in a way she died three times – the Doctor failed to save her three times – and was willing to risk her life to save him.

(by the way I don’t believe there ever was a ‘Clara Prime’, I…[Read more]

I don’t agree with everything said in this link but it’s an interesting look at the philosophy of the ‘Trilogy’ truth in fidelity… (& it makes me appreciate it a bit more as a trilogy, even though it’s slagging it off a bit)

@wolfweed Thanks for the link, it’s reminded me of something – anyone else here play the Deus Ex games? Because on th…[Read more]

also his comment to Missy in front of Bill: “here’s the only other TL”

@thane I’ve only watched it once but didn’t he say ‘this is the other last of the Time Lords’

Without checking I seem to remember there being at least five in the glowy string room.

As for the quick surrender, if you believed the end of the world was imminent and the aliens weren’t the cause but could prevent it (even at a cost) how many missiles…[Read more]

But your average domestic moggie and fancy breeds? They would be very quickly ‘selected out’.

@pedant, many individuals would, and of course many domestic cats are spayed/neutered so it wouldn’t matter from a gene pool point of view. But I’ve certainly had cats that were fantastic hunters (unfortunately for the smaller creatures in our local wil…[Read more]

Meanwhile at io9’s review, the critic noted that the Doctor’s shabby coat in the Missy scenes is the same one he wears in the regeneration tease clips in the trailer for Series 10…

@missrori that is probably why I was wondering about how disheveled he looked. There was something nagging at me about that and there’s the explanation.

Which now m…[Read more]

Why did the book exist? Where did it come from? Was it a bug in the programming or deliberately placed?

What exactly was Missy being executed for? Why did the Doctor look so scruffy and dusty?

And yes, I’m dreading the final episode.

OK, more ridiculous than normal.