Wow that took a lot of catching up!!! Shouldn’t have let myself get over 3 pages behind. So much that I hadn’t thought of has been raised to me now though so it’s all good. (I can’t remember who posted what on the prior pages so apologies)

re: Clara –> Nethersphere. I feel like this is a strong bit of bonkerising, especially considering the…[Read more]

@craig, @mirime

Reading your posts on confronting a new Doctor, I think back to my first experience. I was 11 when I saw the very first episode of Doctor Who in 1964 ( it was a bit late in arriving in Australia). It was a life-changing experience. Then the Doctor (not simply my Doctor, but, as far as I, or anyone watching then was…[Read more]

@mirime Assuming Hitchhikers Guide and Doctor Who happen in the same universe is just wrong. Don’t you know Peter Davison is then an edible pig? Being fed to his real life wife. 🙂

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lCLZwo3TZ3A

@Mirime I got you beat, I was three and a quarter when Pertwee turned into Tom Baker. 🙂 But I think any age can be enough to have an emotional attachment to your Doctor. I admit, Doctor Four to Five was a bit weird though and probably less easier to process than past regenerations (apart from the first one). Although I did love Davison’s first…[Read more]

@gamergirlavatar @mirime

Losing “your” Doctor can be traumatic. I think I was sort of lucky as I am old enough to have watched the Pertwee Doctor turn into Tom Baker, but young enough to not have an emotional attachment to Pertwee – I was more scared of the spiders.

So I was almost preprogrammed to accept regeneration. It was just a thing the…[Read more]

@mirime I only started watching again because one day one of my friends said she had never seen it. I showed it to her. Than one day she said she was pass season two and she said to me “you call yourself a Doctor Who fan when your not pass season two”. Sense than there has been a war to see who can watch the new episodes first. I finally saw all…[Read more]

@mirime I acted the same way when I lost my first Doctor (The 9th Doctor). David had to prove himself to me, something of which he failed (I’m not insulting him, I just didn’t see him as The Doctor at first) so I took a break from the show. It lasted for years. I also love Capaldi as The Doctor. He is The Doctor to me. I also really like how…[Read more]

@lisa  @GothamCelt   Does anyone know why the groups of black birds might be given such interesting names (Conspiracy of Ravens, Murder of Crows)? There must be a reason, historically, presumably something to do with the negative image of those birds. But it would be interesting to know more about how it came about.

@Mirime     Yes, same here…[Read more]

Welcome, @Winston and @Mirime! I too was a long time lurker, only breaking silence after the 50th anniversary, when a particularly impressive post impelled me to give it a like. I had never posted on a fan site before (still don’t, except here), but this one is fun as people are very clever and funny, as well as being polite to one another! I f…

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I missed this recent bit of chatter as I was avoiding the Forum until seeing Before the Flood, and by then of course, my Activity page was so filled with that that I never got this far.

Welcome, @Winston and @Mirime! I too was a long time lurker, only breaking silence after the 50th anniversary, when a particularly impressive post impelled me to…[Read more]