Interestingly, this teaser is already sparking speculation that poor Bill is going to be killed off to better set up a “clean slate” for Series 11 (Pearl Mackie isn’t contracted for multiple seasons).  I don’t see it happening, mainly because Twelve himself is going to regenerate at the end of it all, and having all that death/”death” at once…[Read more]

BBC America’s just posted a new 30-second teaser for Series 10, which is up at YouTube.  It teases a bunch of old and new enemies at the end.  🙂

@missy I understand.  That gets me to thinking how long we’ll have to wait for the Complete Series 10 box set, because it wouldn’t surprise me if they did the same thing they did with Series 9 — wait until after the 2017 Christmas special/finale for Twelve has aired and then pull everything together!  With that in mind, I’m more forgiving that t…[Read more]

Also @ichabod, I think the claims that Capaldi/Twelve is not popular internationally are hogwash.  BBC America has enjoyed excellent ratings by American basic cable standards for his tenure from my understanding, and in the U.S., it is not easy for any television show to draw in viewers on a Saturday night.  Most American networks don’t program f…[Read more]

@missy  Yeah, cold is no word for Twelve!

“The Return of Doctor Mysterio” came out on DVD today in the U.S. and I made sure to pick up a copy at my local “big box” store.  (Hmmm, I don’t remember DW being so easy to find at the Wal-Marts and Targets of the world in the days of Tennant and Smith…those places, they only stock what the masses w…[Read more]

I saw The Lego Batman Movie this past weekend.  It was a great deal of fun, with surprisingly great action sequences and a more interesting storyline than a lot of “straight” superhero movies.  It’s a well-worn basic plot — the lone wolf hero realizes he has to connect with others, despite the risks — but its willingness to play the concept fo…[Read more]

No, nothing is.  I tend to read older books, actually — can’t get into the “literary” new stuff, and the kind of authors that are sold at those big box stores (James Patterson, Danielle Steele, what have you) that crank out books like sausages I can’t get into either.  At least in my part of the country, there are hardly any bookstores anymore.  …[Read more]

@ichabod, I’ve noticed that more and more I’m reading books (and comics) instead of really watching TV and movies myself.  Maybe it has to do with that breathing space issue?  Doctor Who is about the only fiction show I pay much attention to right now.

Right @missy, and the word on the street is that it will be at least a few months of waiting on the announcement.

@ichabod wrote:

I guess the difference is that I see it as the Doctor *choosing* the strong possibility of a raw deal because — he’s the Doctor.  And I love him for it.

As do I…(sniffle)

But let’s hope he gets the long straw in Series 10 anyway!  😀

@thane15  Sorry to confuse you with explaining my personal head-canon/interpretation at length up there!  And for going in circles too.  My fussy autistic mind tends to do that, I’m afraid.  😉

Yeah, Clara got a relatively happy ending…it just didn’t feel that way on the Doctor’s side.  I still can’t help but think he got a raw deal in Seri…[Read more]

@mudlark  Right — some of the Pertwee episodes were restored from black-and-white copies, weren’t they?  Maybe that’s what our newbie here saw!

I don’t feel I’m passionately on any particular side of the multifaceted issue of female/POC/etc. Doctors at this point.  I’ve heard good arguments on many sides of the debate, including at conventions.  At Wizard World Las Vegas at a panel about Doctor Who‘s female characters, there was a lot of support for the idea.  At Wizard World Chicago at…[Read more]

@pedant  Sorry about that again.

Going back to the episode itself, and specifically the ending: I was looking at Cracked.com today and there was an interesting discussion on the sad truth that good people succeeding because they do good things only happens in stories.  That in real life, people can’t hold to their principles and get everything t…[Read more]

@ichabod, Thanks for the compliments!

In “The Hybrid Hearts” I posited that the Doctor was a Hybrid of a Time Lord and a far, far more ancient Gallifreyan race that never had a name — Lovecraftian creatures that could exist in every moment of Time and Space and destroy armies with but a word, feeding on the energies of their conquests.  But…[Read more]

Hey everybody!

I do think S10 may well be going back to the old-school Doctor/companion relationship you mention, @ichabod.  There are nice things to a partnership with equals as Twelve had with Clara, but it was becoming too much of a distraction for him by the end.  @pedant, He could, with sadness and shame (if only he’d stood his ground…), a…[Read more]

@ichabod, Deep thoughts indeed!  Another work that discusses the idea of a long-lived alien learning from/adapting to humanity and its messiness is Walter Tevis’ novel The Man Who Fell to Earth, most famously, if freely, adapted as a 1976 film in which David Bowie played the title character.  (It was his first major film role.)  “Thomas Jero…[Read more]

@missy (hugs)  I heard the news about Capaldi leaving just after I got up and it soured my whole day!  But beyond any issues with pay there might have been, I think he’s just ready to do (more) other stuff.  The role has been part of his life since 2013 after all.  I know some fans are wishing there hadn’t been such a long gap between Series 9 and…[Read more]

@thane15 (hugs)  Thank you, all of you.

(sniff)  I’ve had a bad day…not just because of the news about the Twelfth Doctor’s final season, either.  I still can’t find anyone in the “real world” who thinks as I do about the way things are going of late, who feels horror and sorrow.  They just think I’ve let online liberals get to me, saying without words that I’m dumb and gullible.  I…[Read more]