Looking at these comments…I see where many fans found this ending satisfying, but I still feel a deep dissatisfaction with the end of the Doctor’s Series 9 arc (not counting the Christmas show, which I loved).

Basically, the Doctor suffered so unjustly, for so long, and for no good reason…and he slaved away to get a happy ending for himself,…[Read more]

As a note for U.S. Whovians — Class does start airing this month in the U.K., but not in the U.S.  BBC America has decided to run it alongside Series 10 of Doctor Who next spring.

@missy  Hey, Missy, here are my own thoughts on the matter of the Hybrid, working from the show and all…perhaps it will help you.

We do know that the Doctor learned something about the Hybrid prophecy as a youth, in the Cloisters, but not exactly what.  It may indeed have been as he claimed — that he knew no more, in the end, about its ide…[Read more]

According to a press release Blogtor Who reported on today, Class will air in October in the U.K.

I myself thought the Beeb did mishandle Series 9 in some respects — they shouldn’t have started in September when all the live shows (rugby, X Factor) were running, the post-8 pm time slot in the U.K. was late for families, and then they let loose those massive spoilers about the finale three-parter after doing a good job of misdirection going in…[Read more]

Well, 12 did once say he’s made a lot of mistakes in his lives and it was time he did something about them…  😉

I love this news!  And so awesome that BBC America will air it.

Meanwhile the Supremacy of the Cybermen comic miniseries continues to proceed at a snail’s pace.  Had things gone as advertised, the story would have been wrapped up by now, but Part Three of five only arrives next week.  In the end, this whole thing is already a major letdown for…[Read more]

Yeah, it’s a fez.  Someone at TVTropes playfully suggested that maybe one reason River took so long to realize Twelve was the Doctor was because he didn’t immediately snatch it up and put it on!  😀

@pedant  I was chatting on Tumblr with a fellow fan on the “most important companion” question and she said that  every companion the Docto…[Read more]

Sorry I didn’t reply to all of you earlier — but your posts make me feel a lot better!  Thanks!

Also @puroandson (PuroSolo in particular), I think of “Listen” as another example of a “magical” Twelve-era story.  It’s darker than most, but it’s full of wonder and mystery and, at the end, tenderness.  I think that was the one that cemented my lo…[Read more]

@ichabod Hear hear!

I spent this past weekend at Wizard World Comic Con in Chicago.  I had a great time but there was some disappointment…even at the Doctor Who fan panel, there weren’t a lot of Twelve fans out and about, but there was chatter about how the show wasn’t as “magical” anymore, too dark and gloomy.  I felt heartsick to be at a pa…[Read more]

I was over at comic book artist Rachael Stott’s Tumblr a few minutes ago.  She is one of the current artists on Titan’s Twelfth Doctor title — she’s the best artist working on it, IMO — and at her Tumblr she sometimes posts original art and even the occasional cute comic of Twelve.  This one she just posted is a very funny salute to the first co…[Read more]

@jimthefish and @janette True, true.  Still — he had a point when he asked if he was owed the chance to save Clara.  He’s done so much good for so many others, and when he asks for so little in return, he doesn’t get it!  I’d say he has a lot of debts to collect upon — especially after the confession dial torment.  (Rotten old Time Lords!…[Read more]

@janetteB, I agree that it’s frustrating having no new Who to discuss.  Perhaps there should be a thread to talk about expanded universe stuff like the novels and comics?  There’s plenty of that out there still.  😉  I am getting so impatient for Series 10 and more of the Twelfth Doctor and getting to know Bill…

@jimthefish, Talk about sympathy for the devil!  😀

It will be interesting to see where it goes.  Maybe Gallifrey is done and dusted, though already the Titan comics are playing with it in “Supremacy of the Cybermen”.  Maybe it’s not the real Promised Land and it’s something, someplace else where the Doctor will finally find peace…

Over at Tumblr there was a poster who argued that Clara is the most powerful hero in Doctor Who history because she kept the Eleventh Doctor from dying — and thus allowed him to finally make his date with River Song on Darillium as Twelve.  After all, Eleven didn’t have any more regenerations when he went to Trenzalore in “The Time of the…[Read more]

Getting back to “Face the Raven”, one thing I only recently thought of that makes this story even sadder, and the Doctor’s actions throughout Series 9 more understandable:

By this point, both the Doctor and Clara know there isn’t an afterlife in the Whoniverse.  When one is dead, they’re dead; dirt in the ground, smoke on the wind.  No “pr…[Read more]

Hi new guy!  I know I can’t wait for Series 10 either.  Well, I can wait, but I don’t want to.  😉  Thank goodness for the expanded universe stuff (books, audios, comics, etc.)…

Well @time-lord-alvey, remember that the diner TARDIS in hindsight is the diner Eleven and his friends visit in “The Impossible Astronaut”!  Obviously Clara and Me were making sure the Great Intelligence wasn’t poking his nose into a particularly important time in the Doctor’s timeline!  😉   (Jenna Coleman was recently asked about returning to…[Read more]

Also, if I’m to say that Clara wants to have it all, it’s only fair to say the Doctor tries to have it all too — he’s so restless, jumping from place to place, when sometimes he and others would be served better by slowing down and seeing through the aftermath of his heroics.  😉

One of the best stories so far in the Titan Comics’ Twelfth Doct…[Read more]

@puroandson and @ichabod, you both make excellent points.  While Clara made mistakes on a personal level, like the Doctor she learned from them, and when it came to adventuring she was never anything less than brave and intelligent — though she could be foolhardy at times, just like the Doctor.  😉  I agree that she got a harder time from much of…[Read more]