Oh yeah @missy, I was bringing this up on TVTropes the other day: Twelve hasn’t met a “historical domain character” yet on the show!  Even Eleven got to meet Vincent van Gogh and Winston Churchill, after all.  😉

(It is a different story in the comics for Twelve.  In the Titan Comics title, he encounters Charlotte Bronte in “Unearthly Thi…[Read more]

@ichabod  No, you’re not overthinking it; you and the other commenters make good points.  At the very least you’re not overthinking it any more than I tend to overthink things.  And as an autistic woman, I overthink things a lot!  😉

That smooch on the knuckles was improvised?!?  Wow!

@ichabod Thank you!

Try Barnes & Noble for the comics.  They have been stocking the monthly titles (Nine, Ten, Eleven, and Twelve) in the entertainment magazine section.  iBooks has the monthly titles and crossovers, plus the Free Comic Book Day anthologies.  As well, there are now hardback collections of the monthly titles in the Graphic No…[Read more]

Hey — correct me if I’m mistaken, but there doesn’t seem to be a place to discuss the Expanded Universe.  Seems chewing the fat over that would be a great way of biding time until Series 10!

I’m a big fan of the Titan Comics Twelfth Doctor title (I’m now completely caught up with it, save for a few of the gag strips and last year’s “Four…[Read more]

Awww…(hugs Missy)

Yeah, I know puroandson — Ashildr does have reasons for her coldness.  I imagine Twelve talking with Elphaba, the anti-heroine of Wicked (specifically the musical’s version of the character) about the troubles with making life-or-death choices with fantastical abilities in the heat of the moment!  She has a whole song on the…[Read more]

I thought this episode was effective and moving, but the weakest part of the finale three-parter.  Part of it was that Clara’s death felt too contrived — even with the rules laid out about how the chronolock worked, it never explained why the Doctor couldn’t just stop or destroy the quantum shade itself before it could unjustly slay Clara, given…[Read more]

I like all of PCap’s costumes as the Doctor so far!

I just keep trying to figure out what his story arc is building towards.  Since it wasn’t finding Gallifrey, it has to be something else.  I wonder what will drive the action in Series 10…

I think this particular rumor is terribly silly, and it’s a shame people are spreading it.  From these and other rumors gaining ground, one would think that poor PCap wasn’t wanted as the Doctor.  PCap brought me back to modern Doctor Who (I’m a big classic series fan, specifically Four’s era) after I grew bored with Series 2 — and that was real…[Read more]

It is a huge tonal shift from Series 9, which great as much of it was did have a frequent case of the glums, even with all of its fun dialogue and humorous setpieces.  There weren’t any just-for-fun/low-drama episodes like “Robot of Sherwood” or “In the Forest of the Night”; the ones that came closest to those (“The Girl Who Died”, “Face the…[Read more]

Hi, thanks for the welcome!  🙂

I’m a little unclear on your comment — are you saying that my idea of an epilogue in which the Doctor goes back to Karn, and he and Ohila mend fences and he’s finally shown compassion by someone else, actually happened?  If that’s the case, why wasn’t it shown onscreen?

Come to think of it — why doesn’t he j…[Read more]

I’m a newbie here, but my Doctor Who poetry Tumblr Poems of an Unknown Companion has been around for a few months.  All poems featured are original to me unless noted; I do occasionally reblog pretty poems from other writers, but there’s a surprising dearth of Whovian poetry out there.  A big gap to fill!  I am also working on a lengthy fanfi…[Read more]

Hi, I’m a newbie!

I liked this episode more when I saw it back in December, but over time, I’ve been rather troubled by a major shortcoming of the story: Namely, that <i>only Clara</i> treats a poor, insane, bereaved torture victim with any measure of kindness or compassion for his pain.  The Drylanders treated him kindly, but it doesn’t look…[Read more]