@missrori

Didn’t they. For a children’s programme (ha, ha) the two of them positively sizzled.

Missy

@pingpongpete1 I did some looking around and found that a man named David Harrison was in two Doctor Who stories, his first was called Castrovalva (with Peter Davison as the Doctor) in which he played an uncredited warrior and his second was as an uncredited extra in Remembrance of the Daleks (with Sylvester McCoy’s Doctor). I also found a Terry…[Read more]

@missrori  @missy  Thanks you both for comments above — I think I share some of your thinking there, about the ways in which #12 is a-neurotypical for human behavior (and possibly TL behavior as well, since the TLs we’ve seen don’t seem any more different on average from stuck-up, over-privileged humans than the Olympian gods seemed in c…[Read more]

@missrori  Oh, I am — I am feeling much better, and enjoying not having to lie down and nap at odd times during the day any more.  I’m going to the gym today, but gently.  Just the treadmill, thanks, at a sedate speed.

@pedant  The rest of you got lucky

Yah — great line!  I liked Danny, and wanted just a bit more dimension to him, a scene or two of him with other people in his life; orphans have friends, and soldiers have old army buddies, but they never gave him any time as himself, on his own and in his own milieu outside of work, which I think would have h…[Read more]

@missrori.

Much obliged. I was anticipating trouble. *grins*

Missy

@1997whovian

I laughed so much when The Doctor greets Clara “You look lovely today, have you had a wash?”

Tactful he ain’t!

@missrori

I have a confession to make. Danny kept getting in the way, I found his character irritating.

*goes and sits in the corner and waits to be jumped on from a great height.*

Missy

@missrori

Funny you should say that. Whilst watching the specials on Series 8, they mentioned an HG Wells episode.

Missy

@missrori

Really? Thing is I don’t listen to audios of the Doctor, I only like the films, so who knows?

HG. Wells would be good.

Missy

@missrori

Thanks for that missrori an interesting observation. To me, the Twelth Doctor is more human than the ones before.

@ichabod

Very droll!  *grins*

Missy

@pedant   Uh — well, yes, the Clockwork/Buffy treatment might help create a breakthrough for some, but most of the objectors . Story arcs can require an unusual commitment to a show and its characters that not everyone is inclined to make.

And arcs can be overdone, too — e.g., “The Mentalist” and the “Red John” theme, which finally drove me…[Read more]

Hey there @missrori,

Thanks for the link- I’m surprised I haven’t come across this one before!

Yeah, hopefully the official site has a fan corner soon 🙂

@missrori

Some people just can’t handle arc-based storytelling.

They need to be strapped to a chair, Clockwork Orange-style, and made to watch Buffy all the way through, repeatedly, until they get it.

@missrori

Me too, that the the hand kissing in “The Raven”. I literally had tears running down my cheeks, in the latter.

Missy

@missrori

It is fun here isn’t it, even though we don’t always agree, it’s interesting to hear all the theories.

Janette

Hear, hear. Superb and superlative I’d say. The strangest thing  is that all the new Doctor theme music suits every one of them. Maurry Gold, is astonishing.

Missy

@stitchintime

The Hell Bent script was discussed at length, with theory and everything.

On the Hell Bent thread, which this isn’t.

@MissRori

Actually, I think one of the most intriguing questions about Twelve is what his total story arc will turn out to be.  It has to be something bigger than Clara, bigger than finding Gallifrey…something co…

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@Missy @winston @missrori

Oooh making a list of possible historical companions, that is a fine way to pass the time..

Alfred the Great or Elfrida, first queen of England.

Eleanor of Aquitaine. (I think she appeared in a very early story)

And more artists, scientists, authors, really interesting people Starting from ancient Greece, the ancient…[Read more]

@missrori @missy     I think it would be fun to see why  the Doctor marries Cleopatra or for that matter how River ends up married to Stephen Fry( I love him). Oh well I can only imagine it.

I am hoping that Class will be enough to satisfy my Doctor  cravings until Christmas. Maybe I will start a rewatch from series 1 AG. Rose is still my favour…[Read more]

@puroandson  I think it was far more brave (dare I invoke that expression) to have her return and then categorically forget Clara so completely considering this was hinted right from the beginning in “remember me, you clever boy” implying a time in the paradox where he would no longer “remember” something important. Something very signific…[Read more]

@ichabod @stitchintime

“Hell Bent” follows this by leaving the true identity of the hybrid even murkier

Really? To me it was very clear that the Hybrid was the gestalt entity of the Doctor plus Clara – in itself a powerful meta-statement about those who inhabit the Tardis.

@missrori

Heck, why didn’t he do that and make a break for the TARDIS…

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