@miapatrick Sorry I’m so late on this, but congratulations! You amaze me!

@missy Oh, and happy birthday, Missy!

@mirime:  I think @missy and I feel similarly about the Twelfth Doctor – and I also don’t feel the need to have everything wrapped up neatly with a bow on top, nothing wrong with loose ends!

Agreed. Also I have many friends who watch DW but aren’t fans, they also feel that a female Doctor is a mistake.

Time will tell of cour…[Read more]

@janetteb    . . . the Doctor calling himself Timelord when he rejects the elitism of Gallifreyan society. It does grate and I liked Danny making a point about that.

I appreciate the title as a character point: yes, the Doctor is a rebel, but he’s also a bit arrogant — and probably also a bit insecure, since he didn’t do well at the Academy, d…[Read more]

I’ve just finished editing the recording I made of last night’s John Williams Prom. I’m not sure I’ll post them online anywhere though (copyright issues etc).

For those intending to watch/record tonight’s BBC4 broadcast pay close attention to the beginning of the ‘Raiders March’. There are a few ‘bum’ notes making it sound as though the orchestra…[Read more]

@missy @tardigrade I’ve been re-watching Fifth Doctor episodes from the beginning – just finished Snakedance – and have noticed he tends to say he’s from Gallifrey rather than that he’s a Timelord.

I think @missy and I feel similarly about the Twelfth Doctor – and I also don’t feel the need to have everything wrapped up neatly with a bow on top,…[Read more]

@missy excellent article, captures why I love the twelfth Doctor so much.

@thane15

I can imagine little kids -girls and boys -playing Doctor Who and not caring if the girl is the Doctor.

When I was a small child I wanted to be Luke Skywalker. There weren’t any female Jedi, but I wanted to be the one to rescue the princess and do all the cool…[Read more]

It’s Prom season and while there’s no Doctor Who Prom (again) this year, there is a concert that may be of interest to some of you.

On Thursday 20th July at 19:30, BBC Radio 3 will be broadcasting a celebration of the music of John Williams. The concert will also be televised on BBC4 on Friday 21st at 20:00 – running time approx 2…[Read more]

@missy turn it into a game, every time the screen says “deuce” drink some grape juice!

@thane15 @missy thanks both for your congrats and good wishes.  The party is this afternoon so will coincide with the announcement of the new Doctor!  We will be briefing the DJs (who are good friends and one of them is a real Whovian) to play the theme tune and then make the announcement as soon as it’s known.

@mirime and @missy I also support Bill’s happy ending!  Besides, it was shot through with bittersweetness, since she doesn’t know the Doctor’s okay and vice versa.

@mirime So you’re going to be reading the Twelfth Doctor novels?  They are good, especially this year’s batch.  🙂

@missy I’m considering reading the books, just to postpone the inevitable, though what I’ve actually done is go back and started watching the fifth Doctor episodes again. And just by coincidence while grumpily not eating anything on Monday because I was having some tests done I watched the Eleventh Doctor try and wipe out the human race in…[Read more]

@missy  Sorry about that, I’ve been dog-sitting and the internet here is terrible.  Takes forever for the forums to load and then it doesn’t always load all the images.  I thought I’d posted into Spoilers but I didn’t.  My bad.

Completely and utterly and totally off-topic, but I’m interested to know what percentage of the demographic I fal…[Read more]

@tardigrade  Somehow I find it difficult to imagine Missy preparing a confession dial, but perhaps she may have, in the lonely hours in the vault, particularly towards the end, when she began to feel that she had something to confess.

Great point — A Simm Master Confession Dial would have nothing but snarks and boasts, and I don’t think Missy…[Read more]

@Missy

It’s from ‘To His Coy Mistress’ by Andrew Marvell

Had we but world enough and time,
This coyness, lady, were no crime.
We would sit down, and think which way
To walk, and pass our long love’s day.
Thou by the Indian Ganges’ side
Shouldst rubies find; I by the tide
Of Humber would complain.

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But at my back I always hea…

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@missy  . . . the other Scottish actor – his offsider I think – I found to be offensive, not a bit funny. Why?

Because PC is a miles-better actor than that guy, and can carry obscenities off with such heartfelt, yet casual panache?  The other “comic Scotsman” felt forced in performance, and completely superfluous to the story, to me.  PC’s…[Read more]

No one mentioned the jelly babies yet.   I loved the jelly babies!   Choose it as my avatar.

@Missy

Missy only stabbed the Master. To weaken him.  To give the Doctor an advantage.

For someone with 2 hearts that can’t be fatal. Both the Master shot Missy with a ray gun

and  the Doctor was also shot with cyber ray gun.  I’m thinking Missy w…[Read more]

@missy  — I can’t!  Well, except for the tuxedo boy who lives next door but hangs out in my hard and desperately wants to get into my house; he sprays on my porch to emphasize the point.  Vinegar helps; but then, vinegar, in moderation, helps most things.

Kinda like cats . . .

@missy   No apologies needed!

@rutledgemann74  Hi!  Welcome!

@thane15  Ooh, “San Junipero” — good story, with a good reputation!  I haven’t been all that impressed with the rest of Black Mirror, though.  Looking back, there’s not much that’s stayed with me.  I have yet to begin “Rectify” — I have a tough time with any kind of story that’s…[Read more]

@nerys  @blenkinsopthebrave  Agreed; self-doubt rooted in a lively self-awareness that I don’t recall seeing much of in previous AG Doctors.  I get the sense of a very complex and sensitive subjectivity in this Doctor, and that’s part of both the hesitance and the impulsiveness that I see there.

@wolfweed  Old lady: I already knew that bec…[Read more]

@missy apart from loving Doctor Who I’m also a massive Tolkien fan, and he did not love cats at all – the character that eventually became Sauron was an evil demonic cat originally. He also received a letter from a fan asking if it was ok to name their cats after his characters and, iirc, his reply was along the lines of ‘unfortunately I can’t…[Read more]