Hey @ichabod, since you asked…

Each autistic person’s condition manifests itself in a unique stew of “unconventional” behaviors, strengths, and weaknesses.  But there are certain basic behaviors that seem particularly common across a cross-section of them….

The Twelfth Doctor isn’t good with names, or remembering faces.  He’s prone to g…[Read more]

@missy   I loved The Caretaker it was so funny

@missy  True enough, and DW has thriven on just that; pity many fans only give lip-service to change, but balk like a spooked horse at the actual jump (from one actor-Doctor to another, that is).  Even a show based on theme-and-variations will attract a conservative fringe — though of course, as in most questions of judgment, where to draw the l…[Read more]

@missy I didnt like Kill the moon or robots of Sherwood in season 8 but apart from them it was an alright season

@missy One of the Big Finish audios tackled Boudica, “The Wrath of the Iceni”.  It was a good, if dark, Fourth Doctor/Leela adventure (Leela initially decides to leave the Doctor to fight alongside her!).  As with most all Fourth Doctor audios, it’s only an hour long, so it could be adapted into the TV show without having to drop much of the pl…[Read more]

@missy  As I noted above, Twelve <i>has</i> met Charlotte Bronte in the comics, in “Unearthly Things”.  That story could easily be fleshed out into a one-off episode, the way some of the audio dramas and novels have wound up being adapted, if often loosely, into the series.  But without Clara as the companion, it wouldn’t be the same — Ch…[Read more]

@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]

@missy  Yeah, those are all fan-favorites really!  I think it would be neat if the promised “guest companion” in this year’s Christmas show turned out to be a historical figure.  Trouble is, I can’t think of one that is perfect for the Christmas theme, since they already used Charles Dickens and I don’t think the prospect of the Doctor visi…[Read more]

@missy and @missrori   I would also love to see 12 meet some historical figures. They were always my favourites. The mixing of fact and fiction , so to speak,  usually makes for a fun episode. Exploring new worlds and planets with CapDoc would also be great.

Oh my, the waiting ,always the waiting. Christmas has not seemed so far away since I wa…[Read more]

@missy  It’s okay if you don’t like comics!  I didn’t get into them until my late 20s, and even then, I have no interest in the titles most comic book shops stock — i.e. the standard superhero titles.  Barnes and Noble actually has a far superior variety available, albeit in collected hardbacks and paperbacks (which makes it fascinating that th…[Read more]

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]

@missy   Well, the best Doctor for thee and me, anyway.  So far, that is, but it *is* pretty far, 50+ yr span.  I think what clinches it for me (in other cases too) is the most effective portrayal of the internal struggle between high intelligence and high passions (in the broader sense of course, not the romantic one).  Capaldi has embodied tha…[Read more]

@missy A very bold statement for someone who has never seen other Doctors. I bet Peter Capaldi is your first Doctor ever, isn’t he?

@missy  Hmmm.  Looks a little like *my* mom, come to think of it . . . !

@missy  Ah, well, join the club.  I was just about ready to quit TV altogether and stick with old BBC stuff online when Capaldi took over as the best Doctor ever (for me, anyway, but I haven’t been 16 in a very long time, so . . .) and I sank right back in.  Now some good shows have turned up on HBO and even some broadcast stations, so I’m ho…[Read more]

@puroandson  @missy  Well, strictly speaking, change is an unavoidable thing, being a function of time; and nobody’s figured out yet how to stop time, at least as far as I know!  I’d not eager for a female Doctor either, but I reserve the right to be so surprised, in a good way, that I end up raving like a lunatic about a female actor in the ro…[Read more]

@missy  Yeah . . . gawd, I miss my DW fix!  In just about every respect, I can hardly wait for the end of this ghastly year.

@missy ah fair enough. which is your fave from series 8?

@1997whovian   I’m a scendle, it seems; how odd — pretty accurate, actually.  I am scholarly type by nature . . .

@missy  You’re welcome.  I’m also given to snooping around for Doctor-y stuff in the internet, I guess.  Must go see if I might live to an old age in Sparta . . . which might be not such a great thing, what with story about the Spar…[Read more]