@PhaseShift – the discussion starts here On The Sofa.

To warn you in advance, it also includes a suggestion for Vengeance on Varos from @MonochromeDimension.

Right I am going to wade in on a couple of topics that have been floating around lol(primarily as I’ve been lazy over the last few days and only just caught up on my emailed post subscriptions). On the matter of companion doctor love new who hardly has a monopoly on this as I remember Sarah-Jane Smith certainly seemed to have the “hots” for Four…[Read more]

@MonochromeDimension – Oh, my reaction to the rock scene with the First Doctor was shock, followed by laughter over the shock and his excuse when he was caught. So, if the scene is shocking (not sure which one you speak of, because I’m still way behind on the Seventh serials, having finished the First, nowhere near checking out the Second and…[Read more]

@MonochromeDimension  Its interesting to wonder what the Doctor was like on Gallifrey, we only saw his original personality for a few serials before he became a much more caring character.

I suspect that it wasn’t so much that the Doctor was uncaring as that he shared the bias of the Time Lords: that they consider themselves vastly superior to…[Read more]

@MonochromeDimension.

You’re perfectly safe from the Grammar Dalek. I am only programmed to exterminate those who fail to use capitalisation and punctuation. 😈

Besides, you’re currently wearing the icon of a Doctor, and all Daleks know that trying to exterminate the Doctor never ends well. 😀

@MonochromeDimension

Quite the opposite of his first incarnation!

Well, in some ways. But like a few others here, the DVD of Web of Fear has just plunked through my letterbox, and I’m watching it on a big telly.

And since I’ve also recently been watching William Hartnell in the first three stories, I was very struck by the way Patrick…[Read more]

I didn’t disappear for too long… I had an eye appointment yesterday and couldn’t reply back sooner, because my pupils were dilated. I missed this forum right away, even though it’s only been some hours. LOL! Now to catch up..,

@MonochromeDimension – No need to explain, I think I understand. Before I began to watch the BG episodes now, I seen…[Read more]

Hi @Arbutus and @Monochromedimension – interesting thoughts on regenerations….
Arbutus – not sure if you read this, but its from a blog called Brain Pickings written by Maria Popova, and she mentioned yesterday the very thing you’re referring to when you talked about the ‘different you’s’ over time.

A sentence in the entry really stood…[Read more]

@MonochromeDimension   It’s a very good point that all of the qualities that come and go in later doctors would have been a part of the First Doctor. It brings up the question of what personality actually is. Do we all have certain characteristics that, while dormant or mostly so in us now, might become stronger if we, like the Doctor, had the a…[Read more]

@MonochromeDimension  They are indeed very different, and so we all have our favourite incarnations. What I meant was that when I think of the Doctor, I tend to see the commonalities as much as or more than the differences. So as @FaeGrl said, they seem to me more like part of the whole. More as I view myself: there are different aspects of me…[Read more]

@FaeGrl  @Bluesqueakpip    Agreed that arrogance is one of the Doctor’s definitive traits. There is perhaps a different quality to it in the post Time War Doctor(s), for the reason that there is nobody left who might potentially be his equal.

I also tend to share @FaeGrl‘s acceptance of the Doctor in any of his incarnations, in whatever dir…[Read more]

@FatManInABox – the spelling, grammar and capitalisation Dalek is usually me. 😈

However, I will point out that this is more because I can’t read stuff that is badly spelt, uncapitalised and innocent of punctuation. Posters (I’m looking at you, @MonochromeDimension) may dangle their participles where they will and split infinitives all day…[Read more]

@MonochromeDimension – You know, the more I am watching the BG serials, the more I’m beginning to not see the Doctor reincarnations as separate, as I’ve done before. Somehow, they all seem like part of the whole now, so I have a new appreciation for all of them… not just my favorites of The Fourth, Ninth, and Tenth. It’s a very interesting show…[Read more]

@Monochromedimension – Oh, I see. I will continue to watch the episodes in linear then. However, it will be a while before I reach Ghost Light. And I’ve heard of Ace before, but don’t know that companion yet. I’m looking forward to it. 🙂

As for the topic of manipulation, I agree with you and @devilishrobby, I think all the Doctors have a dark…[Read more]

@monochromedimension – I got the tome baker head on ebay about 6 years ago

@Monochromedimension yes the 7th doctor did become kind of manipulative to the point where there were hints that he was something more than your ordinary timelord . Your mentioning of  Ace is very apropros and if you think about it Tennantdoc virtually admits he does exactly the same with  Donna Noble and 12 did the same in the hotel inorder to…[Read more]

@MonochromeDimension – Hmm… I don’t think I like the idea of “manipulative”, unless it’s the Doctor thinking of something very clever and defeating the bad guys with his brain. I love it when he does that, in any regeneration of his. 🙂

Then again, I guess every Doctor goes through his “dark side” and have to overcome it. There were plenty o…[Read more]

Hi @FaeGrl and @MonochromeDimension – apologies if I’m butting in and you already know, but there was a “watch week-by-week” of Ghostlight a few months ago.

You can see episode 1 here along with people’s thoughts. Might be interesting to add yours if you haven’t already!

And I don’t think I’m spoiling anything, if I were to say that this serial…[Read more]

@MonochromeDimension – Hmm… I wonder why people down rated “Time and the Rani”, I thought it was awesome! And it’s the best introduction to the Seventh, imho. Ah, yes I did get confused! I do know that Rani is a lady time lord, but somehow thought that Mel was too. I guess it would be too much to have three lady time lords in one episode.  I…[Read more]

@MonochromeDimension – Okay… so, yesterday I watched the first serial of the Seventh. Oh, my god! It was the best episodes I’ve enjoyed since the Fourth! From what I could figure, Mel is a lady time lord that is from Earth? Much like River Song? I like her character, although her screaming hurts my ears. I hope she doesn’t do too much of it.…[Read more]