I just think there’s probably a reason that the science and history have all had a theme of ‘what you think you know is wrong; it’s what the legends say that’s real’.

If I could do it in a few seconds, surely someone involved in the production could have done something similar.

Exactly. They could have found out in fifteen seconds. And we know that they do find these things out; Moffat’s on record as muttering bitterly that he checked tape machines were around at the date of The…[Read more]

That said, the minute they start relating the what’s going on in the story to our real world, where one…[Read more]

I am, for example, completely certain that there were no Daleks in World War Two. Rose hanging off a barrage balloon is just about possible, but Daleks in the War Rooms – and Spitfires able to cope with vacuum? Nope.

Similarly, Reg in The Doctor, Widow, Wardrobe is flying a model…[Read more]

I would love nothing more than to be wrong.

On another note: Doctor Who is not hard scifi. The facts of the real world are no more than props and devices.  For example, in the real…[Read more]

please note, i’m not arguing with you. you were disappointed in the science of the “moon egg.” but…

take a neighbor of your’s, for example. your next door…[Read more]

@MTGradwell – Yeah I have to say I’m erring in your direction about whether Clara lied to Danny or not. I don’t believe she…[Read more]

It being an egg would contradict EVERYTHING we know about physics, chemistry, biology, and just about any other science you can think of.

Harking back to my blog on The Eleventh Hour, (other blogs are available) we are not in our local universe and our local laws on physics, chemistry, biology and just about any science you can…[Read more]

 i think he stopped travelling the universe, in that case, simply because of the threat of the time war breaking out again

I’m with @bluesqueakpip on this one. It doesn’t really matter why the Doctor stopped travelling but the fact is that he did (and therefore could). It’s Clara that has the addiction because it’s now been shown that…[Read more]

@Various

Interesting some people dislike Clara this season. I much prefer her. I remember when she first arrived as Oswin Dalek and I thought she was great, then she became a sort of blank canvas whose defining characteristic was fancying…[Read more]

My feelings about this episode are mixed.  I found the dramatic tension,…[Read more]

Re: the Doctor not knowing the future. In Cold Blood, humans and Silurians negotiate their respective futures on the Earth (the Doctor does not involve…[Read more]

@BadWulf, I was going ask you to explain your problems with the science, not being “sciency” myself, b…[Read more]

@Bluesqueakpip The universe of Doctor Who? It has time travel. And faster than light travel. And teleportation (which has already been used to bring people back from the dead). All of which are completely friggin’ impossible …

… as far as we currently know.

True – although these breakings of the laws of physics are usually engaged in order…[Read more]

but that’s not the same as stretching the laws of physics beyond breaking point.

And this is pretty well what I’m saying. You’re missing off the ‘as they are currently understood’ bit.

I was very keen on planetary science as a schoolchild. Most of what I was taught? Completely wrong.

My A Level Physics teacher could remember b…[Read more]

@MTGradwell Then, the crew enters an abandoned/derelict base, they restore the power, the lights come on and INSTANTLY it’s safe for them to remove their helmets. As if it wouldn’t take time to get the air pressure and temperature back to something tolerable. Again I can see why they did it, but…

That’s one I didn’t pick up on! And yes, it is ano…[Read more]

All of the science was garbage. All of it.

Yup. In no particular order: Robin Hood exists, there’s a dragon in the Moon, dinosaurs were much bigger than we think they were, Daleks can become aware of their own evil, there appears to be life after death and bankers can repent of their misdeeds.

Am I spotting a pattern here? 😉

However, perhaps its good to remember some of those who don’t seem to be around anymore, in case a mention gets an email to them that they open and want to take part.

So here’s to @MTGradwell @Bruin @CraigNixon @penny…[Read more]

Welcome @Brynwe – and thanks @MTGradwell for a completely factual and informed welcome to Brynwe – but only in Dr Who could something that factual could be quite that confusing!

;¬)

Not that I […]

 I think the adipose have to be a leading contender; they look like cuddly marshmallows. 

@MTGradwell – the adipose were supposed to look like cuddly marshmallows. They’re baby adipose; looking cute and cuddly is […]

Still, doesn’t explain how Clara could then be in Matt’s epiosdes such as […]

This is very nicely thought out. Jumps out of the page and into your head. I can imagine this on screen.

I do wonder whether the Valeyard will make an appearance in the 50th. Leaning towards not […]

Aha! – It makes perfect sense that GallifreyClara is a projection of the TARDIS and not a Gallifreyan –  that had already been hinted at during Hide when Clara appears to appear to herself.

So, […]

!– .bbp-reply-author —

Or maybe it was a continuity error.

@MTGradwell – or maybe the Eleventh is the Final Doctor.

I think you’ve got something there. The Eleventh is the final […]

Or maybe it was a continuity error.

@MTGradwell – or maybe the Eleventh is the Final Doctor. 😀

His introduction is in an episode entitled ‘The Eleventh Hour’. He’s Eleven, yes, and this is his ‘hour’. But […]

Myself and @MTGradwell (hello, btw) had a detailed discussion on this over on the G blog.

His point was that the stories (as transmitted on tv) remain as they are (ie no change […]

Quick thanks to @MTGradwell for giving some good solutions to my earlier questions.

@Shazzbot, don’t think I have […]