Not exactly Doctor Who, but David Tennant is to star in Neil Gaiman’s adaptation of Terry Pratchett’s ‘Good Omens’

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@Craig

If I can only find the time, I badly need to re-watch series 8 – 10, and no doubt I could even now review and evaluate  Capaldi’s Doctor analytically and in detail; but that compilation brings home why,  for me, after more than 50 years of watching on and off, his incarnation of this mercurial, eccentric alien – erratic, funny and at the…[Read more]

@ichabod

Your description of your reaction to the news made me smile.  Being less pessimistic than you I was half expecting it, but before the announcement I would have said that I wasn’t greatly concerned either way as long as the actor cast was up to the job so, although I didn’t actually yell out loud,  the rush and glow of satisfaction I felt…[Read more]

@Juniperfish

triumphantly pulling out the packet of ginger nut biscuits from the back of the closet which she was looking for all along.

Any Doctor who liked ginger nuts would have my unqualified approval from the off!

@GreyhoundJon

May I echo @JimTheFish ‘s sentiments. Greetings, and welcome in from lurkerdom 🙂  And there is no need to feel apologetic about the length of your post; it was excellent and well worth reading, and I agree wholeheartedly with  everything you say.

@janetteB

I think that there will be record ratings this Christmas.

You are almost certainly correct, and I suspect that for every viewer lost because they cannot get over their fixed views on gender and what constitutes masculinity and femininity, alien or otherwise, there will be others who reconnect or, indeed, connect for the first time.

As…[Read more]

@Serahni   Love it 😀

For those who have not yet seen it, there is an OP by Colin Baker  on the Graun website and, as his earlier tweet indicated, he is among those delighted by the casting of Whattaker.

Master: Is the future going to be all girl?

Doctor: We can only hope.

It surprises me a little that so many seem surprised at the casting of a woman as the Doctor. The possibility has been telegraphed fairly clearly and with increasing frequency over the past few years and, speaking for myself, I’m very much looking forward to seeing what Jodie…[Read more]

@CathAnnabel

Add my congratulations to those already accumulated. Very best wishes for the double celebration!

@ichabod

The Master-Missy relationship is, I think, fairly straightforward – insofar as Moffat loops can ever be described as such. The indications in the text are that Simm-Master will regenerate into Missy and that she remembers enough to realise this. She claims to be a bit hazy about the details, but then she has never been particularly…[Read more]

@Nick

I agree with @blenkinsopthebrave, that in the exchange between Bill and the Doctor the real meaning is in what is left unsaid but is understood, because in teaching/learning, travelling together and in peril of their lives, with the Doctor having risked his own for her, they have come to know one another well.  What Bill says is only hal…[Read more]

@Nick

re the dematerialisation circuit.  I have just watched that bit again and it looks as if I was mistaken and Missy does in fact produce the circuit from a pocket in her skirt and give it to Simm master.  If I had given more thought to the matter I would have realised by the end of the episode that this was the only logical explanation.

If t…[Read more]

@Nick @wolfweed

Missy grabbed the Master by the lapels and slammed him against a wall.  Her exact words then were, ‘A very long time ago a very scary lady threw me against a wall and made me promise always, always to carry a spare dematerialisation circuit.’ 

I thought she then picked his pocket to produce said spare circuit and held it up in…[Read more]

@JimTheFish

I defer to your superior knowledge of BG Who. As I wrote earlier, I have never seen the episodes in which the Cybermen were first introduced, only clips and synopses.

I was going on Bill’s reference to ‘programming’, but also on something the Doctor said in World Enough and Time, when he first encountered Bill as cyberman without…[Read more]

@Miapatrick

I don’t know about her being turned back into a human ‘it’s only atoms’ – I don’t think that power has been established for Heather/pilot, nor can it be as easily extrapolated as the idea that, being a creature who can travel anywhere in time and space, she can drive the Tardis.

Well, this is the Whoniverse, so it doesn’t necessarily…[Read more]

@bluesqueakpip

… has the man become lost, becoming nothing but an ever-changing role, always changing, always dying, always a story rather than a real person.

I agree, although, as the Doctor himself once said ‘We are all stories in the end’

As @tardigrade noted, the Doctor’s unwillingness to change was foreshadowed in Bill’s insistence that…[Read more]