What a fascinating conversation I’ve been missing here!  🙂  I loved @nerys’s rundown of the AG Doctors and pretty much agree with all of it. The “Doctor Dances” two-parter was the absolute highlight of Series 1 for me, and that scene was Nine at his best. On the whole, Eccelston never really gelled as the Doctor for me, but there were a few mom…[Read more]

@Nerys   … though I think watching paint dry might be more engaging.

Who knows.  Maybe I’m the sort of guy who likes watching paint dry.   😉

Writers are reminded to “know your audience.” I agree that the folks running Doctor Who know their audience quite well, and by and large they write with us in mind.

Is that why the audience seems to b…[Read more]

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<em style=”line-height: 1.5;”> (Clara is still in the tardis…)<em style=”line-height: 1.5;”> The Doctor knows this, but is shielding her from the knowledge.

Potentially using a lucid dreaming aide, from Dark Water. You know the one that induced the very real dream state where Clara believed she…[Read more]

@nerys @purofilion @SirClockFace (who has also floated the “she’s still a Dalek” theory)

There are also of course, the “stalky thing sticking out the the forehead” Daleks, who do not know they are Daleks until activated.

@nerys   I’m the opposite myself.  But I recognize that the showrunners are opting for emotional and relationship payoff, and shorting rationality and coherence.   I don’t necessarily see the two as being opposed.  But I do see a prioritization of one and a rather shrifty attitude to the second.   Eh, so it goes.

@nerys  Am I overly sentimental, or somehow bringing the show down because I appreciate an emotionally true story over a fastidiously logical one?

Naw.  You’re going in exactly the direction the creative crew goes in: the Doctor gives a perfectly logical explanation of why “run!” is all the help he’s going to give the villagers in The Girl, and h…[Read more]

@nerys  by the end of Smith’s run, I felt he was suffering from an overdose of mania and an underwritten companion. It was a relief to slow things down a notch with Peter Capaldi’s Doctor, and also see some vastly improved writing for his companion, Clara, who no longer felt like a placeholder but a more fully realized character. The chem…[Read more]

@nerys So just wondering if there might be some way to connect Clara’s book of impossible places
with Me who was a journal maker/keeper? Clara doesn’t have a lot of knowledge about her Mom as far
as I can tell. Clara needs her stories for the same reasons as Me – to build memories.
To my mind there are several candidates as hybrids. I was…[Read more]

@nerys That’s a fascinating idea and might account for the sunglasses.
However Clara’s end shakes out its going to be 1 breathtaking twist!

I think it will be involving Lady Me and whether we get Daleks or Missy
well why not?

@nerys I love The Doctor Dances. Eccleston got me hook with all of his episodes, which is why I still miss him. Ecclestion showed the real fiery of the time lords, also you’re welcome.

@pufferfish  human beings who live the normal three score-and-ten are said to use only 10 per cent of the brain’s capacity (possibly 20 per cent, can’t remember exactly) but there are LOADS of stories that suggest immortality unlocks the unused portion (eg. Heroes).

Heroes is fiction, though; and new studies refute the theory of huge unused port…[Read more]

@nerys @purofilion nerys, that was a wonderful speech about all The Doctors. I agree with you both about how fantastic the 9th Doctor was. I also agree about how it took awhile for the writers to find out The 10th Doctor personality. After I watched Matts first episode again, I saw that Matt did have a great start. He had to be after coming in…[Read more]

@ramzeppilin  So to end this posting….I am sad to see Doctor Who become a vehicle for liberalism

I’m not, or wouldn’t be if it were, Mr. Underbridge.  This is certainly not the kind of place you’re looking for, so do kindly bugger off and take your non-agenda with you, there’s a good chap.

@nerys  Me/Ashildr is something of a modern woman, I ag…[Read more]

@winston  After a while you think that the pain is not worth it and you decide “no more pets” I think this is how the Doctor and Me and all immortals must feel once in awhile. Shoud they take the risk and enjoy their companions lives ,however fleeting ,or give up and go it alone.

Yes, it’s a feeling very familiar to pet owners.  Most of us give…[Read more]

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@craig  Thanks for that, you’re very kind; and I appreciate it.  As for your desk, well — alas, you’re on your own!  Though I’d love to visit London again . . . maybe sometime before flying just becomes too much of a hassle.  Next time there’s a big SF con there, I hope to attend; missed the last one, for the obvious reasons.  And I’m sorry you…[Read more]

@nerys – oh right. i was referencing the moment in ‘name of..’ where she jumps into the timestream;

@nerys Thanks. Just re-watched and saw that they captured 2 helmets in the magnet trap.
@purofilion When the Doctor said “if anybody had a problem with that…” I was
thinking he may of meant the Time Lords?

Just realizing that I seem to have also missed what happened to the broken sonic sunglasses.
Did the Doctor get those back?

@nerys

 emotional intelligence and self-awareness of a teen?

“Teen” is a very modern concept.

@nerys  Ashildr is still quite young. So mightn’t that be a problem, having someone who is immortal, but equipped with the emotional intelligence and self-awareness of a teen? If he thinks his emotions cause him to do irrational and/or unwise things, what of hers?

Mmm, that’s very nice — promising for when they meet again, next Sa…[Read more]