@Nick – I think ‘characterisation’ in Doctor Who is still developing. I don’t remember vast amounts of character development in BG Who beyond the First Doctor slowly becoming ‘The Doctor’, the hero – it was there, but it broadly tended to be the assistant rather than the Doctor.

The interesting thing, is that RTD and David Tennant don’t really…

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@Bluesqueakpip @Nick

I think it’s right that the audience is the unpredictable 4th (wall!) party to the equation and we’ll read into things according to our personal long term and immediate experience (as well as our experience of the show).

I don’t subscribe to “the Dr HAS to be asexual” camp but I do think he frequently mis-reads signals -…[Read more]

@Nick

It’s really two things. One, you have what the writer/actors/director intended.

Two, you have what the audience ‘reads’.

And it’s entirely possible for the audience to pick up a reading that the writer/actor/director didn’t really intend. [We don’t like it, because – quite frankly – it means we didn’t do our job well enough. But it…[Read more]

Tennant was my way into AG Who, having missed Series 1 for a number of reasons, not least a dose of ARSE – ha! it won’t be the same! Big budget, 2005, they’ll ruin it! 😳  Scheduling was also a problem and I hadn’t hooked into iplayer at that time.

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@Nick re: meaning of Clara Oswin Oswald

I’d posted above that the meanings (derivation) of these names reference light and God. You replied:

“Interesting, but I don’t know if it wise to take the name […]

@Nick I’m saying time travel couldn’t be used as a weapon because the assumption I had was that all of the fighters were outside of time. A 5th dimension if you like. They can’t travel back in time to change […]

freely admit to not picking up much of the detail

@Nick – okay, but honestly – it does make playing this game with you a bit like trying to play a game of chess with someone who hasn’t spotted that their bishop […]

@Nick

Running with your argument, then I agree Clara ought to have said something along the lines of “you’re familiar” at the beginning of the physic conference call, but I don’t think that’s necessarily […]

@Shazzbot Glad you enjoyed it. I’m quite impressed with it myself 😛

In regards to what @Nick was saying about The Doctor’s Wife. IIRC the Doctor states that the junkyard is in a “Bubble” universe, i.e. it is […]

@Nick @Shazzbot

3. Of course, they may renumber him (new) D0 and start from scratch

Who: TNG *shudders*

ah, ok, @thommck, @shazzbot, @nick….

In terms of Rose giving the number to Clara, I guess I’m simply thinking Doc10 (or metacrisisDoc) and Rose “simply” jump into Doc 11’s fractured time-scar (rather than […]

@Nick I think you managed to articulate a bit better what was unravelling and re-ravelling in my head!
It’s given me an idea for the Hurt Doctor, I’ll put it here (sorry @shazzbot) as I’m staying away from the […]

@Nick

there can be no guarantee that Clara would actually remember exactly who gave her the number of an IT support line even if she met her later on (I wouldn’t – would you ? in the circumstances).

The […]

@Nick, @Bluesqueakpip

Re: name of the Eleventh’s current companion, Clara Oswin Oswald

I agree with @Bluesqueakpip that “Clara” is very likely a tribute to Lis Sladen, the actress who played Sarah Jane Smith […]