@Nick  re the sex genie out the bottle – I really don’t see the problem. It only means that there’s a side to relationships which couldn’t be shown on screen in the 60s, 70s (sex wasn’t invented then haha (just […]

@Nick I don’t understand why you’re assuming that the Clara/Capaldi relationship will be problematic. For one thing we have no idea how much of S8 JLC is contracted for. Not sure how much further they can go with […]

@shazzbot @nickthefish @Nick

That all said, I think it would be creepy for Clara and Capaldi’s incarnation to have a romantic angle. Her introduction has been a definite BG transition back to Platonic. I was […]

@Nick

No doubt @Bluesqueakpip will tell us that there was just such a scene 

Of course. Not for the Doctor, but Susan went off with David Campbell, and Leela married some personality-less Citadel guard by the […]

@Nick

I think suggesting the Grandfather/Grandchild relationship for the Doctor/Companion is going a little too OTT – he’s not that old. A 25 year old companion is likely to have a 70+ year old grandparent […]

@nick

I feel it’s not the quantity of the people who read my posts, it’s the quality. 🙂

To answer your questions

1. Odds on certainty – Probably at the end. when it was announced my Guide showed 30 […]

@Pedant & @HTPBDET & @Nick & @Bluesqueakpip

Davros & Max Capricorn. What a ship!

The trouble with talking about not talking about something is that you end up talking about it.

@HTPBDET and @Nick

But you are right: If RTD had been happy with Martha, she would have done Season 4.

And this is what annoys me so much about the whole ‘Martha’ debate. Freema Agyeman, however much you may […]

@HTPBDET @Nick @Bluesqueakpip

The whole point of Spuffy/ Bangel (or Spangel for that matter) is that SHIPPING IS EVIL. It is a cancer on fan discourse. Shippers are the Tea Party of fandom – and they actively […]

@Nick

Acting is a very subjective thing.

One person can watch Judi Dench and say she is always playing variations on the same character and another can say she is the greatest living female actor on the […]

@HTPBDET and @Nick – you have to address him as @Pedant, or he doesn’t get the email.

But I can answer that one: a ‘Spuffy shipper’ is someone who prefers, sometimes very vocally indeed, the Spike/Buffy […]

@Nick

That’s what makes Rose special in my opinion. However, equally my impression is that RTS over egged it into a romantic love between 10 and Rose and we ended up with the smug series 2 with its “look at us […]

@Nick

I am glad I am not completely predictable!

I certainly think RTD’s era was an emotional journey for the Doctor.

Until, SM’s is over, though, I can’t really assess it. You might be right in your […]

@Nick

Ah, you are a proper troublemaker aren’t you? 🙂

The thing is, in my humble and old fashioned view, RTD wrote in a multi-faceted way. You can read the Rose arc as you do – teenage love angst in time […]

@Nick @JanetteB @Bluesqueakpip

I must be the only one who doesn’t really see the problem with Martha as a problem with the actress, but I do see it that way.

Martha is not written any more or less well than […]

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@Nick and @HTPBDET – while I’d certainly agree that Freema Agyeman was relatively inexperienced when she got the role of Martha, I don’t think she can really be blamed for a ‘lack of chemistry’. The entire […]

@Nick

Gossip is all it is.

Although, to be fair, the Nicola Walker source was the one to mention Matt Smith first after Tennant resigned…

But still…all with a huge grain of salt!

@Nick,

You know, that whole 9/10 – Rose thing made me lose a lot of respect for RTD. It was as if he didn’t trust the audience to like Rose, so he felt the need to keep telling us how bloody wonderful she was. […]