There’s no way no14 is going to stay put when the Earth is once again under threat (checks fobwatch) I think this is the BBC not having the courage of its convictions when casting a black lead

Well, if RTD is to be believed, that isn’t the way they are thinking at the moment  ht…[Read more]

Hello, and welcome.

My assumption from watching the ep was that the Bi-generation allowed 15 to “shed” all his angst, leaving it in 14, which then 14 would work through in his (more) sedentary retirement. And 14 would not be able to regen / bi-gen again, so would age “normally” and presumably die of old age / accident or illness at…[Read more]

Hidden news! As Doctor Who will be financed by and shown on Disney+ , doesn’t that mean that in future each Doctor Who series will be only six episodes long, as this is the standard length for a Disney+ series?

..But as I didn’t watch anything beyond Clara’s debut..

But here you are, boring me already. Go away…watch this series, the one you’ve been commenting on, the ONE WITH CLARA, and then report back.

Christ. Possibly on a bike. Tell you what. Stop attempting to bait people – come and PM me direct, and explain that last comment in you…[Read more]

Thomas…[Read more]

i watched ‘the robots of death’ just a couple of weeks ago! didn’t know it was a tribute to her…

🙂

Anyway, I have my bucket of exclamtion/question marks at the ready so hear we go.

Despite the later showing we got to watch this one live! What a fun episode. We had the lights off and my 10y/o was clinging on to me from the start 🙂 It was almost Scooby Doo!

@Oblique: “Mummy on the Orient Express, the…

[Read more]

Similarly Dinosaurs on a Spaceship was a meta title as well — referencing the Samuel L Jackson movie. Also a huge misdirect as the real meat of the episode wasn’t really…[Read more]

Amy and Clara virtually indistinguishable-yes

No! I have always felt Amy and Clara are complete polar opposites! Where Amy was brash and determined, Clara is thoughtful and cautious. I can remember people on here remarking how, when we first met Clara, she stayed put when the Doctor…[Read more]

Incidentally where did it go? Does it have any further role to play?

I’ve been asking myself the same question.

If it does come back, it will probably save something important, thus confirming Clara in her decision.

However, I think it would be far more interesting – in a philosophy/ethics kind of way – if it came back as a…[Read more]

My hugest apologies – I missed your comments upthread. Only just discovered them while having a look back over previous discussions. Glad that we share a dislike of the 10-second scene 🙂

I’d like fewer big ideas and a slower pace.

So do you have in mind some episodes, or certain Who eras, that deliver exactly the right balance of p…[Read more]

On first watch my main point of annoyance was the invisibility watch that meant the blitzer couldn’t see the Doctor and yet could see the footprints – the filming of it gives the impression…[Read more]

As to whether it worked – I didn’t even notice it, so yes and no 🙂

x

@Oblique      I’d say the title “The Caretaker” was a callout to “The Lodger”!

@idiotsavon     I like your comparison of Danny’s behaviour in the TARDIS to a recalcitrant student, very apt. And your Pride and Prej…[Read more]

You seem to be having difficulty keeping the goal posts in the same place.

Is that what we’re doing, in your view? Over-analysing…[Read more]

Also, @oblique, setting aside that you appear to have moved the goal posts, you seem under the impression that the BBC is quite happy for a writer to rock up with a script and just head on down to Cardiff to shoot it.

That is not how the BBC works.

A good friend has had two, soon to be three, Afternoon Plays on Radio 4 – I…[Read more]

Hmmm… do you not like this game we’re playing?

Anyway, you appear to make three assumptions. One is that the writers/production team never plan things out in detail – and we know from interviews that they do plan the more complex stuff out. For example, River Song’s arc took up an entire whiteboard in the production office. They have…[Read more]

The trouble with the writing is exactly that geoffers: ‘they do throw in too much stuff, just for effect here and there.’ And yes, they are professional writers and they should be making every minute count in the time they have to tell the tale.

 

They’re far too complacent about their successes

Ah, the old lazy writing meme given a fre…[Read more]

They’re far too complacent about their successes

I’ve not heard any interviews where Moffat or any of the creative team sound complacent.  The fact that Moffat’s scripts “unpack” to the detail they do suggests to me that there’s a lot of thought gone into all his work. Different writers write in different ways – some build fr…[Read more]

Yes, there’s sometimes padding. However experienced a scriptwriter is, you’re never quite sure that time on the page will equate to time on the screen. It’s more usual to go…[Read more]