• ScaryB replied to the topic The Cloven Hoof

    @theKrynoidMan @papermoon

    thanks for posting.

    It is indeed sad news. I remember being resentful when Star Trek took over Dr Who’s slot in the summer break in UK (especially cos Who used to run all year round – no concept as a small viewer of what that actually meant re the production schedules!) but I grew to love it and Spock was always my fave…[Read more]

  • PhaseShift replied to the topic The Edge of Destruction

    @papermoon

    But I was wondering if this was the first time a sentient ship had been seen on T.V.

    It’s an interesting question that. Thinking about it I think it was beaten by a Martian ship unearthed in London in the serial Quatermass and the Pit, which we discussed last year. It holds a kind of malevolent intelligence that projects and harnesses…[Read more]

  • blenkinsopthebrave replied to the topic Last Christmas

    @PaperMoon

    Russell T Davies and Sherlock Holmes?

    Indeed.

    @ebalk-kev

    Then Davies left and took his beautiful, logical, lightening prose and gave it to Benedict Cumberbatch as Sherlock Holmes

    I don’t know how to break the news to you, but RTD has nothing to do with Sherlock. It is, in fact, written by…Steven Moffat. In other words, that…[Read more]

  • BadWulf replied to the topic On The Sofa (5)

    @Apopheniac @purofilion – Re: attitudes to gender in very early Doctor Who

    It definitely does place The Daleks in its specific era – it is very peculiar to me to see how Barbara seems to automatically defer to Ian, and how Ian sends his fellow teacher and  a female alien away when dealing with the dying mutant inside the travel machine, just…[Read more]

  • Apopheniac replied to the topic On The Sofa (5)

    Hello @WhovianLookingForTheDoctor and welcome

    I woke up, and wanted to know what happened.

    That’s a wonderful sentiment about a dream.

    Hello @PaperMoon and @purofilion

    I have friends in River Downs, outside of Brisbane.  Do you know it?  It’s fantastic to see people congregating here from so many places around the globe.

    Hello @BadWulf

    I w…[Read more]

  • janetteB replied to the topic On The Sofa (5)

    @PaperMoon I just watched Dalek Invasion of Earth and Ian and Barbara respectively both do at least as much as the Doctor. I think the trolls who complain that the series is too focussed on the companion now either forget, ignore or are ignorant of the old series. (actually probably the later and of the new series too) And BtW welcome to the…[Read more]

  • janetteB replied to the topic In the Forest of the Night

    @PaperMoon I share your fascination with the Danny/Orson link. I have even had dreams about it where I work it all out then wake up and don’t remember just what the solution was. I suggested on The Sofa that Danny and Orson are twins and the Doctor is the time travelling ancestory Orson refers to. Danny has somehow gone back in time as a child,…[Read more]

  • I may be the only person to have noticed this, but right after the group of wolves that was chasing Maeve jump the fence they run right past a red telephone box in the trees. Looks just like the one in a certain poster for this season behind Missy. The same red telephone box that had everyone speculating that Missy is a Time Lord. Honestly seeing…[Read more]

  • Arbutus replied to the topic In the Forest of the Night

    @Strax    While I didn’t share your boredom with the episode, I really liked your post. I too enjoy grumpy old men!

    @Bobbyfat   do those who make it to the nether sphere have to believe there is an afterlife     Interesting idea. Half faced man certainly believed in the promised land.

    how come missy bears an uncanny resemblance to my boss?[Read more]

  • janetteB replied to the topic In the Forest of the Night

    Having just rewatched this episode again with the suggestion in the back of my mind, (sorry I have forgotten who first suggested that) that everything this series is an invention of Clara’s I must say Danny does appear to be her perfect SO So perfect that, as the Doctor points out, he isn’t entirely believable.

    @Whisht I like that suggestion.…[Read more]

  • @PaperMoon

    how could he have possibly known the Doctor’s history and felt justified at being angry towards him?

    Exactly. Danny’s behaviour in In The Forest of The Night is perfectly consistent – IF he thinks the Doctor is dangerous. So dangerous that you can’t possibly leave Maebh with him, can’t let Clara collect Maebh (because she doesn’t k…[Read more]