As I’ve not been a regular for a while I thought it best to bring a gift. A brand new Sofa! This snazzy little number is from IKEAs kerplunk range. Enjoy! Oh, and…
HAPPY 10th ANNIVERSARY DOCTOR WHO FORUM!
Yes – it was 31st December 2012 when @craig very kindly set up this place to kill time and celebrate 50 years of Doctor Who. We’d just watched…[Read more]

@jimthefish & @blenkinsopthebrave

Hi and Seasons Greetings!

Yeah, I really enjoyed the trailer and was delighted to see the comic characters you mentioned Jim. If you’d told 10 year old me that we’d have this 42 years later … well, I would have probably dropped my Curly Wurly!

It’s fascinating really – on the one hand it’s a big statement of i…[Read more]

Talking of ‘The Timeless Brenden’ I can remember on that thread probably confusing a lot of people with talk of Sony negotiating with the BBC to obtain rights for Doctor Who. The main point was that the BBC may have suddenly been keen on this radical change to lore to facilitate this move. Well, a year and a bit later and Bad Wolf is announced as…[Read more]

Hi all,

I’m playing catchup as well and I’ve just binged the first two episodes.

I have to say I probably enjoyed them more than I was expecting, but confess that I started with such low expectations that I probably had a lot of room for manoeuvre. I thought the Halloween Invasion was interesting in terms of structure (although I thought it may…[Read more]

@jimthefish (+ everyone else, big wave!)

Really unexpected development that really makes you wonder what’s been going on behind the scenes. Not only Russell “The” Davies, but outsourcing production to Bad Wolf Productions (first time since the Eighth Doctor movie, fact fans) would seem to indicate that the BBC may be admitting they’ve screwed…[Read more]

Is this the time to release a really bitter long form post entitled “F*** Chris Chibnall, and all his works”?

Sorry about Whittaker – what might have been,eh?

@toinfinityandbepond

At 41! I popped in to share the link myself, after I put a short comment about his encouragement over the years.

Hope everyone else is fine. Sorry I haven’t been around but .. it’s a long story.

Best regards.

@jimthefish @jannetteb @blenkinsopthebrave

The novelisation of Day of the Doctor is an absolute joy. Other books in the range by Russell ‘the’ Davies (a nod to ‘fiveish doctors’ there) and Paul Cornell all seemed to try to go for the Terrance Dicks approach (and why not). Day of the Doctor has a clear authorial voice – if you’ve listened to…[Read more]

Well, I’m settled down in the Lakes (our nearest neighbour is half a mile away – and she’s a sheep) with a small, but still medically inadvisable glass of wine, and enjoying the shit out of this.

It brings back a lot of warm memories.

Just to note Moffat has temporarily rejoined Twitter and is posting a Twitter commentary which is quite nice of…[Read more]

I hope everyone is well and safe. Best wishes to @bluesqueakpip – hope you have a speedy recovery.

I disappeared after the finale because the Coronavirus issue led to some emergency work with a couple of utility clients about emergency preparedness. It’s actually been a sobering experience looking at the reaction to this. I apologise to @rob if…[Read more]

@bluesqueakpip

While I take your points and believe you can rationalise these choices of dialogue either way I think my main point is still that when you go down the path that this seems to be going, you have to be very trope aware so you don’t fall into those narrarive traps.

The above article from @jimthefish is a good exploration of how…[Read more]

@jimthefish

That is an excellent read Jim (it popped up in my Google recommend feed this afternoon) and I’d recommend it to everyone.

@badwolfalice

I hope the next series makes it clear that the reason the Doctor is so different, personality-wise, to most other Time Lords is not because she’s the Timeless Child, but because she’s the Doctor. I don’t think it would send a very good message to the audience if the only reason she decided to escape from being a puppet to the Time…

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@amphiaraus

You forgot to include the terms “SJW” and “woke”. Otherwise, a fine effort. Or, in real money, completely desperate.

A good evening to you.

@bluesquakpip

Let’s be clear here, because I think one of us needs to take a break from internet comment.

I went with you though your displeasure with the Capaldi era. I don’t think I hectored you or even tried to change your mind. I think I was the first person to highlight the unDoctorly behaviour of Capaldi in S10. But I gave you, I hope, the…[Read more]

Quick question.

If regenerative ability is down to the special ability of the Timeless Child, and therefore not exposure to the Time Vortex as has been established previously then how do we think that Amy got that extra bit of “Doctor juice” to create baby Melody? Perhaps it really was a ‘Big Bang’!

Of course that would mean that that … Oh no.…[Read more]

And no apologies for misattriubution of comments. Does this demand a recount. Did we reach quorum!? We need answers!

And no apologies for misattriubution of comments. Does this demand a recount. Did we reach quorum!? We need answers!

I knew it was my first post that drew your ire @bluesqueakpip. The response spoke volumes.

But ‘I repeat’ this is as cynical a fanwank as you are likely to experience.

I’ve explained my reasons. Your response is pretty poor. I think that the obfuscation and misattriubution paints a picture. And then colours it in.

Go at it.I have no grist to…[Read more]

@bluesqueakpip

But I suppose my main point is that I’m developing a deep suspicion that had the Holmes/Hinchcliffe/Nation plot points been broadcast under the name ‘Chris Chibnall’, you would even now be telling me how awful they are.

Well that’s a rather lame attempt to paint me as a ‘bowelstreak’ type naysayer, isn’t it? Especially when coupl…[Read more]