@whisht @scaryb @purofilion

Funnily enough Nick Cave is a Doctor Who fan. He took his family (including the son that died earlier this year) to the Science Museum premiere of Voyage of the Damned after old friend Kylie got them on the guest list. As we all know, Australia has a history with the show second only to the UK. I hope the use of his…[Read more]

@whisht

You know, Sonic Youth were always a band I thought I ought to like, but never really did that much. The Beastie Boys on the other hand were a band I disliked intensly when I heard their first few singles but grew to love as they went onto things like Sabotage. Funny old world.

I liked a ot of that period of rockrap experimentation. Stuff…[Read more]

Oh well, my plan for a couple of rewatches (and a long weekend) came to naught in the end. I’ve just managed a second watch to prepare myself for later (by reading all these posts). A few thoughts:

There is an awful lot of mirroring going on in this episode, continuing the themes of last year. I’d suspect that Clara is both the apprentice and the…[Read more]

Well, if you are going to do a big continuity frenzy, you make it big, in your face and unapologetic.

It’s not as if you needed to get all the references to get the story, but there was some strange window dressing to be had on the journey to Skaro. It really did remind me of the 50th anniversary in some ways, and it occurs that this may be SMs…[Read more]

Talking of rockDoctor Who images, this cheeky image released today made me laugh.

Quite funny because Jenna is in Paul Mc position and is going barefoot. When Abbey Road was released the barefoot thing started this big old rumour that he was dead.

No problems @purofilion. I thought I’d post before going out for supplies for my ‘welcome back Doctor’ party.

There are some lovely moments in this. I thought Bors was a great sidekick, particularly the

Doctor: “I thought you were an idiot”
Bors: “I thought I was as well”
Doctor: “Good… I was worried I’d have to break it to you.”

Lovely bit…[Read more]

The follow on to this prequel The Doctor’s Meditation is now available to view on Dailymotion if anyone wants to have a look.

http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x377bko

After the oblique language and teasing of the first, I thought this a bit slighter, but very fun.

@pedant

This is the one place they should feel safe.

Coming from the number one source of strife on this site, that’s quite hilarious. Well done.

I’m sure we would all welcome ideas about how we could secure the site against this sort of thing, but I’m not reading any so far.

I’m afraid that Doctor and Companion casting is big news. Jenna has…[Read more]

Seven days to go and a prologue! A nicely ominous one to boot. Some random musings:

Agreeing with @blenkinsopthebrave I get the feeling that more than one person is being referenced. The old friend who is the enemy, and the old enemy who could be a friend.

Nice to see Karn again. Claire Higgins reprising her role from Night of the Doctor…[Read more]

I’ve been watching a US series called Mr. Robot. It’s more than a little weird to the point that I’ve watched the series finale tonight and couldn’t tell you if I’d recommend it or not.

It had some great music though. The penultimate epidode had a really engaging piano piece that haunted me for most of the week. Because I recognised it as…[Read more]

Anyone got any new stuff that’s on their radar for the Autumn season they want to mention before series 9 kicks off? Just so I can record or download it as I don’t have a lot of time available.

You don’t have a soul if you can’t let a bit of the Muppets into your life. The early promos seem to show they have captured the spirit of the old show.…[Read more]

@pedant

I once managed to make a member cry simply by asking “But what it is about?” (meaning what’s the theme?). I’m dead proud of that

Good grief. Pride! Really?

Pratchett and Dickens? I like this conversation!

I was a late convert to Dickens I’ll admit. Resistant for most of the reasons expressed by detractors on this thread until my 20s when I had a certain urge to reexamine certain aspects of Victoriana and it suddenly seemed to gel. Funny how that can happen, but all of a sudden it seemed funny in the…[Read more]

@bluesqueakpip @lisa @blenkinsopthebrave @supernumerary @janetteb @purofilion

I’m really interested to see how the Clara thing plays out as well. I honestly would like something a bit more than death this time though. I want optimism after all those bittersweet departures we’ve had to date.

I was thinking about the return of Gallifrey and how…[Read more]

@scaryb @jimthefish @xad4 @wolfweed

Glad you all enjoyed it! I look forward to any snippets you can remember (hint hint) from the Q&A when the episode airs.

Don’t look at the extra wait for part 2 as a drawback. Look at it as extra time to develop theories on how part 2 will go. 🙂

@craig @ichabod @purofilion

That is a blast from the past. I was looking at the comments and having a good time because it was written well before Day of the Doctor.

@missy

The subject if how long Peter Capaldi will remain is the subject on the last entries of the News thread (link), so it would be helpful to read those, and keep discussion…[Read more]

I have jet lag. I’m awake at 4:00 and thinking of the ramifications of the pricing of Doctor Who toys.

The forthcoming day will only get weirder, I can tell. I’ll catch up on all the other posts later, I think.

@Kaddc

Hi – I have a small collection of the figures and can probably give some general advice. This is from the UK standpoint (we have a few different nationalities on the Forum) and in the expectation that you are talking about the 5 inch Character Options figures that were launched with the new series (and have grown to include the older s…[Read more]

Are we filling in the blanks for Doctor 9? Hell yes, good suggestion @cathannabel.

I watched this in the run up to Christmas for the first time in a Marathon of Chrimble episodes. For the first time I counted this one in the Christmas specials. It isn’t one, but it is. Watching it, I couldn’t help thinking that the early rushes of this may have…[Read more]

@purofilion

I actually resisted seeing the first Burton Batman film for quite a while. It was possibly the most aggressive advertising campaign that Warner ever launched and it just put me off.

I generally like Burtons work (the Dark Goth Fairytale stuff works for me) but I can’t help thinking the first film showed signs of “engineering for suc…[Read more]