I mentioned the pantheon of Masters in my previous post. Time for me to answer the question literally no-one has been asking. Where does Michelle Gomez fit into my personal rankings of Masters? Yes – I can’t see the end of the series without another one of my personal lists. Any thoughts welcomed.

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I braved a second watch, and I feel this is a magnificent end to a series which I look forward to binge watching at the earliest opportunity. Just for things I’ve missed, which will probably be a lot, as I’ll explain.

I think it’s a sign of confidence and bravery to do something different with a show. You may lose a few people on the way but,…[Read more]

@Naanbreadd

It may be worth watching Nightmare in Silver again. These cybermen convert by nanotechnology. There were a lot of comparisons to the Dalek process of converting the dead to their duplicates. This is the same – the cloud was a nano-cloud.

Loved it. Tell me, have we had a series closure as bleak as that ever? Bleak, but from the depleted soil of death comes new life and hope. Like others I was gutted by the seeming casual death of Osgood. I cheered when it was implied that the Brig had made a last stand to save his daughter. Old soldiers never die – they just get converted, and s…[Read more]

@Juniperfish @JanetteB @and well- just about everyone.
THE END IS NEAR….
(Sob) I shall whip my slaves until they agree to play those minature violins I purchased for them. We have a number of weeks between now and Christmas, and Doctor 12 re-appears.

Yes – it seems so short, and if parting is such sweet sorrow
BUT IT HAS BEEN PREPARED FOR.
Time…[Read more]

@thekrynoidman

I’m afraid I should mod you. Coming onto a forum with a fair share of 40-something male Doctor Who fans and innocently saying “does anyone like Blondie” should be considered incitement to riot! 😀

Yep – love her. I love this track in particular:

On Ballroom Blitz – I may have post…[Read more]

@burrunjor

Also count me in the segment who don’t agree with you. I’d also point out that as much as I respect RTDs view, I don’t always agree with him. He said in an interview I once posted that the Doctor could never be an older actor again. One season of the show would kill him. Peter Capaldi still lives.

I think there are challenges to d…[Read more]

@pollo20x6

How unfortunate for you to join us during a minor “Trollageddon”.

We’ve dealt with research before. We have a couple of scientists, a lecturer from the OU, and a couple of very knowledgeable nosey-parkers on the team.

@craig has fielded questions from researchers before. So have I, and also @Jimthefish and @fatmaninabox. PM us one…[Read more]

I’ve taken the liberty of scrawling a note addressed to the BBC complaints department. I hope people who agree with it will print it out, add their signature, and do the decent thing.

Dear BBC

I write to complain in the strongest possible terms about Doctor Who Latest “Series 8”.

Frankly, Peter Capladi, as the protagonist, Doctor Who (…

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@spacecadet

Sara needs to go too

I’d agree. If I could work out who Sara actually is.

To answer @fatmaninabox from last week – “don’t you think our resident trolls look a bit, well, tired at the moment?”

@pollo20x6

How do I post topics on this website?

You don’t mate. You post topics on Digital Spy, over here, which welcomles thousands of duplicate “OPs” posting alterntive takes on the same subject. Because your point of view will be so important to fandom, and deserve numerous followers or arguers to validate your own weak point of view. The rest…[Read more]

Not their best track, by any stetch of the imagination, but I think it works for the Doctor/Master relationship.

Let’s play – Master and Servant.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6rhSzcj157Q

I think @bluesqueakpip and @janetteB called my interpretations of the Master/Doctor relationship. It’s long standing and goes back to being those children, shortly after the events of Listen. Look at the Pertwee/Delgado relationship and it is children, still fighting the same old arguments perhaps.

I think it would never be enough for the M…[Read more]

Just wanted to log in and thank @craig for that latest avatar. Epic, my friend. Also to @juniperfish – a true collaborative effort from both cross-dressing genders would be welcome. I’m sure you would make a fine Doctor 4. This is what we want! Many thanks to all those who responded, either yay, or nay. I’m sure a meet-up or two may convince some…[Read more]

@spider

Yes – I think it it’s sad that the crew couldn’t possibly get away with something like that these days. I still think that Earthshock managed to deliver genuine “holy crap” moments for its time. I can certainly remember discussing them at school the next day with the few people who I knew were still watching.

@Juniperfish

While I’m…[Read more]

The only downside, of course, is that the Cybermen reveal wasn’t a reveal so much. You can’t get away from it when you are filming exterior shots these days of course, but how awesome would it have been to approach that episode without knowing a thing about this episode. To have that X-ray water drain to reveal the cybermen?

If you could have…[Read more]

@scaryB

Is it really bad of me to find that roll-on-floor funny 😆

It’s pretty evil of us to laugh, but what the hell. We like it. And, in the grand tradition of the internetz, that is the important issue.

@juniperfish

Superlative acting by Capaldi as ever – “Do you think I care for you so little that betraying me would make a dif…

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…but what a brilliant episode?

Danny Dead, introduced to the sublime experiences of the promised land by Seb, who allows him to forget by pressing a DELETE button. Because, in the afterlife, you should always should be a choice of your own hell.

Loved the entrance to Clara in this one – Jenna grim, determined, almost snarling at the Doctor to…[Read more]

I think the young people have an expression.

LOL.

OK – Missy wasn’t the best choice – your actual anthopomorphic personification of Death, but I think this one is going to run and run. I’ve laughed so hard, with ribs aching that I really dare not go near some forums for fear of heart attacks bought on by laughter.

Some people are really going…[Read more]

@thecrackinthewall

Did you know that Alan Moore has encountered demons?

Given the amount of psychedelic drugs Alan has consumed over the years, I’d suggest he could legitimately claim to have met Demons, God, Flying pigs, Papa Smurf, fairies, and can probably conduct a 4 hour conversation with the vegetables on his plate over Sunday Lunch. It w…[Read more]