@theatreguy

I wouldn’t put it past Moffat to make Robot of Sherwood as the most important to the overall ark, just to really throw us all a curve ball

How we’ll all kick ourselves, as the secret of the series is revealed to lie beneath Friar Tuck’s robe! 😉

I meant to mention actually – I watched that episode twice and didn’t recognise T…[Read more]

@Aurealis

No idea on your post. I wasn’t around earlier.

Also, for the life of me, I cannot find anywhere where you can start your own thread?

We don’t do that. We’re not that eager for troll startups, not being driven by commercial interests and all. If you have an idea for a thread, or want to write a long blog post as a point of view,…[Read more]

Ok, second watch completed and I’m veering from “Wonderful” to “Beautiful” in summation of this episode.

The deep and lovely dark. You wouldn’t see the stars without it.

Loving it more and more. I can’t help but feel that this episode is more important to the overall arc of this series than we can possibly see at the moment.

Although th…[Read more]

Hi @Timeloop (and I’ll include @Herisson)

We already have a couple of mentions of Missy’s title on the forums, and they’ve remained because when Michelle Gomez was cast the BBC made the unusual decision to include it in the press release. So it’s allowed under Forum rules (Official BBC sources don’t count as spoilers).

It’s possibly worth…[Read more]

A wonderful episode, and probably encapsulates in a nutshell why I value SM in the role and his writing. He can wrong foot an audience so completely. It was brilliant watching that at obscure o’clock in the morning, when you’re beginning to get that slightly whoozy hallucinogenic effect anyway. I found I’d subconsciously drawn my legs up so I was…[Read more]

Roll up, Roll up!
Laydeeeeeees, Gentlemennn’s, Non-gender specific lifeformsssssss! We crave your attention!

We have been gradually filling in the blanks on the history of this most marvellous show gradually, and at the rate that nature (or the BBC anyway) intended – an episode a week.

Earlier this year we took a group vote on an episode for Doc…[Read more]

@fatmaninabox @arkleseizure

Yes – the good stuff in the eighties does tend to get ignored by journalists in favour of the bad. I can remember posting an excellent written interview with him on the Faces strand (which @whisht certainly enjoyed) where he starts off by asking the writer about an editorial in the Radio Times. It was when Matt Smith s…[Read more]

Morning all. Just popping my head around the door before I trawl out to say I’m unspeakably excited for tomorrow.

As we read loads of pish comments on various forums, here is some pause for thought. Pity the poor BBC complaints interface people, who are required to register the details of every deranged complaint in their extensive logs. Imagine…[Read more]

@fatmaninabox

but a scholar? Not really

You’re too modest. As I’m spending most evenings observing the noctural habits of small, furry (and endangered) animals, I’m relying on a small bird (Owl called Errol) to inform me otherwise.

Congratulations on your result! You have an ‘ology!

@fatmaninabox

You, my friend, are both a gentleman and a scholar.

@brewski

We (as an audience) have not, to my knowledge, been privy to the Doctor’s status in life on Galifrey. If Clara can tell Robin about him being “a man born into wealth and privilege” then she really knows more about him than we do. I wonder how much more about his past she knows.

It’s worth watching The Deadly Assassin for a lot of the…[Read more]

A request, if I may, to those people who are so good at searching things out on t’internet.

I’m working on a blog, and I was wondering if anyone had come across an easily digestible webpage/spreadsheet/database with the video classifications for Doctor Who. You know the kind of thing – Deadly Assassin, rated PG for video release, etc.

I was h…[Read more]

@markymoomoo

Welcome to the team! Hope you enjoy the site. We’ve had a couple of angry Moff-rage posters over the last couple of weeks, but I think we’ve taken a zero tolerance policy to unconstructive criticism.

They weren’t half annoyed.

OK – with the first glimpse of a very “men in tights” Robin, I thought I wouldn’t enjoy this, but I ended up revising that opinion pretty quickly because it was too much bloody fun to resist.

As depictions of Hood go, this was knowing (and I’m sorry @theKrynoid man, but wash your mouth out – no one can be as bad a Kevin Costner).

In fact it rem…[Read more]

@VashtaNerada @midnyt

Hi – we had a bit of a discussion last year about how to discuss the Eighth Doctor movie. As it wasn’t episodic, we decided to confine the discussion to the Faces of the Doctor thread where we were trying to do “a Doctor a month”.

You can find the discussion starting here, with some observations on the Movie. I’d say add…[Read more]

@drdai

Is there any major plot point in the hartnell episodes that shows the dr who he really is?

I think it’s an interesting question about the reference to The Daleks, and filters into the “Am I a good man” debate.

I’d argue his first encounter with the Daleks probably did show the Doctor “who he was” – or at least it showed the audience, and…[Read more]

@Juniperfish

Glad to hear from you, but sorry you’re still not feeling better. Hopefully, as and when your swimmy head can cope with it, we’re keeping you entertained. I couldn’t believe we were having a conversation about red-ish and blue people and you weren’t around. IT DIDN’T SEEM RIGHT!

On missy, I was wondering about that Garden configura…[Read more]

The thing about Slapgate is that this isn’t unique for the modern Doctor at all, and I’m struggling to remember if it has been “a thing” before. Let’s face it – the Doctor was being a bit of an obstinate arse on the Dalek thing, and I can’t help but think that people like Jo Grant and Peri would have been constantly slapping their respective Do…[Read more]

@TheatreGuy @JimTheFish

I’ll take a bow, and thanks.

I don’t particularly like the approach, but I think it may be beneficial for some people to learn they can take the time to type what they want, but ultimately we have a singular BIG RED BUTTON that can send their ill thought-out mindwank to the ether.

For those concerned by the welfare of…[Read more]