For the avoidance of doubt, I’ll point out that I binned @Smeglennon ‘s carefully crafted raft of clichés because, after last week, I couldn’t be arsed to do anything else. Just to avoid the blame being placed on any other mod or administrator.

Phaseshift – Here, and happy to help.

@craig

Oh, congratulations to you and pal. Honestly, I don’t think it’s a challenge I could do (my knees are weaker than Lord Snowdon’s were in the 80s). 🙂

@Fonsini

You will likely disagree with this assessment, quite possibly seeing it as laughable

Hey – you called it.

If we ever get bored with “theories even more insane than what’s actually happening” as a tagline, we’ll substitute it with:

“Doctor Who – promoting leftist ideals since 1963”

Or

“Theories not half as insane as what’s going o…[Read more]

@Mystery

I don’t know if you intended to insert an example there, but I just checked your post and there was nothing there. If you need help on inserting images, click on the help tab.

I think the example you quote sounds more like a case for David Tennants legal representatives. So unless you intend bringing him into disrepute, it sounds…[Read more]

@mystery

I think @wolfweed has covered it with his answer. Fanzines used to thrive on contributions from fan cartoonists who were covered in the parody class. This went up to people like Tim Quinn and Dicky Howlett, who (as I’m sure @wolfweed would agree) were the Masters of the form for Doctor Who Monthly. There is a collection of their work on…[Read more]

Ooohh. Enjoyed it even more second time around. The miracle of sleep.

Hope @Juniperfish is feeling better, and immensely cheered that with Pink/Blue names she can continue her spectrum based musings.

I’m not willing to wager what Missy is yet, but I don’t think we can automatically assume that Ms Carlisle’s “harvesting” (if that’s a good word)…[Read more]

I watched early this morning (about 3ish) and seem to have missed an awful lot looking at these posts. A rewatch is surely in order.

I really did enjoy it though. Ben Wheatley would be welcome back in the Directors chair – there were some lovely flourishes from him, and I particularly liked the the brush with psychodelia as they entered the D…[Read more]

@Craig

Climbing Snowdon at the behest of a pal? Hope you have a magnificent time.

I was a teenager when my mate Simmo organised a Mount Snowdon challenge. Unfortunately, it rapidly became apparent as we drove to London he intended an alternative Mount Snowdon challenge which involved climbing the North face of Antony Charles Robert…[Read more]

@Arbutus @Purofilion

Just on the Victorian era and The Paternoster Gang, I think I wrote this plea to have a series in a blog before you joined, and so I’ll give you a link if you are interested in the time and what was occurring @Purofilion.

http://www.thedoctorwhoforum.com/sidrat/in-praise-of-the-paternoster-gang/

@Arbutus, one of the “…[Read more]

Maybe we need an easily insertable graphic to warn our valuable posters that they are about to encounter a troll post. A quick edit, insert the graphic, and Bob’s your Auntie?

I thought:

But any suggestions welcome.

@craig

That’s interesting about the slightly different version. I know it’s sold in some pretty conservative territories and always wondered how viscous the edit scissors were. I’m thinking predominantly of the recent acquisition of series 5-7 by Al Jazzera for broadcast across the Middle East.

A casual look at a couple of the multiple threa…[Read more]

@juniperfish

Genuine “Oh Noes!!” to your absence so far.
Genuine “Yipee’s!!”” to the appearance of your Avatar.

Hope you feel better soon. We have TWELVE weeks of excitement to cope with!! Get those pills down yer neck (as we say in Yorkshire)

I’ll have some more robust arguments when I have more than four hours of sleep. Thatbe mid-day tom…[Read more]

@Chickenelly

but the impaling of Cyborg man on the church spire I took to be a reference to Troughton’s demise in The Omen.

Surely a reference from your Granny?! But a brilliant reference all the same.

@cathannabel (lovely new avatar, BTW)

“it would not be wonderful to meet a Megalosaurus, forty feet long or so, waddling like an ele…

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@Thommck

One other thing I’d like to talk about was how beautiful all of the cinematography was.

For the budget, I always find a lot of Doctor Who pulls miracles out of the box. For this, I loved the Clara perspective holding breath sequences, with the spectrum on the camera changing colour as she tried to escape. What a great s…[Read more]

@JimTheFish

I’m slightly bemused by all the comments here and elsewhere about the Doc’s Scottish accent. It’s like Sylvester’s Doc never happened.

Depressing isn’t it? It’s as if we can only accept a Scottish actor if they have a faux estuary English accent. I blame the English. Or perhaps, more accurately, trollism.

@Timeloop

I was harsh,…[Read more]

I’ll just add I loved a lot of the identity questions that were posed. Vastra’s (Neve Mcintosh is GREAT) bit about the veil and how the Doctor wears a face was interesting.

Why that face? Is there a hidden message to himself?

A subtle question for the audience with the broom reference. It’s an old question, in many forms, but how do you know…[Read more]

@smeglennon

..plot was crap..
..moffatt has lost it i think..
..boring return of the forgettable jenny, vastra and sontaran..
..derivative and boring..

Wow. Where do I start? I finished my “Doctor Who whinge Bingo Card” one paragraph into your post. Truly a first.

It must suck, being you.

I didnt like the scottish accent, it’s not the docto…

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Just to reassure those who have asked – Yes, the episode threads are for discussing the content of the episode in question, so nothing you talk about in the thread itself can be considered a spoiler.

I know many posters keep away until they’ve seen the episode but all we’d ask is that you show a little bit of consideration for people looking at…[Read more]

I was a bit too “amped up” at obscure o’clock this morning to ignore this, so I watched before going to sleep.

I was delighted, and I believe SM should be congratulated for producing two extremely good regeneration stories during his tenure (this is unheard of in 50 years of Who history). Lightish in tone, but effectively doing what needed to be…[Read more]