@blenkinsopthebrave – Cheers, I have a bit more time tomorrow for it. I dashed that one in a rush to make sure I could upload.

It is astonishing. I think @craig said once on the boards that it could have died in a few weeks, but here we are – first birthday!

@cathannabel

Hi, apologies for ducking out. I’ve sent you a PM (the e-mail…[Read more]

@blenkinsopthebrave @ScaryB

We’ll have a think. I’ve been having a play about with some new software which has let me finally upload images to the site (@craig s very kindly been uploading all my images in the past). Anyway – I’m sure he’ll be relieved to know that I have finally managed to get one uploaded! Huzzah! Just an experiment for our…[Read more]

@cathannabel

don’t tempt me!

Not even with Jammy Dodgers?! 😀 Seriously – the offer it always open.

@cathannabel

I did debate whether to post that on the general books thread, but it seemed worth posting here. Love early Stephen King, and I think that’s one of his best. The sequence with Danny in the snowbound playground is so intense.

BTW – If you ever want to write a thesis on Capra and Doctor Who, let us know and we’ll do it as a blog!

@scatamonky

2. His future tomb at Trenzalore has now been averted? So Clara never did jump into his timestream but then again, if she didn’t then neither did The Great Intelligence so maybe one cancels the other out?

I think she jumped. Again it’s a consequence of the more dynamic view of time flow that Moffat has presented. Everything in it has…[Read more]

@arbutus

I do, however, wonder this about the cracks. Why did the crack in the tower close after Clara spoke to the Time Lords, and why did it conveniently reopen in the sky outside? This would imply that the Time Lords were controlling the cracks, when I thought the Doctor had said that the cracks, opened by the exploding TARDIS, were being used…

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@ToriJ

SNOW ANGELS! I had to get that out of my system I love that scene.

Welcome, and thanks for reminding me. I loved the look of that as well.

I wrote a while ago that the only real antecedent in genre I can remember for the Angels were the topiary animals in the Stephen King novel “The Shining” (they didn’t make it to the Kubrick film), which…[Read more]

I saw the adaptation of Colour of Magic/Light Fantastic that Sky did some time ago for the first time. It’s OK, although Pratchett’s trick of developing comedy in narrative is never going to transfer well to screen. Main reason for mentioning it though was the appearance by David Bradley as “Cohen the Barbarian” the Disc’s oldest surviving…[Read more]

OK – some more detailed thoughts now after a rewatch.

I got my Christmas wish in that we had a resolution to the thirteen lives thing. Nice use of the seal communicator “taken from The Master in the Death Zone”, a reference to The Five Doctors, a story in which they first offered The Master a new set themselves.

I don’t have a real problem…[Read more]

@cathannabel

Apparently, ‘Caves of Androzani this was not’. Good.

Yes, I saw that one and agreed. As hard as I tried, I couldn’t remember a crap “Magma Monster” in this episode at all. The one in “Caves” made @chickenelly (where she!?) want to throw something at their screen. 🙂

@magnetite

Ah..those Christmas episode G blogs always seem to draw a higher proportion of negative comments. A combination of indigestion, apres-dinner wind, and Santa not delivering a hoped for prezzie I’ve always assumed.

Oh – @DanMartinUK s Guardian review is up:

http://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/tvandradioblog/2013/dec/25/the-time-of-the-doctor-doctor-who-recap

Evening all

Bloody hell. That was full! Lots to digest and I’ll need a rewatch. I can’t help thinking those people who thought that The Snowmen last year was a bit difficult to follow for the average Christmas viewer would have had a complete MELTDOWN on that one!

Great turn by Matt, nice to see Amy. Loved the fact that Matt was wearing a wig…[Read more]

I also thought I’d pop in to wish follow members and lurkers the best Christmas or alternative seasonal-celebration-you-wish-to-call-it possible.

The time is 22:25 GMT on 24th December, or thereabouts. You may be reading this in the future, or the past. Frankly, I don’t know because I don’t know which Time Zone you are reading this in and, incre…[Read more]

@whisht

Brilliant stuff. I watched the first series again a little while ago, and in the episode Art it struck me I was watching Ida from Impossible Planet (Claire Rushbrook) interview Joan Redfern from Human Nature (Jessica Hynes) for a job. With a guest role from Gibbis from God Complex as a six foot transexual. I decided I really have become a…[Read more]

@whisht

Spaced duly noted! I’d forgotten Mark Gatiss was in it. Isn’t he partnered with Kevin Eldon as Matrix-style “agents”? 😀

@DanMartinUK has a small tribute to Matt Smith in the G today (non-spoilery):

http://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/tvandradioblog/2013/dec/24/doctor-who-matt-smith-leaving-miss-him-peter-capaldi