We seemed to have started the weekend again with a poster with some…. provocative thoughts on a couple of thorny issues. If only I had a song to reference.

Ah … Dame Shirley, warble that choon just one more time, please:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bE_1tCasi_Q

I’ll just add my congratulations @miapatrick. Hope you’ve had a couple in celebration!

Ah – Day of the Doctor will be shown at 19:50 on the 23rd on TV. I think I have most of the scheduling information, and will update the blog with these and others requests (and finally get a look at the cocktail suggestions as well).

Evening all,

@ScaryB

I remember the prologue clip for Name of the Doctor really well. I put it in the news thread at your (and others) request because I didn’t consider it a spoiler, but asked discussion of it to be there. As it was just a week before transmission I don’t think it impacted at the time. You later confessed to giving in and…[Read more]

OK, time for me to spin the roulette wheel of plot points! Fundamentally I think this will be as stand-alone as possible while carrying on certain underlying themes about the mythology of the Doctor. I think the ramifications of this and the earlier series will play into the Christmas special though.

1. Personally, I still think that Doctor Hurt…[Read more]

@blenkinsopthebrave

It’s a great idea, I shall post tomorrow when I havea bit more time and am a bit more awake! I just need to work out if I’m going bonkers, or if I’m applying the blue boringers again.

As I’ve been checking into the BBC Media centre, they’ve uploaded the short description of the Day of the Doctor which will get used in preview magazines and the rest. It’s official, it’s out there as other sites are listing it, so I may as well give a link to it to those who want to read it.

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@Craig

That is very funny regarding the press release. Looking at the time of your comment, I have a suspicion that you may be one of the first people on the internet to mention it!

The Guardian has a deal to feature extracts of the books, and has heavily featured them on its books site, and has only recently uploaded its extract.

I’ve b…[Read more]

@shazzbot (@Craig) @all

While it may make an interesting blog, I had more of an interest in potentially opening it up a bit with an eye to the future. I’m sure we’ll be busy towards the end of November, and upto Christmas. After that we’ll probably have a loooooonggg wait.

I’ve enjoyed both the SM and BG retrospectives, but I’m keenly aware the…[Read more]

@JimTheFish @Bluesqueakpip

On the whole, I’d say the anniversary year has been seized on by many, ahem, well timed (or opportunistic) viewpoints by various interested “stakeholders”. One thinks of the Doctor Who and Race book earlier this year.

I think I can agree you could use it as a start-off for discussion, as I suppose you could use many t…[Read more]

@shazzbot

Religion on a Sunday?!? Can’t we keep it special? 😉

No – I am actually interested in what he intends to focus on in the book he’s written (although not that interested that I’d shell out £15 for it), and how he builds the argument. I thought this discussion by Splendid Chaps that was recorded earlier this year was interest…[Read more]

I was originally resistant to the idea of it being Rose as the woman in the shop, but given her presence in the 50th, I do like the idea that maybe it is, and she is prompted by a future version of Clara herself to initiate their meeting. I think it may have been the companions thread where we talked about certain similarities with the shape of…[Read more]

Awww, Bless!

@craig

Thanks for that, because I’ve been meaning to UPGRADE to the Revisitations sets at some point. I have all the stories, although 3 Doctors is still a VHS, and my Robots of Death DVD has developed a fault. At the current price, it’s a bargain. I can’t say I’ve listened to any of his commentaries, but I’ve just checked my own copy of Once…[Read more]

@craig – It’s a shame the Time Lord moniker for mods can’t be individual. I’d happily take up @ScaryB‘s suggestion of “Special Weapons”. 😀

@wolfweed – No point in giving it a second thought, as they’re probably selecting the next moniker to sign in as. I always enjoy the “faux offence” ones, as they storm away like a petulant teenager. They…[Read more]

Despite is pissing it down tonight, it doesn’t appear to have dampened the desire of people in the area to recreate the soundscape of the Battle of the Somme. So have an appropriate choon, and dig those eighties styles.

Note to Cybercontroller – when devising your cunning plan, if you can’t put a switch on the inside to let you get out, at least put the machinery that you are completely reliant on the same side of the door as you. Sorry – went a bit Guardian there.

It’s still a good ending I think, nicely paced. Toberman swinging the Cybercontroller above his…[Read more]

@wolfweed

& the fact that ‘Shapeshiters’ was not a word (until now)

Shapeshiter (n) – A practitioner of the art of the anus, with the ability to excrete faeces into amusing and/or dynamic shapes.

Example – “Those balloon animals look horrid. Why are they all brown?” “They aren’t balloons. All the work of our resident shapeshiter.”