Ok – I’ve just done my rewatch and I still think this is excellent stuff, with one exception.

The kids – now that was a shame because since little Amelia we’ve had some great natural performances from kids on […]

@blenkinsopthebrave

I think for me it was a brilliant episode and I just got caught up with it. I was taken along for the ride. It’s happened a lot this series, and whereas I’d note details before, this run has […]

By the way – One for @Craig – Dan was asking why we hadn’t confirmed his registration on the Guardian. I’ve just posted asking him to use the e-mail link on the front page of the blog.

At least we know it was […]

@wolfweed

Now that’s what I call service! 😀

@chickenelly, I started laughing thinking someone was going to post “It’s Fenric” at some point and was amazed they didn’t. They were all over the place at the […]

@HTPBDET

Alexander was always going to revert to type pretty soon. It’s pointless to engage with him. I had a comment moderated under some of his Dalek fanfiction once which simply said “I applaud this. […]

Just an observation but – on the runup to the finale, a chess board in view and NO-ONE on the Guardian Blog is screaming “Fenric”. It seems….. wrong somehow. 😀

@Mephistopheles and @Galactus

Well met my fellow Sandman readers! I spent a lot of the episode just considering how well that translation worked. One of us is going to have to write a blog post about Sandman to […]

I really like that. “The Doctors Wife” was such a good episode I really expected “The difficult second episode” syndrome to kick in. He really did not disappoint though.

Lots and lots to ponder and I really […]

@HTPBDET

If you ever get Janet Fielding tipsy

Ahhh you may have awoken some adolescent fantasies I had there. My suave 15 year old self. Tegan. A 1.5 litre bottle of “Thunderbird”. 😳

Only joking. […]

@HTPBDET

Hopefully you’ve received notification you have a comment on your SIDRAT (great name) blogpost from me.

Many thanks for doing those. @Craig s watching the footie, but if I can suggest we break the […]

@scaryB

Thanks for the Bonzo’s. I had the pleasure of seeing them at Newcastle City Hall when they reformed a while ago with Phil Jupitus and Ade Edmonson standing in for Viv. An incredibly fun night out. They […]

@Craig

I think I agree. I don’t think the conversation has been spoilerish, but it does add another split to the conversation.

One thing I did enjoy though was @wolfweed s caption competition. It was fun […]

On the “Doctor as religion” theme, this article by Stephen Kelly on the Guardian was quite entertaining.

@HTPBDET

I’d never heard that Nathan Turner had anything to do with whipping up the Richard Hurndall farrago. How enormously sad. He really was a piece of work.

@shazzbot

We are programmed to see parallels, draw comparisons to stories we have seen before. Last series I explained to @Juniperfish how I saw parallels between The Doctor (Odin) and his Raven servants […]

@shazzbot

Please – don’t bother! I had none of that in mind when I wrote that post. These were thoughts I developed when I was a teenager in the 80s. The concepts have been in Who since that time. If you see […]

@wolfweed

Many thanks for that link. I’ll devour that with coffee and biscuits tomorrow morning!

@satsumaJoe & @shazzbot

I wonder what everyone here thinks about it?

I thought it was well argued and agreed with many of the points.

For my opinion on the ethics question, I think he reflects what so […]

Hmmmm

Perhaps a reason to watch the TV BAFTAs that go on this weekend?

http://www.digitalspy.co.uk/tv/s7/doctor-who/news/a480221/doctor-who-50th-anniversary-to-be-celebrated-at-bafta-tv-awards.html