Thanks @PhaseShift, sounds good to me!

I’ll probably watch it live and give my kids the edited highlights!

@ScaryB – yeah, Floyd do seem to be getting the connections for this thread! (and no bad thing).

Barnable – quite earwormy indeed! Will now wash my ears out!

Hats (including fezzes) off to @Phaseshift for metaMusicMagic (no Rita linking from me).

Though surprised no one was silly enough* to go for…[Read more]

@Phaseshift Thankyou x  The squeaky helium voice made me smile – but yes, in reality ENT stuff is awful.

@Pedant The Doctor tried to keep out of the Time War but he ended up on the front line fighting the Nightmare Child, the Horde of Travesties and the Skaro Degradation (End of Time). This season is drawing a parallel between reluctant fighter…[Read more]

I haven’t read it all (yet), but I wanna reply before I forget my thought.

@Phaseshift “he lights the fire” That is a flashback to the Day of the Doctor “It is the privilege of lesser man to light the fire/flame”

Quite a lot references to the past in this season. I do wish they would give us more for the story arc. This episode was okay for me -…[Read more]

@Bluesqueakpip @Phaseshift @Juniperfish

Apart from Listen drawing a very clear distinction between the Army and the Academy. He rejected the Army and did all he could to keep out of the Time War.

He is of the political class – although not very interested in playing politics.

(Also, Danny was hamming to take the piss out of the Doctor, so I…[Read more]

Hi @Phaseshift – hee hee – was it “otter” or “Auton”? A rewatch is required.

I thought, if “otter”, that this might be when the Doc and River met @JimtheFish !

Thanks for asking – I’m still pretty sick and a bit miserable. But Who always cheers me up.

I’m still liking the snippy fighty Clara/ Doc dynamic. They give good comedy together.

Hi All,

A fun comedic outing for “the caretaker” in all his cantankerous and obstreperous glory.

And yay – a mention for River. Apparently the Doctor hung out with a bunch of otters after a “big fight” with her. Was that his cute way of saying “sorry” given that otters live in rivers? Awwww….

I’d just love to see Capaldi and Kingston t…[Read more]

@Phaseshift

I get that – but by far his profoundest experience is as a guerrilla / insurgent in a long and bloody war

Coincidentally, the first episode of Our Girl had a small plot point about not making assumptions about the “Ruperts”.

There are officers who lead, officers who lead from behind and officers who get shot by their own men.

@PhaseShift– yes that was interesting. The Police Officer also differs in that he didn’t willingly go to his death- no self sacrifice, just wrong place at the wrong time.

I meant to say as well, I liked what Danny had to say about the Doctor, officer class etc. (I also think this strongly implies that it was a boarding school we saw in the…[Read more]

@Phaseshift

Great to have you back. (Sadly I’m going to have to timeshift tonight – the new timeslot doesn’t half eat into Saturday night socialising time!)  Hope all the small furry animals cope without you – or are they big furry animals now?!

Btw I have a big stash of excalmation marks if you need any!!

So many great posts.

@Phaseshift and @Chickenelly Love your galleries, great stuff

@Mudlark Completely in awe of your Mozart spot. Someone on the production team would be so chuffed to know that was picked up on.

@Handles I see what you’re getting at with multiple timelines but it ties my little brain in gordian knots! Never thought I’d see the…[Read more]

The character of Susan is a narrative gold mine. We were told so little about her and all those unknowns, ie can she regenerate, who were her parents, why did they leave Gallifrey, what becomes of her, are all waiting to be explored. For someone as detail, obsessed as Moffat then I am certain that he has often thought of Susan. Another theme of…[Read more]

@PhaseShift   I has been suggested before that the Doctor doesn’t like himself, with the whole “Dream Lord” character. It has also been said that the Doctor isn’t always fond of his own past incarnations. And there’s the “I’ve made many mistakes” line. I think in two thousand years of time travel, and several hundred of being the last of the Time…[Read more]

Hi Everyone,

One of my fave actresses Keeley Hawes as Karabraxos and her clone – yay!

I liked the cinematographic panache of the episode and indeed I’m really enjoying the new series overall – a very different feel from the fairytale era of Smithy (praise be to it) – this season has a continual 1960s spy undercurrent, which I think is the most…[Read more]

K, this was meant to go here, not where I put it, but I don’t see how to remove a wrongly posted post! But here it is again, in the right place this time.

@PhaseShift (and everyone)       Sorry about the hijacked topic, won’t happen again! Sometimes without our quite realizing it, a small exchange suddenly becomes a conversation.

@PhaseShift (and everyone)       Sorry about the hijacked topic, won’t happen again! Sometimes without our quite realizing it, a small exchange suddenly becomes a conversation.

@nick1235 – it should have gone in the trailers section. Some people don’t like trailers or coming soons, so we have a separate area for them.

@PhaseShift, @Craig, @JimTheFish, @FatManInABox – if any of you can tear yourselves away from the telly (or are you at results parties?), could you move it?
Ta.

Hurrah! Mrs Blenkinsop has finally agreed to let me out of the cellar. Fortunately, the cellar was well stocked.

And thanks to @purofilion, @JanetteB, @Arbutus, @Craig, @PhaseShift for the thoughts.

Crikey, so much to catch up on. It might take a while.

he he @Phaseshift – seems my lack of metal (mettle?) may account for my lack of songs with ‘fear’ in the title! (though hardly as if I don’t like heavy guitars! where’s that Slint when I need them?? wherever it is it needs to be <<loud>>).

However the Mettalica does give me the excuse to link to a great animation that ( @wolfweed ?) was…[Read more]

@PhaseShift – ah, thank you for that clarification. i remember someone upstream hinting that the extra proved who the boy in the bed is, and that’s why i went looking for it. but there were a few other things in there that i didn’t want to point out, without asking. i still think i will use my “extra” knowledge judiciously, so as not to spoil the…[Read more]