@Aurealis

No idea on your post. I wasn’t around earlier.

Also, for the life of me, I cannot find anywhere where you can start your own thread?

We don’t do that. We’re not that eager for troll startups, not being driven by commercial interests and all. If you have an idea for a thread, or want to write a long blog post as a point of view,…[Read more]

@phaseshift

I can’t help but feel that this episode is more important to the overall arc of this series than we can possibly see at the moment.

I was having this discussion with a friend this morning. Although I feel it’s important – I wouldn’t put it past Moffat to make Robot of Sherwood as the most important to the overall ark, just to r…[Read more]

@Mudlark   Yes. There was a year when I would waken in the night, absolutely convinced that the floor around my bed was covered in spiders. It was terrifying. I was six. Eventually, the fear of the dark went away. Nowadays, I only fear tripping on something in our rather cluttered little house (but I still don’t like to get too close to a spi…[Read more]

Brain melted – in a good way. And lots of great comments on here as ever.

The idea of the Doctor as a scared and lonely child – the literal outsider (as @Phaseshift says) – that works for me. It’s also consistent with  the whole history of the Doctor and his affinity with lost and lonely children in particular.  He recognises it – he’s been t…[Read more]

@chickenelly Moffat got his budget cut? Reason?

@Juniperfish Hello you! Still not well? It’s about time you kick that thing in the b***.  Yeah, I’d also say it’s been ‘Dad skills’ -we also know what he did. He did it to himself in Deep Breath, remember?

@JimboMcMaster We will have to wait and see if he is still bothered by those questions. He…[Read more]

@Herisson Hello and welcome, I hope you have a great time here.
The original name of Missy is something that is considered a spoiler here. You are free to talk about it on the spoilers thread. I wish I hadn’t known.
The discussions in the episode threads are made up by content that is shown on television only.

@Mods @Phaseshift @Fatmaninabox @Cr…[Read more]

Greetings!  Been AWOL again this week, but been enjoying all the comments. @markymoomoo, @whoville, @mudlark welcome to the forum and great first posts.

Welcome also to the new members who obv read the Etiquette doc and decided to give an example of what we meant, point by point! Bit of advice – don’t bother!

@Phaseshift – re McCoy episodes – s…[Read more]

@PhaseShift, thanks for the link to the Sylvester McCoy interview. Very long and well worth the time required to read. By the time he took on the role I had stopped watching Dr Who. I was at Uni and didn’t really watch any TV much by then so I was pleasantly surprised when I saw an episode of a McCoy story, I think it was part one of Curse of…[Read more]

@PhaseShift

All the bottom complaint is missing is ‘Because people are apes & men are monkeys, I’m surprised you didn’t add that ginger people are orangutans?’…..

http://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2014/sep/11/doctor-who-peter-capaldi-american-fans-scottish-accent

Shouldn’t this be ‘Fast mumbling continues to not be understood by…[Read more]

Hi @Serahni – I haven’t read it, and like @Phaseshift have reservations as to whether the plotline actually helps anything, but I think the book you’re trying to remember reading is Lungbarrow by Marc Platt.

It was part (or became part) of the Cartmel Masterplan.

Now – after this…[Read more]

@Arbutus

Re: Clara knowing about the Doctor’s life on Gallifrey: One thought is that the Doctor could easily have made a random remark at some point that might have allowed Clara to guess that he came from a privileged background.

Yes. And they make it clear that she was privy to a lot of stories (either directly from him or in some way from her e…[Read more]

@PhaseShift

It’s worth watching The Deadly Assassin for a lot of the context to that. It’s established the Doctor is of the Prydonian Chapter of Time Lords, and spelled out that they are the most powerful force on Gallifrey

Ach! Yes! I should have remembered that. Sorry. I am officially claiming senility. 🙂 Thanks.

I agree with your ass…[Read more]

@Whisht    I felt that the Doctor was mostly the straight man to other people so it worked for me. Capaldi played it very straight for the most part, and that may be more his personal style. I found it quite amusing, but a very different way than Matt Smith would likely have handled it.

@Verbal      I agree about the TARDIS, I have noticed…[Read more]

@PhaseShift

Thanks for the info.

@PhaseShift    Yes, now that you mention it, the morality discussion gets a bit less interesting when you keep coming up against the Great Wall of “Yes, well, he destroyed his entire race”. I agree that a more subtle examination of the question makes for a better subject. As with this: He subverts the Thals policy of peace at all costs to become…[Read more]

@thommck thank you.

That is 1 possibility that I was thinking of with journey blue, another was that it’s a moffhint to her being a possible future companion (main or side companion), my third theory I can’t remember with all the posts I read (and it was the 1 I favoured most).

That would be amazing for it to happen with hartdoc, they could have…[Read more]

Well I am seriously late to the party – so many good posts, some much needed swift modding and here I swim in at the twelfth hour.

Thanks for your kind wishes @Phaseshift x. I’m not well yet – just finished a second course of antibiotics and still don’t think it’s sorted – freaking AWFUL sinus infection – so I’m writing with a swimmy head from…[Read more]

Slapgate – really interesting discussion

I suspect a generational/cultural thing going on. Those of us growing up with eg Laurel and Hardy, Chaplin, 3 Stooges, Tom and Jerry etc were used to a culture of “slapstick” (literally slap and/or a stick) where physical contact (especially weaker on stronger, which is where the slap gets its comic power)…[Read more]

@Phaseshift – You forgot one. 🙂 River also clocked Eleven in “The Angels Take Manhattan”

Def no justification for that one either.

@Silverman and @Phaseshift

The relevant lines are in Day of the Doctor when Clara meets all three Doctors:

Clara: So they’re both you then, yeah?
The Doctor: Yes. You’ve met them before. Don’t you remember?
Clara: A bit. Nice suit.

So, yeah, she kind of remembers. Which may well explain the Capaldi Doctor’s digs about Clara’s age this week.…[Read more]