Urgh. Forgot that I can’t copy paste from word.

My critique of this episode is rather coloured by the location. It always brings back good memories of visiting Cardiff with the boys in 2007. (One of the highlights for them was the Dr Who exhibition.) The story itself was not memorable and the moral comparison between the Annette Badland character…[Read more]

@FatManInABox @PhaseShift @JimTheFish @Blenkinsopthebrave @Wolfweed @Bluesqueakpip @JanetteB @Purofilion

Many thanks to you all. Loved the tunes and the pics. Today I’m now 44 + 1 day. Normal service is resumed 😕

@PhaseShift I watched ‘Inside No.9’, and thought it was very good. We’re fans of ‘The League of Gentlemen’ and ‘Psychoville’, and this was just as good. My favourite episodes were ‘A Quiet Night In’ and the first one, ‘Sardines’- hilariously dark. I loved the concept of a silent episode, intrigued by how it could be done in this day and age. And…[Read more]

@PhaseShift, @ThePhantomTollbooth

These reflections are one of the reasons that this site is the only site that I subscribe to.

I am in agreement with you on this episode @PhaseShift. I rather liked this episode, a dose of astute politics, (good depiction of Murdoch as a roof hugging monster), cameo performances from Tamsin Greig and Simon Pegg and a lovely performance from Anna Maxwell Martin. There was a lot to like though I also agree with @Bluesqueakpip that it did…[Read more]

I never really counted Adam as a companion, so the ‘companion doesn’t cut the mustard’ didn’t work at all for me. For one thing, they had Mickey, who started out not cutting the mustard and then slowly grew up into someone who was capable of being a companion.

For another, it’s obvious at the beginning of the episode (when Adam faints) that this…[Read more]

What a great episode, and what a fabulous cliff-hanger ending! This episode and this whole story is a perfect example of why I sat glued to the TV, open mouthed and wide eyed almost 50 years ago.

I will not try a synopsis or analysis, but leave that to those like @PhaseShift and @Bluesqueakpip, who can do it better justice, but I will call on @Fat…[Read more]

@Phaseshift @FatManInABox @Wolfweed @JanetteB @Blenkinsopthebrave @Bluesqueakpip etc

S8 speculation thread gets my vote too

(Hope your inaugural theory is cooking up nicely @BlenkinsoptheBrave )

PS @Phaseshift I’ll take your Susan theory and raise you a Rani 😉

I think you just summed up all the things that I both liked and disliked about the episode/s @Arbutus. Rose did not intentionally desert her mother and Ricky. I always felt that Ricky as a character got rather a poor deal in the story, not just from Rose and the Doctor but from RTD. I suspect that it was the skill and enthusiasm of the actor which…[Read more]

@PhaseShift

No worries. I was just erring on the side of caution.

Like the idea of a  S8 speculation thread. Would even try to come up with a suitably insane theory to kick it off!

@PhaseShift, @FatManInABox

Even though all this information is on the official site, the more I think about it the more I wonder if this entire discussion might be more appropriately placed on the Spoilers page, for those who are hiding out on Trenzalore?

If so, please feel free to move my posts.

@PhaseShift, @FatManInABox

For what it is worth, delphox is also a pokemon character, with the ability to see into the future.

Ah, “Battlestar Galactica”. Loved that show. Well, the first two seasons, anyway.

@PhaseShift – well, if they’re counting the Eighth Doctor’s Big Finish adventures as canon, Susan will be extremely conflicted by now. Possibly considering axe-murder, in fact. 🙂

I agree that one of my thoughts was ‘when have we had a big bad of the series’? The closest was Mme Kovarian and the Silence in S6.

On the other hand, it could tie in…[Read more]

@Phaseshift
And the other 2 compulsory theories whenever a new female character appears – “She’s the Rani” and “She’s Romana”
😉

@FatManInaBox
Great pic of McGann (bet he had a big grin too). That set is indeed a thing of beauty, and 360deg, no 4th wall/ceiling. Must be amazing for the actors.

@PhaseShift – if it wasn’t for the fact that Jabe said her ancestors were from the rainforests, I’d have wondered if she was a eucalyptus. They’re extremely flammable.

@PhaseShift Oh my I nearly sprayed my cup of restorative tea through my nose when I read your theory. Oh my my ribs are still hurting from the laughing.

@PhaseShift – I think you win the ‘Craziest Theory Award’.

@blenkinsopthebrave – They just sorted out the regeneration limit issue, I don’t want them to have to sort it out again… just seems like a hassle. But other than that, interesting theories. I just hope Capaldi is the Doctor for more than one season… one season isn’t long enough to get…[Read more]

@JanetteB: One sufferer seemingly on the mend here! @FaeGrl, glad you’re on the up as well!

I’m sure you’re right re: Capaldi: it seems to me the perfect example of an actor taking on the role to escape typecasting rather than taking it in fear of it.  He’s also too clued-up on the show and its fans to have gone into it as a one-year thing,…[Read more]

@PhaseShift

After reading your springtime theory, the pain mysteriously vanished from my…pinkies! There is clearly something in the air.

But hold on…could Danny ‘Pink’ be…a ‘Rose’ by any other name?

OK, this is officially getting silly.

Thanks for the overview @PhaseShift. I hoped to watch this in time for the discussion but RL got in the way. I saw this story back when it was repeated on Aus TV in about 2005 and enjoyed it because, like Barbara, I love history though the history is this is dodgy. I think at the time the popular perception of the past was that it was “nasty…[Read more]