@Phaseshift No, just the one to Magnetite, everything else is cool

@PhaseShift – It was called an ‘Encore’ showing. Only 15 people in the cinema, so I got the perfect seat, could splay out as much as I wanted & could hear all the dialogue (even noticed one bit I hadn’t before)…

Very indulgent, but couldn’t compare with the atmosphere of a packed, whooping, laughing, clapping (1st time for everyone) anniversary…[Read more]

@PhaseShift @wolfweed Perhaps y’all saw that the Doctor Who movie sales were second only to Catching Fire on release day. Pretty spiffy!

In that vein, the 50th Anniversary was the largest TV event Tumblr has seen, with 5.0 million posts, 4.9 million reblogs, 3.1 million likes and 1.0 million contributors (source: Doctor Who Tumblr). It was a [Read more]

@Phaseshift @Craig @JimtheFish

I think the site thinks I’m spamming again 🙁  My last 2 posts (ref @magnetite, website comments) aren’t appearing (they’re duplicates btw)

@Juniperfish @PhaseShift @Curvedspace : my favourite thing to do on this site is to hark back to comparisons to the classic series, so I have to say I agree that Moffat is mostly thinking about how time travel affects people’s relationship with death. The comparison I have in mind is to something that has irked me ever since I first saw it: the…[Read more]

New Members – only they can say whether they think the site is intimidating or not. Would be great if some of those mentioned above in @Phaseshift‘s post could be honest and say how they found their first experiences of it, and any suggestions for improvement.  I’ve noticed quite a few – @Timeloop and @TardisBlue in particular – have started…[Read more]

Thank @PhaseShift , and @Juniperfish @JimTheFish @ScaryB

As above, real life has taken me away from the site for most of the week and have only been able to dip in occasionally.

It HAS been a weird week and I was a bit disappointed by the lack of civility and inclusiveness of some. I admit that some, perhaps even most, new members do not seem to…[Read more]

Great post @Phaseshift.

Just to reinforce how much your commitment is appreciated, so that we have this great space to discuss all things Who in.

Also – I don’t think you stressed enough that this site is run on a VOLUNTARY basis!   It might look slick and professional but it relies on the goodwill of all members and especially on the time of y…[Read more]

@Phaseshift I didn’t realise there was so much modding going on behind the scenes!

Thanks again to The Doctor Who Forum team @Craig @Shazzbot @JimtheFish and @Phaseshift for your time and energy, donated for free, out of fan-love, to the running of the site.

I’ve been involved in collective not-for-profit organising myself and I know that the…[Read more]

@Bluesqueakpip @Phaseshift @Juniperfish @jamesunderscore

All great posts esp re Clara only being able to help with the otherwise timelocked Gallifrey/TimeWar because she was in the Doctor’s timestream*, and thereby ensuring his future.

Would be great to see TotD knitting together the last 3 seasons big arcs/themes.

*goes off to rework whole…[Read more]

@Phaseshift I missed your entire Time Lords blog over the summer I’m afraid! What a labour of love – is it fair to sum up as “the Time Lords are dodgy as f… udge” ? 🙂

Agreed, although I have looked forward to their return for a while now. I’ve always enjoyed the Doctor’s struggles with TL society – his love/ hate relationship with his own c…[Read more]

@PhaseShift

Hehehe

It’s my new fightin’ helmet to misquote 10 very badly, inspired by 15th C masked armets and do you think ever so slightly Cyberman ???

@Phaseshift @Bluesqueakpip – It’s interesting actually, that with Clara appearing at all the points in the Doctor’s timeline, and the GI attempting to make changes to all of his adventures, that neither of them appear to have encountered the War Doctor – is that because he only exists within the Time War, which is time locked? Or is the original…[Read more]

The other possibility is that by saving Clara (who suggested this was the end of her story in NoTD) this also changed the result of the TimeWar.

@PhaseShift – the more I think about it, the more I think that’s a moment of genius. Can I quote you on this for another forum?

Because – yes, of course. If there’s no Clara, the Moment will be used.…[Read more]

@PhaseShift – The Doctor deciding to go in and save Clara is a good point; if Clara’s not there, Time doesn’t get changed. In any way – without Clara, the Doctor dies at Trenzalore. But after she’s saved him, he has to decide to ‘be the Doctor’ and save her.

Anyway, just for fun, I’ve gone through the structure of Day of The Doctor – it involves…[Read more]

Thanks for the thought @Phaseshift , like others, I would prefer the sofa to be a space for shorter posts as it is the “welcome” space for new members and arriving to be greeted with a series of gigantic posts (however interesting) can be a bit off-putting on a landing page!

@Craig @Shazzbot @JimtheFish @Phaseshift @Pedant and everyone

@TardisBlue Thanks v much for your summing up and suggestions – a blog for especially long posts makes a lot of sense I think. It’s what we’ve done in the past for theses/PhD posts/life’s work publications that are longer, and slightly off the current topics.

Been a funny week this…[Read more]

However (@Craig also here), this seems perfect for the blogs, if only so it can be seen all together. Any easy way to transfer?

Seconding @WhoHar‘s suggestion.

I don’t have the time ATM to read and follow the analysis in the posts which @DenValdron, @ScaryB, and @JimTheFish have made in the last day or so. I’d find it helpful to have this entire…[Read more]

@Craig @Phaseshift

I can’t think of anything much more excluding that lecturing other users on “storytelling 101” in the style of a over-condident 6th former (or whatever they are called these days, and if over-confident 6th former isn’t an oxymoron) and then whining about passive aggression.

By the same token,  tolerating massive wodges of…[Read more]