@Shazzbot @ScaryB @Phaseshift  🙂 xx

@ScaryB – Love the Yeti avatar

@Phaseshift Did you get tickets for the 50th after all?

@Craig A fishy pint it is!

Or indeed, one of those amazing cocktail recipes!  700 members – amazing!

@Shazzbot and @Phaseshift – yes, I thought it was obviously the young Elisabeth Sladen – from the Pertwee era, I thought, as she’s looking at the Pertwee Doctor sword fighting the Master.

Yes, she could well be there as the BG Companion who also became part of the AG Whoniverse – she links old and new, and is likely to be the one BG Companion…[Read more]

I agree with @Phaseshift that it looks like the proper ES (from 70s era). But the reflection could be Susan (Carole Ann Ford). Why is Pertwee in a globe anyway? Fortune teller’s globe or a snowglobe maybe? (I’m assuming he’s fencing the Master, but I can’t see it as Delgado)

And thanks @Wolfweed for that rather awesome link! Notice they’ve got a…[Read more]

By “helping” unobtrusively I presume the Doctor (in his head) is still being “just an observer” – in true Time Lord tradition 🙂

The slow reveal of the cybermen – agreed, and it’s nearly the end of episode 2 (good call by @Steve-Thorp on last week’s cliffhanger) before we see them moving for real. (@Phaseshift Not only climbing down the ladders,…[Read more]

@Phaseshift

Heh – I said it was worth sticking with didn’t I?

You did indeed and I thank you deeply for it – yours and other comments on this thread were what made me watch it in the first place. It’s up there with Broadchurch IMHO (which I came to the same way). #6  (in particular) works on so many levels, including social satire worthy of Da…[Read more]

@Blenkinsopthebrave

Who knows what the suits are up to?  The Beeb is under massive pressure to justify the licence fee. I’m sure the team would argue strongly for the ongoing marketing power of 13 episodes. I wouldn’t mind the episodes being a bit longer – even the extra 5 mins of Asylum made a huge amount of difference in the pacing.  However, a…[Read more]

@Pedant

Plus something @PhaseShift has previosuly brought up, some fans don’t consider the first two changes to be regenerations as such as the term was never used at the time.

To be fair, those people should be taken out and shot. Harsh, I know, but fair.

<splutters coffeee all over computer screen>

😆

@Whohar

Plus something @PhaseShift has previosuly brought up, some fans don’t consider the first two changes to be regenerations as such as the term was never used at the time.

To be fair, those people should be taken out and shot. Harsh, I know, but fair.

Plus something @PhaseShift has previosuly brought up, some fans don’t consider the first two changes to be regenerations as such as the term was never used at the time.

Unless it’s the old “Brain of Morbius’ problem again.

@janette @ScaryB, @PhaseShift

Many thanks for the info on the 50th, and the kind words – good to be back.

@blenkinsopthebrave

I’m a bit north of Tasmania, on the mainland. Have you actually moved to Canada permanently? I’ve been to Vancouver a few times and really liked it. Your first winter is going to be a bit of a shock I think. Good luck though.

@Phaseshift You did indeed suggest a blog, great idea. Not much info out yet, but it’s starting to trickle in

@PhaseShift – yes, I agree this looks great; it makes very good use of its extra minutes. Visually stunning, dramatically impressive even when you know the answers to a lot of the puzzles. Very, very filmic – if the Day of the Doctor is this good, I’ll be a happy bunny. 🙂

That moment where the Smith Doctor is screaming in terror for Oswin to…[Read more]

@PhaseShift – I didn’t realise that that Mash piece was a spoof for a second… It sounds so feasible. Funny to think that when Tomb of the Cybermen was rediscovered, there was a lot of disappointment from some. The actual footage didn’t live up to their imaginations’ (which must have had multi-million pound budgets!)

@jimthefish, @phaseshift
As the BBC Director General mentioned a few days ago, the BBC will soon enable people to buy programmes directly from iPlayer, that way they don’t need to pay Apple their 30% of the download cost (although I’m not sure if that announcement would include archive shows?)

In the meantime, iTunes is the most popular and…[Read more]