And @bluesqueakpip is on the money here. I don’t mind made…[Read more]

Hi you! Happy new year. I did, yes. I couldn’t recall what they were called. I was thinking werewolves or forelocks 🙂

Brilliant Mr P. I thought his reaction was split second. No way I could drop that fast & keep a hair do.  😉

@rorysmith

I think the problem on the web -site were people asking for some happy time? Sometimes removal men who want to take all the furniture. I do not mind it myself. I think furniture is over-rated unless it is my bed.…[Read more]

Duh! Of course it’s a fucking gremlin. As old as WW2 but still alive and well in the Tsuranga belt.

I’m not the only low-brow type to have noticed this little Freudian twist

True, but then, as the patient said to his psychiatrist after the latter started asking questions centred around his response to inkblot patterns; ‘What do you expect, if you insist on showing me all these feelthy pictures?’

@thane16

‘ – who knows, there c…

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The BBC has no advert breaks and is available to anyone with a UK IP address (I think).

So, you didn’t hear this from me but *cough* VPN. 🙂

I don’t know about these things, honestly – I have Netflix and Amazon Prime for movies and TV shows and I have iPlayer as I’m in the UK.

But find a computer nerd who…[Read more]

The worst part was how they very specifically pushed the female agenda. This is sad because it feels artificial and pushy

You mean the advertisements were pushy? In Oz, at least, we have no ads (as yet) on ABC. This was up on site at the same time as UK viewers watched it and without ads is SO much better 🙂

I’m in love with this…[Read more]

Yeah, I felt the same way after watching Attack The Block. The scene where she had to sneak past the alien to get into the flat, especially. Same thing when a very young Matt Smith gave his ‘introducing’ interview.

In Matt’s case, there was a moment of mischief when I could see ‘the Doctor’ peep out of his eyes; in Jodie’s case there…[Read more]

Thank you, I’ve not heard of this film, I shall look it up.

Missy

Uh, Rory? This was the Children In Need clip. Children In Need is the BBC’s biggest fundraiser, for kids needing help with medical care/social care across the UK, and Doctor Who generally provides them with a really generous, fans-are-begging-for-it clip. Or even films a special scene, specially for them – such as David Tennant’s first…[Read more]

My stepson spent most of the summer having a succession of mental crises (I did, to be fair, mentally implore him to at…[Read more]

To be honest, I’m ready for the Master to be gone for a long time. I’ve said this repeatedly but I want to see new twists and villains or even old ones we have yet to entertain in the new series.

Agreed- I think that as things stand, the Master/Missy, cybermen and Time Lords can all disappear for a season or more. The daleks are dou…[Read more]

no problem 🙂

@mudlark @drben @holodeckguy @rorysmith

I agree with Craig. I do hope she uses her natural accent. Whilst it might not be banned in the way it once was, we hear far too few accents on TV (or at least that’s how it seems to me living in London)

@rorysmith and @drben — there is a definite point that old monsters can be re-used a bit too much. s10 had five of them this year and that could be considered a bit much — although I’d argue that all of them were…[Read more]

The extra regenerations have been mentioned a few times with no number given, in fact I think in both Kill the Moon and Hell Bent it was said that the number wasn’t known.

@rorysmith

Sorry, personal opinion but I think she…

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I really think it’s quite a small group who’ve had the inevitable kne…[Read more]

(Edit: Drat, @rorysmith beat me to it!)

MISSY: Well, we thought we might chuck you off the roof, but I wasn’t sure how many regenerations you had left.

MASTER: Yeah, we could have been up and down the stairs all night.

But it is noted.

Oh no — a Deus in Machina!  I like it.

@missrori  But this deeply personal relationship with Missy is still holding him back. Perhaps that will be key to the finale — his coming to an understanding that he needs to free hims…[Read more]

Your novel sounds very interesting.

Saying you could do better is something that really ought to be accompanied with a script or at least a synopsis. Not as good as you’d found yourself taught to expect is quite a different matter.

people loved Shakespeare not for his brand new invention-…[Read more]

Honestly though, we’d like constructive reviews, however bad. Not just “I could do better”. If you want to do that, there are plenty of other places to do so.

Thank you.

So far you have presented no evidence to support that assertion.

Im still pretty convinced, that whatevers in the vault is a child,

This would certainly fit with what we saw, or rather heard. Fur Elise is a relatively simple piece for a child to master and, when interest is sparked in the prospect of a new story involving children being eaten, we get the jaunty ‘Pop Goes the Weasel’. *   Some children ar…[Read more]

I think they’re hoping that Matt Lucas’ Nardole will turn into something like Catherine Tate’s Donna – a one-off casting for a very comic part that can be extended as a longer term companion. Because the comedian is also an actor.

I’ve seen Matt Lucas on stage, so I’d say he’s perfectly capable of playing a comic companion who might…[Read more]

He leaves broken time lines and plot holes everywhere

Plotholes shmotholes – examples or this is just empty whinging.

@geoffers

lol, i’m genuinely headed into fanfiction/shipper territory!

Shoot yourself now! It’s for your own good.

wouldn’t the bloody tardis be the safest bloody place to stash (bloody) whatever is inside?

Unless it…[Read more]

i agree, somewhat. moffat does tend to go for the emotional moment, rather than the strictly rational, well-thought out plot. the plot holes are less important than the emotional payoff for him, and i’m ok with that. i don’t watch doctor who as a puzzle-solving show, anyway, more as a drama with cool little mind tricks and thinking…[Read more]

Will Orson Pink ever be explained?

i thought orson was a descendant of clara and danny (who just happened to look A LOT like his great-great-grandfather, or whatever), who ended up never really existing because missy had danny killed, and turned into a cyberman?

No, I thought that he simply wanted to put right the problem he caused in Manhattan. but I could be mistaken.

Missy

That’s very reassuring. *big grin*

Missy

Welcome back.

I don’t think many people thought of this

See my post #55029 above 🙂

@Morpho
It sounds as if, having agreed to treat the Eighth Doctor’s audio adventures as canon, Moffat’s going full tilt for the audio canon explanation of the Sisterhood – which is that the Sisterhood aren’t just neighbours of Gallifrey, they’re exiled Gallifreyans. Rassillon didn’t like their religion, so they had to do a…[Read more]

The General’s regeneration seemed pretty toned down. We may have come in at the tail end, but there were no signs of damage. New regeneration style, or perhaps on Gallifrey these things can be tempered somewhat?

Regenerations might go more smoothly on Gallifrey- the environment does appear to have some impact? It does seem though that t…[Read more]

He called me “younger”!

*Preens*

*Looks at C90 cassettes of the off-air recordings of the original broadcast of HHGTTG, complete with the Pink Floyd music*

!!!  Yes — as handsome a bootstrap thingie as ever was!

Yes, hello, glad you decided to dive in!  That is a very nicely bonkerized the…[Read more]