Capaldi’s last day, wearing Jon Pertwee’s jacket from Planet of the Daleks (now owned by Mark Gatiss (who took the pic))… these guys are bigger fanboys than we are! 😉 :

@Ichabod – Agreed

@Missy

“There is a part of me that wonders whether they should have  ‘rested’ DW for a couple of years. Then start afresh”

That’s pretty much what they’re doing, is it not? Last Capaldi/Moffat epi – July 2017, next one (bar the Christmas “Coda”), with completely new team, not till Sep 2018. That’s a long enough gap for me!!…[Read more]

@Blenkinsopthebrave

Islands are great, I don’t need convincing. Thanks for the pic, it looks stunning. And yes to “I Know Where I’m Going”, a bit dated, but still a great film (not watched it for ages, thanks for the reminder).

Stay cosy.

PS The downside of islands and ferries:

@pedant

Indeed, haha. Or maybe the Doctor just wasn’t remembering her, so she wasn’t “called”.

🙂

It’s not just the demands of actually filming, including it being a physically demanding role, with all the running down corridors, being blown up etc. It’s also the promotional parts of the role, which these days includes the major Comic Cons and events all over the world. There’s always been a bit of that (I think since Pertwee), and all the…[Read more]

@karenmarie – it’s usually pretty instant as far as I know, add it to “profile photo”.  Our Emperor in Chief (aka Head Geek), @Craig will advise 🙂

@Bluesqueakpip I thought the ring slipping off was a very powerful moment, so simple

Interesting comments about the First’s *sexist attitudes* (or rather his *sixties attitudes* 😉 ). Should Twelve have commented on it/noticed it? Hmmm… I know if I somehow met up with my younger self several decades later (never mind a couple of millennia later) I would be very likely a bit embarrassed (hopefully combined with a fond tolerance)…[Read more]

*waves back* at @Thane16 and your mum. Hope you get the big screen working, it’s worth it. Look forward to hearing your thoughts. (Have another jelly baby (and some more glitter, heehee) to keep you going).

And to @Blenkinsopthebrave, my fellow original, veteran (ie ancient and crumbly… but we were there at the beginning!) Whovian! Hope all’s…[Read more]

@Blenkinsopthebrave

” the significance of the Christmas truce of 1914.”

If newer viewers don’t know about it, what better way to tell them about it – such an important, unique moment of real life hope, a small glimmer of light in the darknes of war – than through Doctor Who?

Ah,

*sniff*

I really enjoyed that. Made me laugh, and cry. And very much on a favourite Moffatt theme of keeping people alive through memories  – from Amy with Rory, and now gifting Twelve with his restored memories of Clara. At the end of the day, that’s all we’ve got. I agree with @Juniperfish, I was hoping for a cameo from River, but we’ve…[Read more]

And special waves to @Thane16 (and your mum) and @Whisht (love the card, you talented so and so!). Missed you guys 🙂

@Phaseshift – thanks so much for sharing – I hope it lived up to expectations. Time travelling with the Doctor is always special, I’ve found. (The Christmas episode just took me back to being an excited 7 year old, watching weekly, with my mum (and that is special indeed))

@XAD4 – thanks for sharing, I love the Doctor Puppet stuff… that was…[Read more]

A very happy Christmas to all my fellow Whovians.

Personally I can’t wait to hang with the first again, I’m going to shed a tear or two of goodbye to the magnificent twelfth… and I really can’t wait to meet the thirteenth. (Will be timeshifting tho, so will catch up with you all in a couple of days (NO internet for me till then!!)).

I can’t…[Read more]

Final thoughts on this for now (and apologies if it’s already been said and I missed it).  I think the trilogy is a bold experiment that maybe doesn’t quite come off, but it has a lot of depth and resonance to it. And it shows how far you can push the envelope in terms of writing Dr Who. The whole thing is a metaphor – I said above it’s about…[Read more]

@Thane15 You too (Are you old enough to be in the pub??!). Got some jelly babies if you’d like some.

@Wolfweed‘s comment on costumes – interesting – back to the Tenth Planet again.

@MissRori Very true about Missy, but I’m with @Winston – I still don’t trust her! (“Realising you’ve left the cage door open…” I like it!).  And I do like a dialed down a bit Missy (at least for now). There’s amazing chemistry between Gomez and Capaldi). The…[Read more]

@idiotsavant

Your paragraph about PRs, spin and truth and lies sounds very Monk-ish method to me!  😉

(And thank you – I didn’t make it tho (wish I had), just popped up on my twitter feed). Happy birthday btw