@ScaryB

make him an unsympathetic character who gradually warms up; the challenge being to do it properly this time. (And shades of Hartnell as well of course).

I’d prefer it if they went Hartnell rather than C. Baker. Hartnell was never unsympathetic (despite being a bit of a git). I got The Beginnings set for Christmas (Unearthly Child, The…[Read more]

@ScaryB  – my apologies if it came across as a sweeping generalisation; it was intended to be a specific statement of how this 44-year-old female feels! I’ve heard so many people stating that they find Matt dazzlingly attractive and thought – what?  He don’t do a thing for me!

If I could figure out smileys, I promise I’d be using one t…[Read more]

@ScaryB – good article. Certainly I’ve lost count recently of the number of times I’ve been saying that I doubt there are eight million ‘obsessive fans’. Or that I also doubt 2.9 million requests on iPlayer all came from people watching the programme for the second time.

‘Viewing figures aren’t falling’ is another sentence I should have on speed…[Read more]

@ScaryB

Thanks for the link. I just thought I’d mention that BBC4 are showing a Timeshift Documentary tonight at 10pm (just after the third episode finishes) looking at depictions of Holmes from Silent Movies onwards which could be interesting.

@purofilion ha 10 mins?  No, no it had to have taken longer!

All right, you caught me. 😉 Still, it was better than my first attempt: “The Alzariuses moper mouth”.

Hi @ScaryB. And thanks!

@PurpleCup and @ScaryB: re Dorian’s prophesy:

Not to mention how tricky prophesies become when you are dealing with multiple possible-futures!

For example: in…[Read more]

@PurpleCup and @ScaryB We also saw an example of not failing to answer in the early conversation between the Doctor, Clara and the couple. Clara’s asked “What did you say your name was” – and replies truthfully. But not to the question asked. Instead she blurts out “bubbly personality masking bossy control freak”.

The Doctor doesn’t answer with…[Read more]

@ScaryB – you make a good point, a shady man indeed! And thinking more about it, he said “fall of the Eleventh” which was at the end when he was goading the daleks etc, which is when Clara spoke to the TLs. So forget I asked, but thanks for helping me think a bit more clearly !

🙂

@ScaryB, I’m in full agreement about River.  If Matt had stayed on I’d have been happy not to see her again, but a Kingston/Capaldi double-act, if only for one episode, is something I would really like to see.  Add in a River who is more on the back foot as far as spoilers go, less sure of herself while the Doctor holds a few more of the cards – y…[Read more]

Probably a bit of an echo, but I enjoyed The Sign of Three (potential spoilers to follow) as well.

I think as others have said on the Gs board, just what would be the point of remounting the tales of ACD once again, and I can’t fault the production team of Sherlock for taking a very different path (I’m just going to acknowledge here, I’m findi…[Read more]

@TardisBlue – No worries and thanks!

@Bluesqueakpip – yes, I read your blog. Thanks for your amazing analysis of Tasha flying the TARDIS and the D.E.M.

@ScaryB – River does say that she was taught by the best, and the Doctor looks smug, but she then says that he wasn’t there that day. However, towards the end of ‘Let’s kill Hitler’ River…[Read more]

SPOILERS for Sherlock Power Sign of Three 🙂

@Bluesqueakpip I like the witness protection programme idea.

I think they’ll go with canon insofar as CAM will be a blackmailer, but I doubt Mary’s issue will be some indiscreet letters.

It would be a terrible shame if Moffat/ Gatiss kill Mary off so quickly, because she’s great, but alas, th…[Read more]

http://www.radiotimes.com/news/2014-01-07/doctor-who-a-new-era-begins-as-peter-capaldi-starts-filming-today

http://www.digitalspy.co.uk/tv/news/a542011/peter-capaldi-brilliant-and-sinister-in-the-musketeers-says-co-star.html

@ScaryB  Capaldi/Clara meta-crisis!

@Barnable @Risdat @ScaryB @Bluesqueakpip

Timestream confirmation can be found here:

@ScaryB – In use Yeti!? Oh my giddy aunt!

And you’re probably right, I doubt they’d make it just some other Time Lord who took on the name (of) Rassilon. But I do hope they’ll explain it at some point.

@ScaryB – Is that a disused Yeti…?

I love the Sixth Doctor, I especially love his COAT! Now I wait for the ‘you’re crazy!’ comments.

Now, about Rassilon… the fact that it hasn’t been explained why that dude was called Rassilon is actually bothering me now. I want to know if he was actually Rassilon, and if so why had he returned?

@ScaryB Aww, thanks.

A 20′ purple scarf is a commitment. Still got it. And my cat, who I now call ‘Kidneys’.

<<<shaking leftover streamers and confetti and *someone’s glitter* off my roof>>>

Hello, one and all.

Happy New Year!

And Happy Birthday, dear wonderful forum!

And jelly babies, celery, and Jammie Dodgers all around for reaching, nay, *exceeding* the 1000 member mark.

Should be some sort of prize for our emperor @Craig — another regeneration…[Read more]

@geoffers

Re: aborted timelines, impossible Clara, GI, etc.
I posted this a few days ago on @Bluesqueakpip‘s Time-Structure blog, my thoughts about Clara and the timelines.

•    Starting Point: The Doctor destroys Gallifrey, becomes the last Time Lord.
•    AotD, The Snowmen: The Doctor meets Claricles.
•    BoSJ: The Doctor looks for and finds…[Read more]

@ScaryB – oooh, good point! 300 years is well enough time for the doctor to supervise the building of the tunnel, himself, knowing it had to be there at a future point in time…

@PurpleCup -the doctor and clara appear in front of the console room, meeting the g.i. and others…

you’ve brought up a point about that episode that is confusing (and…[Read more]