Hi @ScaryB Here we are in the pub again 🙂

The tea-serving dalek gives me the shivers actually – there’s something especially menacing about an instrument of total war with a tea cup.

Are people familiar with Big Dog? The company (Boston Dynamic) is making the robots of the future and they really are scary – imagine that thing with a weapons…[Read more]

Seconded! The Doctor Who Forum has almost 1000 members and many more out there glancing at the pages.

Thanks so much @Craig and mods @Shazzbot @Fatmaninabox @Phaseshift @JimtheFish (any others?) and everyone who uploads content and musings!

From @Bluesqueakpip ‘s diagrams to @Wolfweed ‘s crazy captions and carefully sourced fan art  to @ScaryB an…[Read more]

@geoffers Yes @HTPBDET took the long view and his loving critique was definitely an inspiration. Let’s toast him for the New Year!

@ScaryB Ah ha – well my theory is that perhaps the Doctor’s Mother (whom we saw in The End of Time) and a coterie of Time Lords sympathetic to the Doctor somehow created Tasha Lem.

Not all Time Lords agreed with the…[Read more]

@Phaseshift  re “brilliant and bonkers” <laughs fishily> 🙂 Well, we have to live up to our by-line, right?

@Purofilion and @ScaryB glad you enjoyed it!

What some of our dear participants seem to be missing, is that fan speculation is a form of play. And play is such an important part of being fully alive, whatever age you are. The Doctor w…[Read more]

hi, all! just finished up, like, the 4th rewatch, and i may be able to make some coherent observations… maybe…

loved it, of course. took a couple of rewatches to adjust to the “slower” pace. just not what i’m used to with AG episodes. felt much more like a BG story (and maybe because of the time lord involvement). as others have stated,…[Read more]

@ScaryB Thank you. I do like new 1, for some reason that quite appeals to me…

But if @Bluesqueakpip refers to him as Twelve (along with the Beeb), then I am sure as Hades going to call him Twelve! 😉

I should also have mentioned that I absolutely LOVED this episode; it left me in a weepy puddle of whisky-scented tears.

@ScaryB  The Drunk Giraffe instructions can found in The Brilliant Book of Dr Who 2011

The nakedness allowed the Dr to reveal that he was bald. (If you think about it though, by hiding the 2nd key under a wig, he wasn’t technically fully naked in Church, was he? Heresy!)

@ScaryB – the nakedness did have one plot function – it meant that Clara’s Dad had a justifiable reason to act shocked, startled, embarrassed and slightly confused.

Which means that we can’t tell whether or not he recognised the Doctor.

I’m still trying to digest @juniperfish s analysis. Both brilliant and bonkers. I may have to come back to it!

@ScaryB. Maybe, like AG and BG we need to develop our own shorthand. Peter Capaldi could be Doctor 2.1. Second regeneration set, first iteration. (Hartnell was Doc 1.1, Troughton 1.2, etc with it all getting a bit messy at the end). Any…[Read more]

Thanks @ScaryB and @Phase Shift, I’ve sent it over.  Hope it passes muster…  The DEM blog has set the bar pretty damn high!

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We’ll have a think. I’ve been having a play about with some new software which has let me finally upload images to the site (@craig s very kindly been uploading all my images in the past). Anyway – I’m sure he’ll be relieved to know that I have finally managed to get one uploaded! Huzzah! Just an experiment for our…[Read more]

@ScaryB     Time Lords age like everything else, it just takes a bit longer.    I wondered whether the Doctor aged so much in this case because the entire time was spent in real time and space, outside of the TARDIS/time vortex? Previously he lived four hundred years and didn’t age at all.

But the Doctor and Clara need to have avatars to board…[Read more]

@ScaryB – know what you mean.

The incredibly, hilariously funny thing about the people over at the Graun spitting their little heads off about the regeneration being a Deus Ex Machina?

None of them, not one to date, has spotted the real D.E.M. in the script. It’s not as if Moffat hasn’t played fair, either. In fact, he’s given so many clues…[Read more]

@ScaryB– yes, literally crashing in then crashing out. To me there was a particular chaos about this Doctor which fits well with this.

@ScaryB– good thoughts on the carer comparison, though, at the risk of being a bit twee, like the Doctors decision to stay on the planet and protect it, it can also bring positive moments, which can make it feel very worth it, and make it feel worse in the end. I’d never even thought of that parallel before you mentioned it (the daleks are atos,…[Read more]

@ScaryB– you were very wise, and delayed gratification can be all the better. Me, I pretty much got up in the middle of the night to open my Christmas present, so to speak, and was punished.

This is why it is important for us to ‘lean how to use iplayer’  (wonder if that was a comment on how the overnights don’t represent true viewing figures…[Read more]

@ScaryB : It would seem that Tennant is both the 11th and the 12th. Greedy get. Even Tom didn’t get that. He should be at least four of them.

I will add, if it hasn’t been said elsewhere (I’m sure it has, but still) that, according to The Brain of Morbius, the creation of the same production team as The Deadly Asssassin, that the Doctor is, as…[Read more]

@JanetteB @ScaryB

Thanks for the input on the ideas front, the more the merrier. Fringe was actually a big omission, and maybe @janetteB and @JimTheFish can help me work out some decent eps for that (there are many, but I’d try to avoid really arc heavy ones). There is some Doomwatch online. Only a limited number were released commercially as…[Read more]