@scaryB

I’ve just released one, and deleted the duplicate. Is this still happening to you a lot?

Many thanks for the endorsements. Just to pick up on a couple of points @JimTheFish raised though, and provide an explanation of something.

this site could sometimes be seen as a bit cliquey and unwelcoming to new members

Kind of intimidated is what I’m guessing.

I think we agree here. I think “we” who entered the site in its first days are o…[Read more]

Thank @PhaseShift , and @Juniperfish @JimTheFish @ScaryB

As above, real life has taken me away from the site for most of the week and have only been able to dip in occasionally.

It HAS been a weird week and I was a bit disappointed by the lack of civility and inclusiveness of some. I admit that some, perhaps even most, new members do not seem to…[Read more]

@ScaryB

:::face palm:::

Thanks for the big hint.

SIDRAT is nothing more than:  The Awesome Result Due [to] Inverting Sentences,

D’uh.  Perfectly clear.  Now.

😀

And a big thank you from the bottom of my heart for your wonderful and compassionate post about our big and remarkably happy (all things considered) Whovian family.  On the who…[Read more]

HI, waves at the crowd and what a crowd it is. (I tend to slink off to the garden to contemplate quietly when it gets too noisy) I have also been busy all week catching up on R.L. (if designing xmas cards can be described thus) and whenever I check in I am bewildered by the number of posts which I don’t have time to read. I have just got back as…[Read more]

@Juniperfish @ScaryB

I think the duality has to be the key here. The Doctors time line has been cocked up in a way that pleases me a great deal.

I think we anticipate the Trenzilore end point will be lost at Christmas, and become something that will no longer happen. Perhaps the key to that (and therefore a fresh perspective on this episode is…[Read more]

However (@Craig also here), this seems perfect for the blogs, if only so it can be seen all together. Any easy way to transfer?

Seconding @WhoHar‘s suggestion.

I don’t have the time ATM to read and follow the analysis in the posts which @DenValdron, @ScaryB, and @JimTheFish have made in the last day or so. I’d find it helpful to have this entire…[Read more]

@ScaryB

Thanks, but don’t mind me, just messin’.

I just hope that a multiple enemies story is up to it. 45 mins is just not long enough in my view, especially for a regen ep. To be fair though, that would have meant Moffat writing two movie length scripts back to back, which is a lot of work. I would have helped him out – if he’d asked. IF HE’D…[Read more]

@ScaryB

Thank you.

Does absinthe make two hearts fonder?

Don’t worry about spoilers from me — the plot is perfectly predictable. Anybody could figure it out.

with the canonization of the McGann Doctor, the Tardis starts to revert back through space and time to San Francisco, California on December 31, 1999.

En route, it picks up a…[Read more]

@ScaryB, @Shazzbot, @BlueSqueakPip

On behalf of a grateful nation, thank you for the Thanksgiving salutations.

Shazzbot, remember that Southern California — and Texas — once were part of Mexico. BlueSqueakPip, you know so much about so many topics, but I’m not sure if national boundaries in 19th Century North America was a subject of your O…[Read more]

@Timeloop, @ScaryB, @OthersWhoWantToAvoidSpoilers:

Don’t click.

Don’t even click.

Click and you’ve read.

The words are fast, faster than you can believe. Do turn your back, do look away, and don’t click.

I thought I was practicing safe browsing, but some text snuck up out of nowhere and met my eyeballs and now I’m infected with…[Read more]

@ScaryB    Just a quick follow up thought on some of your remarks.   It got me thinking – yes,  Day of the Doctor and Name of the Doctor shows us that the Doctor can easily overlook an entire regeneration/identity, either ignoring it or actually blocking it out or forgetting it.   And as you’ve pointed out the presence of the Baker Doctor at the…[Read more]

@ScaryB    Thank you for your feedback.   I have more to go…..

Scream of the Shalka got shouldered out of official canon, but as with all things Doctor, that can be open to reconsideration, particularly in light of subsequent developments.

For instance, take the episode Night of the Doctor, featuring the last gasp of the McGann Doct…[Read more]

Thank you guys! @Shazzbot @ScaryB That is exactly what I was looking for!

@ScaryB

1 detemined grumpy Dalek is all you need to kill you.

I love the implication of the concept of a non-grumpy Dalek!

@All

On The Time War I don’t think I can put my view better than in this reply to @Juniperfish  (damn she brings out the best in me). I was especially proud of “Deus ex Moment”, so I’m damned well gonna highlight it again!

@ScaryB – Canadians, Mexican and US people are all North Americans.

If you want to specify the U.S. you have to use U.S. or USA.
😉

@ScaryB and @JimTheFish – yeah, I always thought that they could never afford the Time War on a TV budget. It was always going to be the effect on the people that they could show – the terrified parents, about to see their crying toddler exterminated by a Dalek while the child clutched his teddy bear.

Fortunately for the crying toddlers…[Read more]

@ScaryB

When Susan is locked by by The Doctor, she has lost a shoe. Given my occasional theory that Clara is Susan’s mum I’ve said (can’t remember if here or on the Grain) to watch out for a lost shoe. She the exchange between Osgood and…er..Osgood as the negotiations kick off.

@ScaryB – i saw that a long time ago. i wouldn’t use it to glean insight into anything other than moffat’s sense of humour!

the gender thing, i agree, it would have to be story-driven. one possible reason for moffat to change his gender would be so that he could write another conception-in-the-tardis story! the doctor becomes a woman, falls in…[Read more]

@Shazzbot, @pedant, @scaryb, @juniperfish, @geoffers and everyone else
RE: Time War
I must admit, I was a little disappointed by what the last day of the time war looked like, and not just because we didn’t see any Daleks outside of their casing!

I always interpreted it as a “non-violent” war, i.e. a timelord would alter time, then a Dalek…[Read more]