@ScaryB I know. And if they are thinking about promotional budgets, they really don’t have to spend anything on Doctor Who or Sherlock, the fans and the press will do it all for them for free (although I have to say that I don’t quite get the appeal of Sherlock. I’m a huge fan of the original books and have read them all – bought the literary…[Read more]

@ScaryB There is more going on there. Pictures and stuff. But yes, leaked trailers as well. The official one is not out yet, is it?

@all Woah, we really got the whole bonkers theorizing started again, didn’t we?

So much input, I am delighted.

First of all: @JimTheFish @Nick @pedant @ScaryB Thanks for reassuring me, felt all warm and fuzzy 😉

@JimTheFish Thanks for that very detailed reply! But can you please explain to me what a continuity porn is to you? (As you said here:…[Read more]

@ScaryB – it was in Entertainment Weekly, but that particular quote was noted on Blogtor Who

Incidentally, I’ve just noticed that Clara incorporates some of the letters in Cesario/Viola. Probably one of those total coincidences. But then, that would be applying the Blue Boringers. 🙂

@ScaryB – well, if it is ‘Twelfth Night’, the Doctor and River will have twins. One boy, one girl. The boy and the girl either won’t know about each other, or will both think the other dead.

Clara as Viola? Playing the concealed ‘Cesario’ to the Doctor’s ‘Duke Orsino’. And then – since mistaken identity runs throughout Twelfth Night – I’m going…[Read more]

Evening all,

@ScaryB

I remember the prologue clip for Name of the Doctor really well. I put it in the news thread at your (and others) request because I didn’t consider it a spoiler, but asked discussion of it to be there. As it was just a week before transmission I don’t think it impacted at the time. You later confessed to giving in and…[Read more]

@ScaryB: 🙂 Just re-watched the Loose Cannon reconstruction of The Massacre of St Bartholemew’s Eve. It really is a brilliant story, and definitely the number one thing I want to have been on that shelf in Nigeria. So I thought I’d switch to a pic of Hartnell as the Abbot of Amboise.

Also, I remembered that @HTPBDET used a picture of Troughton as…[Read more]

@Wolfweed I forgot about those! I think if it’s a TV show with millions of viewers then it’s basically public knowledge.

I love the hive mind. @Whisht @Arkleseizure @ScaryB Brilliant idea. Trailers thread is great and one I’ll keep for the future, but I’d like to keep the thread number down if possible and discussion of the trailer would seem to…[Read more]

@everyone – yes, I think that sadly, the Radio Times has now gone into ‘spoiler’ territory.

Reporting interviews that are on the official site isn’t a ‘spoiler’. That’s ‘news’. The BBC site is the official site; a subsection of the production team. It’s up to forum members how much ‘news’ they want to know; but expect people to discuss ‘news’ in…[Read more]

@Wolfweed. I’ve edited it for you. I don’t think it’s a big deal though as it was on the BBC site but I can also see @Nick‘s point and why @pedant thought better of it (I was wondering what that post was about, by the way).

It’s gonna be an interesting couple of weeks and there will be people who aren’t happy.

I wonder, though, and this is a…[Read more]

@thommck and @scaryB – my favourite ‘Jesus’ cartoon is, sadly, not Doctor Who related. But here it is anyway –

@JimtheFish @ScaryB

Of course, there is an interesting ontological question of when bonkers theorising becomes fanfic…

(My own view is that the solution lies entirely in understanding the position of the tongue relative to the cheek.)

@pedant @ScaryB

It is also explained by the Timelords in the same episode @WhoHar mentioned (copied from here)

RASSILON: What news of the Doctor?
CHANCELLOR: Disappeared, my Lord President.
PARTISAN: (a woman) But we know his intention. He still possesses the Moment, and he’ll use it to destroy Daleks and Time Lords alike.
CHANCELLOR: The…[Read more]

@pedant @ScaryB

It was a brIef reference in The End of Time where Doc10 says he used it to end the Time War. No other details are mentioned in the show but it has been referenced in other media as some kind of weapon:

http://tardis.wikia.com/wiki/The_Moment

@ScaryB – Celia Imrie’s final scene is deeply haunting. For one thing, it’s the whole ‘Mummy and Daddy said they wouldn’t be long’ thing – did they ever come back for her? Or are we left to imagine that they’re two casualties of one of the many, many invasions of Earth that we’ve seen in Doctor Who.

Yes, @HTPBDET was pretty close in his ideas…[Read more]

@OsakaHatter Suitably bonkers! However, I think that your theory would require the participation of Eccleston, to return at end of episode to replace Hurt. Come to think of it…Jenna Coleman was kept under wraps before Asylum, so who knows?

@Phaseshift, @craig, @JimtheFish, @Juniperfish, @scaryB, @janetteB, @Shazzbot, @Nick, @timeloop, @wolfweed,…[Read more]

@ScaryB Yes, very exciting. I should really have put it in “News” but was a bit discombobulated.

It came from Puffin, the publishers. Is nice to think we’re now on the radar.