I’ve been a bit rude and not acknowledged a couple of people so (knowing I will now rudely forget to mention even more people), welcome @Summersmith Hi @ScaryB , thanks @Craig (I really appreciated that as I’ll admit after writing it I hung my head in shame as to my rambling lack of point – I blame the rugby and inevitable liquids consumed during…[Read more]

<Waves to @Whisht>

Thanks for your “troll” post. Absolutely agree. Generally it’s better to engage than to blast out of the water.  We live by the question “What would the Doctor do?”

(Likewise I’ve been doing more lurking than posting recently. Damn that RL!!)

And welcome to cute Shetland troll @Summersmith Some trolls are very welcome! 🙂

@purofilion  — missing an ear, mangled eye — for a minute there, I thought you were talking about the War Doctor, at least as I would have imagined him!  Doesn’t the Doctor grow back missing bits, if they’re not too large and complex?  I seem to recall — a hand?

@bluesqueakpip — The missing kids of Jesus — I’m just working off the norms of…[Read more]

@purofilion and @summersmith —

I think it’s possible to overstate the religious symbolism in Who. Yes, RTD plays with it a lot but as has been said above, I think there’s an element of playfulness, of irony, about it. Plus it’s riffing on the McGann regeneration in the TV movie slightly.

As @purofilion says, the Doctor tended to define himself…[Read more]

@DroneX1  I am fully in agreement with @purofilion, @BarbaraLefty and @ichabod  here;  I do not see how ‘I am not your boyfriend’ can be interpreted as being necessarily dismissive of Clara as a person.  My experience, for what little it is worth, was rather the opposite; it was the people who saw me in a romantic light and wanted to be my boyfr…[Read more]

@ichabod, whoo-hoo, woop woop (as my twenty-something colleagues say), hi five, etc. Are you doing this freeze-frame? 😉 But absolutely compelling stuff.

@Summersmith, lovely name, lovely avatar, you seem like a lovely person. You should fit right in here 🙂 welcome!!