@BadWulf Does anyone else have a problem with novels written in the Present Tense?

For me it really depends on the novel. I agree with @thommck – If the atmosphere an author intends to create is that in which anything can happen, and that events are not following some “already happened” pre-known narrative, then present tense works very w…[Read more]

I’ve so far seen the episode only once an will defenitly have a rewatch before saturday (get here already!!). also i haven’t had the time to read through all of your posts, working on it, but I got impatient ;D

I really enyoed it. it had me on the edge of my sofa, simply because I can’t wait to fu**ing know everything ALREADY! which I probably…[Read more]

Hi all!

If anyone is interested, at @Craig ‘s and @thommck ‘s recommendations, I have put up an editable version of my Doctor Who ratings calculations spreadsheet onto Google Docs:

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1OMlaYpWrBclrz3YddmTFjanxaK02tzmr_lXKaZwxiJs/edit?usp=sharing

This is the first time I’ve used Google Docs, so let me know if…[Read more]

@Serahni   I agree about the pace of this story, I frequently feel that 45 minutes is too short. Also, I agree that while I wasn’t keen on Missy as the Master, partly because it had been signposted so egregiously, at least it was a believable outcome, and I would have been more upset had she turned out to be the Rani, for instance.

@lisa   There…[Read more]

@thekrynoidman

Your post in Fan Creativity was very funny.  The Master/Missy kissed the Doctor, but it was very clearly not reciprocated – the Doctor is traumatised after 😉 I thought it was funny at the time and more so in retrospect, there are traditionally many layers to the Master’s motivations – could as easily be him being ironically…[Read more]

@thommck @JimboMcMaster

The clicky fingers occurred to me too – especially since there was such a point made of it (in the Caretaker?) when they both do it. More than once.

(Jimbo – recent discussion you initiated re when the Doctor will rewrite time/go back on his own timeline and impossible decisions seem to be bang on topic)

@thommck – Yeah, I just assumed he’d have another way in, or the Tardis would just let him in. She’s sentient after all. But surely Clara should have known about the clicky fingers thing, you’re right. In grief, I suppose.

@Spider – that could well be the case. There’s got to be some explanation for Orson’s existence, and that makes most sense…[Read more]

@purofilion – it’s a fantasy happy ending and there’s the odd link between the mother complaining about the hydrangeas and then, ta-daa, Annabelle appears.

@thommck – I agree there is some similarity between Maebh and Amelia (I’m assuming you mean the eight-year old). She also reminds me of a young Clara in terms of appearance.

cheers

@Rob Really interesting,  take it you’re a River fan too, or did that surprise you too.

I do rather like River, but, yes, I was also surprised that the episodes with her in were ones that I consistently appreciated much more highly than average.

@blenkinsopthebrave @DrBen @thommck In other news – I have now emailed the spreadsheet to @Craig, so…[Read more]

@melloyello – what @thommck , @spider and @scaryb say is correct; Clara didn’t recognise War Doc, Tom Baker and indeed Tennant or anyone else because she lost most of the memory of her time in the Doc’s time scar.

This is established in Day of the Doctor (which I re-watched recently) when she meets WarDoc and TennantDoc in the cell.  To…[Read more]

@thommck

I agree with you, I think we’re done with Claricles.

I think they were “single-use” only. GI jumped into the Doctor’s timescar and changed whatever, hotly followed by Clara to rectify. Both split into “a million echoes” (paraphrasing) of the original. Then they’re done, and gone. They may not even go thro a whole lifespan – maybe they…[Read more]

@MelloYello I think it has been explained why she doesn’t know the other Doctors:

As @thommck said Clara suffers memory loss after coming back out of the Doctors time stream so she doesn’t actually remember meeting any of the other Doctors? Although I can’t remember if this is established as a fact in the episode or just an assumption on our part…[Read more]

@thommck
She wouldn’t have seen the 12th Doctor (Capaldi) as the Doctor’s time-scar only went up to his death on Trenzalore (before the timelords saved gave him a new set of regenerations).

That don’t explain how she didn’t know the war doctor, nor how she forgot Tom Baker’s doctor
in the museum. Someone is collecting intel on the Doctor, and Cla…[Read more]

@thommck   perhaps also Missy’s “my Clara”  is another my claricle??

Like the theory that Missy is following Clara thru her phone since the woman in the shop thing occurred  [except that Clara isn’t always on the phone ] but if she is following her and if River is still connected to her and Danny is following her and the Doctor is mentoring he…[Read more]