:::waves excitedly at all the new avatars, lurkers-no-more and bonkers-theorists:::

@Arbutus, wow.  I agree with @purofilion.  A splendid first post.  Please don’t wait a year until your next one!

@TheMasterOfAllHeSurveys, you’re a Third Doctor fan?  Or a UNIT fan?  Or just a fan of the working class?  (If I can gently kid you with the last…[Read more]

I am currently upstairs, in the other end of the house from the loudspeakers, yet my brother turns up the volume so much that I can hear everything perfectly, to my dismay, not even @Timeloop could sleep through that 😉

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@Timeloop

I don’t get how you can do that, have a nice alarm tone, I would NEVER get out of bed if that was me.

Personally, I go through the alarm tones on the phone when I get a new one, and pick the loudest, most annoying one 😛

@timeloop @purofilion

Yep – as much as I’m looking forward to Capaldi I’ll miss Smith as well. If you want to write a bit of a eulogy to him after the episode (or even before), we have the Faces strand for thoughts on the Doctors. I’ll link to my recent post on him below. I’m positive that in my long history of viewing the show, this has been my…[Read more]

New Members – only they can say whether they think the site is intimidating or not. Would be great if some of those mentioned above in @Phaseshift‘s post could be honest and say how they found their first experiences of it, and any suggestions for improvement.  I’ve noticed quite a few – @Timeloop and @TardisBlue in particular – have started…[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]

@bluesqueakpip @Timeloop @Arkleseizure

It is in the text that it was remarkable to give River one, so don’t take my word for it, take Moff’s. He “took it on the chin” when it was pointed out that the big “use the red settings” etc scene leading to

DOCTOR
So some time in the future, I just give you my screwdriver.
RIVER
Yeah.
DOCTOR
Why would I…[Read more]

Oh, Sonic Lipstick…. What could that do?

@Timeloop  – it might be shorter to say what it couldn’t do (wood.  And deadlock seals). But basically – most things the Screwdriver could; unlock doors, disable electronics, deactivate cloaking devices, cut meteorites, shatter mirrors, activate and repair teleports, open ventilation shafts …

I t…[Read more]

@Timeloop – true, but the Sonic has never been ‘irreplaceable’.* We’ve seen it being replaced, several times. The Doctor simply never trusted anyone else enough to give them a full spectrum version.

Sarah Jane was given a ‘Sonic Lipstick’ – a Sonic-lite.

*The Fifth Doctor did decide to go ‘hands-free’, but then he also decided to wear a…[Read more]

thanks i guess that part just went right over my head

@IAmNotAFishIAmAFreeMan

@Timeloop

@Timeloop @ahowe444

And then Moffat arsed it up by having the Tardis able to make multiple screwdrivers, was called out on Twitter about it and shouted – well, tweeted – OH LOOK! KITTENS!!!

This problem was fixed in DotD by cunning (but spoiler free, just in case) means that ended up foreshadowing the way that the mahoosive ending worked.

“How did 11 change his opinion so radical in comparison to 10 in the end of time? Was it all Clara?”

@Timeloop – basically, yes, i think clara is the reason, specifically in ‘tDotD.’ but also, his travels with amy, whom he met as a child. it is clearly established, after amy and rory are gone, that he spent a long, long time by himself, grieving…[Read more]

@Shazzbot Thanks for finding the correct attribution for the phoenix necklace spot to @Lula !

@Timeloop Yes I saw that interview with Moffat and I also saw your earlier post re “The End of Time” when you’d re-checked that Gallifrey is indeed burning on-screen.

The thing is, Moffat’s perspective doesn’t settle the question for me. Once you have…[Read more]

@Timeloop – closed-loop causality FTW!

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Lot’s of good stuff to read here (@pedant, @timeloop, @wolfweed, @scaryb)

OK, Deep breath, here are my somewhat organised ramblings. I’ve tried to mention the people who sparked of my thoughts. Sorry if I missed anyone.

Numbering: @Hudsey, thanks for the info direct from Moffatt regarding the numbers. I was already getting confused before this…[Read more]

@timeloop what has happened I think is either it disappeared and came back or there all along but I’ve never got the email about it

@Hudsey

why I thank you greatly it has been one best theorye and the bro have come up with. Mainly coz of the mention of the circles and them they appear in the under gallery and

it is very plain and simple…[Read more]

@Tennantmarsters2013

Ages ago the Hive Mind worked out that, derived from Old Saxon/ Old Norse

Os win = God’s power

Os wald = God’s friend

and from what I can gather Os good = God’s goodness

So it could be that Osgood is a Clara-fragment, part of a trinity of Doctor-protectors, and one which (as discussed up thread) in particular represents…[Read more]

@timeloop, should also have said in my post that Matt Smith said that he liked being the 11th Doctor, because he ‘liked the number 11’. But the Moffat was insistent that the Doctor should never have a number. Clearly this makes things confusing as a reference point for the rest of us.. (How do you refer to a particular Doctor quickly if you can’t…[Read more]