@vickymallard You are suffering from regeneration shock and it is terrible to lose your favourite Doctor.I loved the tenth Doctor too. I think you will also love the 11th Doctor he is a blast!

Stay safe

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sorry for the spoilery… in fact, although some sources quote The War Games (1969!) as the origin of the idea of the stolen tardis, I can’t find a single mention. The doctor admits to being a renegade and at that point his navigation is hopeless so you might infer that he shouldn’t be left in charge of a tardis.

@vickymallard Sorry, forgot to include you in my note to ps1l0v3y0u. It’s spoilery but I gave my account of what I understand of the Tardis in the Hell Bent thread.

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Planet of The Dead got a lot of stick when it came out. Cracking adventure, I thought, with lots of interesting angles: no Tardis; interesting alien species – maybe reminiscent of the swarm in Invisible Enemy and the Formasi in Leisure Hive – but there a finite number of tropes; antagonistic prospective companion;…[Read more]

@vickymallard I really liked this one. And I too, liked that the giant fly aliens were not the enemy (and in fact, acted very honourably. I felt quite sorry for them).

Lady Christina was great (in my view). A sort of female James Bond (or Emma Peel?) I would have liked to see a lot more of her. Maybe not workable as a Companion,…[Read more]

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Re my comment about RTD’s choice of villains, I meant of course David HAREWOOD (not Haywood) in The End of Time. Doh

@vickymallard @ps1l0v3y0u Well I was – slightly disappointed by The Next Doctor (which turned out not to be the next Doctor after all). Cybermen child labour in Victorian London just seemed a bit like the old Dickens/Christmas theme, Oliver Twist and all that. I thought Christmas Carol (okay that was openly Dickens-derived) was a better…[Read more]

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The Next Doctor… I enjoyed it. Cyberpunk! Nice. Teased the end of 10. Ooh you card Russ. Nice turn from Dervla Kirwan… even though, like David Haywood in The End of Time, her casting made me a bit uncomfortable.

Interesting point… should you be wary about exactly who you cast as villains? Not sure that’s RTD’s style. Perhaps R…[Read more]

@vickymallard  I always like watching these 2 episodes except of course the sad ending. I am a big fan of the happy ending and even though we have waited a long time we finally have one. The DoctorDonna and the Doctor together again.

We did get a happy ending for Rose and her Doctor, I think. I hope they have a wonderful life full of adventures.…[Read more]

@janetteb and @vickymallard  Hello and Happy New Year!

I also envy vickymallard watching all of these fantastic episodes for the first time. It was an emotional roller coaster that I would gladly ride again. The monsters in the shadows are voracious and love fried chicken. We meet River Song for the first time and then she is gone.What? But the…[Read more]

@vickymallard. Welcome btw. I envy you a little, watching these episodes for the first time. There is an episode of Red Dwarf where Kryten asks Dave to wipe his memory of Agatha Christie books so he can read them again for the first time. There are a few books and tv series, and Dr Who episodes I would chose to have wiped from memory so I can…[Read more]

@vickymallard Thanks, obviously I stole my user name from Doug Adams. I was looking for something vaguely Who-related but not an actual Who character, so Doug Adams (who was a script editor in oldWho days) seemed to fit the bill.
I take it you’ve seen DT in Neil Gaiman’s ‘Good Omens’ – I thought the first series (which was close to the book)…[Read more]

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I have previously expressed my admiration for this Christmas special in these hallowed pages. Not all of the specials are worth watching EVERY year but this one and The Husbands of River Song are nailed on.

Some people don’t like the body count in VotD but you can’t crash Titanic/Poseidon Adventure and Aliens, with an extra nod to…[Read more]

@vickymallard   Welcome to the forum.   Do I gather you are working your way through past seasons?   I did that a couple of years back – catching up on everybody from way behind.   I almost envy you because you’ve got several years worth of episodes still to work through.

I’ve got a standard suggestion I make to anyone catching up on episode…[Read more]

@vickymallard   You have to watch The Empty Child/The Doctor Dances two part episode from the 9th Doctor’s time. These episodes introduce  Captain Jack who then travels in the Tardis with the Doctor and Rose through the series. It will explain a lot about Jack and it is excellent.Have fun!

let it snow

@vickymallard  Hello and welcome to the site. Isn’t it good to talk to other people from around the world about the one thing we all love ? I live in Canada and we have a bit of snow so it looks Christmassy out there. I always watch the Xmas specials every year and I just watched this one. Although a lot of people die , the Doctor with the help…[Read more]

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Hello, and welcome.

My assumption from watching the ep was that the Bi-generation allowed 15 to “shed” all his angst, leaving it in 14, which then 14 would work through in his (more) sedentary retirement. And 14 would not be able to regen / bi-gen again, so would age “normally” and presumably die of old age / accident or illness at…[Read more]