In terms of McCoy I think I’d probably stopped watching by then (or at least regularly).
I have a dim memory, but the previous regeneration had probably done its damage.

In terms of which episode we watch I’m happy with any of them but lets not let that stop me voting(!), so:

I vote for the “Curse of Fenric” because:

a) its got “Curse” in the…[Read more]

Hi @Apopheniac – yes, I think PL = Gallifrey too (at least it is currently for the Doctor, though as with all quests, it may be that he finds that its something else he’s to discover).

Weirdly that garbled rambling incoherent post last night, actually had no bonkers in it!

I know – what does this say about the state of my brain!!!

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@Bluesqueakpip – I hope you’re not suggesting Highlanders are getting a separate vote next week…?

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@purofilion – you never offend (and I simply enjoy silly jokes, like tying up characters!).

I’ve garbled something over on the RoS thread but its all over the place – its like grasping smoke!

However, its 11.20pm here, time for bed, yet workmen outside have decided its a GREAT time to DIGUPTHEEFFINGROAD! I kid you not. he’s got an angle grinder…[Read more]

way way waaaaay to late for me to try and develop this idea, but its an itch I need to scratch (feel free to ignore me!)

I think there may be a pun going on. [forgive me this is all mixed up]

We have a series arc.
I think we have a reflection of the Doctor’s arc with (an)other protagonist’s arc (hyphen may be after the s!).
His arc is his return…[Read more]

ha ha ha! @Purofilion – now just why would you imagine that I’d hate that song?

I do happen to hate it but…. actually she seems to be embracing whatever the something that’s troubling her is, so….
Thanks! You’ve given me the confidence in my bonkers theories to embrace the Papal Mainframe after I’ve tied her and Marie Antoinette…[Read more]

So, The Promised Land:

Earth – somewhen
Gallifrey – somehow
The Tardis – something seems possible but… crazier Idris? Seems unfair
The Papal Mainframe – sometimes I can’t let go

@arbutus – guy-friend is not the same as boyfriend??!!

Erk -I need to reappraise my relationships!

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Actually your description is excellent and reminds me of friendships I … erm a ‘close personal friend’ had in their youth.

As for missy, I still want to tie together Madame de pompadour and the Papal Mainframe, along with robots the…[Read more]

Hi @Timeloop – I can only imagine that I’ve said something that was either too dumb to be funny or too dumb to be understood – both highly likely knowing me!
Not sure what I said re The Hoff but all I can imagine is that I was trying to be ‘funny’ about the interviews he gave around the 80’s/90’s on TV in Britain saying how bemused he was that he…[Read more]

hey @Timeloop – hmmm… nice hook for some bonkerising!

On first hearing it I was (shamefully) thinking it was simply a kinda mirroring in the script:
ie The Doctor is embarrassed with his former regeneration’s desire to be liked so much he wanted to be Clara’s boyfriend, so is sarcastic towards himself “… your ‘boyfriend’ “. Clara is also…[Read more]

hi @zeitgeis – yep, the arrow was kinda unbelievable and an eye-roll, but it was that kinda episode!

Not sure I mentioned the arrow so you maybe have been replying to someone else (or I’ve forgotten mentioning it which is also probable!)

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doh!

@Serahni – I knew I’d be no help at all!
ah well….

I guess one observation (to make this comment rather more than “doh” 🙂 ) is that I’ve never seen the Doctor being ‘wrong’ so much (Dalek never being ‘good’ and especially in Robot of Sherwood in that lovely scene talking about how the radiation and the Robots ‘obviously’ created Robin…[Read more]

Hey @FatManInABox – well done!

Excellent news!

Now, I’ve been looking through my music using ‘green’ ‘mud’ ‘gardens’ etc but everything I find isn’t really right for one reason or another.

So I’ve plumped for this – not the best evah by them, but imagine the initial drum roll is a fanfare of success. the rest just… builds. kinda nice and…[Read more]

Hi @Serahni – I haven’t read it, and like @Phaseshift have reservations as to whether the plotline actually helps anything, but I think the book you’re trying to remember reading is Lungbarrow by Marc Platt.

It was part (or became part) of the Cartmel Masterplan.

Now – after this…[Read more]

Hi @FiveFaces – ype as @Apopheniac says ‘Robot’ is from ‘worker’.

I have heard of Carel Kapek but never read anything by him – it was he (or his brother) who first used the word as the name of sentient automatons (R.U.R – Rossum’s Universal Robots stageplay – the robits of which are a bit closer to being part-organic-part-mechanical;…[Read more]

Hi @Apopheniac – he he – ‘seemingly random’ – if you asked anyone on this forum they’d give you staggeringly good answers if you showed them some Rorshach blots!

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And I’m with you on not even looking at the ‘Coming next week’ to avoid spoilery stuff!

@bluesqueakpip – Clara also looked into the Doctor’s eyes (from various angles) before ‘recognising’ him.

Anyway, just rewatched and enjoyed it much more. I just sat back and said ‘hah hah!” and slapped my thigh a bit.

So far we’ve had the Doctor wrong throughout an episode (wrong about the Dalek being able to be good, wrong about Robin being…[Read more]

hm – I think I must’ve been in a grouchy mood or something last night!

I even used a word (“misstep”) that I never use so I’m gonna put down my reaction to this one as being indigestion.

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I’ll watch again later and get ready to hu-rRAH! properly, whilst slapping my thigh.

Now, I’m gonna try channelling the Doctor’s use of an unusual question…[Read more]

Hi @Apopheniac – great name, though the patterns we bonkerise are there!
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Hi @saraoswald101 – great introduction! Hope you find this place somewhere fun and friendly.
And I’m sure you don’t really “suck at theory” if you also write fanfiction – bonkers theories are kinda like really really short stories!

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hmm – initial thoughts was that this was a misstep in terms of a lighter Who episode.

There’s been loads of these lighter funner episodes in BG and AG, but I wonder if Capaldi’s Doc isn’t settled enough yet to switch between. An odd thought for an actor I love, so maybe a combination of where in the sequence and writer?

Not sure. Just think on…[Read more]