France and the French being "cheese eating surrender monkeys" is a myth anyway. Historically speaking, they've been in a lot of wars and won most of them. They've also been quite fearsome on the battlefield too.

Well, it depends. There's one type of time travel story where there is only one timeline from the start of existence to the end of it. So everything has to be internally consistent including time travel, hence they're all bootstrap paradoxes with every attempt at changing history just creating what it always was…

Let's be honest and fair though, most of us would be more or less the same if we were in this situation in 'real life' but equally so, had O'Donnell become a companion, same as have the other companions, (and as we all have when we've encountered something new and exciting that goes on to become more routine over…

Well exactly. There's a very early I Dream of Jeannie episode from the black and white era of the show where Jeannie solves all the problems by rolling back time. The obvious question is why doesn't she just do that every single time. As with the option of bundling everyone into the Tardis at the earliest opportunity…

That was one of the first things I was thinking of after seeing the episode. I've only read a summary of the story from the back of the book but after reading about a time traveller going back to the time of Jesus and finding Jesus is not actually what history records him as and is instead a drooling idiot (book's…

Well, here's the thing. All the characters from Waters of Mars historically had all died and the Doctor's intervention actually ended up saving two of them and he did in fact rewrite history (and you'd ultimately thing in a big way as the ripple effect of their survival spread over time).

"It's not part of the story, it's Peter Capaldi talking to the audience and playing guitar."

Well, hopefully this makes up for your Robin Hood experience. Featuring the Fourth Doctor himself.

Well, at least it wasn't the infamous "Feast of Steven" incident. Even some of the people making the original reel to reel tape recordings directly off the broadcast "accidentally" lost that bit.

I know, that's why I covered myself by saying "a bit more like this" and "closest to it out there being performed", especially since it's using instruments that weren't invented in the sixties. (edit: even though it was performed in 1980, it was a performance of a composition written in 1963. I do read my link…

True but technically speaking it was the original or the closest to it out there being performed that you'll most likely be able to find though.

On the subject of theme music, if it hadn't been for modifications by people including Delia Derbyshire, Ron Grainer's theme for the show might have ended up sounding a bit more like this:

Reading the youtube comments sections can be like trawling through all the sewage in a septic treatment works but it's worth it for the gold engagement and wedding rings lost in the plumbing so to speak that you find in the midst of all that effluent like ideas like having Sir Ian McKellen as the Black Guardian and…

Throws Primer into the mix and runs away before everyone else's heads explodes Scanners style.

Time travel is increasingly regarded as a menace. History is being polluted.
The Encyclopedia Galactica has much to say on the theory and practice of time travel, most of which is incomprehensible to anyone who hasn't spent at least four lifetimes studying advanced hypermathematics, and since it was impossible to do…

Looking back at last week's discussion about Hayley Atwell. Had the thought during the week of a 1940's to 50's themed episode with Hayley Atwell as the Doctor as Peggy Carter with Captain Jack thrown in. If this isn't an appealing idea to you, go ahead and cancel your Voight-Kampff empathy test as it's clear you're…

Philip K Dick started on a sequel to The Man in the High Castle where the Axis discover a world much more like ours through interdimensional travel. He only completed two chapters though (they're in a book called The Shifting Realities of Philip K Dick) as he found it too disturbing to return to being immersed in that…

Ha ha yes, that was great. I'm still wondering how they managed to pull that off. Have you seen The Beyond? Fulci produced some strange, strange stuff. As did Italy in general around that time now that I think about it.

True but news just in from Gawker, Dr Carson did this:

Oh yes, in real life things rarely work out anywhere near perfectly. However in the case of the book (as with many of PKDs stories), a fundamental axiom is established (in this case the system is never wrong) and a story is built around it.