Chip

I've only watched the first episode. I found the point when they mentioned Michelle and all turned towards the camera really awkward and strange. The bit about Stephanie being a DJ called DJ Tanner was funny.

I was coming off a cold. I blame my trying not to cough on all of my wrong answers.

I have been burned so many times in the past, but I'm kind of excited about this now that I have read about it. They are talking about bringing back a lot of the stuff lost with this New 52 nonsense. The thing that annoyed me the most about the renumbering were that Action and Detective weren't going to get their #1000s. I had been thinking about that since I was a kid.

I just made a tweak on this thread. I removed the Spoiler Tag and used the newish Unaired USA tag. So, anything aired in the UK is up for discussion, but no untagged spoilers for future storylines. I also created an EastEnders in the Media thread for discussion of news stories. It could get spoilery in there, so I have tagged accordingly.

Dominic Treadwell-Collins is leaving the show. http://www.digitalspy.com/soaps/eastenders/news/a783888/eastenders-shocker-dominic-treadwell-collins-is-leaving-as-showrunner/

Who did Ryan kill? For some reason, I have forgotten most everything about him.

This looks like fun!

from http://decider.com/2016/01/27/bbc-poised-to-announce-new-streaming-home-for-doctor-who/: "A BBC spokesperson told us that American Whovians will still be able to stream seasons 7 – 9 on BBCAmerica.com and that the series will still be available through Amazon Video, iTunes, Google Play, and more VOD platforms. However they added: “We hope to announce a new digital partner for Doctor Who shortly.” So, let's see what happens!

I can't find the article right this second, but I think Doctor Who will still be available for purchase on Amazon and iTunes in the United States. I would be very surprised if Doctor Who stayed off the streaming sites for very long.

All this discussion is great but we have drifted off topic from this Christmas special! We have threads to discuss River, Clara, Season 9, and if you want to make a new thread for something else, feel free!

I see Richard Hatch continues his goal to be on every reality show.

So, did he really keep being created by the teleporter or was that some sort of illusion inside the disc? Because if so, we are working with a many million year old copy of the Doctor now. That's a pretty good hard drive he was stored on... In the 1996 movie, they alluded to the Doctor being half-human, but they never really followed up on that.

I felt like it was a huge logic jump to go from a mysterious tattoo and missing time to searching for a trap street. I did enjoy the episode, however.

It usually DOES count as a spoiler here! Any knowledge not specifically from the current episode or a previous episode should be spoiler tagged or discussed in one of the topics labeled with the spoiler tag. I think I have gone through and caught all the references in this thread but I may have missed a few.

I'm so behind in Secret Wars. I'm just reading the main title and your posts here!

It didn't really come over that way for me. I'm still hung up on the fact that they stuck him in the pipeline because Caitlin pretty much told him Barry was the Flash.

"Downtime" released: http://www.bleedingcool.com/2015/10/16/on-its-twentieth-anniversary-doctor-who-spinoff-downtime-gets-a-dvd-release/

The Problem With ‘The Flash’: Why Doesn’t Flash Run To Italy For Pasta Every Meal?

Let's call this media. Marvel has released a free comic featuring Jessica in the MCU: https://www.comixology.com/Marvels-Jessica-Jones/comics-series/59594?ref=c2l0ZS9saXN0L2Rlc2t0b3AvbGlzdC9jcmVhdG9yTGlzdA

New forum created for spinoff : http://forums.previously.tv/forum/2122-class/

Spin off announced : http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/doctorwho/entries/953c5b1f-3cc8-4db9-8184-f1b6567260f1

I just moved a few days of recent posts to this thread from the "Lightning Rods" topic, since it applied more here. chip