Hey come to think of it, the 15th Doctor says that he is the Last of the Time Lords (once more). But does the Doctor have any reason to believe that the Dhawan Master actually died in The Power of the Doctor? 
She was unconscious at the end when Yaz had her slow-mo hero moment carrying the Doctor into the TARDI-BOX…
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The Doctor should’ve learned by now that the Master always returns!
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Oh I forgot the part in the Giggle when the Toymaker said he made the Master into a golden tooth, that he put in his mouth with waaay too many teeth in…
But come on, the Master has returned from less. Goo-snake and “potion” with lipsticky bogroll springs to mind…
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I mean 12 kinda kept the title even after finding Gallifrey and having Missy in the vault
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Maybe the Doctor just like the tittle
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I’m putting on the totally inconsequential thinking cap on now.
In The Giggle the Fourteenth Doctor is shot with a great big giant laser cannon (and somehow keeps his balance and stands upright as long the laser is on, in spite of it probably doing a bunch of internal damage ) - he starts to bi-generate and splits into two parts, one of them being the Fifteenth Doctor without trousers. Now the other part, one David Tennant, is once again fine. Was this healing a bi-product of bi-generation or is it yet another David Tennant incarnation?
(10th, Meta-crisis, 14th and 15th variant B)
And why does my mind bring stuff like this up while I cut the grass 
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I saw just reading up on the Quark, and for reasons ended up on the article about the Toclafane. Here is the original idea for them, and the early Revival as a whole:
- Russell T Davies came up with the original design and idea for the Toclafane in 2004, and briefly considered forcing Robert Shearman to use them as a replacement for the Dalek in a proposed series 1 story that would have been entitled Absence of the Daleks, had rights issues to the Daleks not been worked out. This early version was called “Future Human” and Davies’ original illustration is included in Doctor Who: The Writer’s Tale - The Final Chapter.
- Absence of the Daleks would have established that mysterious spheres from the future, who would later be revealed to be humans, had attacked the Time Lords among all other sentient species they could find, with the Nestenes and the Daleks among the civilisations decimated. Ultimately, the Time Lords trapped the spheres on Gallifrey, where they sacrificed themselves in an act of mutually assured destruction to eliminate the spheres, leaving only the Ninth Doctor and one known surviving sphere, which became the Metaltron. (The Dalek Handbook)
I’d not heard about this before.
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Oh yes, the Tocaflane were what became of the plans in case Nation’s estate played hard ball and wouldn’t let the Daleks be used. I imagine Absence of the Daleks isn’t what the story would have ended up being called and was just a silly placeholder to emphasise what the script was in case of.
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Fifteen’s Sonic is now available for preorder from The Who Shop, but it’s a bit steep at £35. Maybe I’ll just wait for Christmas.
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He looks like a Jelly Baby has just gone down wrong.
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I have to say I am rather tempted to get Trials of a Time Lord from Big Finish.
If for nothing else, then because of Nicola Bryant on the cover.
That is really the Warrior Queen Perpugilliam of the Brown, Consort of the great King of the Krontep, Lord of the Vingten, Conqueror of the Tonkonp Empire: Yrcanos 
Varoonik!!!
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You could, but it was a disappointing release.
Queen Peri was great in it, though!
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Hmm…
Okay just answer me this - Does Peri at some point say Varoonik?
This is of course a very important metric for deciding whether to get a story or not 
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My eldest is having some time off from school, so today we drove to a nearby forest where a bunch of Germans tried to hide a hospital in 1944.
Great big overground, but almost totally overgrown, bunker that we explored for about an hour, there was even a ladder into a super creepy small basement where they had their generators and what have you way back when. There were small signs about what each room was used for - like an operating theatre, all the stuff was cleared out many years ago but a Nazi operating theatre made of concrete and steel is still spooky today, especially when all you’ve got is a torch.
But really fascinating.
Anyway, when we went out after that hour we found a light switch, and yes it turned on the lights in all the rooms of that bunker 
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Surely that’s how horror films start - and you two weren’t the main characters…
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I’m 90% sure I’m possessed by the ghost of a mad Nazi Doctor now 
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This also sounds like the pitch for an unmade Doctor Who story! Maybe you could send it to the BBC or BF and have it made into a proper adventure?
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Sound cool! Did you take any pictures?
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Not today, we were much too focused on exploring 
. He needed some distraction from a bad situation at school, and taking pictures is really distracting for him with his autism and (badly medicated) ADHD. WW2 history is what he is really into right now (we’ve recently watched a lot of Captain America) so a bunker seemed like the perfect distraction
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