Internet Service Plotting

With the buzz increasing over what might be in store for Series Eleven, is it really best, when searching for rumour and counter-rumour to whet your appetite, to do as the Ninth Doctor once told Mickey Smith and simply “just shut up and go to your computer”?

- Christopher Morley

The sensible answer might well be yes, given the plethora of dedicated websites given over to such talk. But then again, as he once said before he wore the leather jacket (in Inferno): “If you have a tool, it’s stupid not to use it” while in the same breath outing himself as something of a technophobe!

Understandably so, in retrospect, given his tangles with the likes of WOTAN, BOSS, and Xoanon - the last of those scotching any hope of a career in IT support as he gives the machine a little of his own personality during the attempt to provide a quick fix.

Much later after wandering companionless into the battle between the Tesh and Sevateem tribes, though, the Internet will play a bigger part in the various travails of his more recent selves - being downloaded in its entirety by the sole survivor of the other side of the Time War’s great divide as it searches for its fellow great space dustbins in Dalek.

Connection is reset, we might say, at The Eleventh Hour - the picturesque village of Leadworth playing host to the rather bemused Jeff Angelo, just your standard loser living with his dear old granny looking at the sort of websites he probably really shouldn’t.