@glenisterm – yeah, Im not really au fait with that whole “blackmail” scene.  But as we subsequently learnt, it was Claras dream state so the fact it doesnt make a whole lot of sense can be laid at the door of “whose dreams make all that much sense anyway?”.

Ive said before I think this series is suitable for a SJA reboot (ducking potential…[Read more]

Hello @PhileasF

I also suspect much of what Danny and, presumably, other dead people are being told is a lie, intended to persuade them to allow their personalities to be deleted.

Your post is one of the reasons why I think this site is so wonderful.  Deeply thoughtful, contextual (bringing in PK Dicks “Ubik” and also SMs “Coupling” is…[Read more]

Hello @SarahJO – please do introduce yourself in the On The Sofa thread.   I did so myself when I joined, and found people here quite likeable in their responses.  You can go into more detail about your dislike of the Clara character, as well as your viewing history of DW, over there.

Do you have specific episode-related issues about Clara in Da…[Read more]

Before all of that … before all of the stuff that I did wrong

@janetteB and @miapatrick

Thats the dialogue key to @miapatrick‘s theory, I believe.  Clara is going to do something “wrong” next week, something which endangers Danny instead of saving him.  And she’s calling him from the future, seemingly wracked with guilt.  Which means, of co…[Read more]

Now that the season plot arc seems to be all about stealing souls to power Cybermen

Hello @BadWulf – but wasnt the point of the dark water that it contained/only showed actual organic material?  The bones, bodies – but not souls.  So I agree with people who think that Danny isnt dead, and that the Nethersphere contains people who arent actually d…[Read more]

@Phaseshift

It seemed to go against the Doctor’s past philosophy (that immorality was for fruitloops, and self interested people) full stop.

Is that “immortality”?

Although immorality being for fruitloops and self interested people is also a good reading.  😉

Is it OK to say here that I think this ep and the last one were really Sarah Jane Adventures eps?

The monsters were rubbish (in The Caretaker, they were Silurians On Badly Drawn Wheels; here, they were spiders which all children fear).  The tension factor just wasnt there in either ep for me.  It was nice to see Clara facing off against the D…[Read more]

Did anyone notice an anti-abortion vibe to that episode, or am I imagining things?

Interesting.  No, I didnt, but Im thinking Clara and Danny have got more jiggy than the programme has let us into, and Clara is seriously worried / thinking about her [potential] children.

But thats just on first watch.  Have to watch again, natch.  Off to the Re…[Read more]

Its just too effing late but I saw @bluesqueakpip s comment when logging out.

Clara did have her memory wiped in another Stephen Thompson script – Journey to the Centre of the TARDIS

I wondered why Clara was so moved by Psi saying he had no family or friends to remember, and how he had deleted them for their own safety.  I need to go to bed and re…[Read more]

Aggghhh, was working late tonight so just watched the ep and the Extra.  I will definitely watch again tomorrow.

This was fantastic.  I liked it so much better than Listen.

Hello @bluesqueakpip

So, now we know how Gretchen ended up in ‘Heaven’. That teleport, with scream, is exactly the same effect. She didn’t die; she was telepor…

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Not sure if this belongs here or in TV Shows.

Last nights Only Connect had a team called the Gallifreyans (they met on “the worlds largest Doctor Who site”).

Even better, a young man on the other team was called Vyvyan.

The ep Midnight did the knocking on the door horror so much better.  Why bring it back in such a diluted form?

Im quoting myself here.  Re-watching Midnight reminds me of the full horror of that ep.  Yes, the knocking on the door was frightening because there wasnt supposed to be anyone out there.  (but it still got in)  Repeated here in List…[Read more]

From the first page

A break from the sofa and Doctor Who. Somewhere for real life, non-Doctor chat including news, politics, sport etc. Basically a place of a more adult nature.

Ohhhhh nooooo, Scottish independence debates here, too.  I guess it was inevitable with the focus on Twelves Scottishness in DW.

Those who don’t want that, please av…

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Ive watched this ep twice now and hesitated to comment here.  Because I did not have the same overwhelmingly positive reaction to it that almost everyone else here has.  I can say, the many posts about Listen have made me alter (slightly) my thoughts.  But only slightly.  Its nothing like Blink, an episode with such overwhelming tension of imm…[Read more]

Hello @wolfweed

Dont speak

I thought I was the master of detail but I bow to you in your awesomeness.

It looks as though you’re letting go
And if it’s real
Well I don’t want to know

Please dont spoil me with anything about this series in the future.  But the finger-shush of that image seems to indicate that Clara might be on her way…[Read more]

Hello @Brewski

I’m sticking with the fact that Arcadia is a Greek name for Utopia = Arcadia

… And Im sticking with my theory that the antibodies in Into The Dalek looked and moved an awful lot like the Toklafane in the John Simm Master trilogy (first part of which was called Utopia).

Moffat is playing a lot of cards shown in many previous DW s…[Read more]

Hello @wolfweed

Oh yeah

Hello @wolfweed

Im not sure anyone can trump an orangutan in a bikini top, with a cape and pleated satin trousers (not to mention that quite obvious posture of — (Hello, Im Here, and Wondrously Outre, and You are Less than the Shadow of My Fabulous Manhood), — but —

Orangutans with spoons are still to be found in a family-friendly image…[Read more]

Hello @Brewski

All this talk of nit-picking is making me feel slightly better for being a bit OCD about the open-naw-now-its-shut-nope-now-its-open Tardis door business at the beginning of Robot of Sherwood.

Unlike @Mudlark, I cannot promise to refrain from picking at such nits in future, sadly.  Im the perennial Sees The Trees But Misses The…[Read more]