• Arbutus replied to the topic The Time of The Doctor

    @juniperfish @Timeloop

    Brilliant parallel between the writing on this forum and literary criticism. In any kind of mythology, a writer doesn’t have to even try to create layers of meaning. Readers can find them all by themselves! As we do here with Doctor Who. Good writers, well-read themselves, call upon pre-existing tropes and ideas without…[Read more]

  • Arbutus replied to the topic The Time of The Doctor

    @geoffers
    You’re right about the slower pace, it did give it a bit of BG feel. I liked that, although I could still have done with a few more minutes so that a bit of the shoelace-tying could have been a little less frantic. Great notion that the angels only send you into the past if they can see you! A nice tidy explanation for the problematic…[Read more]

  • Arbutus replied to the topic The Time of The Doctor

    @Whisht    Matt Smith actually says, at one point, “a whole new regeneration cycle”. So he certainly thinks that’s what he’s been given. I guess time will tell if he is right.  🙂

    Loving the definition of “Tasha Lem”!

  • Arbutus replied to the topic The Time of The Doctor

    @Juniperfish @ScaryB
    I like the idea that the Doctor’s centuries of commitment to the people of Trenzalore allow him to “grow up”, something which the War Doctor noted that he definitely was not when the three doctors met in DotD. If the Doctor had not come to terms with his history, redeemed his past self and rescued Gallifrey, he would have…[Read more]

  • Arbutus replied to the topic The Time of The Doctor

    @Bluesqueakpip   @nicelyuseless   @ScaryB   @PhaseShift

    On Doctor numbering: In my mind, the numbers of the doctors, like names, have become so intrinsically linked to their faces and personalities that I doubt I could separate them now. When I think “Ninth Doctor”, I see Eccelston and all his swagger, and “Tenth Doctor” brings up the emoti…[Read more]

  • Arbutus replied to the topic General Music thread

    Oops, also meant to say:    @ScaryB  Love it, both the song and its DW reference. And @Juniperfish, yes indeed, that is brilliant.   🙂

     

  • Arbutus replied to the topic General Music thread

    Happy birthday, DWF! Here’s a birthday wish for all of you courtesy of Neil Young and his friends (and a wish for the Doctor on the occasion of his regeneration).

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gttIc5avsZw

  • Arbutus replied to the topic The Time of The Doctor

    @BESD1     @Phaseshift     “It does seem to suggest that the Time Lords (and Doctors) fears about them being frozen in that moment in an alternative Universe were unfounded. Time seems to play out at some pace on the other side.” Or is the question looped over again because the Time Lords are frozen in a discrete slice of time during which they ca…[Read more]

  • Arbutus replied to the topic The Time of The Doctor

    @d12345

    You say that “the 50th was supposed to be about the time war” and “it was supposed to be at least 15-20min of daleks with their plan against the multi doctors and their plan , a little bit of fighting ,explosions, and some interesting evil villans plan ,and then the doctors find a solution of the problem in somekind of mindblowing…[Read more]

  • Arbutus replied to the topic The Time of The Doctor

    Really, guys, I was only away for three days. Whilst I was communing with my sister arbutus trees during the day, and enjoying lots of lovely pinot noir in the evening, you all were going crazy on here. I expect that it will take me until 2014 to get caught up.  🙂

    @PhaseShift     The Doctor had previously stated in the Doctor 10 Cybermen two…[Read more]

  • Arbutus replied to the topic The Time of The Doctor

    @Bluesqueakpip      The Eleventh also appears to have completely forgotten his chat with The Curator and their discussion about Gallifrey surviving. That fits with ‘The Curator’ being another future incarnation of The Doctor; the Smith Doctor – being an earlier incarnation – can’t retain the memory of that conversation, not if the timeline…[Read more]

  • Arbutus replied to the topic The Time of The Doctor

    @shashank

    Well, how about this? The Doctor didn’t recruit all of his former selves, only the first one. When they used the sonic screwdriver to break down the door, only the Hurt Doctor (the earliest) put the data into the sonic. The others retrieved the data later. It was the same for the calculations needed to hide Gallifrey; the Hartnell…[Read more]

  • Arbutus replied to the topic The Time of The Doctor

    @Bluesqueakpip    Yes, I think that @purofilion called that as well. I recognized the music but didn’t identify it. @rmifaabsbb, I guess that in eight months or so, we will find out whether the Doctor really has changed from “the one who forgets”, or whether this was only wishful thinking on his part.    🙂

  • Arbutus replied to the topic The Time of The Doctor

    @purofilion     In this fairy tale he was much ‘smaller’ but all the more ‘bigger’ for staying in this little town and celebrating every victory with the townspeople. No doubt he’d also attended every birth and wedding -remember how he only came to weddings for the dancing? Now, he’d have no excuse to miss any of it!

    Okay, I’ve been trying not to…[Read more]

  • Arbutus replied to the topic The Time of The Doctor

    @Bluesqueakpip

    I will admit that I had assumed in favour of the loopiness. Previous incarnations have often been quite confused for awhile (Five and Eight suffering full-on amnesia for awhile), so I don’t think I even thought twice about this one. The Master was apparently given a new regeneration cycle during the Time War, and, other than when…[Read more]

  • Arbutus replied to the topic The Time of The Doctor

    @Bluesqueakpip    What have I missed? Why won’t the Capaldi Doctor remember his previous lives?

    Whether he remembers or not, however, I agree that the Doctor’s exact age is probably not really relevant. I believe that he has made a few remarks now suggesting that he no longer pays attention to the matter.

  • Arbutus replied to the topic The Time of The Doctor

    @Miapatrick     To me there was a particular chaos about this Doctor which fits well with this.    Yes, I like this characterization. He had a very explosive personality, didn’t he, lots of spinning around and waving of arms.

    @Scatamonky     His future tomb at Trenzalore has now been averted? So Clara never did jump into his timestream but then a…[Read more]

  • Arbutus replied to the topic On The Sofa (4)

    @purofilion

    I watched late in the night and wept alone. But I knew that I had this forum to look forward to in the morning!  🙂

    I hope your Christmas was merry, with the sunshine and the shellfish (trying saying that aloud!). I thought of you yesterday, when I opened my son’s Christmas present. It was a cover art poster of the Australian band,…[Read more]

  • Arbutus replied to the topic On The Sofa (4)

    Well, I must admit that I watched the show at about ten past midnight, after my family had gone to bed and the episode had become available for download on iTunes. You get by how you can. (Raises a glass in salute.)

    Welcome, @ToriJ. You will find discussion here all right, some of it will make your head spin!  🙂

  • Arbutus replied to the topic The Time of The Doctor

    @ScaryB     Time Lords age like everything else, it just takes a bit longer.    I wondered whether the Doctor aged so much in this case because the entire time was spent in real time and space, outside of the TARDIS/time vortex? Previously he lived four hundred years and didn’t age at all.

    But the Doctor and Clara need to have avatars to board…[Read more]

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