@Arbutus

Its tougher to interpret all of what these episodes are telling us on a first viewing.

Sometimes we miss stuff. She’s a smart girl and I don’t think I should underestimate

why she follows Dr. Who.  But she has found Capaldi’ term less satisfying then the previous

Doctors.   Even though he was the right choice for a lot of us he ju…[Read more]

@puroandson @ichabod @allonsy @arbutus

Please don’t bother with our new ‘friend’. It’s always best to ignore. Am tempted to delete the posts but if we can show that we can take it, ignore, and move on I think that’s probably better.

Don’t waste your precious time – if you do they win.

I’d totally be up for a re watch of some of CC’s past work.   It would be very interesting to me

to read everyone’s ideas.         @puroandson          Please tell Mum that her observations will be

required too!    🙂

@Arbutus

Your post made me think about my niece’s  Zygon comment and  I might suggest to her that

some day she’ll b…[Read more]

Greetings Whovians everywhere! I’ve been a lurker for a few years but Season 9, especially The Husbands of River Song, has driven me out of the closet 😉 I just added the forum to my start page rss feeds so maybe I’ll be more inclined to comment from now on. I’ll try.

THoRS is the first (Amazon Instant Video) stand alone episode of any show that…[Read more]

@jimthefish  @arbutus @pedant   Thanks all!  I don’t have Netflix but I am going to my sons for a few days and he does. I will marathon watch a few episodes  and let you all know what I think. Years ago I saw the movie and it was ok if I remember correctly. We are very snowy and cold (-4 C) here so lots of reasons to stay inside by my fire and wat…[Read more]

@arbutus — can’t get the thing to load, but will keep trying.  @pedant   *Love* those headless monks!

@Arbutus

That’s glorious.

How the Headless Monks Perform Choral Work

@notime – transcripts (mostly accurate, I have seen a few errors) here: http://www.chakoteya.net/

@arbutus – I agree with you about perceptions. It colors everything we do in life. I can absolutely see her being so stuck in “he only has these 12 faces” that it never even occurs to her that something could happen and he could have more.…[Read more]

Some lovely posts, still working through all of them!

Agree with @Winston that River doesn’t really notice that the Doctor has a different face – she sees under that. Likewise the Doctor doesn’t particularly notice superficial changes in his companions – he vaguely notices River’s done something with her hair, and comments about Clara’s…[Read more]

@arbutus @puroandson

My problem with Clara was that for two seasons I didn’t know who exactly she was or what was her status. In her first series she had been someone like a usual companion. A human girl who is Doctor’s assistant/friend/want to be a girlfriend. It was fine, but it didn’t work really well for me. In the next season she became…[Read more]

@arbutus  I don’t think that the Doctor’s statement about sensing other Time Lords can be taken as fact any longer. 

Agreed — I suspect that that’s one of those remarks (like McGann and “half-human”) that the writers have been trying to wriggle out from under ever since, mainly by just forgetting all about it.  Now that Gallifrey is unfroz…[Read more]

@arbutus @puroandson @midnyt

Yes, I thought about that. If we want to be so down-to-earth it will always ends with: time can be rewritten/not always time can be rewritten (sorry, Steven Moffat had bad mood this time); I’m the last one of my kind/ but guess what, I’m not (this season we have a bigger budget); I would create another paradox and…[Read more]

@arbutus

I would expect that River as a part Time Lord should sense another Time Lord in her presence. I think it was 10 and at that point he was convinced that he’s the last of his kind, who said that if there where any living Time Lords he would sense them.

Oh, and River had also a picture of the War Doctor. How nice. Shame she hasn’t met the…[Read more]

@Arbutus and @Puroandson

I hope any resident Mercians here are fine. Right not it sounds as though much of “Mercia” is under water. (Gotta love the government saying, just get used to this kind of thing and waterproof your homes. I wonder if they are going to provide any guidelines as to how to do that or give out any financial assistance for…[Read more]

@puroandson  Puro Solo,  the little reference to Clara’s tune when River begs the Doctor to find a loophole and he says “sometimes things end”,

Okay, that answers my major question: this is CapDoc *post-Clara*, having traveled back in time to a Christmas season between Angels Take Manhattan and Silence in the Library.  This is the echo we need…[Read more]

@cpgolfer

Killing off River would be a huge mistake she’s one of the most unique characters of the franchise with the right actress playing her. They left her mind trapped in a planet sized library I think someone as clever as she is would use all that knowledge and a teleporter that converts matter to energy and vise versa talk about the ult…

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@lisa  I saw and loved the snowy opening credits. I also hope for more Doctor and River adventures as these two are great together. This reminded me of the old 40’s movie comedies like the Thin Man with all that flirty banter and witty wisecracks. More please Mr. Moffat.

@arbutus  I caught the Stephen Fry remark and I bet he loved i…[Read more]

hi all – apologies for being missing in inaction.

Firstly – nice one @pedant for the NHS tune and cause. How do I download a thousand?
And Bieber – benefit of the doubt in terms of his avocation of a public healthcare system that doesn’t discriminate against you if you are poor, yet suffer the same ailment as someone richer?

sure.

But his PR…[Read more]

@arbutus

How nice to see that even here there are fans of pierogi. I’m going to do some tommorow with my Grandad. That’s probably the most famous slavic dish.

I want to thank you for the fantastic season and fascinating discussions. You are such great people. Happy Christmas to all from Poland.

@Arbutus

perogy store to open

I had to look that up. You have whole stores for them?