@ardaraith
Children’s drawings? Oh no, don’t tell me the girl from Fear Her is coming back.

@ardaraith Oh, you are bad. I wanna look, but I don’t want to look. Im going to ned. Nighty-night.

@ardaraith What?!?!?! Is that the new picture?? Link?? God, I am supposed to sleep X_x!

@ardaraith I haven’t seen them, but I will do a double-fishy two bow-ties dance of joy if dark Eleven (Valeyard) vs Eleven comes to fruition.

@ardaraith – The Mark of the Rani

@Bluesqueakpip and @ardaraith the votes for a Who nativity scene of sorts are piling up… excellent!

I’d love to see River on-screen one more time before Smith goes, maybe Amy and Rory too. 

It would be time-travel-tastic (that sounds like an Eleven-ism) if River and the Doctor’s daughter had been adopted by Amy and Rory (her grand…[Read more]

Wild Christmas speculation (with a promise I have not seen any of the spoilers that are, perhaps, out there – this is genuine speculation!)

Doubling – are we done with it?

We’ve had many a story involving two time streams and those proved to be narrative foreshadowing (yay bow-tie obsession)  culminating in the “Day of the Doctor” and the two t…[Read more]

Per my (completely ignored, sniff) post on the DotD thread, I wonder if the Doc’s memory loss will be linked in some way to the Silence and their memory wiping abilities? Or possibly the mind worm from Snowmen.

Agree with @Shazzbot that we’ll be out of the Doc’s collapsing timestream faster than you can say Raxacoricofallapatorius (or even Clom).…[Read more]

Eleven was reading a book on quantum mechanics at the beginning of the episode. (@ardaraith says that’s because they’re still stuck in the time stream, which is a lovely idea). I also think it was a clue from Moffat that things were going to get quite timey-wimey.

Isn’t there a multiverse theory, one that Heinlein used quite often, that every…[Read more]

@ardaraith

thaf theory makes a lot of sense if I can add to it?

when smith said in TDOTD that the timelines have split I wonder if the one where galifrey falls

no more is like a dream If they are still in time stream

@Juniperfish

Okay I watched it. And I have to agree with you. Looks like the two stream facility idea I settled for earlier. Gallifrey looks so different. Definitely after the time lock (and supposedly burning). So maybe in the version we have seen this weekend the Timelords have not yet decided that they will end time itself.

But that would…[Read more]

Lot’s of good stuff to read here (@pedant, @timeloop, @wolfweed, @scaryb)

OK, Deep breath, here are my somewhat organised ramblings. I’ve tried to mention the people who sparked of my thoughts. Sorry if I missed anyone.

Numbering: @Hudsey, thanks for the info direct from Moffatt regarding the numbers. I was already getting confused before this…[Read more]

@Bluesqueakpip @Ardaraith

Re still being in the timestream – and just when I’d finally theorised them out of it! (Took me 6 months that did!) May have to go back to sitting on the fence.

But  it can still work without them still being in the decaying timestram. Having sorted out his dodgy past, and presumably finally got rid of the angst,…[Read more]

@Bluesqueakpip @ardaraith

She also seemed very attracted to that photo of Susan (which I admit might just be a reference back to 1963, just as we saw a female teacher (Clara) with a male teacher at Coal Hill school).

And a male teacher in full Brylcreem style at that!

I liked the photo touch – I’d go for the simple tribute, except that style of…[Read more]

@ardaraith – yes, I noticed the finger snapping. The TARDIS suddenly likes Clara enough to close her doors to a snap of her fingers? There’s also a vague implication that they’ve been together for quite some time; Clara’s a teacher now.

Being a teacher at Coal Hill School does suggest that the Doctor can, perhaps, only get to places he’s already…[Read more]

@ardaraith I like the idea too (that they are still in the Doctor’s time stream).

I also noticed on a re-watch that Clara is positioned as Barbara (working in a school with a young fellow male teacher coming to tell her about the Doctor). I don’t think Clara is River but she may still turn out to be the nanny – all those Mary Poppins parallels we…[Read more]

@ardaraith

A few (read loads) of tweeters pointed out that, if the Tardis just made the Doctor a new sonic every time he lost one, as in Eleventh Hour, then giving one away to River (per SiL/FotD) was hardly as special as made out. To which he replied: Oh, er OH LOOK! KITTENS!

Now, if it is always his, with just a new case the specialness is…[Read more]

You can always find something you don’t like when you stubbornly keep looking for it. It saddens me that so many in the interwebs feel entitled to so much ARSE. Telling them what they should have done. Moffat has packed so much in this one episode. I was afraid there would not be enough time to get through it all in time but he managed it…[Read more]

I don’t know @pedant  I think @DenValdron ‘s criticisms are valid tbh.

I enjoyed the episode in so many ways, not least (which I haven’t mentioned yet) the cinematography. The shot which took us from planetary explosion to a coffee cup was particularly beautiful. I enjoyed most of all, the collective experience of sharing fifty years of the pro…[Read more]