I was wondering just precisely why the Blitzer thingie was attracted to the Coal Hill School area…

Might it have something to do with the fact that the Hand of Omega was located in the area for many years? Perhaps some Imperial Dalek tech was still around in the school’s basement?

I enjoyed this one, but not as much as Time Heist, as it was wasn’t as Timey-Wimey. A solid and enjoyable, if not effervescent entry in the series: 3 to 3 and a half stars.

My wife was a little put off, as she said that she found the attitude to Clara, dialogue between Clara and Danny at the end, to be rather sexist, as if she was some trophy to…[Read more]

@DrBen

The diagram, like so many of Moffat’s stories, would be a perfect circle.

Aww – but wibbley wobbley circles are so much more fun than perfect ones!

@Bluesqueakpip – Actually, I really like the TARDIS solution to the Ouraboros plot (doesn’t Karabraxos sound a bit like Ouraboros – same rhythm of syllables) – after all, we know that Sexy c…[Read more]

@JimboMcMaster

I’m confused why she phoned him, presumably she felt guilty about the Teller’s mate in the cell, wanted him/her freed.

I was a bit disappointed about her motivation – I was hoping that she had had some sort of change of mind about her clones, and that she was going to ask the Doctor to rescue them one-by-one as they were each abo…[Read more]

@ScaryB

So the chap that got souped was just an innocent bystander? I must be missing something here – was he part of the set up all along, who volunteered to get souped?

@ScaryB

I believe that they teleported to a ship in orbit, where the Tardis was also stowed.

I really enjoyed that episode.

I have 2 questions though:

1) How did the Doctor know that there would be another bank robber trying to enter the bank at the same time as them? (easy enough for a Time Traveller, I guess, but it wasn’t explicitly pointed out in the episode as far as I remember)

2) If it was that easy to get into the BankTrooper…[Read more]

Just finished a contract and I now have some free time. Therefore, I thought, what better or more productive way could I spend it than in watching  all four parts of TotC back-to-back.

Now, I understand that ,strictly speaking, back-to-back  is not in the spirit of this week-by-week episode thread, but I do hope you’ll all forgive me!

A bit of b…[Read more]

Finally reset my password to get back on the site!

My suggestions for a male doctor:

• I know he has been mooted as a possibility before, but surely if he was available Benedict Cumberbatch would be […]

I apologise if this has been brought up before on other threads, but with all the @PennyInTheAir bonkers theorizing about blood calling to blood, and the heritage of Clara…

Amy and Rory are human, […]

@DenValdron

Personally, I like the notion of the Cushing Doctor as a real rather than fictional entity in the Doctor Who universe.Ergo, for these reasons, I think that my theory of the Cushing Doctor as a […]

@DenValdron

I always imagined that the Cushing Doctor was a construct of the Daleks early in their history, using information that they had actually gleaned from their two early interactions with the Hartnell […]

My favourite companion would probably be Amy, as I felt that she seemed to be the most fleshed-out (but not necessarily well-rounded) character to accompany the Doctor.

As my first memory of the show is the […]

@budinacup – Lorna Bucket (in A Good Man Goes To War) embroiders a prayer leaf with the name of Amy and Rory’s baby. The Tardis translates the name “Melody Pond” as “River Song”, this proving to all that River is […]

@MTGradwell

Aha! – It makes perfect sense that GallifreyClara is a projection of the TARDIS and not a Gallifreyan –  that had already been hinted at during Hide when Clara appears to appear to herself.

So, […]

@SatsumaJoe

At the end of The War Games (series 6), the Timelords exile the Doctor to Earth, wipe his companions’ memories of their travels with him, and force him to regenerate into Jon Pertwee for series […]

@ScaryB

So are we back to HurtDr being possibly preHartnell (has that one still got legs?), between 8/9, or between 10/11 or he’s after 11?

You forgot between 2 and 3. I see that as the only other good […]

@JimTheFish

I’m still going for Hurt being Doc Nine.

I’ve not visited the spoiler thread – I’ve kept well clear of spoilers since I read the novelisation of Return of the Jedi in 1983, which kind of ruined the […]

Apologies if this has been suggested before:

Perhaps we have been treated to A variation on the bow-tie theories mentioned ever since Time of Angels:

Red: Timeline as messed up by the GI
Blue: Timeline as […]

@PhileasF

I now expect that in every episode until the end of the series, even long after JLC has left, we’ll see Clara, in a crowd scene, on a screen, peeking around a corner. Not participating in the episode, […]