@lisa I think I shall pop down to St Pauls this afternoon, and take some photographic evidence, just to make sure!

@lisa I was wondering if it might be a tip of the hat to Inspector Spacetime:

@lisa Also, I think she has the red telephone box as a tardis now

This seems very likely, because:

1) Missy appears outside the one on Peter’s Hill (just down from St. Pauls) before the Doctor has had time to run down from the door of the cathedral

2) In real life, there *isn’t* a red telephone box there!

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One thing I noticed was that, the sight of the TARDIS dematerialising on a street in broad daylight now seems to be a totally unremarkable event, as the bystanders just go about their business without even pausing, let alone stopping to gawp.

I suppose having an army of silver cyborgs pop up out of the ground will do that to the public!

Well, I’ve finally got around to watching the finale, and I was greatly impressed. It was probably the best episode of the season. I enjoyed practically all aspects of it. Some high points for me, in no particular order:

• The teaser opening – Clara’s announcement that she was the Doctor was hilarious, especially when it showed her eyes durin…

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@Mudlark

To be honest, I wouldn’t be surprised if the recursion problem has been forgotten by the production team, or even just conveniently ignored. It would be the best thing to do if it interfered with the story they want to tell.

@pedant @Mudlark @ScaryB @Blenkinsopthebrave

If the Master’s TARDIS is the mausoleum, then the Doctor’s TARDIS has materialised inside it, which would cause a recursion problem, which doesn’t appear to have occured in this instance.

@flirtingdinosaur I’m afraid that Sara was always fated to die! From the wikipedia article about her:

As Steven watches helplessly, Sara ages and dies, her remains aging to dust.

@geoffers or, the most probable thing: the tardis took clara and the doctor back in time a bit, to the mausoleum, at the very instant that danny woke up in the nethersphere…

That would seem to be the sensible theory to go with in a show about time travel, but the Doctor’s words to Clara when instructing her to use the telepathic circuits were…[Read more]

Welcome to @melodypondisriversong and @Whovianami – looking forward to hearing your thoughts on the latest AG stories, and maybe lure you into a few of the BG classics!

Yay! I’ve just ordered Spearhead From Space on Blu-Ray and Image of the Fendahl and Meglos on DVD. I’m going to have me some ’70s-style viewing after this weekend’s Capaldi finale!

No spoilers please, as I’ve not seen any of these stories before!

@DrBen Something else just occurred to me.  As DW is still ostensibly a family show, there’s no way that Moff could get away with suggesting that Danny and Clara engaged in pre-marital sex.

Why not?

@Bluesqueakpip The time jump is from the phone call to her standing in the road with the cars going round her; her clothes change to show that time has passed, and there’s now a roadside memorial to Danny.

Hmm – this has made me realise something…

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@CourtK0027 What happened to the Master?

I don’t know how familiar with BG episodes you are, but the Master has a history of apparently dying, and then reappearing in a later story with no explanation of how he escaped. The guy was vaped by the Daleks at one point, and still managed to survive!

Since the drumming in his head was essentially caused…

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@AleX Off all the specials Waters of Mars is just epic, it’s actually one of my favorite who stories ever!

Totally agreed – Waters of Mars has absolutely the best adversary of the AG era – it had no explanation, motivation or history – it was just plain terrifying looking.

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@AleX I just don’t agree with Martha and Mickey ending up togheter, I can’t say I liked it was like more a wathever moment, I think they were well developed and actually kinda makes sense that they end up togheter after all they went trhough with the Doctor and the time the spent together at UNIT.

I think my issue was partly because:

a) It came…[Read more]

@AleX How do I quote a post on this forum? Can’t find the quote post button anywhere!

Hi AleX – you have to do it manually!

Just copy and paste the text you want to quote into your reply, then use the “Blockquote” formatting button (between Italic and Strikethrough). The paragraph where your cursor is will then be indented, and shown in bold it…[Read more]

@DrBen What is the deal with the sister reappearing in the hydrangeas?

For some reason, the sister reappearing in the hydrangeas as a result of magical action by golden particles in the air reminded me of the nanogene cloud from The Doctor Dances. Perhaps the magical tree spirits are nanogenes “in the wild”, so to speak.

“Clara, my Clara”

Everyone seems to be thinking that this means that Missy has chosen Clara for some sort of nefarious purpose – but what if it is the other way round – what if Missy is referring to when Clara came and tried to comfort her as a small boy, and gave him Dan the Soldier man?

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@Brewski Could the Dark Water tanks have anything to do with the repeated mention of Clara’s ability to hold her breath?

That would certainly be “for the dads”, as the euphemism goes, since all non living inorganic material would be rendered invisible by the Dark Water, so all we would see would be skin.

And eyes.

Big, big eyes.