Ah yes I remember now, I mentioned how the tarot theory had the doctor labelled as a magician, and thus made Clara the magician’s apprentice (as shown by the episodes that have followed) The fact that there is a snake on the Magician card reflects regeneration, but it’s specifically as an Oroboros belt, which could mean a bootstrap paradox. and…[Read more]

Greetings @soundworld, I too had been expecting another Snake to appear but alas not. Some time over the last to weeks I mentioned Oroboros on here, but I can’t remember which thread or what I said, I’ll go find it now now and then post it again on this thread for you to see.

Does anyone else get the feeling that Moffat is just trying to reference Magic as many times as possible now?

Not going to read anything yet, I’m only 10 minutes in to the episode, but alarm bells are already ringing with a functionally immortal girl who owns a large library and is annoyed that she doesn’t have enough memory to remember everything.

@purofilion I am not well read on the Cartmel Plan at all, but considering it’s to do with Mcgann I would presume so, which fits in nicely if you follow the belief Moffat is redoing it now with different names

Late night bonkerising now. So Davros assumed that the reason The Doctor fled Gallifrey was because of his part in creating a hybrid. But what if the Doctor IS the hybrid? Some reports says he’s human on his mother’s side, and who’s more warmongering than the Gallifreyans and Humans?

Only just caught up on the reading, my computer kind of went crazy for a few days. Apologies to @purofilion and @janetteb for the delay. I’m amazed you think of me as a good source for Tarot though. I only started looking into it when it was first mentioned in relation to this series and all research I’ve done on it has come from the internet.…[Read more]

Following on from that, I’ve just done a little bit more research on tarot and found something very interesting. So in TMa, and throughout the series in general CapDoc has been referred to as a Magician. Now if I remember correctly this forum came to the conclusion that the apprentice was Davros. But what if there was more than one? What if it was…[Read more]

@CountScarlioni @ozitenor A link to an episode including Medusa? Multiple snakes already this series? On running theme of people dying but not dying? A pill to make people immortal/ A lengthy explanation of bootstrap paradoxes? The continuous references to tarot, coupled with what a snake card means? Anyone else thinking what I’m thinking???

Right well first things first I completely forgot about her father still being alive, so Ashildr can’t be Jenny.

As for the rest of the episode it was a very unusual first part for a two parter, never seen it like this before. Until it actually said To Be Continued I was starting to doubt my memory of it being called a 2-Parter.

The cloister…[Read more]

I’m 8 minutes from the end of the episode but I’ve paused it to just voice my theory on those final 8 minutes. Please Please Please let her be Jenny, it would fit so perfectly! (I’ll do a full review in a few minutes but it’s a great episode so far)

@pedant A – Good use of the word “mean”
B – 4 goals in 6 for England would suggest otherwise

@pedant *flaunts large array of footballing firsts at you*

That awkward moment where you realise you still haven’t properly introduced yourself after nearly a month of posting because you didn’t know of the existence of this thread. Time to rectify that I think!

I’m Ben, and I’m from SE England, though having just started Uni I’m in S Wales. As somebody who has only seen AG Who (I don’t count catching an…[Read more]

Wow that took a lot of catching up!!! Shouldn’t have let myself get over 3 pages behind. So much that I hadn’t thought of has been raised to me now though so it’s all good. (I can’t remember who posted what on the prior pages so apologies)

re: Clara –> Nethersphere. I feel like this is a strong bit of bonkerising, especially considering the…[Read more]

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I’m going to be honest, this wasn’t my favourite episode, I much preferred the first part. There was far too much breaking the fourth wall and far too little Fisher King action for my liking.
There were some great touches though, I loved the bit with Cass and Moran, I guarantee that it will have had many children hiding, and at the same time it…[Read more]

@mudlark you wouldn’t expect them to fall under the songbird grouping, but they do. Ravens belong to the family of crows, and they are songbirds despite common beliefs (which are mainly rooted from their seeming inability to sing). Corvids make horrible sounds, but still fall under the larger branching term, so Ravens are songbirds.