@ps1l0v3y0u

 before Moffat was cut off at the knees

Ooh, tell me more.

@mudlark

@janetteb

@blenkinsopthebrave

@ps1l0v3y0u

On the Ruby question, I tend to agree with Mudlark on this. Otherwise, why show the scan on screen – it must be for a reason. Obviously, there is plenty of scope for jiggery-pokery with Ruby’s species from what we’ve seen…[Read more]

@blenkinsopthebrave. That is very Red Dwarf. The Ouroboros episode where Lister becomes his own father.

Another random speculation, is Ruby the Doctor’s mother. Now that I would hate. In some way Ruby is the opposite of Clara who is a “perfectly normal girl”, with parents, anchored in reality, who does something to make her extraordinary. Ruby…[Read more]

@blenkinsopthebrave

no crazier than any other theory.

Or did 15 recognise the woman who pointed? (Of course we don’t see anyone)

Also, 3,000 odd year old diagnosis of Ruby in Boom; if that is a subjective biological age for Ruby, why did abandoned Witchy Ruby turn up her toes in her eighties? Does she regenerate? So has she regenerated b…[Read more]

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Apologies for not seeming to acknowledge that you raised the point about Ruby recognising the Susan Twist before I did. You  posted while I was writing the above.

>For the first time, Ruby feels she recognizes the hiker played by Susan Twist. “Haven’t I seen you before?” or words to that effect. That also acknowledges that Ruby has previously seen Susan Twist’s face. (I know that it has been argued that while we, the audience, have seen the same face multiple times, that Ruby was never in actual eye contact…[Read more]

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Why does no one go to the police? That was when arrived UNIT wasn’t it? Which went well.

I did like the ‘can I pay with my phone?’ moment, when the audience all thought 73 meant 1973

Anyone checked out the name of the Welsh village for Thomasite Llareggyb meaning? I don’t have head for unlikely combination of conson…[Read more]

Haha @juniperfish

Great to back to proper bonkerising again!

How about Mrs Flood? Where does she fit in? I get the feeling we’re being distracted from her. (Flood, unfrozen snow, Pond, River… )

@blenkinsopthebrave

But why Larkin?

Well it COULD just be the poem, but the Doctor does make reference to the sad little man who wrote it… Course he…[Read more]

@Blenkinsopthebrave

Yes re the ambiguity of the last lines of the poem:

Our almost-instinct almost true: 
What will survive of us is love

And I’m back to thinking about the Master and the Doctor and their relationship.

We’ve got the Chekhov’s gun of finding out in The Giggle that the Master was imprisoned inside a gold tooth by The Toymaker…[Read more]

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Re the payoff. There may not be one, it could just be an RTD joke. Hopefully not.

Some decent stuff in this episode. It felt very familiar, probably due to a lot of themes being re-purposed. Not that that’s necessarily a bad thing.

As @craig said above, it was more Sci fi and dialled down the…[Read more]

@Juniperfish – Thanks for all the links, and insights (as always). The Owl and The Pussycat – a fave of mine too – and no, I didn’t realise its subtext either.  Re The Skye Boat Song – that’s also a call back to the Troughton era (the Yeti in London (recently rediscovered and revitalised)) – Troughton plays it on his flute. So there’s also a wee r…[Read more]

Cor, it’s lovely to read everyone’s wonderful ideas and memories of past episodes: the doctor’s ditty “the moon and the President’s wife.” I KNEW I recognised it from time past….

thank you to @juniperfish and to @scaryB @blenkinsopthebrave @mudlark and @craig

So much to read and ponder on and respond to! whee-hay!!
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@Blenkinsopthebrave Yes, and the Doctor quotes Philip Larkin at the end of the episode; “What will survive of us is love” which is from the poem An Arundel Tomb:

https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/47594/an-arundel-tomb

which is about a lovers’ tomb and contains a reference to snow:

“Persisted, linked, through lengths and breadths
Of time.…[Read more]

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@blenkinsopthebrave

I hate it when that happens (disappearing posts).

I was quite intrigued by Years and Years… not sure why I missed it. Well, competition for screen time. And early days of the culture war, maybe I felt I didn’t need ‘ideological’ guidance!

I still think Russ could have illustrated the difference effects of the demise of musi…[Read more]

@blenkinsopthebrave. I thought that Years and Years was Turn Left without the Doctor. Great series btw. The “something wicked this way comes to remake a caring civilisation in its own wicked image” could be/is a reflection of our world. Only I am not convinced that we have ever been a caring civilisation, but that is me being a cynic. The Doctor…[Read more]