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There is a great deal of catching up for me to do and it is probably a bit late in the day for me to be commenting on this thread, but I got to watch World Enough and Time only yesterday evening and need to collect my thoughts and, for preference, read the comments on that before contributing my ha’p’orth, so I may as well start here.

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@blenkinsopthebrave—

Such as the Simm Master’s need for a disguise. Bill is unaware of him, so is it just to surprise the audience?

Well, some of the Master’s previous disguises seemed to have been donned for no earthly reason too, so he does have form in this respect. I suspect he just likes them. But in this case I’m pretty sure Simm had a l…[Read more]

@blenkinsopthebrave I think I mentioned this here or elsewhere, but the pre-titles scene was actually shot just 2 weeks ago*, so I think Capaldi grew out his hair for it.  As for why he’s so disheveled, well, perhaps the real Doctor really gets put through the wringer in “The Doctor Falls”.  And he never did show so much as 5 o’clock shadow in “…[Read more]

Loved it. So many things to say, but I think they’ve mostly been covered already.

It strikes me that the dark, nightmarish world at the end of the spaceship where they are converting humanity into the first iteration of the Cybermen is like a dark, inverted version of the Nethersphere.

@Blenkinsopthebrave Yes, I thought that.

although it obviously…

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One thought in reflecting on this episode: SM puts himself head and shoulders above all other AG writers for me in part because of his delight in, and willingness to push up to the limit and beyond, various notions and perceptions of time. Here we had the different time rates at the top and bottom of the ship. His best monster does not obliterate…[Read more]

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@blenkinsopthebrave—

Now, back to the link with “A Matter of Life and Death”. The final image we are given in “World Enough and Time” is of Bill’s teardrop. In “A Matter of Life and Death” the heavenly court decides to allow the David Niven character to live, and the deciding factor is the teardrop that drops onto a rose from the girl who love…

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@nerys  @blenkinsopthebrave  Agreed; self-doubt rooted in a lively self-awareness that I don’t recall seeing much of in previous AG Doctors.  I get the sense of a very complex and sensitive subjectivity in this Doctor, and that’s part of both the hesitance and the impulsiveness that I see there.

@wolfweed  Old lady: I already knew that bec…[Read more]

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@blenkinsopthebrave:

I hope you are right. MT James? Is there a writer of ghost stories to compare with him? Wonderful writer.

@janetteb:   but now I will be disappointed if Capaldi doesn’t get the lead after reading the comments above. Yes he would be perfect

Yes he would.

Missy

@blenkinsopthebrave  Excellent points about “Deep Breath”.  I think Twelve’s self-doubt is one of the most heartrending aspects of his character.  As Moffat put it in the promo short for “The Return of Doctor Mysterio”, a truly good man doesn’t think he’s a good man.

Before I knew about the Series 10 story arc I was thinking that Missy would ha…[Read more]

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