@blenkinsopthebrave  In fact, what might be called for is a visit from “her indoors” to give him a bit of perspective.

Who would that be?  The Tardis in person, maybe?  *Somebody* will sure have to help get him through the sads.  If they can catch him: “I’ll run and I’ll run” (he said it himself).  He might set the Tardis for “any universe…[Read more]

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The idea that the Doctor has been trying to figure out something (about Clara?) since he became Capaldi rings true with the first series and aligned with the concept he has been trying to save her from a fate he has known all along ….

Well Ashildr certainly might mean (referring to companions) that she will protect them…[Read more]

@jphamlore  But above all the episode is about what is just, what is fair, what is balanced. In the end Ashildr decides her role is to try and be some sort of balance in the lives of those who survive the visitation of a demigod the Doctor.

Love it!  “Justice” is a card that I always have trouble with, maybe because I’m a Libra, and as such h…[Read more]

Thinking about the scenes that were chosen to show as bits of Me’s life.
Losing babies, faking death, soldiering and also working as a nurse on several
occasions with people suffering from diseases showing that she values life but she
still feels death is justified. All these experiences shaped her and must be making
the case for maybe…[Read more]

@spacedmunkee  yes I thought it strange that ashildr would be so dismissive of Clara, given she helped her and was so nice to her in previous episode. Possibly she was jealous that the doctor chooses to travel with a “Mayfly” rather than her

I think so too — she clearly had expected that Clara was long gone, being just a mayfly, so Clara’s stil…[Read more]

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My latest thought is that the Doctor made Ashildr immortal for the precise purpose of following (guarding?) Clara through the her life/lives, and…to be there at the end. In other words to oversee Clara’s end.

I rather like this, but I think the creation of Me was born a little too much out of passion to support the Doctor as cr…[Read more]

@blenkinsopthebrave      Personally, I would love this. I was always sorry that they didn’t explore this a little bit more after Eleven lost Amy. Ten travelled alone for awhile after the Donna fiasco, and although I didn’t love everything about those specials, I did enjoy the flexibility that came from the lack of a permanent companion. I try to a…[Read more]

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Oh, now we have hayness with added racism!

(I must admit I thought hayness was just the feeling of having an allergic reaction to grass pollen, as in “Every spring I feel really hayness, and it last for weeks.”

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Yeah – I’m a little sceptical. She’s 800 years old, has been around a bit and even been a queen. A meeting with Missy would be sufficient. Not convinced it is necessary.

@sirclockface

The problem with Ellie is that her scrapbook of things to do started when she was 11-ish (as @pufferfish notes), so she would need to be an…[Read more]

@blenkinsopthebrave True, Moffat does play with us, but what about the Nightmare Child?  What do you think of that theory?  Same?  Just a coincidence, or throwing us some fun, or could Clara become the Nightmare Child?  Or even Achildr?

@winston  After a while you think that the pain is not worth it and you decide “no more pets” I think this is how the Doctor and Me and all immortals must feel once in awhile. Shoud they take the risk and enjoy their companions lives ,however fleeting ,or give up and go it alone.

Yes, it’s a feeling very familiar to pet owners.  Most of us give…[Read more]

@blenkinsopthebrave K.9 as a kind of robot Gromit? Yes. I would expect if Gromit could talk he would have John Leeson’s voice. I was still at school when K.9 was introduced and though far from the age that I suspect he was aimed at I always had a soft spot for K.9.

Hopefully the film will no resemble the TV series which I think sunk without…[Read more]

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Just back at the computer after taking another look at the last couple of minutes of the episode… The use of “she deserved it” didn’t seem untowards. I took the exchange in the sense of, say, someone winning a prize for her efforts and an onlooker agreeing that the prizewinner indeed deserved it.

Seeing that last scene in…[Read more]

@lisa, @blenkinsopthebrave, @purofilion, @ichabod  cheers! It was a very cool trip. Rewatched Fires Of Pompeii last night. Loved it even more now! No jet-lag, only 1 hour time difference from the UK so no probs there.

Ok, now caught up with comments. Overall I really enjoyed the episode. The scene cut from the practicing with real swords to the u…[Read more]

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There was  some cheering here in our huose when the election results started coming in. I will even admit to a happy dance.  Although my riding stayed conservative we still have a new Prime Minister.Ten years was a long time to put up with Harper. Now we can take a deep breath and turn Canada back  into the country…[Read more]

@blenkinsopthebrave     Was that not the most bizarre and frightening display of desperation you have ever seen? I truly couldn’t believe it, I had actually credited Harper with a bit of dignity. And it accomplished nothing, since the Liberals took suburban Toronto in the end anyway. Apparently Ford Nation is not the mighty force that we were…[Read more]

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Follow your nose, the more Cheddary you get the closer you are, once you can gorge yourself on Somerset Brie, watch out for the mites going up as your tights come down you’ll be there 😉

@blenkinsopthebrave keeping my eyes peeled!!!!

@blenkinsopthebrave  I’m *always* on the look out for Silurians . . .

Perhaps out of the mist it’s possible to glimpse an arc.

If in The Woman Woman Who Lived the Doctor realises he indeed made a “terrible mistake” (his words) in letting Ashildr become “functionally immortal” so that she could become a tidal wave of mayhem rather than a mere benign ripple in time, then later the Doctor will be in what will be for h…[Read more]

@blenkinsopthebrave Thank you. Clara is such a great character and I’m glad that I could put her personally into words.