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@blenkinsopthebrave @purofilion I  like the drawing on Slavic water spirit mythology – definitely the porcelain coffin/ porcelain cup suggests a nod to that.

@Missy In terms of this vs last season – it’s a bit early to say. Something I didn’t enjoy were the random one off kids who went on adventures with Clara  – Courteney in Kill The Moon and e…[Read more]

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Some preliminary thoughts:

I am wondering, too, why the Doctor didn’t retrieve the sonic when he went back.

Laughed out loud at “the only other chair on Skaro”. Oh Moffat. Stealing your own joke from The Curse of the Fatal Death.   (That had sewers in it too.  Must been nostalgic that day 😉 )

@blenkinsopthebrave you know, it COULD be that t…[Read more]

@ichabod    I love your description of the Davros/Doctor conversation. You’re right. Even while I watched, knowing that there was an underlying plot, it was just heartbreaking when the plot was finally revealed. Because you sensed one of those moments where something might have been changed for the better, if Davros had only been up for it. In f…[Read more]

@blenkinsopthebrave. Ah, thanks.  But no! Keep yourself hatted. I was not the first to suggest the hand mines would be the target.

However, I am pleased to say I retained my zero percent average in predictions.  That the Doctor’s compassion is what made Davros who he is because he resented living.   Totally not!   Lol.

@juniperfish  I like your conclusion — a bit of good eked out of a massively destructive confrontational node for all our main players . . . even Davros got something, a dash of warm contact with the Doctor, out of it.  And yes, yes, yes, “The Chariot” = the Tardis — the vehicle that takes you where you need to go!

@Kharis  Of course, The Ha…[Read more]

@blenkinsopthebrave great quote!  @Mudlark completely agree.

The show is complex and creative, just like children

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I am reminded of the Groucho Marx line: “This thing is so simple, a six-year old child could do it. Someone run out and get me a six-year old child”.

Oh, yes!  Those (not least certain trolls who infest the Guardian CiF comments) who dismiss Doctor Who as ‘just a kids’ show’ in a derogatory manner, clearly have very little co…[Read more]

@blenkinsopthebrave  This is beginning to get confusing. You posted #43624 before I had finished mine above.

So, to continue, the Doctor may have been able to make an informed guess as to what Davros might want of him, and no doubt his preparations included exhaustive research into all things Skaroene, including the sewers, but I still don’t thin…[Read more]

@blenkinsopthebrave   Well, presumably the Doctor didn’t know beforehand what Davros wanted; he was simply reading and second-guessing him as the game played out, and when it comes to the crunch he can reason and calculate at far more than light speed. So he seized on the cues and clues that Davros was giving him, taking each of them a step furt…[Read more]

@blenkinsopthebrave  Ha ha!  True, sunglasses indoors has a prat feel to it.  I always assume the person is just hungover. (:

@Kharis   If we were judging solely by the way that Missy prodded and goaded Clara early on in the episode into reaching an understanding of why the Doctor always survived, then yes, it might just about be interpreted as an example of the kind of ‘tough love’ you describe, though I think that even that can be very damaging if practiced wi…[Read more]

@blenkinsopthebrave I don’t see the glasses as cool, I see them as another way to hide his face.  Also, I live in Silicon Valley, so it just seems like a incognito version of Google glass.

@blenkinsopthebrave   Yes, ‘Your sewers are revolting’ .  A line no Doctor or, for that matter, any schoolchild (of my generation, at least) could possibly resist in the circumstances.  One might almost suspect Moffat of having devised the whole denouement in order to provide a pretext for it   😈

Well, rewatch done and still feeling exhilarated by it. @JanetteB sorry you didn’t hook into this one so much – maybe a rewatch will improve it. I think the “mercy” thing is always there in the Daleks  – the Doctor realises he has to go back to young Davros to close the loop by implanting the concept.  And presumably always did.  The war da…[Read more]

@blenkinsopthebrave Fear not, I am certain what has already been observed in the time line must take place. But what Dr Who has shown is that these observed events are roles. Just as it was observed that the Doctor appeared to be killed by River Song in a space suit, so must that act be played out. But that does not necessarily mean the Doctor…[Read more]

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Aw shucks, thanks.  🙂  But I can only enjoy it until tomorrow when I turn out to be wrong again.  Lol

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But Moffat’s Doctor DOES say to the Weeping Angels that you never ever put him in a trap “if you value your continued existence. ”

Of course he may have been bluffing…

@blenkinsopthebrave  I had a feeling that someone had already suggested that idea, but could not at the time of writing remember who. My apologies.  As the typos might suggest, I was posting in a hurry.

I should also have acknowledged @JimboMcMaster for the Schroedinger’s cat reference but, again, I had a temporary lapse of memory.