@blenkinsopthebrave – Thank you!

@blenkinsopthebrave

Yes, he did mention 2016. I wondered about that too. Might it also mean that there is a possibility that we might re-experience those two years somehow?

Could be. There have been two mentions of Earth’s future that maybe “won’t be”. And I have had an odd feeling like none of these things have been “really” happening.

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@blenkinsopthebrave – Great idea!  OK, let’s see….

Missy runs an organization that somehow capitalizes on death (mining some sort of energy during the transformation, or something).  She has somehow latched on to the Doctor (whose constant companion is Death) and realizes that she can greatly exceed her prior numbers by keeping an eye on him, s…[Read more]

@blenkinsopthebrave– great idea, perfect time to do this.

I’m going with: Missy is CAL is the Papal Mainframe.

Missy also has some kind of control over Clara, some way of meddling with her. The doctor has noticed this in much the way eleven noticed that Amy was a ganger.

Although part of me is hovering over the idea that missy is Clara in one…[Read more]

@Blenkinsopthebrave – I had mixed feelings about Danny in this episode.

I like Danny, so I was looking forward to an episode in which he’d play a bigger part, after being on the sidelines for the past few weeks. I was a bit disappointed. Although he was on-screen a lot more this week, I didn’t feel we saw any deeper into him than we’ve seen…[Read more]

I feel a little guilty for not liking this episode more after reading all the wonderful comments. I loved the premise and the children but even the drama between Clara and Danny felt underplayed to me. He took the revelation that she had been lying rather too well. I will be disappointed if that is the end of that and by next week is is all tidied…[Read more]

@Blenkinsopthebrave and @Bluesqueakpip– it does feel as though we are supposed to be focusing on Danny and Clara with this episode, I’m tempted to think much of the weaknesses of it are caused by this focus.

The set up for his episode is amazing, it must have looked fantastic on the page. And, quite a few times, on the screen it did. But surely…[Read more]

Fascinating discussions here, as always, and as always I feel I have very little to add!  However, for what it’s worth…

Re Danny, I am uneasy.   I can see both perspectives (@blenkinsopthebrave and @bluesqueakpip). Clara’s incessant, compulsive lying makes Danny seem more responsible – but whose fault was it that they lost a child?  How lon…[Read more]

@purofilion Thanks for the perspectives of the twelve year olds in your house – it is interesting to hear how younger viewers perceive Who. And a notable sign of changing times that, whilst Who was a programme aimed at kids from the beginning, the Doctor rarely interacted with children in Old Who.

What has happened to Linda Lee’s reviews? I ha…[Read more]

@purofilion     I have a mental image of you, like the little boy from A.A. Milne: Halfway down the stairs is a stair where i sit. there isn’t any other stair quite like it. i’m not at the bottom, i’m not at the top; so this is the stair where I always stop. And, like Reb Tevye, you are crying out in despair, “No, no! There is no other hand!…[Read more]

@pedant and @blenkinsopthebrave

It’ll be interesting to see who’s bonkers theory is the correct one. From what the kids were saying in the background, the decision to take them across a couple of miles of instant forest was Danny’s. They say ‘where is he taking us?’

That’s not very responsible.

I realise this is Doctor Who, but the normal…[Read more]

@blenkinsopthebrave

where Danny radiated goodness and wisdom.

Well, apart from the bits where he treated Clara like a private in his squad. A private, incidentally, who he doesn’t want to get promoted.

He did it every time. Every time she started acting like an ‘officer’, doing strategic thinking, trying to work out the situation – he cut her…[Read more]

@blenkinsopthebrave    Yes. I really enjoyed this, all on it’s own. Someone earlier suggested that it was only interesting as part of the arc, but I disagree. I enjoyed the story for it’s own sake, and felt that the character development was touched on only lightly.

@zeitgeis   I’m not sure that we have really learned anything that we didn’t alr…[Read more]

@Phaseshift

And it seems the lost (and perhaps dead), are starting to return. Just in time for an annual event.

I definitely think you’re onto something. Perhaps what Missy was surprised by was that her usual harvesting of people who die in the wake of the Doctor’s adventures did not take place. There was no “reaping”, because no one in…[Read more]