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  • #4641
    Bluesqueakpip @replies

    @whohar – I think the reason Tennant and Piper have been very publicly announced is simple: they’re impossible to hide. They both have paparazzi dogging their steps – I’ve even seen newspapers print photos of Sandra Dickinson (Georgia Moffet’s mother) taking Tennant’s baby daughter for a walk. It would be utterly impossible for both those actors to drop out of sight for the duration of the filming of the 50th Anniversary  – and not have people connect the dots and speculate whether it’s because they’re working on the 50th. There’s probably a similar reason behind announcing John Hurt, as well – he’s another actor who can’t easily ‘drop out of sight’ for secret filming.

    I mean, heck, I even speculated why John Simm’s grown a bloody beard. 😀

    So if there’s stuff you can’t hide, make that the publicity. Then you sneak in the other stuff (quick example that occurred to me: it would be perfectly understandable if Mrs McDonald chose to visit her husband down in Cardiff, or even stay with him for a few days).

    Though I do wonder how much of the 50th is going to be filmed in the middle of an aircraft hangar on an RAF base …

    #4635
    Bluesqueakpip @replies

    @whohar – in fact, I get HTPBDET’s point. I love Matt Smith to bits as an actor – he’s probably the most alien Doctor since Tom Baker – but there are moments when I look at him and think: is this really the Doctor?

    Of course, it may be tied up with the fish-shoal doppleganger theories. We might not always be watching the Doctor. If so, Mr Smith is doing some really superb acting and I hope he goes on to a glorious career post-Who. But if he is regenerating in 2013, I won’t be feeling as miserable about it as I was with Mr Tennant. I like the Eleventh, I’ve enjoyed his tenure – but I’m definitely getting the feeling that it’s time to move on.

    #4629
    Bluesqueakpip @replies

    So, do you think Clara’s Mum is Susan? Is that the idea?

    @htpbdet – I honestly don’t know.

    I’m now fairly secure in my belief that ‘Clara’, on a meta-level, represents ‘Doctor Who’. The dates are too precisely focussed on – by all the rules taught to TV scriptwriters, they must have significance. And they all match with significant points in the history of ‘Doctor Who – the television show’.

    But the only date significant in-show is Clara’s mother’s date of death. That’s the date the Ninth Doctor returned to Earth. In-show that suggests there is some connection with the Time War – she can’t outlive it. It may be that there’s no body in that grave; but the grave marker is very likely true; if she left her husband and daughter, it was in the knowledge that her ‘fake’ death was shortly to become a real one. And if she was Susan, that would imply (since she’s in an entirely different time-zone to the one where we last saw her) that there was some kind of background plan going on.

    From the point of view of ‘background plan’, Susan would make perfect sense as the agent – she’s probably the one Time Lord who’s actually lived in human society, actually (according to the extended universe) brought up children, actually been married to a human man.

    I haven’t the foggiest idea why Clara, in-story, is split into three. But if she is ‘Doctor Who – the show’, she has to be split into three. Classic Series, Paul McGann Movie, Nu-Who. And what defeats the angry audience of the Grandfather God? The potential. All the unrealised days the old series never got, all those untold stories of the sixteen years that never happened. There were an infinite number of stories we could have had.

    And we never got them.

    And we never will. The leaf is burned up, gone. The old show and its forebears (Clara’s mother) have died. But what’s left standing, what they gave birth to, is the modern Clara. Who may represent the new incarnation of Doctor Who, all that potential, all those stories that haven’t happened yet.

    Whether Clara also represents the Doctor himself (that is, she’s the Twelfth Doctor), is something I don’t know. She may simply represent his soul; like the Queen of Years, she’s the repository of all the stories, all the songs, all the legends of the Doctor. And since she ‘hated history’, she’s clearly a repository that’s focused on the new, not the old.

    Sorry – my reply seems to raise more questions than it answers. 🙂

    #4623
    Bluesqueakpip @replies

    Hi, @htpbdet. Welcome to our merry gang!

    In answer to your ‘wouldn’t she regenerate?’ query, I suspect most of the proponents of the ‘Clara’s mum as Time Lord’ theory are thinking of a Time Lord who’s been Chameleon Arched, as in Human Nature/Family of Blood. As we saw in that episode, such a Time Lord wouldn’t regenerate. They would die. If Susan’s role in the Time War was such that she and the Doctor’s mother were planning something, Susan might have been working ‘undercover’ from the Doctor. Which would make those scenes between Clara’s mum and the Doctor especially poignant; that was the last ever meeting between Grandfather and the granddaughter he’d brought up, and neither of them knew it. Reminiscent of the Doctor and Professor Yana meeting, and neither recognising each other.

    And while we saw that such a Time Lord could have apparently human children with another human, what we didn’t see (since those were also ‘days that never were’) was whether those children were human – or apparently human. That is, could they be chameleon arched back into a Time Lord themselves? Or were they, like Melody Pond, human with ‘something extra’?

    I like the theory simply because it fits my sense of neatness; if we’re to go forward in a new cycle then I like the idea that we’ll restart as we began. The Doctor (Doctor Who?) travelling with his granddaughter, exiled from some unspecified world. It fits Moffat’s constant refrain that this ‘Lonely God’ stuff is dangerous. The Doctor should not be alone; he should not be so unconnected from the universe that the only ‘sentimental’ item he can find is his damn screwdriver!

    And in fact, he’s not that unconnected. He’s still wearing Amy’s glasses.

    Though possibly we restart with him travelling with his great-granddaughter. It’s a new cycle, after all.

    #4613
    Bluesqueakpip @replies

    Yeah, I like the ‘Clara’s mum’s a Time Lord’. Chameleon Arched, presumably.

    Further question: I’m not sure about the acting in that ‘most important leaf in human history’ scene; it still looks to me as if Ellie meeting Clara’s Dad wasn’t a coincidence. And Ellie knew it.

    Hmm… a Time Lord. Is this a call back to ‘Father’s Day’? Did she manage to pull him out of the way of a car that should have killed him? Given the child friendly nature of Who I don’t think we’ll go with ‘he’s not the father’ unless it’s made pretty clear Clara was adopted.

    Hadn’t spotted the ’27’ references, but yeah. Series/Season 27 is also Series/Season 1. It’s the Corsair’s eternal circle; the point where the snake swallows its tail and the cycle begins again. Going meta: ’27’ is the point on the clock where the numbers reset. ’27’ is the point of view from the old series. From the point of view of the new, ’27’ is ‘1’ – the new beginning.

    Oh, and the Telegraph has put up a metered paywall, which means all its regular bloggers will have to pay a subscription. It wouldn’t surprise me if the Guardian just acquired a lot of online cheapskates from the Telegraph blogs. However, given the general tone of Telegraph comments, this does not bode well for the Who blogs.

    #4553
    Bluesqueakpip @replies

    @juniperfish – talking about dopplegangers, or in this case a known tripleganger 🙂

    You might like to take a look at Clara’s habit of repeating herself in threes.

    So. So. So.

    So I would like to see; what I would like to see; what I would like to see is…

    Dunno if there’s any other points where she does that, but it’s made rather obvious in her initial TARDIS scene.

    #4509
    Bluesqueakpip @replies

    @tiddler and @Shazzbot – another point is that he clearly doesn’t know Jenny’s still alive. He also couldn’t tell about any Timelords who were outside the universe.

    So, yeah, I’d rate it as ‘as far as he knows there are no more TimeLords left alive.’

    Barring Chameleon Arches, clones who aren’t properly trained Time Lords, part Time Lords, Time Lords stuck in alternate or pocket universes, and any other loopholes the scriptwriters can think of.

    [I’m fairly sure, for example, that the claim of the bonkers prophetess in End of Time that only two ‘Children of Gallifrey’ survived the Time War was deliberately phrased to allow a scriptwriter to write in any number of surviving TimeLords/part TimeLords who weren’t born on Gallifrey].

    #4495
    Bluesqueakpip @replies

    did people here read the monster thingie as the sun of that planet?

    Nope. The Doctor definitely pointed at the big round thing and said ‘planet’. I know Who’s a bit iffy on terminology, but I don’t think they’d describe ‘small rock just big enough to put a pyramid on’ as a planet.

    And also, as I said on the Grauniad blog, you can see sunlight bouncing off the pyramid, and it’s coming from stage left (screen right). The Doctor and Clara are also lit as if the light source was from the left.

    Of course, it later becomes a tad confusing when the big orange thingy bursts into flame, but I’m still going for ‘gas-giant’. 🙂

    #4467
    Bluesqueakpip @replies

    need your awesome research skills on 11/9/60. 

    My awesome research skills came up with the following: 11th September 1960 was the broadcast date of the first episode of the ITV children’s science-fiction series The Pathfinders in Space. Producer Sydney Newman, Writers Malcolm Hulke and Eric Paice.

    There had been an earlier series called Target Luna, but no episodes survive.

    So we’re still in meta-reference land. Clara’s mother is born on the same day as a programme which is, in some ways, the ‘mother’ to Doctor Who. She dies on the day nu-Who becomes independent.

    #4367
    Bluesqueakpip @replies

    @phaseshift – yes, a very strange night. I can’t work out what on earth the episode did to earn such genuinely virulent hatred. I’ve already rewatched it, and I’m still puzzled. I wouldn’t class it as a great episode, but it’s a perfectly okay piece of Who, with lots to play with.

    The only thing I can think of is that certain members of the audience have picked up on the reference to the monster that is a parasite, that devours lovingly crafted stories and songs and gives nothing back but envy and jealousy – and decided it applies to them. Can’t think why they might.

    Glad the troll thing made you laugh. One to save, I think. 🙂

    #4361
    Bluesqueakpip @replies

    He mentions all the little coincidences that brought him and Ellie together;

    Did anyone else think that Ellie’s expression during that speech was of someone who knows it wasn’t a coincidence at all?

    #4355
    Bluesqueakpip @replies

    @phaseshift

    The comedy value is that those complaining about the ‘softness’ of standing on a small asteroid/bit of ring debris breathing away have clearly never read Peter F. Hamilton. Whose fiction comes pretty high on the Mohrs scale. 🙂

    #4323
    Bluesqueakpip @replies

    Okay, possibly important quote/callback.

    No, we don’t walk away. But when we’re holding on to something precious, we run. We run and run, fast as we can, and we don’t stop running until we’re out from under the shadow.

    Given the earlier mention of his granddaughter, have we just heard why the Doctor first ran from Gallifrey? Susan was the ‘something precious’ he had to save from the ‘shadow’?

    #4315
    Bluesqueakpip @replies

    Marion Ravenwood is the character in Indiana Jones and the Raiders of the Lost Arc who later returns in Kingdom of the Crystal Skull.

    She turns out to be the mother of the son that Indiana Jones doesn’t know he has.

    Of course, they could simply have picked that name for the Indiana Jones reference, but it does rather give credence to the ‘Clara is somehow the Doctor’s granddaughter’ theories. I wonder if the Doctor, bobbing about between times, missed something like Clara being adopted because the Oswins couldn’t have kids?

    I notice that we don’t see a ‘birth’ scene. We see Mum looking in at Dad lovingly holding a rather well-grown baby Clara.

    #4303
    Bluesqueakpip @replies

    Could be that she died in the Time War. Misdirection; the Doctor’s investigated Clara and not realised that it’s her mother who’s important?

    As I’ve said on the Guardian blog, which seems to be currently attracting enough trolls to police the whole of Ankh-Morpork, her Mum’s date of death is the first, highly unofficial, release of Nu-Who to the viewing public. 5th March 2005 was when ‘Rose’ got released into the Internet.

    Which returns us to the themes of computers, downloads, Internet.

    #4289
    Bluesqueakpip @replies

    Maybe the Doctor should learn not to try too hard on a first date.

    I was actually expecting Clara to say that. He was so obviously trying to impress.

    #4283
    Bluesqueakpip @replies

    And the Doctor didn’t seem to notice that the TARDIS translator wasn’t working. Or rather it was, sometimes, because little Merry was speaking ‘English’.

    #4257
    Bluesqueakpip @replies

    2) Pedantic quibble.  When the Doctor and Clara zoom off on the motorbike from Southbank, they end up crossing Westminster Bridge (past the Houses of Parliament) and proceed to go along the Mall towards Buckingham Palace.  St Paul’s Cathedral is in the other direction.  I would suggest that he gets a GPS system but that was knobbled in the Sontaran double bill a couple of series ago.

    He also circles round Horseguards before going through Admiralty Arch from the Trafalgar Square direction, a trick which definitely comes under the heading of ‘spacey-wacey’. I did joke on the Guardian blog that maybe, as an alien, he thinks going past as many famous London landmarks as possible is an actual traffic regulation.

    It’s probably just a little joke about London’s film topography bearing no resemblance to the real thing. But it may be the same kind of clue as the paper in The Snowmen; something’s a bit out of joint and the cracks in reality weren’t mended properly by Big Bang II.

    #4163
    Bluesqueakpip @replies

    @jimthefish – no, I am NOT emailing them. 🙂

    But I’m certainly inclining to the opinion that the organisation itself is genuine. That said, there seems to be a quite active Who fandom in Seattle (it’s that sort of place), so the idea that the local children’s hospital might be happy to play a bit part in a famous children’s programme isn’t too far fetched.

    #4157
    Bluesqueakpip @replies

    Another seriously weird coincidence – Maple Leaf is a district in Seattle. The ‘first page’, perhaps? Clara was born in Maple Leaf, Seattle?

    #4155
    Bluesqueakpip @replies

    @jimthefish It does look perfectly genuine. That said, it’s odd that the employee at Seattle Children’s Hospital who set it up has the first name Courtney. There’s also an Elizabeth Stewart. Could be coincidence; the names aren’t uncommon. It’s the main referral centre for children from Alaska; another coincidence. Bioinformatics, it appears, is also unbelievably relevant to the speculations about Clara.

    The other odd thing about it is that the website is hosted by broadcastmatrix – who more normally do live stream radio – but maybe they just picked them because they’re based near Seattle.

     

    Hmm… there is one thing I can think of. Someone at DELSA or Seattle Children’s Hospital is a Whovian and was contacted during the course of research. They’ve given the BBC permission to use the organisation’s name – which would suggest DELSA is a Big Good, not a Big Bad.

     

    #4141
    Bluesqueakpip @replies

    Welcome @edmund and @jamesunderscore. A few people on-line have pointed out that Elisabeth Sladen’s middle name  was – ‘Clara’.

    So I think she is being incorporated into the 50th, but in a way consistent with her character still being alive in-show.

    #4111
    Bluesqueakpip @replies

    It is sad news, though I admit that I’ve tried two of his novels (Feersum Endjinn and The Algebraist) and concluded that he wasn’t an author I like.

    However, he’s one of the rare authors who manages to write both quality SF and mainstream literary fiction; he’ll be missed.

    #4087
    Bluesqueakpip @replies

    put Clara and the Great Intelligence together, we get… CGI


    The terrible thing is: you may just be right. 😀

    ::Shakes fist in air:: @wolfweed!

    #4079
    Bluesqueakpip @replies

    None. Eleven just takes the TARDIS back in time to before the lightbulb was broken.

    (Coat. Mine. Get)

    #4071
    Bluesqueakpip @replies

    Are we up to eleven Elevens yet?

    (Now I’ll get me coat)

    #4069
    Bluesqueakpip @replies

    why would the “show” need to become IT literate ?…. just a plot point with no meta reference at all?

    Could be just a plot point, or a meta-reference to Clara the programme also being Clara the program. That is, in-show she’s the living repository of the Doctor’s own canon.

    But the joke which occurs to me is that it’s a clever riff on the way Nu-Who depends heavily on computer-generated special effects. The show has had to become very computer-literate.

    #4059
    Bluesqueakpip @replies

    @jimthefish

    I think you’re confusing Michael Jayston with Michael Gough.

    Michael Gough (Celestial Toymaker and Councillor Hedin) is sadly no longer with us.

    Michael Jayston (the junkyard/backyard/knackersyard) is currently booked for work in 2014, so I’m fairly sure his agent is muttering ‘well, he’d better still be bloody with us’. 🙂

    #4013
    Bluesqueakpip @replies

    …on a side note, there is now a third Doctor Who article/comments page on the Guardian.

    You won’t believe this – there’s now a fourth. The video review of the week – with comments.

    Is this some kind of meta-comment on the splintered Claras, or is the Guardian truly that desperate for click-throughs?

    #4011
    Bluesqueakpip @replies

    Welcome @vizier, to the site where we come up with theories more insane than what’s actually happening 😀

    #3995
    Bluesqueakpip @replies

    BTW, the woman in the shop thing (sorry, writing a review for the other site I’m on, so bits and bobs keep occurring to me): could it be an oblique reference to Sarah Jane Smith? I believe the decision of the production team was that Sarah Jane is still alive and well in the Whoniverse – and she’d certainly be someone Clara would call a ‘woman’ rather than a ‘girl’.

    #3989
    Bluesqueakpip @replies

    Ah. Crap.

    @haveyoufedthefish and @juniperfish, I think you may be right. Where was the Doctor when the Bells of St John started ringing?
    In a monastery. Otherwise known as a cloister.

    #3987
    Bluesqueakpip @replies

    @juniperfish

    Clara could be a manifestation of River. But I never saw River looking after those children as incongruous; in her new environment she looked around for anyone who needed rescuing. The people who did were the orphaned CAL (who now remembers that her perfect Daddy is a subprogram) and the two little subroutines who had to have a parent to even exist.

    So she rescued them; also making sure that her own childhood didn’t repeat – these children are adopted by a loving foster-mother, not kidnapped by the EvilBitchFromHell.

    There’s certainly a similarity with Clara there – computers, virtual environment, looks after children. Though as a few other people have said, is the point that Clara is initially utterly clueless about computers also a clue? The Facebook generation, and she thinks there can only be one person at a time on the Internet?

    BTW, @haveyoufedthefish, I also wonder if the reason for the change of TARDIS is that we’ll later need to tell the difference between Eleven in the old TARDIS and Eleven in the new.

    The Doctor found that leaf very odd – you could see it in Matt Smith’s reaction when he tasted it. The only thing I can think of is that it’s a Maple Leaf – which makes me think of ‘The Maple Leaf Forever’, Canada’s unofficial national anthem. That ties up with the good ship Alaska in the sense that we’ve now collected the whole of continental North America during S7 – including Mexico. The Doctor was taking the Ponds there when they diverted to Mercy.

    The leaf is page 1? Hmmm… pun on ‘leaf’, obviously.

     

    #3965
    Bluesqueakpip @replies

    I think io9 took it from the following line in his RT interview: “I’m attached to the show for the next year and I take it year by year. I think that’s the only way you can take it.”

    So unless they’ve seen an advance copy of next week’s RT in which they chat about his plans for Series 8, that leaves us with what we already know. He’s attached for the 50th Anniversary Special and the Christmas Special. io9 have simply misread ‘next year’ as ‘including filming for Series 8’ – but if he’s in the Christmas Special he’s ‘attached’ for publicity right up to December 2013.

    Certainly a surprise regeneration would explain the total blanket silence (sorry!) on S8, plus the ominous lack of filming dates. They can’t start filming until they can announce the new Doctor. If there IS a new Doctor, and the 50th Anniversary story isn’t about trying to find him/her.

    And on that story idea, I present the bonkers idea that the DT and BP casting announcement could represent a ‘search for the Doctor’ story. DT is appearing as 10.5; when The Doctor (all The Doctors?) are lost, his origins as a Time Lord human hybrid means that he survives.

    To headline the 50th, because DT has the track record to headline. Mr Smith is appearing as the Big Bad (Omega?)

     

     

     

    #3923
    Bluesqueakpip @replies

    @juniperfish

    Neat parlaying of my foot-stamping into an advert for this forum, btw 😀

    #3913
    Bluesqueakpip @replies

    Also, why don’t the Hugo’s just give moffatt his own category and have done with it?

    At one point there were a lot of jokes about creating a category for ‘Female Person From Colorado’.

    (Connie Willis, in case you don’t know, who has won Hugos and Nebulas under an amazing variety of categories. )

    #3893
    Bluesqueakpip @replies

    It’s interesting if what the production team say is in fact true – that they have asked women writers, and all have pleaded ‘schedule conflicts’.

    Anyway, I went and looked up what RTD said about the whole thing:

    It’s those internet message boards … they destroy writers… It’s like when Helen Raynor went on Outpost Gallifrey last month and read the reviews of her two Dalek episodes. She said that she was, literally, shaking afterwards. Like she’d been physically assaulted. I’m not exaggerating. She said it was like being in a pub when a fight breaks out next to you. I had to spend two hours on the phone to her, talking her out of it, convincing her that of course she can write, that we do need her and want her… the stupidest thing you can say is ‘Ignore it’ because no one can. … it can mess up writers when they read that endlessly critical voice. It’s completely, completely destructive. I cannot see one iota of it that’s helpful, except maybe in the toughening up. Helen is in a delicate position in that she’s only just started and she’s on the verge of being really very good – and now she finds herself ruined by this wall of hostility. It makes me furious.

    And I go back to the point that – unless you’re mad keen to write Doctor Who – why would you bother?

    It also adds some emphasis to Moffat’s contention that Who isn’t a good place to start new writers.

    #3851
    Bluesqueakpip @replies

    @feralcat Welcome! And good catch. Yes, the leaf may very well be from the first time she meets the Doctor. And he doesn’t meet her – she runs to him. And speaks to him in spite of prohibitions about talking to strange men.

    If she’s saved the leaf from the day she met the Doctor, and knows it’s the ‘first page’, then it does suggest Victorian Clara’s ‘Pond’ was no accident. At some level she knows the Doctor.

    #3845
    Bluesqueakpip @replies

    @wolfweed: You’ve missed out the people who announce ‘This is a kids show’ with the air of saying something clever and original. 🙂

    #3821
    Bluesqueakpip @replies

    If she is the show itself, why has she been killed and reincarnated twice, not just once?

    Doctor Who has ‘died’ twice. The first time was when the series itself was cancelled. The second ‘death’ was when the Paul McGann Special didn’t garner enough interest.

    So Clara has died twice (once in a Special). And yeah, the fact that Modern Clara’s book starts at 9 might be a reference to either the Three Doctors, or to her being ‘reborn’ with 9.

    “Anything that is remembered can be brought back.” I didn’t realise this at the time, but this is a meta-comment. The Doctor is talking about himself, his show, his universe. Doctor Who (the show) was remembered, and brought back. In television, any show which is remembered can be brought back.

    #3791
    Bluesqueakpip @replies

    If the webisode was paid for by BBC Worldwide, rather than being from the main Who budget, they’d be entitled to ask for it to be taken down: the UK licence payers won’t have paid for it. I suspect it’ll turn up on the DVD.

    Given that Julie Gardner is still very much part of BBC Worldwide, and that the BBC proper appears determined to stiff their most successful drama programme of its needed budget, I wonder if they’re trying to work out some kind of co-funding ‘lifeboat’ for Who.

    #3789
    Bluesqueakpip @replies

    Apologies to @blenkinsopthebrave.

    Given the TARDIS’s ability to take the Doctor where he needs to go, rather than where he wants to go, it’ll be interesting to see what this Queen of Years thing is next week.

    If the Queen of Years turns out to be a living repository of history, then I’d say Clara in all her incarnations is a living repository of the Doctor’s history. And yes, we may have had a clue that the Doctor created her; when he remarks that she doesn’t run out on those she cares about and then adds “I wish I was like that”.

    If Clara is the Doctor’s ‘lifeboat’ – his way to remember himself – then he’s given himself qualities he wishes he had.

     

    #3783
    Bluesqueakpip @replies

    Following on the numerology thingies: I note that Clara acquired her book at age 9. The Tenth Anniversary programme ‘The Three Doctors’ wasn’t actually shown at the Tenth Anniversary; it started its first episode on 30th December 1972, when the programme was only nine.

    Back to Omega again.

    But anyway, Juniperfish, this is your ‘Fourth Wall’ theory, isn’t it? Clara’s entire life story appears to be based around the broadcast history of Doctor Who. Not the in-show continuity; the show’s own history.

    #3765
    Bluesqueakpip @replies

    The numbers were ‘123’ – she’s the third Clara to say Run You Clever Boy Run.

    Porting over from the Guardian Blog, because I have a feeling this lot is important:

    Victorian Clara died age 26 – the Classic Series was cancelled at age 26.
    Modern Clara’s 23rd year is missing. The Classic Series had an eighteen month gap between Series 22 and Series 23. Additionally, Modern Clara’s sixteenth year is missing. 1979 is the year where they lost Shada due to industrial action.
    Victorian Clara was born on November 23rd 1866. November 23rd 1963 is when Doctor Who was born. 1966 is when the Doctor first regenerated.
    All the Clara’s have the surname Oswald. The first ever broadcast of Doctor Who was overshadowed by the actions of someone called Oswald.

    #3751
    Bluesqueakpip @replies

    Do we need any eggs? If the eggs were to signal ‘Easter’, it’s now here.

    #3735
    Bluesqueakpip @replies

    Two Doctors again

    Modern day Clara – hmm. We’re meant to think she’s the original; her name, username, caring for her friend’s kids. Or, she carries on the theme of mirroring that was evident throughout S6 and S7a. She’s a reflection, throughout time.

    Celia Imrie is 60, so I suspect she came into contact with the Great Intelligence through one of the Yeti control spheres.

    #3711
    Bluesqueakpip @replies

    I thoroughly enjoyed it – off to watch it again, in fact – but it did feel very much like an episode that was busy setting up a whole load of stuff for the rest of the series.

    #3699
    Bluesqueakpip @replies

    Okay, I’m going to wait to speculate until people’ve had a chance to read the article. But that particular pair do raise an intriguing question in my mind. 🙂

    #3625
    Bluesqueakpip @replies

    So, opened up the new Radio Times to check out the Doctor Who article, and spotted a picture of John Simm in the new period drama he’s in.

    He’s got a beard. Very nice one, quite a genuine-looking beard. A well-grown beard, in fact, that could – with a bit of trimming – easily take its place alongside the Delgado and Ainsley beards.

    The interesting thing is that the period drama he’s in is set in 1914, and beards were pretty unusual in 1914 – most men wore moustaches. It almost feels like he had to keep the beard for another part…

    #3605
    Bluesqueakpip @replies

    Tom Baker abandoned the monastic life. Sylvester McCoy spent some years at a Junior Seminary – not quite the same thing; essentially he attended a Catholic Grammar School (Blairs in Aberdeen) for boys who were thinking of the priesthood.

    You’ll find an awful lot of male Roman Catholic actors who’ve considered the priesthood – both jobs involve standing up in front of an audience wearing funny clothes; it’s easy to become a bit confused about which one you really want to do. 😀

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