Some Random thoughts before going Bonksy…

1) Missy seeing through the Doctor’s eyes: No, then she should not have been uncertain about how the HFM died.
2) Line I loved not yet mentioned: Clara (to Danny): I’m helping him find his Auntie. Doctor: Not techinically lying!
3) Using the sonic to signal the train to stop. Cue the Red Setting!

I loved “Soap”!  And… wait!

One of the characters in it was “Danny”. A reformed gangster.

Ah HAH! We are on to something here….

:p

@thommck

I read an interview with the author who said his initial draft was far more ambitious and included stops at the seven wonders of the universe.  Had to trim it down to keep it at 45 minutes.

Pity. Those would been fun stops!

@Bluesqueakpip It’s often this way in a new Doctor’s first series. The voice the writers will be ‘hearing’ in their heads as they write the Doctor will be the voice of Matt Smith’s Doctor. It won’t be Peter Capaldi’s voice yet – when they wrote the scripts, they hadn’t seen his Doctor.

You’e right, of course. I remember how Pertwee-like Bake…[Read more]

@BadWulf Still, it does seem like a very odd sort of triage, to actually eliminate the weakest, even if they weren’t in immediate danger of death.

But the remark was that something had gone wrong with the mummy’s tech. It’s original mission may have been to save. But something got corrupted over time.

Whoa! Maybe the definition of “save” got r…[Read more]

@geoffers excellent question! perhaps he was a medic, whose job is to tend to the wounded? he would have to choose the most wounded to save first

You mean like… a Doctor? Hmmm…

My first thought was: What was Gus’s plan? If he was after the Mummy’s tech, why conceal everything. Why hide the lab equipment? Why bother with all the experts and then not use them. Fortunately I was rescued by:

@PhileasF b) It’s the people on the train who are being tested. Someone wants to find very clever people who are good at dealing with d…

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@idiotsavon

Speaks 5 billion languages.  Badly.

Lol! I love this!

Imagine him saying to a Judoon “you will submit to my will”

And the subtitles read “Have you seen my pretty knickers?”

@idiotsavon

Oh my. If you did a search for that costume, then…

Well, as you say, maybe we should move on!

Though honestly,  since its it’s The Master I think instead of Matrix it would be Dominatrix.

@blenkinsopthebrave
everybody, really…
It might be strange, given my predilection for bonkers theories, to say this, but:
I think we might be reading too much into this episode.

Much as I hate to admit it, you’re probably right.

Although I still think…

No, No! You are right. If there was a deeper manipulation it would be as you put it: t…[Read more]

@idiotsavon

That’s inspired, I love it 🙂 Have you had any thoughts about the costume?

Hmmm… Good question!

I imagine he would wind up asking the wrong person for advice when he told them he was The Master.

I’m thinking of something in black leather.

Or possibly rubber…

The Spinnoff I want to see….
                                                       Master Who
o Another Time Lord whom we don’t know by real name *
o Each week he goes by a new alias, which is usually an anagram of his name. The worse of which was “Here’s Matt!”
o He goes about the Universe trying out ever-more absurd plans and always win…[Read more]

@janetteB
(I am still suspicious that Orson is a clone of Danny or that they are both clones hence the later’s lack of parents.) Danny’s “bad day” was almost certainly a throw away line.

Unless Orson is a descendant of Clara. In which case he could have been having a Bad Heir Day

@purofilion
@FatManInABox and @Brewski The metal plate could be a re-prop but I recall in RoS that a large metal plate -similar to the one in Fires Of Pompeii was used. Together with a whole lot of these (needed by Phil Davis’ character), they helped the ‘monsters’ to awaken. Then the plate in Journey to the Centre of the Earth and now in Kill…

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@FatManInABox

I was watching Journey to the Centre of the TARDIS on Sunday and noticed that the plate used in Kill the Moon was also used in JttCotT – it was covering Clara when we first see her in the wrecked TARDIS. In all likelihood it was just a re-used prop

Wow, and I thought I was being sharp-eyed! Yes, I’m afraid a reused prop is more l…[Read more]

@Barnable and @JimboMcMaster

I think we’re thinking along the same lines with the notion of “wrongness” about the Doctor’s behavior as it appears in the surface.

I like the idea of it being a Timelord kind of test.  Except…  the stakes would be too high if she failed the test.   unless we assume he would have intervened had she the wrong de…[Read more]

Re The Doctor leaving in the middle of the crisis:

There’s something very wrong with the Doctor “leaving the decision to nankind”

I cannot think of any reason the Doctor would view the moon as belonging to mankind!  It is a separate world, and evidently has (or is) a separate life form.  It is fundamentally NOT mankind’s decision what to do w…[Read more]

Bonkers Thought:

When the shuttle was breached and the air started escaping,  a big metal plate conveniently flew into the beach.

Lucky shot? Seems unlikely.  And why even have such a moment?

And why did I get the impression that there was something vaguely Gallifreyan about the etchings in that plate?

This leads me to my next thought…

@thommck yes, I sure should!  Sorry. And thanks! 😮

Bonkers Thought:

When the shuttle was breached and the air started escaping, a big metal plate conveniently flew into the breach.

Lucky shot?  Seems unlikely.  why even have that monent?

And why did I get the impression there was something vaguely Gallifreyan about the etching on that metal plate?

This leads into my next thought….