@ps1l0v3y0u

Really mundane explanation… hoodie woman could be Jenny…

I going on my ever-more-wrong record as saying the hooded figure is the Trickster.  Setting the trap.

Come to think of it, the Doctor pointed out in the time window that the image of the TARDIS was solid.  A testament to power of it’s memories, driving the quality of the image.

We’ll see the TARDIS being used to bring back lots of history now.

Well I am proud to say my record for getting it completely wrong remains unblemished! :p

Did not see suetekh coming.  And that despite a whopping big hint from RTD!  Recall that the scene where the Doctor shows Ruby what her time would look like it they didn’t fix things was a direct callback to the fourth Doctor doing this with Sarah Jane.  In…[Read more]

@janetteb

That might just be me with the Susan/bee in my bonnet again.

I also think we’ll be seeing something of Susan in this season.

But not Mrs. Flood.  I think she’s a ruby red herring.  Oh!  But how about this?  Who is Meep’s “boss”.  The (Susan) foreman???

Did anything significant happen on a Sunday in September?

Ruby Sunday and Ricky September have the same initials.

And those aren’t their original surnames.

Ruby Coombes??

Hmmmm…..

@bunface

Oh, I remember reading your flights of fancy now! All the better for their ‘wrongness’, right?

Just waxing prosaic.

Oh, all the abandoned children, presumably, too. Which would tie in with Space Babies (a phrase oft repeated in that ep, and which all the Doctor’s children would technically be) and the Dad theme in Boom.

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@bunface @mudlark

I’m also going to suggest that Mrs. Flood is Susan

I have a (pointlessly) wordy post on Mrs. Flood in the Church on Ruby Road pages.  I don’t think she’s Susan primarily because she didn’t recognize (or even suspect) the police box was the TARDIS.  She only recognized it as *A* tardis (not THE tardis) after it dema…[Read more]

Loved this episode.  Moffat’s script under RTD’s show-running is the stuff of legend.

I’m going on record as saying “The One Who Waits” is Susan.  (“One day I shall come back.  Yes, I shall come back.”)  When, old man, when?!!

@ps1l0v3y0u

Mrs Flood? Still haven’t given up on River post spacesuit girl, and pre Mel. Maybe Captain Jack rocks up with vortex manipulator and sends her back to Amy’s timeline.

Alas I fear Cap’n Jack’ll never be back.

And Mrs. Flood will not be any of the existing Who lore characters.

But I will go all-out bonkers theorizing now:

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@blenkinsopthebrave

Welcome back!

Thanks!  Looking forward to lots more bonkers theorizing.

But her change of feeling regarding her neighbour from the beginning of the episode to the end still still seems a bit puzzling.

I had to go back and re-watch.  You’re right, it is a bit odd.  The only thing I could think of is that seeing the Tardis and re…[Read more]

Hello all.  Been a while, but ready to get bonkers again.

So this ep.  Overall I enjoyed it, but was not a fan of the whole goblin musical number.  I hope this is just a one-off Christmas Special kind of thing.

Who is Ruby Sunday’s mom?  Well… River Song DOES have the same initials!  Hmm….

Mrs. Flood: I don’t think she’s going to be the…[Read more]

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I’m not big on plot as a means of fan service, which this felt like a lot of.

That said, there is a fan moment I would have appreciated: if Kate had one last encounter with the Master where she walks up to him saying, “Nice to see you again,” and then decks him.  Adding, “That’s for dad.”

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A bit of trivia on this: the original script for Day of the Doctor called for a poster of the first Peter Cushing movie to be in the background in the Black Archives. But I guess they had copywrite issues with it.

It was the joke for when Kate Stewart remarks on what would happen if Americans got hold of time travel. “You’ve seen their movies!”

Ok, so they’ve already telegraphed how 13 is going to die: broken by messing around in her timestream.

She wants to go back to find clues to her hidden past life.

Except… she already has one!  Karnavista.  Wouldn’t it be best to just look him up again and say, “I know I used to work with you.  Tell me what you know.”  Gotta be less risky than…[Read more]