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.

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

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]

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???

Ruby Sunday and Ricky September have the same initials.

And those aren’t their original surnames.

Ruby Coombes??

Hmmmm…..

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.

This makes a lot o…[Read more]

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]

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?!!

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:

Season 1 of…[Read more]

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]

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]

It starts with the new Doctor (I’m gonna call him Tenn-Doc) saying, “I don’t know who I am anymore”.

Why? The last thing this version of the Doctor said was that he “[didn’t] want to go”.  Moreover, the Curator already predicted that he would “revisit a few” old favorite faces.

So why is he confused…[Read more]

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.”

It’s crazy, and therefore I like it!

@blenkinsopthebrave

lol.  That’s why where here, right?

But back to your great idea, why why the 10th?

The 10th is the only one we know about. The only one deliberately shown being filmed (aka generating a buzz).  For all we know he will only be seen for a brief time before degenerating further.

Or if the…[Read more]

What if something goes wrong with the regeneration.  Perhaps brought about by the new Big Bad.

The regeneration process is reversed, the Doctor undergoes a DEgeneration.  It results in a variant version of 10. Not only that, it may even create a series of splinter previous alternate Docs. Each could be played by the o…[Read more]

I still think we’re looking at an Alternate/Altered reality.  I still think it happ…[Read more]

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!”

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]

Except this: Vindar reported that the Grand Serpent’s condition for the alliance was the deaths of some innocent people.

The commander scoffs at this: “It wasn’t on the recording”.

Vindar: “He made me stop the recording.”

Um… isn’t The Grand Serpent…[Read more]

They didn’t say it outright, but I got the impression that the Sontarans failed to recognize 13 as the Doctor because they were assuming he would be a man.

But I thought they couldn’t tell the difference between genders.

@blenkinsopthebrave Actually, as I think about it, I suppose that could be a resolution to Yaz’s story–i.e. the Doctor discovers her reality, while Yaz either goes off to explore the universe in her reality or returns to Earth (again, her reality), hopefully with the memories of her adventures with the Doctor intact.

Oh I like that idea!  Othe…[Read more]

@devilishrobby lol. Isn’t bonkers theorising what we do here.

Heh, yep.  But I was afraid I was out of practice.

@blenkinsopthebrave Now that is a bonkers theory. I like it!

I particularly like the idea that the Doctor is the real Doctor, but everything we have seen over the last three years has taken place in an alternate reality.

Thanks.  I co…[Read more]

But this is the first time in a while I’ve felt a bit bonkers.

I enjoyed this ep more than I thought I would.  The Sontaran story is a bit boilerplate but was ok for that.  The main plot, anyway.  The sub-plot in contemporary Liverpool was a little sappy.

Felt like a standalone ep shoe-horned into the main arc,…[Read more]

btw…tying in with that Christmas episode is something that popped into my head as I was watching.  The remark(s) about the sonic…[Read more]

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I can forgive that. But not knowing basic facts like we have not witnessed all the regenerations?? Unforgivable! :p

Thanks for the invite to the spoilers discussion. But I have decided to go spoiler free this series.

After a rewatch, here is my big question:

Since when does a H…[Read more]

ETA: Just watched a reviewer claim that another unknown Doctor can’t be wedged in to the lore because we’ve seen all the regenerations.

Untrue: We never actually saw Two to Three.  So if they wanted to squeeze in another Forgotten Doc, it could be done.  But I don’t think so.

And why she didn’t recognize the Stenza.

FWIW, it means we could meet other parallel Docs who might have had different fates, different deaths, different regens.

Cue the appearance of one of the Classic Docs!…[Read more]

Thanks.

I think I am most drawn to the notion of this being a Full Circle kind of thing.  Where 13 is the 1 of the new cycle.  (I’m sticking with the Classic Numbering System, sorry War Doctor. 😉 )

I do agree that rehashing Susan as she was would never work.  But I don’t think it would have to be like that.  Sin…[Read more]

Twelve takes One to see Susan (played by Carole Ann Ford of course) who is now old and nearing regeneration.  Which she does.  Becoming the new, younger Susan and Thirteen’s new companion!

She’ll be pretty sassy and refer to him as “GranDoc”. 🙂

I’ll settle for the fangasm, though! lol…  (settles in to wait…)

I know others like @blenkinsopthebrave are thinking its more likely that Doctor One will be the Clarence of the story, rather than CapDoc.  However, I am rather keen on the twist of the teacher becoming the taught.

In other words, Twelve is all against regenerating, but when he stubbornly explains its virtues to One he i…[Read more]

I always thought it would have been interesting to have Two killed by the Time Lords by aging him to death.  That way, he could have been teleported out in the middle of it and appear as a much older version of himself.  And then teleported back at the exact moment he was taken away.

Come to thi…[Read more]

Actually if Moff really wanted to give fans an out-going treat, he’d find a way to give us the missing Two-Into-Three regen!

And kudos to myself for maintaining my perfect record of Not Getting it Right. :p

Stand-out moments: Missy dying.  How did they manage to make that sad?!  But they did!

SimmMaster getting aroused by himself.  Gold!  As was the music.

And now on to Bonkers for Chri…[Read more]

LOL!

  And we haven’t even considered spaghettification…

Is that part of Pastafarianism?

The Theory of Rotini

Or… Carb Annuity errors?

‘Course the weren’t really going for funny at the moment… :p

Thanks.  Even if it was a slightly little long winded sum-up. 😉

Some of the very best Who stories, certainly in BG era, benefit from a mysterious build up, setting the scene and the key characters. I think one problem with many AG stories is that they ju…[Read more]

I would agree with this.  In The Five Doctors, Three didn’t immediately recognize the Master (admittedly though he was in a stolen body) but di…[Read more]

LOVED IT!  I was also too engrossed in it to catch Razor being SimMaster.  Felt silly that I missed it, too. :p

I liked the “Doctor Who” stuff at the beginning.  It was so clearly poking fun at fans, especially the ones who get a bit bent out of shape when he is called “Doctor Who”.

Along these lines, though, I thought what wa…[Read more]