@purofilion     That’s a cool notion, that Captain Grumpy might actually see The Moment/Bad Wolf as looking and acting fairly different than Rose Tyler, to the point where Nine might not actually recognize her when he encounters her later. There, @brewski, there’s a third possible explanation for the Rose Tyler/Moment memory problem!

@Brewski   Yes, I agree that Rose becomes a problem. However, I think it could be pretty easily explained away. For instance, regenerative confusion might have led him to forget the form taken by the Moment. Or, perhaps the time streams went out of sync slightly earlier, as in when the conscience of the Moment first appears. This could be the p…[Read more]

@Brewski

Why did he have NO recollection his interacting with the Moment at all? (And yet knew he’d used it.)

Um, probably because (in the two time streams theory) his interaction in Time Stream A probably consisted of:

Moment: Are you really going to do this?
The War Doctor: Yes.
Moment: B*gg*r.
😉

Without Clara there, there’s no way the D…[Read more]

@Brewski

Aha, a puzzle. I worked out a lovely complicated explanation for why the Doctor doesn’t remember what happened in DotD. Then I looked at your question again. If you are asking why the War Doctor specifically doesn’t remember, then that’s easy. Because he regenerated immediately afterward and didn’t get the chance to remember or not.

In…[Read more]

@Brewski

Aha, a puzzle. I worked out a lovely complicated explanation for why the Doctor doesn’t remember what happened in DotD. Then I looked at your question again. If you are asking why the War Doctor specifically doesn’t remember, then that’s easy. Because he regenerated immediately afterward and didn’t get the chance to remember or not.

In…[Read more]

@fatmaninabox, @Arbutus, @Brewski

I never found the idea of the woman being the Doctor’s mother especially interesting.

Me neither. I’ve been trying to put together some understanding of the political history of Gallifrey during the Time War. How did Rassilon come to resume control of Gallifrey? Given that he had to wake from his eternal sleep t…[Read more]

@Brewski, @Barnable and @Arbutus – with regard to The Woman In The Shop, my personal theory is that it was Sarah Jane Smith. Who ‘recognised’ Clara because she’d also seen the photos of Clara and the Smith Doctor in various situations in the past. So she gave this younger Clara the TARDIS phone number, making sure that she did meet up with the…[Read more]

@FatManInABox    @Brewski
I’ve always thought (perhaps bizarrely) that she’s a regenerated Donna.     Oh, cool. It may be bizarre, but I like it. Maybe it’s just a reflection of my deep affection for Donna. She is my favourite AG companion, and I hated what happened to her. Somehow becoming enough of a Time Lord to be able to regenerate would be…[Read more]

@Brewski   I hadn’t thought of this, but yes, the mysterious woman’s appearances to Wilf and the Doctor taking The Moment did happen somewhat simultaneously. Better and better, because I never found the idea of the woman being the Doctor’s mother especially interesting.

So then, we have the Moment, activated by the Doctor, intervening s…[Read more]

@Barnable Trying to answer, how Bad Wolf gave the number to Clara?, as “The woman in the shop”,  might unravel the whole two time lines.   We should have got the answer before the old time line ended, if Bad Wolf did it.  So now I’m going to have to change my mind on that (apologies @Brewski ) and search for another possible “woman in the sh…

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@Brewski  @purofilion  @Barnable

Interesting speculation, all of this. In my opinion, this is the biggest strand still hanging from the Impossible Girl arc; at least, it’s the one that bugs me the most!

My first thought was that The Moment as The Woman in the Shop made a lot of sense. But @Barnable‘s point is well taken. From a “story-arc” p…[Read more]

@barnable @brewski

enjoying the bonkers theories!

when I’m less distracted I gotta re-re-read and figure out if they spark anything (other than grins) in my dim dim brain.

🙂

@Brewski – I agree with you completely with Donna as a more recent companion: she was just in it for the adventure and the joy of travelling with the Doctor as a pal and I loved that.

Of the BG companions, well, Sarah Jane is the first I remember well, and will always have a special place in my heart. Intelligent young women with careers and a…[Read more]

@brewski     A classic Pair o’ Docs.       Can I be president of your fan club?   🙂

@Brewski – you do realise that some of the Eastern Orthodox Churches still have nudity in baptism?

I think there’s even a joke about it in My Big Fat Greek Wedding – the protagonist’s best friend is, if I recall, very enthusiastic about being godparent to the fiance. [Who has to get baptised if it’s to be an in-church wedding].

The fact that…[Read more]

@Brewski. In the show, the hologram was for Clara; she didn’t feel comfortable seeing herself or the Doctor naked. While I’m sure she was ‘aware’ it was only a hologram, she didn’t realise everyone on the Papal Mainframe could see through it. As in, see through it, rather than seeing that they were wearing hologram clothes rather than real…[Read more]

@Purofilion

re your post 24143

That is such a moving parallel to the Doctor’s experience of being a “displaced person”.  Thanks for posting

Hi and welcome to @brewski – I can see you’re going to fit in well around here 😀

@FatManinaBox I gave up on aurora-watching around 2am – too much low lying thick cloud

@PurpleCup re The question – the…[Read more]

@Brewski

Well, this is the kind of bonkers theorizing that I like to see. As Devil’s Advocate, however, think on this:  Surely if Tasha Lem is guarding the crack that leads to E-space, it is to prevent Adric from coming through?  I was never particularly anti-Adric myself, but I understand that he is largely loathed. If E-space is indeed on the o…[Read more]

@Brewski – good spot re the brakes. River would never do that!