Got to finally watch the episode last night and just caught up on all the great posts here.

I actually loved this episode, it seemed so bizarre from the get-go I thought it would be really cheesey but, despite all the comedy, it actually managed to be really scary and unnerving. Great work by the Director I guess. Not to mention the writer and…[Read more]

@DrBen and @Brewski

I like your speculations about Missy being in the Doctor’s head. It was certainly quite marked – the conversation he had with himself in his cabin on the Orient Express in space – almost as if two distinct personalities were present.

If Moff is going for the Valeyard story (which I know some people don’t want, but I’m up for…[Read more]

@Brewski No, then she should not have been uncertain about how the HFM died.

Perhaps she was trying to introduce some confusion into the psyche of the newly deceased?

@soundworld   The next of my notes was to say how very much I enjoyed your little essay on myth, metaphor, and reality. My reality is always a lot more interesting with a bit of the other two mixed in! And then I looked, and you are off again, this time about the Cyberiad. Very well played.  🙂

@Mudlark   I completely agree about the Doct…[Read more]

Thanks for the info @Brewski.

I only just realised that someone would have got a phone call at the end of the episode saying “I’m sorry to inform you sir/madam but it seems a passenger has blown up the Orient Express”

I hope they had a good insurance policy!

@bluesqueakpip and @brewski —

Moffatt has gone on record as saying he considers the Doctor to be the same character anyway, despite regeneration. But personally I think it’s been less pronounced than in Matt’s first series, where for the first good few episodes he was still very Tennant-ey in terms of character.

Despite the occasional…[Read more]

@Brewski

Like the scripts were written before they knew he was leaving

Naah. 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…[Read more]

@geoffers @Brewski You mean like… a Doctor? Hmmm…

That’s an interesting thought, and would explain why the Mummy was going for the weakest first, which I was at a loss to explain to myself.

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.

I think, ther…[Read more]

@Brewski – What was the Mummy’s original mission? If he is acting on buggy code now, what was he SUPPOSED to do? Seek out the weakest and…. what?

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, then the next most wounded, and so forth, just like the mum…[Read more]

Hello @everyone.

I don’t think I ever formally introduced myself. My name is Idiotsavon (of the Savon clan North of the Humber.)

I’m a disillusioned teacher (is there any other kind?)

I’m scraping a living doing private tuition, in person and via Skype. It means I often keep strange hours. But I’m no longer a schoolteacher, which is kind of…[Read more]

@brewski

Ha ha, brilliant 🙂

“Have you seen my pretty knickers?”

Said with his head in a copy of “Judoon for Beginners” 🙂

@brewski

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

ha ha. I won’t be googling that one 🙂

@wisht @brewski

If you did a search for that costume, then…

It’s strange, I’ve started getting some very unusual adverts in my Facebook sidebar.

But loving the incompetence angle!

Me too 🙂

On that note, could I suggest:

– Speaks 5 billion languages. Badly. Often resorts to pointing and shouting in Gallifreyan.

x

@brewski

I’m thinking of something in black leather.
Or possibly rubber…

I like it. Very Matrix. (I assume you’re thinking of the Matrix? I did an image search for black rubber/leather costumes and – well, the less said the better.)

@brewski

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

x

@Devilishrobby, @FatManInABox, @Brewski, @Oh, 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. Clearly, Clara’s angry confrontation with the Doctor is crucial, but how are we to read that scene? I would argue that the Doctor is not…[Read more]

@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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@brewski, shouldn’t you be posting this on the Kill The Moon thread?

@Brewski Did I imagine it? Seems to me when Courtney was alone on the Tardis, she fiddled with a button and a second later a wisp of smoke appeared from under the console….?

I saw the same thing, and dismissed it as a humorous touch to indicate that Courtney is a disruptive influence wherever she goes!

Perhaps it was a subtle indication of so…[Read more]

@pedant @brewski –  i’m so embarrassed that i didn’t “hear” the floyd quote! thanks for pointing that out. in my defense, though, ‘the wall’ is my least-played floyd album, since the acrimonious split of the ’80’s. i’m firmly on david gilmour’s “side,” and still love the “spacier” early ’70’s stuff, and the post-waters efforts. ‘the wall’ really…[Read more]