@Brewski    Perhaps after its lie down you can give it a nice cup of alacri-tea      To quote the Tenth Doctor:    Oh yes!!!!    😀

Good point about the chameleon arch. I hope not, though. I would hate to see that start to be used as a get out of jail card every time the writers want to introduce (or reintroduce) a time lord into the story lin…[Read more]

@drdai    I love this term: a moffhint!   Well done.

@Brewski   Absolutely agree re the Valeyard, I have no interest in going there.

@janetteB   Except… the Doctor always said that he would have sensed the presence of time lords who still existed. Would he not have sensed his own granddaughter?

And if Missy were the Rani, she would indeed hav…[Read more]

@Brewski I am definitely with you on the “not the Valeyard”. I dislike the concept though I can’t comment on the execution as I have not seen the story in which the idea was introduced however I don’t think Moffat would dredge up an idea from the dying years of the show. At least I certainly hope he doesn’t because I barely consider much of what…[Read more]

@pedant and @pufferfish seem to be in perfect harmony with the Skids (thanks to both of you)

@drdai Welcome. And well done on wading thro 274 posts!! Maybe you’re right – the Doctor starts a regeneration cycle looking older then gets progressively younger (more or less).

@Brewski love the QE I as Missy theory – you nearly have me…[Read more]

@Brewski oh lol that made me laugh and the reasoning actually works if SM is actually twisted enough to use it.

@bluesqueakpip @Brewski re: everyone getting de-glooped after ending up in the Dalek’s “Organic refuse disposal” I didn’t even notice them all get cleaned up, I was too busy looking for links to Rome! On my re-watch you actually hear the Doctor say

DOCTOR: Watch it, decontamination tubes are hot.

I guess it makes sense that anything leading to a…[Read more]

@Brewski

Question: When did they get cleaned up after the protein bath?!

Yeah, a few people noticed that one over on the Graun. There was a mention of Rusty’s tubes being hot with heat as well as radiation, but he also seemed to be fitted with some kind of internal dry cleaning facility. 🙂

It all had the feel of someone sticking up their hand…[Read more]

y’know @Brewski and @FiveFaces , there are some on this forum who’ve been speculating about the likelihood of a musical episode of Doctor Who (as other shows have done, especially Buffy).

And now I think you have it – Doctor Who meets Cabaret.

perhaps as…

“The Cabaret of Doctor Caligari Who”.*

🙂

(* either that or “Springtime for Davros”)

@Brewski I think the concept of ‘Weimar Daleks’ is brilliant. I’d be up for Kantian Kaleds too.

@Brewski and @FiveFaces – Nice to hear some bonkers – cheers!

Really like that idea (that the Doctor may have caused the Daleks in some way).

It’d be nice almost as a “I can’t prevent this (thing) happening – its a fixed point”

and then we see him catch sight of another Tardis floating in space also watching the event and we realise he’s been…[Read more]

@Brewski By a strange coincidence, I had been watching The Daleks recently, for much the same reason, and was struck by the very same thought. Were the original Kaleds these beautiful philosophers and artists, as the Thals say they were?

But then I think of Genesis of the Daleks, and I suppose that maybe this was something the Thals were…[Read more]

@arbutus

of course you are right. After all the confusion regarding how to name each doctor now you would have thought I’d given it some thought before asking that. Seems such a silly question now.

@brewski

Thank you 🙂 did you pose something similar earlier?

Ooooh bonkers theories creeping out again! Thanks @Brewski and @Whisht (Dorium as cyberleader and a Davros/Dreamlord faceoff 😈 )

And a guest role for Michelle Gomez – yippee. (Agree she could be a great Doctor – or a great Rani); That’s a very period costume she’s wearing. Madame Vastra period maybe…?

Hmmm – Patrick Stewart as the…[Read more]

That is indeed a tantalising idea, @Brewski

Cheers

Janette

@Brewski

Patrick Stewart as the Master…I am sure it won’t happen, but there is something strangely appealing about that idea…

Think about it. He would be an amazing opponent to Peter Capaldi.

But it won’t happen.

Finally caught up with this. Not really much to add to what’s already been said, other than it’s interesting how seriously the Doctor takes the crime of meddling in time. Seriously enough that stranding the Monk on 11th-century Earth doesn’t appear to be seen as too harsh a punishment!

I must say that this episode and others like it are a great…[Read more]

@arbutus

Re reconciling timestreams – Amy asks the Doctor explicitly at one point why she can remember 2 versions of events and the Dr explains it’s because she’s a timetraveller now, and lives partly outside time. So while the timestreams themselves will realign, it’s more than likely that the Doctor, as both a timetraveller and a TimeLord, will…[Read more]