can’t imagine a showrunner’s ego will let that happen.

@whohar

On behalf of RTD…

Ouch!

😂

Oh, I do keep wanting to say that I find the death of death thing intensely maddening. Not only because, as others have said, it’s nonsensical, but beyond that I find any cultural inability to accept death offensive and troubling. So it alarms me that RTD seems to be pushing the idea that we can all live forever, even if he means through…[Read more]

@whohar

I suppose I’m still reading this as a series that discusses (if that’s not too generous a term!) the interplay of ‘fantasy’ and ‘reality’, or ‘ordinary’ and ‘extraordinary’ across every episode. Except that I think there wasn’t time to bring it together, to expand it enough, to realise a full villain, so we ended up with a botched oh that…[Read more]

The comments have been excellent, and I feel like there’s a collective attempt to come to terms with this episode! Which means it has some value?

I’m actually feeling so upset/angry I couldn’t speak yesterday. Thanks to everyone for eloquently expressing what I’m feeling! Even now I can’t really think. But a few people puzzled about the pointing…[Read more]

I think the spoon is a reference to the Fourth Doctor’s quote from The Creature from the Pit:

@juniperfish

Also to Robot of Sherwood?

@juniperfish

Why could Ruby physically make it snow through the power of memory?

Why were her memories able to physically manifest a “Memory TARDIS” (with the help of the Time Window and then the Memory TARDIS’s own memories of herself)? It was a bit of a “death trap” as the Doctor said, sure, but it could actually fly?

I thought the Doctor sa…[Read more]

Oh, btw, was it @blenkinsopthebrave who suggested Sutekh would be defeated by the Doctor taping over Ruby’s video with an episode of EastEnders?!

That is pretty much what happened in the end. So someone got something right!👍

Also, happy that Ruby is gone. Her departure moved me not a jot. I never got a sense of her so it was like ‘go on, get out…[Read more]

Well done everyone for being 2000 million times more imaginative than RTD (at least in his current iteration – did he just get old and sentimental, or what?)

Things that most hurt:

Death plus death = life. Is that like two wrongs making a right?! Uh-uh.

Gatwa still so half-powered. I know it can’t stay the same forever but compared with the i…[Read more]

@thane16  @ps1l0v3y0u

Et al

So… Daleks. Someone said that ages ago.

@thane16

Will a recorder do? You mean, play an A?

Intrigued. But slightly worried that you’re actually the Trickster and that if I do this I’ll somehow end up stuck in a time window being followed (at a 73 yard distance) by rats with several pairs of red eyes…

@spacedmunkee @ @ps1l0v3y0u

The rest of the Pantheon??? I doubt if all is at it seems. Sutekh may be a front for someone else. The whole thing may be virtual with, on the one hand, the multiplicity of baddies representing significant people in the Doctor’s past. How else is Susan Triad everywhere?

If so I doubt if this will be resolved in one 4…[Read more]

@thane16
You just made me buy a book! Don’t need much encouragement there, but the description sounds very much up my street. Actually yesterday on my walk I stopped to look and found that it led me into listening to the  many levels and textures of sounds that were going on: several different birds (song and movements), water in a stream,…[Read more]

@fanoftombaker

Absolutely love your last paragraph.

I know nothing about music theory but I draw, whilst listening to classical radio all day; you make perfect sense.

Fantastic backatcha (in 9s voice?!)

Did you really think it that scary?  

@mudlark

Ooohh, no, not really! It’s just that my brain doesn’t work that way so I’m agog!

But thanks for the context. Knowing you are/were an archaeologist (?) makes your approach clear for me. And less ‘scary’ 🙃

I love that you see it from such a different angle, that you read with a different method t…[Read more]

Music, left end right eyes, suns and moons…

Mrs Flood theories (not mine, but..)

If Ruby is the Sun, then why not

Moon River, wider than a mile…

👹

@thane16 @scaryb

Psychic manifestation, I’d say absolutely. In the trailer for this ep STriad was all “they’re using my face”,  which must be a line in part 2 seeing as it wasn’t in The Legend.

All part of the AI theme: face hacking, deepfakery, identity theft.

Which leads me into more Doctor musing!

Interested in the orange connection…[Read more]

@ps1l0v3y0u

Remember, when 15 first appeared the other guy got the trousers…

Gatwa told Graham Norton that was Tennant getting to costume first! Leg insecurity/envy.

I don’t think 15 is a coward per se, just a bit half-cooked as it were, not quite the full enchilada. Hardly surprising.

Referring rather to the noble act by Nine of refusing to b…[Read more]

I first typed Sunakh instead of Sutekh. How’s that for a Freudian slip :-O

@mudlark

Haha. Only unless you agree with my puppet theory you’re surely attributing a power where there is none!

@ps1l0v3y0u

Exactly, that’s my point – it looks just like the standard Whomonster, so something we’re all used to and will believe in, even against our better judgement, against our own eyes. But maybe this time, we shouldn’t.

Yes, expecting the OTT, as in big Toymaker puppethouse everything falls apart showtrick. And didn’t RTD advise watching…[Read more]

So does Susan T, with her puppet like mask

Not to mention the Theresa May Dancing Queen impression. Now there was a puppet pm if ever there was one!