@devilishrobby Susan as Anita’s boss, I like that. Overall, the thought that keeps buzzing around in my head is, is the Reality War really over? I was so perturbed by the Doc and Belinda’s behaviour around Poppy and Ruby, oblivious to the latter’s discomfort, massively unrealistic about the whole notion of taking a baby on their travels, and…[Read more]

Hi @ps1l0v3y0u. Re Anita’s keen interest in Rogue and the Doctor, I read it that she had rather fallen for the Doc (well, who wouldn’t) and only realised when she saw him in the face that she’d known, dancing with Rogue, that she really wasn’t his type? The way her face fell as she watched them… But the thing about her Boss is definitely intriguing.

How the what the why and why am I crying a bit and laughing like a loon? I really, really didn’t want Ncuti to go, I’ve loved it when the Doctor was him, and I had been dismissing the rumours as just the usual nonsense and hoping for a twist for whole last part of that. Some of you get on here and talk some sense, asap, please… (oh, wait a…[Read more]

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You sum up my feelings about C S Lewis very well. I read the Narnia books when I was very young, and as I was brought up in a strongly Christian household accepted the Aslan = Jesus etc allegorical elements without really questioning them. But for the most part they stand without that, as I realised when I read them to my children…[Read more]

I do remember The Last Battle! The dwarves were so determined not to be taken in that they couldn’t be taken out of their barn/prison into the eternal version of Narnia which was actually all around them. A good call.

Indeed – it’s quite alarming that Ruby’s nan seems to have done more internet sleuthing about Conrad than UNIT did… Not to mention the man on the inside. I was wondering about the podcast that Conrad initially interviews Ruby for. Do we assume this went out live, or that he used the material in one of his exposés?

I’m pretty sure that the rules about who and wasn’t included in the ‘non-white’ category were made at state level or even more locally, but also interpreted ad hoc by police officers, bus drivers, diner owners and so on. Someone on the other site complained that Logan would not at that time and in that place have called the Doctor ‘sir’ – it would…[Read more]

@whohar These two points chime with what I’ve been thinking.

1. The hooded figure is Ruby’s guardian in the literal sense (i.e. not her mother) and maybe a higher-order being.

It makes no sense for the hooded figure to be Louise, as many have pointed out (and not just because of the pointing out). Are we sure the figure is female? I’d have to l…[Read more]

@miapatrick Exactly! He couldn’t see her, therefore he feared her, as a potential ‘rogue’ element that could sabotage his plan. So he was thwarted by his lack of understanding of the species he was about to destroy, to whom ordinariness can be extraordinary.

Still processing, and will re-watch. But did anyone else think Infinity Wars when people started crumbling to dust? And Endgame when those deaths were overturned?

I am, as always, in awe of the bonkers theorising that goes on here, so erudite and so detailed! I can contribute nothing on that level but what’s preoccupying me at the moment is the importance of music and how that will play out (ha!) in the finale. I keep thinking about Stranger Things and how music was so vital to the last series, both the…[Read more]

Oh, @juniperfish, that line hit me straight in the gut…

Re the Doctor’s tears, I recalled just now several episodes when Amy shed tears without knowing that she was doing so, let alone why (can’t remember exactly at what point this was, but it includes the Van Gogh ep). So rather than the Doctor turning the tears on, for whatever purpose (cf @bunface), could they be an involuntary response to something…[Read more]

I think obviously there is satire on and critique of social media here, but I don’t think that’s all – these young people have had a world created for them, and have been encouraged to live in their bubble. But whereas the criticism of ‘young people today’ is so often that they prefer the on-line to the real world, choosing vacuous Tik-tokery over…[Read more]

@miapatrick I do wonder if even Rickey September would have been entirely immune – though given the level of self-education, decency and courage that he showed, one hopes that he would have fought against his indoctrination.  As the song says, ‘you’ve got to be carefully taught’, but he’s been exploring other aspects of the society and its…[Read more]

Re the mystery of what Old Witchy Ruby says to everyone, that’s one of the elements that speaks to me of magic. There isn’t anything that I can imagine that would have that effect, in any remotely rational way, on Ruby’s adoptive Mum, or on Kate – the behaviour of each of the people who speak to OWR is more or less identical and suggests that they…[Read more]

Hello all – I’ve been lurking but not posting for a looong time, and had to call on help from Craig to get me back in here as my password didn’t work… Lovely to see familiar names back here.

I’m more excited about Who than I have been for ages – which makes me sad that Whitaker got such a raw deal with both the quality of scripts and stories,…[Read more]

I haven’t seen Gatwa in anything and will enjoy encountering him as The Doctor without any preconceptions I think – I have high hopes given the return of RTD. Relieved that it’s not an (over) familiar face, that we haven’t reset to straight white male. Looking forward to Whitaker’s finale, and then, yes, allons-y to 14(ish)!

I love a time loop. And the device of having the time reducing by a minute each time added a lot more tension (I didn’t time it myself to make sure they weren’t cheating, mind you!). It reminded me of a Star Trek NG episode where (if my memory serves me well) each time the loop recurred, the space had contracted (i.e. more of the ship had…[Read more]

@craig What @blenkinsopthebrave said! Don’t go. Many of us are the ones who never quite gave up on Who, through multiple regenerations, through multiple writers and showrunners, through the glorious, the pedestrian and the downright rubbish stories. We’ve probably all fallen out of love with the show at certain times.

I am actually enjoying this…[Read more]