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“I assume it was that they did not want to distract from the surprise of Tennant. But I also wondered if there was a gendered assumption that the audience could not cope with a male Doctor appearing in the clothes of a female Doctor. I hope not”

they left the master in her clothes (I know that wasnt a ‘proper’ regeneration)

Ace looked pleasantly well preserved ❤️

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@miapatrick that’s the one! Obviously I misremembered the plot and the  end but otherwise… 🙂

Thank you.

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That was more like it! Loved the idea of accepting their death in one loop to set up the next one – a time travel version of Memento.

on the subject of time travel films, I saw a spanish film a couple of years ago on BBC4 when someone travels forward in time and see themselves  getting shot and (spoiler alert) in trying to avoid it actually discovers it was themselves that did it. Can’t for the life of me remember the title – anyone able to help me out?

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@mudlark – excellent background. That certainly unmuddies some of waters for me. [no pun intended!]

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@blenkinsopthebrave thanks for the heads up about the extra scene

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This season of Dr Who is like the Star Trek films – one bad, one good, one bad, one good…

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At the risk of facing the wrath of fellow Whovians, that was totally incomprehensible….

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Those Sontarans are rotten shots!

much better than last week –  Azure and Swarm, “translations, but close enough”. Throwaway comment, or possible clue…

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Well I am pleased that I wasn’t the only that was completely at a loss to describe what I saw in episode 1. As someone above mentioned, I expect each of the plotlines will get an exclusive episode, but will I  remember anything from episode 1? I don’t think so – as a scene setter it failed miserably.

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@miapatrick “it’s most likely a case of how, not if, the Master got away/survived).”

The Master escape was signposted. just before the bomb went someone offscreen said, something like, “quick, come through here”

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wow! I am not going to pick it to bits… I loved it…

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This series is like the Star Trek films, alternating between poor and excellent. TBH I have only just got around to watching this week’s as I wasn’t all fired up, but what a treat. This was another winner, and as commented previously by others, it was the pacing. One story, stick to it, move it along. Back to being excited for tomorrow… defo hoping to see Jack and altDic in one of the next two. Still fretting that we are going to end with a ‘Bobby in the shower’ ending though…

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At the risk of being attacked by everyone here, I am going to put my head above the parapet and say, with the exception of the truly excellent Judoon episode, and ok plus Praxeus episode, I have found this series underwhelming so far.
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<div>I can’t put my finger on why I am not enjoying them. Part of the problem is with three companions to write for, the stories are too fragmented. The back stories are getting in the way, and slowing down, the main story.</div>
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<div>It is a pity, because I enjoy watching Jodie, her character reminds me of Colin Baker, but the screen is just too full.</div>

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I begin to suspect that the Doctor will be waking up in the a proverbial shower at the end of this series. We mustn’t forget that ‘everything is a lie’.

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@lisa nice spot about the companions not knowing the cybermen or daleks. Mistake or clue?….

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Wow, wow wow! Best one since… can’t remember!

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<span class=”useratname”>@blenkinsopthebrave “77 years on earth in the 70s and 80s”  Now there is an idea for a an episode – The Two Masters</span>

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Wow! A lot of name dropping in this episode. Like most, I guessed Ada straight away, but didn’t guess Madeleine – there was a programme about SOE a couple of years ago, and I think she was mentioned in that.

A nice set up of the series arc. Have we seen the last of the Master? (Doubt it!)

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@countscarlioni funnily enough I was thinking of the Avengers episode The House That Jack Built during this as well. Happens to be my favourite Avengers episode.

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Disappointed that the second chip got wasted (as far as the story arc is concerned). Not sure why she didn’t give it the person she wrote about in her journals as being the love of her life.

Re comments others have made:

I thought Me said she learnt of the Doctor from people she met (you have made waves)

Like the theory about Clara still being in the Daleks.

Good spot on the Clara mum outfit!

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Apologies if I missed someone else saying this, but did you read the inscription on Prentice’s card: May the remorse be with you

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Posts arrive quicker than I can read them, so sorry if someone has already said this, but there have been suggestions that Clara might be a The Master. A character is only supposed to be able to coexist with themselves under certain conditions, not as a norm… Or has that time restriction gone now…

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I don’t know if we are allowed to refer to The Inspector (US spoof show) here, but when the Daleks were waiting for Clara to run, I couldn’t help thinking ‘less talking, more fleeing’.

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Couple of thoughts to throw in the the pot:

I wondered if the Doctor was waking up in Pompeii.

I was expecting all of last season to be a ‘Bobby in the shower’ moment. Good call about her flat/house.

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If we return to an old theory about people being transmitted away by Missie before they die, then Danny ought to be safe unless he presses that button – he’s not dead…

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Apropos nothing, I was quite tickled that one of the key saving places was a copy of The Time Traveller’s Wife – one of my favourite books. Were any of the other hiding places significant/memorable?

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@brewski Nice spot on Floyd

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Jury out…

Liked the new credits, but got so bored found myself wondering who did Clara’s hair as it obviously wasn’t Jenny.

Intrigued by the Missy/Master idea…

…and let’s get Paternoster Gang on CBBC

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May be a reference to Sussex Vampyre. See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Giant_Rat_of_Sumatra

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Has anyone else watched the ‘untitled web series about a space traveler who also travels through time’?
http://Www.theinspector.tv
Good spoof series

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As someone old enough to have watched from day 1, I was impressed with the quality of ep1 of Unearthly Child, and suprised how poor the next 3 were. Now if only we can get them to repeat the Dalek epidodes…

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Wow!

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As someone knocking on the door of my pension, I am looking forward to a return to an older doctor. Just thought I would say that!

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@Shazzbot re Mark Rylance – I agree, astoundingly talented, but I tend to think of him as unknown outside of the theatre, and we can but dream…

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If we are looking for an older doctor, relatively unknown on TV, but established theatre actor, Mark Rylance ticks all the boxes. Plus, my wife would start watching, so I would get to see the show on Saturday, rather than having to get up early on  Sunday  🙂

 

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Scene 42: SM rushes into the Dr Who offices.

“Those people on the Dr Who forum are getting dangerously close to the solution for the 50th anniversary episode. Release the story about Matt leaving to distract them…”

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Speculation of a female Doctor isn’t new. Many years ago, in the original series,  Kate O’Mara was being talked about as a new Doctor…

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The clever thing here is – are they all  (nudge nudge) “continuity errors” or are there some continuity errors. Phew!

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Apologies if what I now say clashes with what everyone else has said, but I am struggling to catch back up!!

@craig thanks for the mini-episodes. Didn’t know about them, and I think they add a lot of back story.

@misspawsintime LOVE the idea that Hurt is our Doctor’s Dad
 

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@shazzbot

– “I wondered whether the tardis Clara tried to get into, and failed [in RoA], was the original”

“Wow, now there’s a thought – you mean, from the time the Doctor was there before, with Susan?”

Exactly 🙂

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@budicaneup @shazzbot I wondered whether the tardis Clara tried to get into, and failed, was the original

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Phew, caught up!!

No one seems to have revisited the time in The Rings of Akhaten when the Doctor vanished (although I could have missed it, in which case I apologise)

Was this when the Doctor retrieved/replaced the leaf?
 

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Not relevant to current posts, but the ’emperor hidden in plain sight’ was similar to an episode of Blake’s Seven.

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Re osakaHunter comment about Brain of Morbius’ – in the mind battle Morbius’s past lives show on his ‘screen’ so the pre-hartnell pictures must be the doctor. Mind you if you go by that, the Doctor has passed his twelfth generation so we are in other trouble elsewhere…

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Re Satsuma Joe comment:”Byron also had an illegitimate daughter with Mary Shelley’s stepsister. They christened her Clara.”

Byron had a legitimate daughter ada lovelace (after whom the programming language is named).

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Re a very early posting, according to subtitles, the sensor said “Lancashire, sass” not “Lancashire, South”. 

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I thought the comment about the human race getting time travel was interesting – no one else seems to have picked up on it. What happened? Was it abandoned when ‘history said she never returned’. How did she know she never returned?

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If I might throw a loopy theory into the mix….

The submarine is a Katyusha class (as written on the walls). Katyusha missile launchers were named after an old folk song with the following lyrics

Oh you tender song sung by a maiden
Spread your wings and fly towards the sun.
Find the soldier in the distant trenches
Bring him from Katyusha greetings fond.
May he then remember his beloved
May he hear her sweet song like a dove
To his last breath may he guard his homeland
Like Katyusha guards their tender love.

The first four lines could be construed to be represented by the last two episodes.

I’ll get my coat…

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