The Doctor Who Forum | CitizenVexx | Mentions https://www.thedoctorwhoforum.com/members/citizenvexx/activity/mentions/ Activity feed mentioning CitizenVexx. Fri, 11 Sep 2026 14:51:00 +0000 https://buddypress.org/?v=2.9.1 en-US 30 hourly 2 a4013fb97df714462206ebb4be20490b JimboMcMaster replied to the topic The Magician's Apprentice in the forum The Twelfth Doctor http://www.thedoctorwhoforum.com/forums/topic/the-magicians-apprentice/page/2/#post-43076 Sun, 20 Sep 2015 19:24:02 +0000 @citizenvexx, @pedant and @supernumerary. Re: The Doctor’s approaching inevitable death.

Add to that the end of the Tennant era. That’s four in total in the last 7 years! The Doctor knows he will die soon, without actually being in a state of dying, and, in three of the four examples, goes on one last sequence of adventures (mainly off-screen) a…[Read more]

]]> d309cdf6220b4665d6c74ae0d9c7fa68 IAmNotAFishIAmAFreeMan replied to the topic The Magician's Apprentice in the forum The Twelfth Doctor http://www.thedoctorwhoforum.com/forums/topic/the-magicians-apprentice/#post-43003 Sun, 20 Sep 2015 01:34:22 +0000 @CitizenVexx

 They mention the Doctor is dying AGAIN.

I think that is a bit of linguistic jiggery-pokery to mask dark themes for the kiddies.

The Doctor has just (as far as we can tell)  left a young boy to die and is shame-ridden. “Dying of shame” is not a new trope, redolent as it is with the shattering of illusions, the abandonment of hope a…[Read more]

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