@lisa

Sorry if bits of  this is preaching in large parts to the choir ande been aired on this sites lots of times before, but anyway….It seems to me that in BG Who, there was a strong emphasis on tight stories. In AG Who, there is far less concern for tight stories and much more emphasis on the dramatic flourish or the `thing’ (I wish I’d come…[Read more]

After walking around the pool a bit suspiciously, dipping my toe then arm into the water, I’ve decided to, mixing my metaphors, embrace fully the `Ashildr/Me’ as supervillain (or at least superpower) theory and key driver of the next episode. Missy introduced her to the Time Lords and has helped Ashildr/Lady Me move up and down her tim…[Read more]

@puroandson   Is a hybrid made of two? Or can it be more than two? Maybe it’s two and for it to work there’s a 3rd type of thing?    

 Yes! At this stage it probably pays to keep an open mind on what, exactly, the hybrid is.

@ mudlark    The anachronisms in The Woman Who Lived suggested that by the seventeenth century, if not before, Ashildr/Me had been in contact with someone who time travelled and perhaps even done some time-travelling herself, and if so, Missy is by far the most likely contact.

Agreed, and lots to ponder in your full post! But as I can’t see…[Read more]

@mudlark   It seems that the Time Lords were able somehow to contact Ashildr/Me and persuade her to trap the Doctor so that he could be brought, if not to Gallifrey itself, to a point where our universe touched the pocket universe to which it was transferred by the 13 Doctors in Day of the Doctor. 

Let me take an opposite position to see if th…[Read more]

@whisht   Flammarion’s woodcut and moving between worlds. Now there’s a point to think about! Thanks so much for that. That image suggested another, the painting of Dante’s Inferno, with celestial spheres above to carry the planets and beyond the outer sphere of the stars is heaven, souls descending into hell, and the upward journey of a soul…[Read more]

Wonderful and powerful episode. Great timey-wimey, very SM, stuff!

The Doctor Winning: the Doctor losing has been an issue this series. My count before Heaven Sent was Doctor 3 (Davros, Fisher King and Mire) vs Forces of Darkness 2 (Rasmussen,`They’). But my, this win was a slog, 4 Billion plus years of excruciating effort.

Is this the first t…[Read more]

@jphamlore   Clara Oswald is far from dead, far worse. Clara Oswald’s soul in in some form of hell.

Which prompted me to think again about this exchange from Death in Heaven:

MISSY: Cos she’s perfect, innit? The control freak and the man who should never be controlled. You’d go to hell if she asked. And she would. The phone’s ringing, Doct…[Read more]

It’s still November 23rd in my timey-wimey zone, and I didn’t see this referred to in any of the postings today, so happy 52nd Anniversary to Bonkers Theorists everywhere! Which means it’s also Clara Oswin Oswald’s birthday (23rd November 1866) and Clara Oswald’s birthday (23rd November 1986). O.K. back to theorising….

Is anyone else concerned about the Doctor’s ponderous performance in Face the Raven? The Doctor was given assorted, big clues that he was walking into a trap, that the events around Rigsy were about the Doctor, rather than the Doctor being in the street to solve a murder mystery against the clock. Clara explains to him about “trap street” and t…[Read more]

I just rewatched parts of the episode.  We saw two deaths caused by the raven. They were rather different.

Before we watch one of the street people die, another character says “He should stay with her.” But he runs and the character asks “Why do they always run?”

When Clara died, she did not run. Also when the raven entered Clara’s body, there…[Read more]

A few early, jumbled thoughts based on one viewing…

A powerful and gut-wrenching episode, especially as I’d expected Clara to somehow or another avoid the death that’s been flagged-up for so long.  But I agree with @supernumerary that’s where the arc has been going for a season or so (Clara initially shocked at the 12th Doctor’s seeming d…[Read more]

@ichabod    Has the Doctor lost this round?  I’ve seen it posted that in fact the Doctor and Clara escaped in the Tardis after setting the station spinning into the colonized moon with nobody left alive on it but — no, Rasmussen is turned to sand, so nobody, just the video.

Yes, the Doctor’s lost. The video is the point.

Here’s Mark Gattis’…[Read more]

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@lisa   Getting back to the party late, so a belated, hearty thanks for posting the Radio Times piece. Interesting that Gatiss claimed there that the last time the Doctor lost was in Eathshock (1982), which saw the death of Adric.

@blenkinsopthebrave  Very good! The reading of the episode in terms of meta fiction makes excellent sense. Perha…[Read more]

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@arbutus   So, would the same gravity from Neptune that destroyed the Sandmen eventually destroy the station? And hence the video?

Maybe my physics is messed up but….With the grav shields off, I’d expect the space station’s orbit to start to degrade and in time it would plunge into the atmosphere of Neptune and burn-up. While that’s going on,…[Read more]

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