@Miapatrick – I agree that the dads being…[Read more]

@countscarlioni  You’re welcome of course.  I’m grateful that we’ve come (however sadly) to a place in ou…[Read more]

Locke is obviously well before any understanding (nascent though it still is) of the brain and was, I imagine, a cartesian dualist, so in his view, memory presumably resided with the soul, so a reconstituted body containing that soul would contain the same self.

I’d argue that in the modern understanding, and disregarding…[Read more]

Yes, the regeneration scene (and a couple of other brief scenes) survive. The regeneration scene survives because the children’s programme Blue Peter did a piece on Doctor Who – and included that clip from Tenth Planet. When it came to the Great BBC Wiping of Tapes, Blue Peter’s formidable editor, Biddy Baxter, was having none of it. Blue…[Read more]

*sniff*

I really enjoyed that. Made me laugh, and cry. And very much on a favourite Moffatt theme of keeping people alive through memories  – from Amy with Rory, and now gifting Twelve with his restored memories of Clara. At the end of the day, that’s all we’ve got. I agree with @Juniperfish, I was hoping for a cameo from River, but we’ve…[Read more]

my first thought about the picture was that the hair looks more like the first doctor’s, and that maybe moff is sneaking in another regeneration, a la the war doctor (between 1 and 2)! but then, i realized he can’t be that insane…

can he? 😀

Yes, I’ve seen it on Twitter. I don’t think it’s on the official UK BBC site, but it may have been the US publicity people who released it, as a teaser.

It could be just a nice bit of Photoshop, of course. There’d be that shot of Peter Capaldi on the TARDIS floor from The Doctor Falls, then you could meld his face with Jodie Whittaker’s.

I’ve tasted those biscuits you speak of, and they don’t tast like Jammy Dodgers at all.

Still at least I know where I can get them.

@countscarlioni.

Well spotted, I add my congratulations Clara.

Missy

By golly, you are right…the left-hand side of the moustache goes off in a completely different direction to the right-hand side!

A bit of the spoilers has been announced on Radio 2 News. It’s that REDACTED is returning…

Ah – @CountScarlioni beat me!

But there’s more… (Tease, tease)

But somehow Sontarans don’t feel epic enough to warrant the attention of two Doctors.

I’m being cheeky – I get what you mean though. Current comedic Sontarans aren’t epic enough.

But there’s no reason why they shouldn’t be revamped as more serious kick-ass soldiers at some point in the future. They deserve it.

Thanks. What does feel epic enough though ? Daleks seem too obvious. Something new ?

I’ve got a vague recollection that there was a paper presented a couple of years back which considered the possibility of thermodynamic time reversal in black holes. In the popular press it got translated into ‘time going into reverse’, which might well have caught the eye of one S. Moffat.

What would happen in…[Read more]

@thane15 Puro, I’m with you once again. It’s like I almost get it … then realize I don’t. Shades of algebra coming back to haunt me.

Perhaps it’s what’s causing the Floor Zero phenomenon…

That kinda sums it up, but I was actually thinking of an earlier conversation between The Doctor and The Master, very near the end, where The Master asks for help. I had fun reading this as if it was between Capaldi Doc and Missy. It’s almost flirtatious.

MASTER: Good hunting,…[Read more]

Good point — “Grow the Hell up!” was a surprise.  It’s another sign of “wearing thin” — I wonder…[Read more]

Here’s the guy who does the archao-acoustic research ‘This project explores the role of sound in the experience of Neolithic sites and landscapes’

http://www.aaronwatson.co.uk/acoustics-intro/

@ichabod It happens! Its just hard to predict when it will happen… September is usually the best most wonderful month. …[Read more]

On the one hand, I liked it more than “The Pyramid at the End of the World” but it was no “Extremis”.  The acting was great — I understand why Mackie’s getting the lion’s share of praise, but Capaldi was amazing.  This is Twelve’s equivalent to Four’s “The Invasion of Time”.  I felt like thi…[Read more]

Well we’ll soon find out won’t we.  I have to say that I’d rather not know until I actually see the episode – and THIS time, I shan’t watch the trailer afterwards.

Missy

Aha! Multiple choice.  How about (C) None of the above.  they could simply be different aliens.

Then again, their bosses could be Mondasian Cybermen?

I was watching Wedding of River song last night, and of course there was a pyramid in that too.

Missy

the Doctor requesting a coordinated military attack on the pyramid. It’s both un-Doctor-y and, the Doctor must know, doomed to failure, given the alien tech he’s already seen the Monks deploy. Like Bill and Nardole, I’d like to know what that was about!

I don’t think the Doctor was very invested in the attack- it wasn’t his i…[Read more]

@countscarlioni    the Doctor requesting a coordinated mili…[Read more]

Yes!  I think so.  I think the monks ran their sim Doctor to the point where they defeated him — only first he got the word out to RealDoc, so “Damn!  Run the simulation on, let’s see what in informed sim Doc will do when we do the invasion part of this simulation, and figure out how to…[Read more]

@Miapatrick     I imagine the sight restorers are either in his office or in the TARDIS, probably not in his pocket.

@wolfweed  To be fair, it wasn’t world peace, only a temporary agreement between three people. It’s hard to imagine it would have survived for long. The Fenric situation was si…[Read more]

That’s a good reminder to never forget the Daleks! They do seem to be at least trying to keep tabs on the Doctor, and  told Missy the Doctor had been on Darillium.

Glad you mentioned that. I have often wondered how Missy got away from Skaro and the Daleks? Then again, as I said, it might be the Silence, they wouldn’t be fond…[Read more]

perhaps Missy escape the Vault such as @missrori‘s said or maybe Doctor allow the Missy for quit the vault

I look forward to the new episode

I dare say we shall find out.  Perhaps the Time Lords? No, that’s too bonkers. Daleks?

Missy

Excellent!

@mudlark  . . . maybe the Doctor’s blindness is not just a challenge fo…[Read more]

I’m interested by the fact that River would not approve of the Doctor killing Missy. I remember Martha getting angry when she saw ten getting ready to forgive him, it seemed like a…[Read more]

Maybe the creature from the Satan Pit is also part of this need to destroy?

@missrori  and @winston Yes I think there is far more to Bill’s Mum than meets the eye. When I first saw the photo I thought Susan but then that might just reflect my own wishes to find out what became of her after the Doctor left her. I have always felt that there is an as yet to…[Read more]

But the Tardis, as we saw in Hell Bent, can make him another, right?  Trouble is, how can he use it effectively if he can’t see?

@janetteb   I wonder how much Nardole really knows about the Doctor.

And v.v..

@countscarlioni  Chris is sticking with a team he’s got used to working with on Broad…[Read more]

I was surprised that the Doctor didn’t have a look at that contract!

@frobisher . . . the twist was unexpected. There is definitely a theme of release going on, imo.

Loved Suchet — and yes, liberation . . . will that be this Doc…[Read more]

Yes, I think it’s a little production joke: Clara was positioned as the Doctor’s ‘daughter’, Bill is positioned as ‘granddaughter’, therefore the picture of her mum – as a little joke – really resembles Clara.

I dunno if we’ll see Susan herself, but Moffat really has re-taken the Doctor through his entire life cycle. We’ve seen…[Read more]

Agreed. I thought it was dramatically a bit weak for all of them to escape.

@mudlark The same applies to Susan so I would be equally surprised…[Read more]

Obviously nods towards First Doctor and Susan again (leaving one’s charge behind…).

And not just Susan, if you think of all the others who have travelled with him and whom he has left behind, whether freely or reluctantly or unwillingly, to continue on their own way without him.  Maybe I am reading too much into the Doctor’s subdued…[Read more]

Remind you of anyone?

looks similar to clara, in this pic. and could be a daughter of clara and danny… if danny had lived? (edit: looks very similar to orson, actually? hmmm)

who does she remind you of?

@countscarlioni

That all Bill’s housemates come out of the woodwork at the end?? I thought that was a bit feeble.

i t…[Read more]

Apologies if this has already been mentioned, but in Midnight the Doctor makes a very explicit promise, almost a contract, with the entity that appears to have possessed Mrs. Silvestry.

He says, ‘Whatever you want, if it’s life, or…[Read more]

And — how ultimately there’s only “room” for one Doctor in the Tardis, as CapDoc said in S8.  We can have an uneasy and demanding team of (more or less) two Docs for a bit…[Read more]