I wondered abut that too — but – but – to keep her alive as a human, or a cyberman, or something in between — ?  That was a hell of a big hole blown through her middle, I dunno . . . but it’s…[Read more]

@doctordani: Mr. Huffle is the companion we never knew we wanted! True, and I definitely want one. 🙂

Missy

@pedant: I shall have ro re-watch Time of the Doctor, can’t remember River’s remark?

@alexwho: This special stands alone, and most definitely for kids. I don’t think you (you generally) can compare it…[Read more]

On reflection, Moffat’s recurring theme is loneliness – especially the Doctor’s existential loneliness. From “Are you my Mummy?” through the Girl in The Fireplace’s “Poor lonely boy” to Amy’s abandonment issues echoing in him, to the loneliness of command made easier by Clara, right up to the superhero having to live a double…[Read more]

I wonder that as well (I actually forgot about the name Harmony of Shoals and your observation about synonyms struck me too).

I think two closely related factors are in play:

1. Moffat will have discussed with Chibnall where he wants to launch from;

2. Moffat is all about the arc and I would not put it past him to send us right…[Read more]

@ichabod and @puroandson very interesting evaluations and deductions as usual.

@missy I am also struggling more than I care to admit with a year off of Doctor Who and Sherlock.  It’s like withdrawal or worse.…[Read more]

@missy I am also struggling more than I care to admit with a year off of Doctor Who and Sherlock.  It’s like withdrawal or worse.  /:

@doctordani Heavens, I hope so, River and and 12 are amazing together, but I pray your theory about 12 is wrong.  I can’t even take th…[Read more]

Thank you for your answers, although I must say I can only agree with @doctordani.

I don’t think the moment was supposed to be kept intimate, I think it was something more complicated.
Like, imagine River was alive when the Doctor had to go to Trenzalore, that would explain why River was sorry. She was…[Read more]

I don’t think it is a ‘dropped plot’, more something so intimate that we, the audience, were never privy to the moment the Doctor told River his name. If it’s a Gallifreyan marriage symbol of a genuine marriage, my romantic little heart suspects that he told her his name on Darillium as evidence that she is…[Read more]

Oh, I don’t know about not scary. They’re still imperialistic space nazis, after all, and you have to have at least some respect for a species that can build and use a weapon that can destroy reality and win a war with the Time Lords.

Although they were stopped by the Doctor and company both times, but those were Acts of Writers.…[Read more]

It’s not a new story:

@bluesqueakpip — I think you were just unlucky to get landed with a total jobsworth before. In the previous times I’ve been involved with the dole-ys I’ve had…[Read more]

As you say, the chemistry was instant. It was a risk, as no one can act ‘good chemistry.’ It’s either there or it
ain’t.

Also, if Rassilon escaped………..?

Cheers,

Missy

“In contrast, I think Moffat has always allowed his Doctors and the rest of his major players to have more mystique to them and a much richer interior life. Their relationships are more complex. Of course that’s in part due to the actors he’s been lucky enough to utilise. Nevertheless, and I’ve been shot down for sayin…[Read more]

@missy Completely agree.

@puroandson and @doctordani  Yes, the actress would have to be incredible.

@pedant I didn’t believe the rumor, it was my annoyance that people are throwing out names, even silly names, almost all of them female, an…[Read more]

I do understand, and am usually up for trying something new. But I am of the view that if a thing isn’t broken, don’t fix it.

Cheers

Missy

new News forum guys http://www.thedoctorwhoforum.com/forums/topic/dr-who-news-4/

@jimthefish – can this be locked?

@puroandson @doctordani and @janetteb YES!

This quote:

I suspect, though, that the Stupids have won and want all episodes to be like Blink or The Family of Blood. I loved them actually -Paul Cornell did a pretty good job in that Human Nature two parter. Mainly, though, the Doctor ran, cried, sobbed, snogged and…[Read more]

’m starting to think that half my problem with ‘Hell Bent’ is that it came after ‘Heaven Sent’, which not only sealed the deal about Twelve becoming my fave, but was an absolute, unequivocal masterpiece and pretty much anything was going to feel like an anti-climax next to it.

I think the key is to look at S9 as a whole, rather tha…[Read more]

I think is most likely that he has been trying to extract himself for some time, and finally felt it was close enough that he could tell the story he wants.

S10 will be interesting but I hope, if Gallifrey features at all, it will be sparingly and with a tightly focussed narrative purpose – exactly like it was in Hell Bent. The…[Read more]

I think people sometimes get the really crazy Moffat-hatred as including Capaldi too, particularly since there was some very childish horror expressed by some very loud and persistent Tennant/Smith obsessives that Capaldi was too “old” and “mean” as the Doctor.  That died away, at lea…[Read more]

I’m sure they’ll try to stretch HDM as much as they can but there are limits. Amber Spyglass is a bloated mess as it is. Calling attention to that…[Read more]

On the face of it, that seems a little strange.  I mean can you imagine someone saying “She’s my wife, but she’s not my companion”? (And what if she heard you?)

You can be a companion without being a wife, but can you be a wife without being a companion?  I know that Doctor Who and River are not a conventional couple and they may n…[Read more]

How rude of me. Welcome to the forum. *grins*

Cheers,

Missy

Exactly! It’s the flaws in people which make them human, and I think that’s what endears me to this Doctor – as you say – his flaws.

We know that eventually PC will leave, it isn’t welcome knowledge.

cheers,

Missy

Too true.  The melancholy Scot air that Capaldi uses goes much d…[Read more]

@ichabod Isn’t the half human theory sort of canon with the 8th Doctor?

Somewhere in AG Who The Doctor has specifically stated that he lied about that (can’t recall where off hand).

But anyway, we have a Time-Lord-Human hybrid. The human half was called Clara. Gestalt, innit?

 and it’s pretty damn obvious that he can and will make…

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Well, it keeps that bit of kerfuffle alive, I suppose, and anything that maintains DW’s flexible backstory is worth…[Read more]