• @DrBen

    Looool at Dad as a “daft mansplainer” – haha – I’m not sure CC is as much of a troll as Moffat, however, although I would enjoy this a lot.

    I do hope Jenny and Vastra are revisted at some point. I love them.

    My guess is that Doctor 12 will be with Doctor 1 at the time of his regeneration into Doctor 13. So we’ll get a very brusque, “Stop…[Read more]

  • @drben I do recall from the more recent Thin Ice (and who does not love a Frost Fair?) Lord Sutcliffe’s racist reaction to Bill Potts leading the Doctor to (in a very humanly manner) punch him. I expect any writer would like to explore gender in a similar vein too, whether there is a reaction from third parties or Timelord trickery to get round…[Read more]

  • @DrBen  Thanks for pointing that out. I’ve been watching the show all these decades and didn’t notice that the Doctor regenerates – the very topic of my post. Anything else of interest that might have passed me unnoticed? The Beatles? Star Trek? The Falklands War? Oh, and wasn’t some chap shot the night of the first episode? Thanks for keeping me…[Read more]

  • janetteB replied to the topic World Enough and Time

    Reading comments is always an added pleasure and an excellent way of procrastinating when there is R.L work to be done.

    @drben Your theory regarding the possibility of an earlier regeneration than expected chimes with my thinking. It is even possible Moffat will throw in an extra regeneration. I have often thought that one way to really introduce…[Read more]

  • soundworld replied to the topic Face The Raven

    Hi everyone,
    I’ve been away so I was only able to catch up and watch the episode last night.  @drben I  DO live in a world of very-limited-media and thus had seen no headlines, spoilers, or otherwise.  So, although we all knew it had to come, it was a shock.

    Many things (apart from Clara’s amazing bravery) that stood out.  It really was quite stu…[Read more]

  • Starla replied to the topic Face The Raven

    @nerys @drben – re. the quantum shade; I, like yourselves, interpreted that it could only be passed on once, to a willing party. Once done, the ability of the shade giver (in this case Ashildr) to revoke the curse was null and void. Clara’s fate was set.

  • nerys replied to the topic Face The Raven

    @drben

    As for the question of why the Doctor didn’t offer to take the quantum shade, my interpretation of “The Rules” was that the obligation could only be given away once, not passed around like a hot potato.  Just a thought.

    I agree. Also, the sense I got was that there’s a set chronology in which things can happen:

    1. Ashildr/Mayor Me can remove…

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  • Kharis replied to the topic Face The Raven

    @juniperfish Awesome tarot summary!

    @drben I have wondered, since the Doctor knew it was a trap, if the key was actually to the Tardis.  Darling Rigsby had time to paint his tribute…guess the plotters haven’t found the box….or they have the wrong key.

  • Kharis replied to the topic Face The Raven

    A little love for Puro everyone, she is back in the hospital and needs our warm thoughts.  Remember, she was in pain when she wrote that post.  Puro loves the show and this Forum and I’m sure it’s eating at her to be part of any disruption or hurt here.  I think she is just taking a break here because of her illness and stress.  I’m sure she wil…[Read more]

  • bendubz11 replied to the topic Face The Raven

    @DrBen see that’s where all the bonkerizing helped: I was so convinced all the rumours were just an elaborate misconception that the fact it wasn’t really surprised me

  • PhaseShift replied to the topic Sleep No More

    I think the eye booger monster (thanks @drben) objections passed me by, because once you have got past the Adipose (your fat just walks away!) and the total conversion of bodily material to fat in the shape of small cute alien blobs, you are in a mindspace to accept anything! 🙂

    I do think they missed a trick here though. If it turns out this is…[Read more]

  • Arbutus replied to the topic Sleep No More

    @DrBen    I’d rather they take risks and occasionally fail than never take risks at all.   This, absolutely.  @Bluesqueakpip says it perfectly: the risky episodes, even when they fail all or in part, are what lead us to the unexpectedly wonderful ones!

    @Starla   Rasmussen might have been better off just embedding the eye dust inducing signal in…[Read more]

  • nerys replied to the topic Sleep No More

    @drben Gotta love your description of them as “eye-booger monsters,” LOL! I’m curious as to why the ending made no sense to you. I think it did to me … but then I may just be imagining that. From what I can tell, the Doctor was able to save only himself and Clara (I don’t think Nagata made it into the Tardiss with them). And then we return to…[Read more]

  • Bluesqueakpip replied to the topic Sleep No More

    @Kharis, @purofilion, @catladymeow and @DrBen

    The thing we always have to remember with ‘experimental’ episodes is that Blink and Turn Left came out of Love and Monsters.

    That is, if the then producer Russell T Davies hadn’t tried a ‘Doctor-lite’ episode – and then gone ‘okay, that didn’t quite work’ – they would probably never have worked out…[Read more]

  • JimmyP replied to the topic Sleep No More

    @blenkinsopthebrave Absolutely on the BG Who feel to the whole thing – Gatiss’ episodes so clearly mark him out as a real fan of the earlier stuff. And very interesting thoughts on the meta angle to it; I hadn’t thought of it like that and indeed this could survive in isolation as almost a ‘concept’ story, rather than an episode in a…[Read more]

  • Kharis replied to the topic Sleep No More

    @alexwho @catladymeow @drben Exactly how I feel which is hard, because I was really looking forward to a good sit down with my favourite show.  This episode was beyond laboured, it was seriously my least favorite episode, well almost, ’42’ left me disappointed too.

    @lisa @purofilion good sleuthing! Yes, I agree, the themes are strong and…[Read more]

  • darbycrash replied to the topic The Zygon Inversion

    @drben why. Would. You. Post. That. I’m crying.

  • @DrBen

    I understand the point, but what purpose would be served by punishing Bonnie?

    Dear me, it would seem I am clearly not explaining myself. Let me try again. I am not talking about the necessity for Bonnie to be punished. I agree wholeheartedly with the whole idea of forgiveness. What I am concerned with when I refer to consequences, are the…[Read more]

  • Kharis replied to the topic The Zygon Inversion

    @nerys and @drben. Yes, I agree Missy had a huge part in the creation of Clara, but I can see River and Missy working together all too easily.

  • lisa replied to the topic The Zygon Inversion

    I agree with @Frobisher that a Claricle came out of the time stream now.
    @Nerys I believe Missy chose Clara for her own scheme but might not be an actual part
    of the Claradox. @DrBen The end scene in the Tardis where the Doctor could
    barely look at her meant to me that he saw a glimpse of a bad Clara,( the enemy…[Read more]

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