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Hi everyone. I’m a frequent reader of the forum, but an (extremely) rare poster. I really enjoy your thoughts on the episodes, and have come to appreciate episodes which I initially disliked  after reading your collective analysis.

A couple thoughts have come to me so I thought i’d share for once.

I’m of two minds on Missy. It would be great fun if she were a new character, and that would make her actions difficult to predict. But I am also enjoying the thought of her being the Master. As I remember it (imperfectly no doubt) he was last seen flickering in and out of existence after having been brought back to life in a somewhat dodgy way. A ring and incantation wereinvolved I believe. Would he get a full Time Lord lifespan, including regenerations after this?  Maybe the flickering led to him being in the Nethersphere rather than the ordinary universe.

There have been several episodes with artificial intelligence of unknown origin (Deep Breath, Robots of Sherwood, Mummy on the Orient Express.)  wouldn’t it be fun if these were the Master’s design?  I’m not quite clear why s/he’d want to reverse engineer the mummy, but the Master is a bit bonkers himself, no? And killing those on the train, whether successful or not, seems right up his alley.

Clara is the other issue.  Can’t say that I have actual evidence for this, but I began wondering if she is artificial intelligence, maybe of the Master’s design.  A long game for sure.  But this could explain her initial lack of personality (for want of a better word).  After the preview of next week’s red riding hood motif, it struck me that maybe she’s a Pinocchio character with all the lying.  And given the excellent acting we’ve seen, wouldn’t her self-discovery be an incredible scene?  Very Blade Runner, finding out you’re a replicant.  It would also explain Missy’s ‘my Clara’.

Bonkers enough for you?

 

 

 

 

[Enlighteneddespot @replies]

Greetings all.

I missed a couple days discussion and now find myself terribly behind. I had originally intended to comment on some River discussion that is now a few pages back. Lots of intervening speculation on other topics!

Love the theorizing on Hurt doctor. If he is ‘Doctor zero’, and thus all others’ numbers are shifted by one, this would then make ‘the fall of the eleventh’ refer to Tennant. Or have we heard it wrong and it is really the ‘fall of the eleven’ (all eleven doctors)?

As long as I’m here, my comment on River and whether she is really dead:
In Forest of the Dead, after River sacrifices herself and during the voice-over ‘everyone knows everybody dies’ the camera briefly pans over the chair she had been sitting in when she died, and it’s empty.

As though she had regenerated.

I find it interesting because it suggests that Moffat planned her to be a time lord from the beginning. Surely the name can’t have been an accident, so there must have been some consideration of how she would get that name.

Of course the empty chair may just have been a sort of get out of jail free card, to be left for possible, but not definite use later. Sort of like Jenny regenerating in The Doctor’s Daughter. But here’s hoping we see River again!

[Enlighteneddespot @replies]

Hello all.

I’ve been lurking for a long time but thought it was time to finally say hello. Got started with the Doctor a few years ago when I realized that cable tv package included BBC America. Watched a couple Tennant episodes, then got dvds from the library when teen child had flu. We were both hooked. Have only watched AG Who. Matt Smith is my doctor, so it’s going to be bittersweet whenever he regenerates.

Love the website you have here. It’s the best of the Guardian commenters without the trolls!

Keep up the good work. And thanks to Craig for sorting out my sign up issue (emailprovider difficulty, not trouble with the website).

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