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Hey YOU! You’ve been gone a very. Long. Time 🙁

I hope all is well in the Arbutus manor?

And that reminds me of another manor!  The @idiotsavon castle!

I spent, ooh, about 3 hours last night watching Listen & reading all the comments. I’m a-watching all of the Peter Capaldi years again. How beautiful. I was reading a…[Read more]

Hello everyone, i’m glad to be back. (Waves at you especially thane and puro)

I’ve been lurking the previous threads of this series, playing endless catch-up (I seem to be experiencing some issues with <ahem> time just now).

That was fabulous. I have to admit that in the first few minutes I was thinking ‘Zombies? Really? ‘ As it turns out, the…[Read more]

@fivefaces  – “Does this series have a theme of how the exploited come to understand their condition, and develop their consciousness to transcend it?”

Well put.  I really like this idea.  If it’s not the intended theme of this series then I definitely think it should be.

found it, credit to @fivefaces for the ‘midnight’ theory, over in the ‘thin ice’ thread…

@ichabod     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, but not, it seems, in the long run.

Yes. And who but a Doctor travels through space and time with a stolen Type 40 Tardis and a companion?

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@whisht Thanks, I was the one who asked the question about the sinking boot. Good answer!

@fivefaces I loved “Midnight” … so I would be impressed if that were the being kept in the vault.

@FiveFaces @bluesqueakpip Yes, she does seem to attract a lot of paradoxes and issues with time.  Hmmmm.  Like the bonkers theory about a password   The voice of the Fisher King sure sounded like House from the episode with Idris.

@Fivefaces this is probably of irrelevance, but remember that in “The End Of Time” Tennant did the same to hide the TARDIS from The Master, shift it in time by a split second

@jphamlore @fivefaces Also, more recently, the Matt Smith Doctor did a bit of time travelling in ‘Hide’ to find out what was going on. And in that story it was because it was thought there was a ghost.

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the TARDIS’s special discomfort with everything that is happening, right down to the Cloister Bell.

Yes, it’s no wonder the TARDIS doesn’t like Clara. Not only was she sent on board by Missy, I swear Ol’ Sexy has had to ring that great clangy bell more times in Clara’s tenure than in the tenures of all the previous Companions c…[Read more]

@FiveFaces: In at least the Fourth Doctor story City of Death, the Doctor took the Tardis back to Leonardo da Vinci’s workshop to find out why there were multiple copies of the Mona Lisa in the present time. Then he used a felt marker to write “This is a fake” on the canvases that would later be used by Leonardo to make the copies!

@Craig – thanks for the extra re Cass – nice!

@Fivefaces Yes it’s interesting the cloister bell sounded – the old girl seems to do that when a paradox threatens  –  something Timelordy would be great, as the Doc does have Gallifrey to find.

@FiveFaces   What is generally forbidden, because it could lead to significant paradoxes and the possibility of a major temporal disruption, is for the Doctor to double back on his own time line.  In other circumstances there is no reason why he cannot go back to observe and investigate the origins of a situation in which he finds himself; it wo…[Read more]

I finally managed to watch the episode last night. It felt very much like an episode of the Sarah Jane Adventures, whether that was because of the writer, location, ‘monster’ or the fact of watching sci-fi on a school night! This is a long post (which is becoming a habit of mine here), please let me know if you want me to be a little more…[Read more]

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maybe what they are collecting in the Nethersphere is not souls but stories

I really, really like this as an explanation of why the PC didn’t cut the mustard 🙂

Also, we’re told in The Rings of Akhaten that souls ARE stories:

CLARA: She didn’t say stories. She said souls.
DOCTOR: Same thing. The soul’s made of stories, not atoms.…[Read more]

@FiveFaces – I wonder if this is the same poster that appears in Let’s Kill Hitler, during the early scenes where Mels keeps getting into trouble at the school? (I don’t have that episode on video to check.)

neither do i. and a quick youtube check didn’t turn up anything, either. perhaps some other kind soul here can do the legwork for us? :)…[Read more]

@FiveFaces – yes, it’s by the door in the teacher’s lounge. there’s a pic of it in the very first post of this thread, courtesy of our emperor, craig… 🙂

a couple of other things i’ve been thinking…

should we believe the doctor when he tells clara that the droid monster has enough firepower to ravage the earth? is it possible that he was…[Read more]

@FiveFaces, @Pedant I’m surprised they put it on so late. I know a lot of friends with younger children who just simply won’t let their kids stay up that late. It also implies that there is something risque happening as part of the episode will be on after the 9pm watershed, thus another reason kids may be prevented from watching it.

For me, it…[Read more]

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I don’t have a particular problem with it and the BBC is in a bit of a “rock/hard place” thanks to the Clash of the Tedious Titans – and anything is better that that godawful quiz show with the robot as a lead-in. And I think the practical reality is that timeshift is a huge factor in Who (and most drama) now so the nominal broadcast…[Read more]

@Bluesqueakpip     I really hope that Clara doesn’t die. But this:      However, merely being dead doesn’t suggest Clara won’t be taking any further part in events. Rory died more times than Kenny, and River was living a busy and active post-death life. Donna got saved.      Hilariously put, and a good point!

@HisDreamer   Welcome!  The clois…[Read more]