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]

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]

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

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

@fivefaces   [Read more]

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

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 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

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]

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]

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]

For me, it…[Read more]

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]

@HisDreamer   Welcome!  The clois…[Read more]

I have heard of Carel Kapek but never read anything by him – it was he (or his brother) who first used the word as the name of sentient automatons (R.U.R – Rossum’s Universal Robots stageplay – the robits of which are a bit closer to being part-organic-part-mechanical;…[Read more]

Robot is from the root verb “to work” in both Czech and Russian.

Im not sure about a socialist bent to the series so far.  Moffat is milking Scottish independence though, and thats being written about as a more left-leaning ideal north of the border.

I wonder if all these callouts to BG Who that people are finding are going to end up part of the Missy/Promised Land arc in some way? Or if they are more related to the Doctor’s p…[Read more]

I seem to be one of the few in his forum who thought this episode was just ‘meh’. Not terribly bad but not really outstanding either.

I can’t put my finger on why. I don’t think PC is another league as an actor than 9, 10&11 (as someone said in this thread). To me this episode is a bit of what people complained about in “…[Read more]

I’d agree that the Doctor uses Ross’s death in a very utilitarian way. However, Moffat has previously delivered a resounding ‘No!’ on utilitarian ethics for the Doctor – in The Day of The Doctor.

The difference with Ross is that it wasn’t the Doctor’s fault he dies – he just can’t save him. However, what he could have done was…[Read more]

You’re right.  And he is also the “droid” who dragged her away.  I bet that was the Doctor who put the dream in her mind of the kids screaming, so she would start the ball rolling.  He believed in her, t…[Read more]

This is why forums are so awesome.  Ideas lead to ideas.  Bean from Ender’s Shadow said it best “One mind can think only of its own questions; it rarely surprises itself.”  Good reason for the Doctor to bring along companions.

Gotta love McCoy 🙂

I hadn’t thought of that, @FiveFaces …

And here’s the obligatory River conspiracy. Remember, the episode featured the…[Read more]

and yes, it does seem that clocks are a motif (is that right? or theme? hmm)

Now, I kinda have a new hat to throw in the ring…

[takes a not-so-ironic-Deep-Breath]

Missy is the SS Madame de Pompadour.

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‘the Doctor is basically a bad person’ idea that M0ffat seems to have been pushing;

Sorry – have no clue what the basis for this assertion is.

The idea that Moffat has explicitly stated is that the bad people don’t know they are bad, but I don’t see the opposite as a corollary – the Doctor is always wracked with doubt, even if he woul…[Read more]

@Bluesqueakpip    Interesting point about the two previous owners of the Twelfth Doctor’s face. I agree that “saving people” must somehow be the connection, especially given that Gallifrey…[Read more]

Over on Reddit they’ve identified the specific location that was used in The Girl Who Waited and other…[Read more]

The new theme tune, which I decided instantly I loathed, is…[Read more]

It is really interesting to me that there is such a wide array of opinions! Usually most in this forum agree on the general tone of the episode. This is…[Read more]

At the moment I’m tending towards ‘Missy is The Master, regenerated as female’.

Firstly there’s the name – a female Master would be a Mistress, so Missy (especially since it avoids the connotations of ‘The Mistress’ for the kids, while bringing it front and centre for the adults).

Secondly, the Master/Mistress is…[Read more]

And now I think you have it – Doctor Who meets Cabaret.

perhaps as…

“The Cabaret of Doctor Caligari Who”.*

🙂

(* either that or “Springtime for Davros”)

I think “Genesis” rewrote the original history a bit with the addition of Davros to the story.  But IIRC he just excellerated the mutations that had already begun with the war with the Thals.

I was i…[Read more]

Really like that idea (that the Doctor may have caused the Daleks in some way).

It’d be nice almost as a “I can’t prevent this (thing) happening – its a fixed point”

and then we see him catch sight of another Tardis floating in space also watching the event and we realise he’s been…[Read more]

@wolfweed Do you have a detailed, international analysis? Would love to get my hands on that. For example how many people per country, general reaction per country and so on.

@geoffers Yes, Clara and Bad Wolf are definitely part of it. But he might…[Read more]

Now we see how that version happened (so we also know that 10ant snogged Liz well before it!).

She doesn’t seem to care about him very much

@FiveFaces – if she moved down to London to go to university and he’s still working up in Blackpool; it’s not that she doesn’t care about him very much, it’s just that […]