@pedant

Pick up spare from desk tidy?

Blimey, the BBC know how to start the hype early, don’t they?

😉

Hmm, a belated thought: Anyone else get a bit of a Flight of the Navigator vibe from this? I love that film! 🙂

I like pushing the Bowie envelope a bit, so:

Knock Knock + Oxygen = Sound and Vision?

And;

The Pilot was searching for… The Passenger (by Iggy Pop, but featuring the musical talents of our boy Dave).

I would love it if Nardole turned out to be Frobisher. A CG penguin to hang out with the Doctor? Yes please!

@janetteb

Could the President’s daughter (presumably the daughter of Rassilon) and Missy’s daughter be one and the same? Will we find out what happens to cause the Doctor to give Missy that brooch?

Oxygen / Bowie?
Ground Control to Major Tom
Your circuit’s dead, there’s something wrong
Can you hear me, Major Tom?
Can you hear me, Major Tom?
Can you hear me, Major Tom?
Can you “Here am I floating ’round my tin can
Far above the moon
Planet Earth is blue
And there’s nothing I can do”

I had another thought about this episode late last night. The episode title reminds me of a classic joke. Could this even be a clue regarding the vault?

Knock Knock!

Who’s there?

The Doctor.

Doctor Who?

Well, yes! How did you guess?

Apologies if this has already been posted. The thread is too long to check now! 😉

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Oh my, @Whisht! That is fabulous bonkerising! 🙂

The fact 12 seems to have grown into a parent/grandparent figure, the lines about regeneration and not leaving your charge behind. If 13 did travel back in time as a child to get 12’s help, maybe 13’s TARDIS is also in the vault with him or her. That would tie into Nardole’s suggestion to Bill to…[Read more]

Did The Master play the organ while masquerading as a vicar in The Daemons? The image is half there in my head…

Hang on, hang on! It all becomes clear!!! All the clues are there!!!

The vault contains someone/thing that is needs to be contained, presumably for the good of the universe…

The piano…

The repeated David Bowie references…

Is there Life on Mars? It can only be…

RICK WAKEMAN!

Cracked it. <Drops mic.>

@Phaseshift

I thought that for Thin Ice it might be Scary Monsters… And Super Creeps. It did have a scary “monster”, and a guy who was truly super at being a creep. Next week: an early guess for Space Oddity from me.

Loved this week’s episode. Suchet was brilliant, and the twist was unexpected. There is definitely a theme of release going on, imo.

@pedant

A laughing gnome? Oh yes! I sincerely hope to see one. And I am not joking! 🙂

As ever, I generally agree with you lovely people about this episode: Better than the Forest of the Dead, not as good as The Pilot. I felt that the Doctor and Bill were slightly flat at times. In their defence, I don’t think those emoji robots can have been easy to act against. I would be happy to never see the emoji robots again. The nano-robots…[Read more]

Hello again, all. I finally managed to watch The Pilot last night on the iPlayer (yay for watch on demand services!), and really enjoyed it. Bill was excellent.

No real mad theories from me yet about who or what is in the vault. Though I did note that Nardole’s explanation of the TARDIS being a box within a box was said near the vault. I seem to…[Read more]

I’m not sure where you are, @missy , but DW was on the 25/12/16 in the UK, so people will have seen that. Maybe you can use the BBC iPlayer to watch it?

I myself did not see it. Too busy playing with our ten month old! Glad it sounds like it was good, though.

Is it ever explicitly stated that the Rassilon in Hell Bent is a regenerated form of the Rassilon we see fighting Simm’s Master? Could it just be that he is now very, very old? Age can change one’s physical appearance quite considerably, and extreme Time Lord ageing perhaps even more so.

For example, when the 11th Doctor got very, very old he…[Read more]

Some very last minute, very bonkers theorising from me:

When we met “our” Clara (aka Clara Prime) she was a nanny to some children. In “The Crimson Horror” she is seen fiddling with a toy robot in the childrens’ home. That robot is a Transformers G1 Galvatron figure. This jumped out at me at the time because that toy was released in 1986, and is…[Read more]

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