genius. Absolute genius.

Not enough ducks & penguins or indeed any type of beaked creature in Dr Who…

I do think that we will get a more uplifting end to the Capaldi era than some on here are predicting though.

And I’m not convinced that the…[Read more]

I have been banging on about this for a while (indeed, in one instance in reply to one of your posts). You must pay more attention!

An indicative (if not indeed idiotic) example would be something I said on the Empress of Mars thread at #58927.

Either of them will keep me happy. So long as its not Kris Marshall (even then I’d wish him well)

re: “the doctor falls”

as moffat seems to be quite obvious sometimes, with hindsight, might this infer some connection to sherlock and the reichenbach falls? perhaps the doctor takes a bad guy with him, in some certain death scenario for both of them (such as a black hole)…

only to reveal how he survived,…[Read more]

Both character and actor drove me nuts.  To me, it looked as if something interesting was — pretending to happen the…[Read more]

Or fall into the blackest pit…

Also, which Doctor falls?

The Doctor is a title, after all, and anyone can be the Doctor so long as they don’t give up…

I think it’s a longer Radio Times one that’s just been released.

I’m only guessing it’s a ruiner. (For ruiner think – ‘Tom Baker will appear as The Curator’ [see DOTD]) Gotta guess sometime if you follow spoilers, though… [If I had a memory worm I could read it & then forget it…(sigh*)]

Also, (amazingly) I’ve not even read the DWM…[Read more]

I’m liking the It’s A Wonderful Life scenario and while this was sort of done in Turn Left, I’m wondering whether SM might do it in more explicit style.

On Missy, maybe she will turn good and her ‘evil’ subconscious forces her to regenerate (into Simm?) to ‘save’ itself. Or if there is to be interaction…[Read more]

Yeah they took it down!   WOW!  I guess that means it’s accurate?!    It said :

2017     Doctor Who     The First Master     Episode “Untitled Christmas Special  2017”

This was  found on Gabriel Byrne’s wiki page earlier today but apparently it went poof !

BTW- New conspiracy theory-  big brother is watching our spoiler posts ca…[Read more]

The Doctor splitting into…[Read more]

Never mind – I got it reversed    – It not a Harold its a Howard but it would have been

really cool to make the boyfriend Harold.   Wishful wanting!     🙁

I like your ideas!    You know I have just been re-watching and didn’t  Bill’s Mum say

she’s dating a guy named Harold.   So  maybe like in Harold Saxon???   No!

Brilliant! But one of the Doctors would have to be Olivia Colman. After all, as she said The Five(ish) Doctors Reboot: “I’m usually in everything.”

It would certainly be a bold final flourish from SM — and the sort of meta thing I’d imagine him doing, making some kind of commentary on the endless speculation over new Doctors.

And I’m increasingly inclined to think that the whole simulation thing was handled at great length in Extremis because it’s going to be significant to…[Read more]

YES!  I’m thinking  that same  thing!  On the Extremis page  earlier today in my  post to Kharis  and

it definitely would be something!    I wondering how many simulations may be running

concurrently too?

I like pushing the Bowie envelope a bit, so:

It was ‘The Passenger’ that sent us on the Bowie frenzy, believe it or not. The version I posted can be found here (easy to miss as the music thread can take some time to load)

+ @cathannabel & @whisht

I was really surprised noone selected this. The enemy in space – lower pressure. The…[Read more]

I think there are an astonishing number of references to other works (including Who history) in this but, unlike Smile a few weeks ago, I thought it produce…[Read more]

So, according to those who know here, it seems time is running out on bonkers vault theories so here’s one to throw into the ring.

There has been much mention of ‘hair’ on the aftershow.
Maybe its more than just a throwaway joke though.

And no, I’m not going to suggest that its the…[Read more]

It can only be…RICK WAKEMAN!

LOL… but there aren’t nearly enough notes squeezed into those two little piano pieces, for it to be The Cape, himself!

some great theories about the vault since the last time i checked in. i’m still thinking, tho:

1) the master. (why is the more important question, instead of really?) perhaps the m…[Read more]

Trying, really trying, but — love it just the way you put it!  Ah, there we are — Alan Moore!

@arbutus  . . . villains who aren’t really villains. I confess it’s a theme that resonates with me.

M…[Read more]

I was surprised that the Doctor didn’t have a look at that contract!

@frobisher . . . the twist was unexpected. There is definitely a theme of release going on, imo.

Loved Suchet — and yes, liberation . . . will that be this Doc…[Read more]

I’m in Australia and the above is on tonight. I thought every country was seeing it at the same time – the 26th.

Thanks anyway.

Missy

My default assumption with Time Lords is that if it’s a different actor, they’ve regenerated. 🙂

Incidentally, I did love the Doctor’s description of Time Lord death as ‘man flu’. Is this a tacit admission that he tends to milk his own regenerations for all they’re worth, lying in bed and getting people to bring him cups of…[Read more]

There are bonkers theories and then there are bonkers theories that take it to the next level of bonkerism.

Of course, I think it is all highly unlikely. But it is one hell of a bonkers theory.

So, do we think that there could be versions of Doctors 1-11 + War “sliding” about as wraiths?

I very much doubt it.  The minds stored in the Matrix are, if my memory is correct, supposed to be those of dead Time Lords – i.e, those who had run out of their allotted number of regenerations and were no longer incarnate – not earlie…[Read more]

Quite. Our times zones are two dimensional – essentially segments on a sphere.

The Doctor can see fixed points; it’s “how he sees the World” (Fire of Pompeii, iirc). I think there are more than the standard four dimensions in his …er… World view.

@puroandson – good to see you back! &son – great to hear from you (I wish I was as articulate as you when I was…. erm…. actually, I just wish I was as articulate!)

Whether I call you &son, Lion (was that Ichabod? lovely!) or Scion of Puro I’m sure whenever you get chance, we’ll enjoy your thoughts!

And Puro – yep, I’m pretty sure…[Read more]

Does anyone know what the Doctor and Clara were wearing at the end of The Woman Who Lived, and if that corresponds with their clothing at the start of any other episode (e.g. Sleep No More)? The Doctor’s hair length may also be a clue – it noticeably fluctuates.

The outfits in the Girl Who Died and TWF and TMA are the same for the Doc…[Read more]

Rule 0 is Moffat changes every rule if he needs it.

From there we could stray into meta territory and contemplate the fact that, as a television show, Doctor Who in its entirety is illusion, subject to complex editing, cutting and revision 😀

Dark jacket with red lining, dark hoodie sweater, dark pointelle/openwork knit sweater, dark pants with plaid pattern – Episode 6, “The Woman Who Lived” (dark plaid pants are definitely in his closing scene with Clara, the only one in which…

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Oh, that theory is rather pants.  (Did I use it correctly?)

@arbutus  The character of the Doctor was beautifully defined throughout the episode… The scene where he saw Rigsy’s daughter and seemingly fell in love: “Did you make this human?… She’s brilliant.” Rigsy’s instant understanding that…[Read more]

I first started watching TV over at my grandmother’s house with a disinterested older brother. It was a rather gothic house, (though decidedly humble) and the garden was very overgrown so scary shows had quite an impact on me. I stopped watching at a fairly young age, until my parents inherited the TV.…[Read more]

.. but we can bonkerise endlessly at to the content of the missing post, that is of course if we ever run out of Dr Who to bonkerise about. 🙂

Cheers

Janette

Exactly; this is what she’s basically agreed to by traveling in the Tardis; it could happen to the Doctor that way too (except then th…[Read more]

;¬)

Seriously though, Frobisher I agree completely!

@Juniperfish – why the Lovers? Though Clara and Danny spring to mind, that could be a bit sentimental. Quickly flicking through the cards, might we get Judgement and The Star at the end?
I think the Star is meant to represent hope (light after darkness).

Not…[Read more]

having been imbued with a bit of CapDoc’s regen mojo in The Witch’s Familiar

Nope, sorry. I checked that one out when other people started mentioning it – if you look carefully at the scene in Witch’s Familiar, you can see that Dalek Clara is the only Dalek not glowing with regeneration energy.

I was trying to track down an old post I made to try and answer the questions of @frobisher and @nerys above. In my post #34221, I talked about making a post on the Trailers thread. But I do not seem to be able to find that thread. Any advice?

@frobisher  Yes, I felt the same — Smith’s era had turned me off.  When Dee…[Read more]

11 and 12 knew that Gallifrey was saved theoretically and 12 saved it practically and that’s why 14 and 15 didn’t turn up. They had no reason. Or 12 turned up to follow Gallifrey after it was saved by his predecessors. It was its last known location in time and space.