@bluesqueakpip

you are always so eloquent, and learn-ed, in your posts… 🙂

Can monsters find redemption? Can the Zygons change? According to Amazing Grace (and the life of its writer), the answer is ‘yes’.

in the context of the remaining osgood reaching out to the doctor for help, as he’s playing that tune, it makes me more convinced tha…[Read more]

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also, how good is the writing, when there are still little bits that are making themselves known, even upon a fourth watch (or, how dim and/or slow am i in picking up on this stuff, lol)?!

like this, in osgood’s conversation with the doctor aboard the presidential plane: “my sister and i were the living embodiment of the peace we made. i would…[Read more]

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“Amazing grace, How sweet the sound
That saved a wretch like me.
I once was lost, but now am found;
Was blind, but now I see.”

does anyone have any thoughts about the significance (or lack thereof) of the tune the doctor’s playing, when osgood’s message comes through on the tardis console? i can’t remember if it’s been referenced in this thread, yet…

@blenkinsopthebrave

Mind you, as I type this our two household cats are lying asleep at my feet, and I am not at all sure that they might not be zygons!

well, they’re cats, at least, and that means they’ll eat your face if you die! six of one, half-a-dozen of the other, lol…

and i agree with you, i don’t think the doctor has/is a duplicate.…[Read more]

@blenkinsopthebrave

And then (and this is the point that has me perplexed) she says “Kill the traitors”. But in what sense are the UNIT soldiers and human Jac traitors? Traitors to who? If she said “kill the enemy” it would have sounded more logical.

i thought that was odd, as well. one interpretation could be that zygon clara considers all of…[Read more]

i just had a thought, completely contrary to my previous thought, about what might be in the box…

what if the doctor found a way to make a zygon shape-shift PermanenT? (sort of like how he managed to stabilize the rebel flesh?) maybe those zygons who wish to live on earth, peacefully, will be given the option of being assimilated, and human in…[Read more]

that beginning: what, no, um “spoilers!” for anyone who hasn’t seen the 50th anniversary movie?! LOL…

i enjoyed this, realizing it’s only the first half of a nice chess game. i knew that clara had been zygonized by her reaction (or non-reaction, as it were) to the parents’ handling of the upset boy, but i didn’t expect the betrayal and the…[Read more]

@cybercat – i also think missy is involved, somehow. re: this exchange…

me – “just this once, you can’t run off like you usually do.”

doctor – “how do you know what i usually do? we’ve met once, in a viking village, i didn’t give you my life story…”

me – “it’s true, though. isn’t it? you’re the man who runs away.”

doctor – “ohhh. who told…[Read more]

upon re-watch, i took extra notice of this line, from me to the doctor, when she’s telling the story of being accused of being a witch: “fortunately, i’m very good at holding my breath.”

an echo of clara! it almost sounds as if me/ashildr is talking up her abilities, maybe applying for the “job” of next companion?

also, @kharis , her highwayman…[Read more]

@ichabod

Did anyone else see the transfer of Clara and Ashildr to Odin’s space ship as something effected by half of the broken sunglasses, triggered by Ashildr being told to “think, open!” by Clara?  I thought the Mire had sent them up with the warriors, but that does raise the question: why?  They’r not aggressive, testosterone carrying males.[Read more]

@bluesqueakpip

thank you, i had no idea it’d been done before. i have watched a good deal of BG episodes, but ‘frontios’ is not one that i remember. i guess i could tardiswiki it, to refresh my memory…

@lisa

i’m certainly not magical, then. all my pockets produce are tons and tons of lint! (perhaps this might come in handy, if there is a…[Read more]

what a fantastic start to the new season! i was fearful that moffat’s other commitments might have somewhat watered down his plans for our favourite (time and) space faring alien (and perhaps last series was compromised, a bit). but i’m glad to see the show running full-speed, from the start…

my only contributions (everyone else is doing a…[Read more]

<span class=”useratname”>@purofilion</span>

have never been a meatloaf fan, but he does sound a wee bit past his prime there. so sad when a singer begins that slide toward being obsolete. the young lady sounds much better, but i have no idea who she is. i’m more familiar with celine’s version, but i’m not a fan of her, either. i’m more a kate…[Read more]

@serahni

wishful thinking on my part, as well! i was thinking she is chameleon arched way back before ‘the name of the doctor.’ it could help explain how a mere human could enter the doctor’s time stream, and survive, when the great intelligence could not. time lord dna hiding away, waiting to be reactivated. and last season, she seemed to be…[Read more]