@purofilion

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they weren’t just for girls… or, if they were, i didn’t care! those were fun!

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@devilishrobby

“I can’t shake the feeling that perhaps there is something going on that we can’t/haven’t seen yet…”

indeed. upon a second watch, i realized that the daleks knew exactly where/when the doctor was hanging out, because bors is one of their “puppets,” like the ones in ‘The Dalek Asylum.’ so, what reason do they have for keepi…[Read more]

“Did something happen?”

“No.”

“Was it recent?”

“Yes.”

i think the “that creature” she refers to is missy, and the quoted dialogue is a reference to the (seemingly/apparently?) false gallifrey coordinates she gave the doctor, the last time he saw her alive. possibly, he’s taken that lie quite personally, and is still trying to recover from th…[Read more]

@denvaldron @jimthefish

i think torchwood could come back (with jack as the lead, or a completely different cast), but only if it is first revived in the next series of who.  that would be the easiest way to generate interest in it (as with its first go round)… promotional tie-in to the larger franchise.

but… would moffat be willing to help…[Read more]

@camilazanoni –  coincidentally, strangely, i just finished a re-watch of these two episodes. not so strangely, i came here to see what everyone else has said…

my take on how pete knew to rescue rose, is that he was able to see through the breach in the walls of the two universes, as it was collapsing. (we don’t see this from the doctor/rose…[Read more]

@nerys – I guess the “three months” Post-It note was a classic case of misdirection. Now I’m not sure what it meant. But we saw Clara neither pregnant nor dying

misdirection, or…

it could still simply be the amount of time that passed in danny’s and clara’s relationship, in which he believed she had quit travelling with the doctor, and she h…[Read more]

@fatmaninabox – I know it may seem a dodgy reason to believe they’re still dreaming but I find it hard to believe that a single, relatively new teacher in London could afford such a place.

there’s that, but wasn’t it also a point that there should be a wound on everyone’s right temple, after they had survived an attack by a dream crab? none of th…[Read more]

@timelordnessa – So many dreams within dreams and Santa is real. So real he gives 12 his wish even though 12 never acknowledges that “Santa” is real.

i don’t know that i would read it that way. i think it’s ambiguous, at best. perhaps the doctor’s mind was working through the dream crab problem, at breakneck speed, and merely used an “ideal san…[Read more]

@juniperfish – why have the bit at the start where dancing girl tells us and her companions the Professor put his hand on her knee unwanted – unpleasant and unnecessary. And did we really need it spelled out for us in words that the dream crabs were face-hugger tributes?

i think that the inappropriate hand on the knee was to set up that it’s ok n…[Read more]

@Bluesqueakpip – ah, thanks for the clarafication™! sadly, tis not the first time i’ve misunderstood things…

since i re-watch every episode at least three times (to try) to get all the details, perhaps i should re-read all doctor-related articles three times, as well?

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@Bluesqueakpip – i didn’t know that. at some point he had to have (at least verbally) committed to a fourth season, since some of the scripts were written for his character (such as ‘flatline,’ according to the writer’s blog). i wonder, then, how long he waited before letting them know he’d changed his mind?

if i recall correctly, there was a bit…[Read more]

@lisa – don’t put a space between your @ symbol and the name of the person you’re including, it doesn’t work. some will miss your mention, by not being obsessive like me!

example – @lisa works, @ lisa doesn’t…

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@stormintheheartofthesun – Have I gone too far?

no, indeed! i would love for river to be able to return for the odd guest spot, here and there. i don’t know about clara being her child with the doctor, but anything’s possible! since this series was originally intended to be smith’s last, there is evidence (in ‘the name of the doctor’) that such a…[Read more]

ah, and another point i wanted to make, that i don’t believe has been addressed (apologies if it has)…

even if missy was shot by the cyber-brig, and killed (not teleported, somehow), perhaps her mind was automatically uploaded to the nethersphere? where, assuredly, she had a backup plan to get herself out, again? this raises as many questions…[Read more]

to clarify the osgood returning scenario, it will only work if the real, human osgood returns, and the zygon-osgood was the one killed by missy. if the host template dies, a zygon will revert back to its natural look. that’s why they keep the host template alive (if i’m remembering correctly?)…

@mudlark – as for the master surviving the…[Read more]

@Arbutus – Nor does her death have any lasting impact on the story or the Doctor. He likely regrets her death, but it doesn’t seem to change him in any real way, or alter the outcome of the story.

i have to disagree. i think when he picks up her glasses, there’s a bit more to his attitude than “this is just another senseless killing.” true, he h…[Read more]

i had the thought, after losing osgood, and (seemingly) losing kate, that the doctor was truly ready to destroy missy. or at least resigned to it needing to be done, which is why he wanted to do it so that clara wouldn’t have to?

or am i projecting my own emotions onto his character? i would have come to the same conclusion as clara! although,…[Read more]

@pedant – No, a blue bolt came from behind and to the right of the Doctor.

you beat me to it! although, the doctor did push a button on missy’s device. it made a beeping/clicking noise, and nothing appeared to happen, then the blue bolt struck her.

also, he was holding the device at the wrong angle? the two round, red “death things” are on one…[Read more]