@JimTheFish   I too saw a certain amount of Matt Smith, this week, but both this week and last, I’ve been seeing Davison rather than Tennant. It might be that she undersells that bright sunny aspect a bit, so it recalls for me more of Davison’s cheery but restrained demeanour. And I never minded the cricket outfit, so that may be why I’m okay wi…[Read more]

@pedant  The one in town IS green!

https://www.tripadvisor.co.uk/Attraction_Review-g186364-d213579-Reviews-Police_Box-Sheffield_South_Yorkshire_England.html

@geoffers Re the sunglasses, those definitely weren’t 12’s shades (sonic or otherwise), were they…  Judging by the style Audrey Hepburn was a more plausible previous owner – but how did t…[Read more]

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@geoffers

…maybe the transition (in universe/story and in reality) will be easier to accept if he CHOOSES to regenerate into a woman (perhaps in an attempt to honor missy’s and bill’s sacrifices)?

It’s a little difficult to see the Doctor getting to a position of making that sort of choice (and has had precious little control over previou…[Read more]

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@nerys I didn’t notice the explanation by @geoffers, but it’s not simply time perception, it is the actual passage of time, measured by any means, that is affected. The really short explanation is high gravity = slow time. The difference of hundred of kilometres from the top to the bottom of the ship affects the relative gravity felt at the two…[Read more]

@geoffers Thank you for that explanation. My husband had to explain the black hole/time perception thing to me two different ways before I (sort of) got it on his second explanation. Abstract ideas and I have never got along very well.

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Random replies to some of your excellent comments:

@Miapatrick     I imagine the sight restorers are either in his office or in the TARDIS, probably not in his pocket.

@wolfweed  To be fair, it wasn’t world peace, only a temporary agreement between three people. It’s hard to imagine it would have survived for long. The Fenric situation was si…[Read more]

@geoffers

So something you said in your post about “if your ultimate goal is to defeat the Doctor”!

I’ve been thinking that the Monks are really like an Army. So who is the General?

Could that be the banished Rassilon?   He has the ability to establish this army AND

the computer simulations.  He’s done that before with his matrix and co…[Read more]

@Phaseshift – wow you have eagle eyes!

But that’s a great spot – and will make me go back to Heathen as its not an album I’ve listened to much (maybe only once).

@pedant – nice; between them I’ll go with Johanna Wokalek then (for the nose…)

@geoffers – fantastic idea (Missy pretending to be the Doctor to ‘prove’ goodness)! “Walk a mile in my…[Read more]

@morpho: He wasn’t doing any such thing, at least, not to me he wasn’t.
@geoffers: i also haven’t seen anyone reference this aspect of the episode, but i loved the misdirection in the beginning, where we are led to believe that the doctor is the one who has been sentenced to death (and missy the executioner). the whole time, i was wondering if c…[Read more]