@geoffers

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 give all the lives i have to protect it.” i initially thought she said “all the LIES,” as in, i would lie to the ends of the world to keep the peace. but now i keep hearing “…[Read more]

@geoffers

Is Jac a zygon? To be honest, I have no idea! On the first viewing I assumed she was human and Clara was possibly an evil zygon, on the second viewing I still assumed Jac was human, but Clara might be a pro-treaty zygon. By the third viewing, and in light of the arguments of @jphamlore and others, I began to wonder if everyone was a…[Read more]

Firstly hi! Been engrossed in all of your bonker-ising. Thoroughly good fun!

@geoffers I’m too amazed at the number of lines and similarities referenced to Clara by Ashildr.

Clara may well be killed off. But who was Clara Oswald? Run little boy run and remember.

Ashildr?

“And how many have you lost? How many Claras?

I can’t remember most of…[Read more]

@geoffers Baker Doc had the most lovely things coming from his deep pockets
Magical folks always have amazing pockets 🙂

@geoffers

do time lords and ladies have pockets that are bigger on the inside, or what?

Yes. Remember Vampires of Venice, and Matt Smith removing the biggest torch in the world from his pocket?

The Doctor drinking a cup of tea gag can probably be explained by those ‘bigger on the inside’ pockets.

the tardis’ new ability to re-assemble i…

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Great to see the return of so many fellow Who-sters back again!! Hi Guys !
@Mudlark @Geoffers @pedant I don’t think Colony Sarff would have been
sent out by Davros to find the Doctor if it was already known where he was. Also, I
totally think that Bors was ‘activated’ by Sarff. He was held in that jaws of life grip
with Sarff…[Read more]

@Geoffers  @pedant   Given the preamble, it doesn’t look as if the Daleks knew where and when the Doctor was prior to Unit tracing him.  For a start, we don’t know when Bors was dalekised.  Colony Sarff might have been primed to ‘convert’ any suitable person once it/they had located the Doctor, and given the means to do so.  Alternatively, but m…[Read more]

@Geoffers

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 keeping this knowledge of his location from davros

Apparently they did not know where he had stashed the Tardis.

@geoffers   I don’t think that Torchwood has a fan base outside of Doctor Who.   So far as I can tell, they’re a subset.

@Geoffers  30332 — How strange; your comments on the changes that come with any type of senile dementia, and just the changes in friends one hasn’t seen in forever — what’s that poem by Elizabeth Bishop?  First line: “The art of losing isn’t hard to master . . . ”

There are moments when the Doctor’s whole saga is so pointedly about loss and “…[Read more]

@geoffers @Purofilion @pedant Thanks for all the replies on “knee fondling Prof”. I just found it distasteful. Moff always likes to poke things with a stick though and inappropriate touching has certainly been a phantom haunting the BBC.

@all I hope we are going to get a bit more of a search for Gallifrey in the next season!

It was indeed great…[Read more]

@Twholt I thought the Doctor kept waking up at the volcano where Clara betrayed him. Which is a bit confounding, since that in itself was a dream state. And is that volcano Pompeii? Hmmmm . . . .

@geoffers Good point about the “three months” Post-It note. It makes sense that it would be the length of time she’d been traveling with the Doctor and…[Read more]

@geoffers

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 had really been lying to him, instead? that’s how i look at it, now…

I think you are right.

Good spot @fatmaninabox re’ Clara’s flat. I assumed that the house was her imagina…[Read more]

@geoffers – you’ve misunderstood stuff. People were not writing for Matt Smith because they were expecting him to be in Series 8, they were writing for a Doctor rather like Matt Smith. Because they didn’t know who the new Doctor was.

What Jamie Mathieson actually said was:

Only the version of the Doctor I’d been writing had been a generic vague…

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@Barnable liked the Danny analysis @Apopheniac yours too – [I haven’t spent much time thinking about Danny]

@Geoffers thanks for fixing me ! 🙂 🙂 I will particularly watch out for that !

always have a soft spot for certain tragic characters too]

@geoffers

since this series was originally intended to be smith’s last,

From various interviews Matt Smith has given, it’s the other way round. His Doctor was originally intended to finish after the 50th Anniversary Special – but when he was so very successful, they did discuss extending his run to Series 8.

He felt that it was best to stick t…[Read more]

@zackyclear I’m not sure either why the robots were searching for the Promised Land.  Same goes for the clockwork droids.  We did see Missy plucking out characters from the Doctor’s timeline, but that could just have been for research purposes as she constructed her plans.  I don’t think we have every answer yet.  Moffat gave us “Silence will fall…[Read more]

@geoffers re: returning from the nethersphere. Perhaps when the nethersphere up loads the minds it stores the DNA as well. Or it uses information stored in the mind to construct the physical appearance. Surely we all have information about our physical appearance in our memories. Of course the second theory would not necessarily lead to a perfect…[Read more]

@Geoffers and @Lisa

We’ve already seen how the boy could be returned from the dead with a new body. I think Moffat’s gone a metaphorical rather than a literal route this series, and the metaphorical explanation is given in Time Heist. The teleport brings Psi and Saibra ‘back from the dead’.

Now, think about an SF teleport. It stores information…[Read more]

@geoffers   I didn’t get the feeling that the Doctor had decided to kill Missy until the moment he said “if it prevents you from doing it, yes”, or words to that effect. And even then, I wasn’t sure he was going to be able to go through with it!

And yes, I too loved the Bondian view of the Doctor falling through the air and saving himself a…[Read more]