[giulia42 @replies]

Another link to Silence in the Library: around 2:27 Ten says to Donna

“But you need the smell. The smell of books, Donna. Deep breath.”

I don’t know what you make of this, but mentally, I associate Missy’s way of saving HFM just like CAL did.
Yet of course I’m just a human, always seeing patterns in things that aren’t there 🙂

[giulia42 @replies]

First of all, thank you for your welcome, and thank you for creating this corner of the Internet where we can discuss the show and still respect other people and opinions.

Reading your theories, I changed my mind about Missy’s identity. I think she’s some kind of interface, perhaps of the TARDIS  or of CAL from Silence in the Library/Forest of the Dead, anyway something the Doctor knew about, so it doesn’t really matter whether he pushed Half-Faced Man or not, as he knew Missy would be there waiting for the robot to take care of him.
After all, the Doctor has just recently forgiven himself for what he had (not) done during the Time War, so I believe he chose to begin a new regeneration cycle by *saving* someone (as CAL did in SITL), which is what his face reminded him of.

Which still leaves me wondering who the woman in the shop might be, as Missy is completely virtual to me.

As for the theme tune: after singing along to it a couple of times, it does sound and feel more natural 😀

 

[giulia42 @replies]

Hello everybody!
Newbie writing here, I thought the moment had come for me to share my opinion on the series with fellow Whovians! And please excuse me if I make mistakes – English is not my first language.

I find the new opening theme amazing as far as the graphic is concerned – except for the TARDIS that looked like it would suit a cartoon better than a TV series. The theme itself was quite plain and I really hope they do something about it, as it just doesn’t set the right mood for the show.

Since it took me quite a few episodes to get to like Smith, I didn’t expect Capaldi to strike me right from his first line – I like his accent, his humour and above all his darker, more mature Doctor, and “it is to be hoped” that the show will feature less running and more thinking/coming to terms with past mistakes. (Nine,) Ten and Eleven might have been the cheerful, lively, young faces that the Doctor chose to forget what he had done during the Time War, but Twelve is telling us he’s ready to fully acknowledge that there is ‘another’ side, with which the last two dealt but didn’t really accept.
Well, at least these are my expectations, and with Twelve still figuring out who he is we can only wait and see how this regeneration turns out to be.

There’s another couple of things that looked a bit different from the previous seasons to me: the screwdriver joke and the ‘rough’ images of the optic nerve of the Half-Faced Man, and of the villain himself impaled by a spire. I am not saying that I found any of these disturbing or inappropriate, just something else other than what I was accustomed to see on the show.

I neither liked nor disliked Clara in Season 7, she never really stood out (well, except when she scattered herself through the Doctor’s timestream to save him around a million times, of course), and I have mixed feelings about her in “Deep Breath” too. As she kept questioning the ‘old face’ and ‘grey hair’ I wanted to repeatedly hit her head with a lava lamp, but I must admit that I too felt scared by this man that I could barely identify as the Doctor at first (and the ‘broom metaphor’ didn’t help).

And as for Missy, I too believe it is a female regeneration of the Master.

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