I am sorry to hear that you guys didn’t enjoy the episode.  This episode is a bit metaphorical.  I believe the very key part is the Doctor enters room 12 and remembers all of his previous encounters.  The Doctor wants to give up and asks Clara why he has to continue like this.  Yet, in the end, he still stands to his prin…[Read more]

@Mirime     Yes, same here…[Read more]

That would have been brilliant! Not because I don’t like Moffat’s work, bu…[Read more]

@Purofilion – re the Doctor’s shrinking hair – have you made a list of where it suddenly changes? 🙂 And could you possibly throw in when he wears the black sparkly jumper and when it’s a shirt please…? And check…[Read more]

nope, but i did think, “how the hell did she get so far ahead of the doctor, to be casually sitting there like that?” 🙂

Someone made the observation that Missy refers to “my Clara and my Boyfriend” {sorry cant find it again}

The writer likes to use trains in his episodes

There have been a lot of ‘conversions” from one thing to…[Read more]

Good spot on the Edwin Abbott Abbott connection. That’s why Rigsy’s estate is the Abbott Estate ( blog from writer Jamie Mathieson explaining the background to the episode Also includes the drawing he pitched it with)

@Bluesqueakpip Fair enough point re Clara going to the bad being another…[Read more]

I’d rather be more impressed by the flounce if you had made a previous issue of the kiss. You never have. I’d see this as creating a problem for effect, because you didn’t like my comment to you earlier.

Feel free to do whatsoever you wish.

@PhaseShift — great post and an excellent analysis of British soap. I think I’m probably more forgiving of British soaps of the 80s than some and the fact is I think that they often produced some of the best writing British telly has ever produced. Jimmy McGovern, Tony…[Read more]

Yes – that move to a more frequent weekly showing certainly saw a desperate shift in tactics from what I understand. My mum (who was Lancashire born), and her fellows in the “Mum Mafia” in our street used to amaze me by standing in the street discussing last nights events in the 70s and actually talking about characters as if they were…[Read more]

I continue to have extreme reservations re Danny – his character just doesn’t seem to fit, to me.  Whenever Danny and Clara are together, something inside is going ‘noooooooo!’

@GothamCelt (and others) Is Missy perhaps attempting to reverse-engineer Time Lord abilities? Perhaps too the idea of being in-phase is…[Read more]

@GothamCelt  Nobody’s speaking for you, PhaseShift quoted the one thing he was responding to, which was your attempting to assert what Capaldi should be doing.  The rest of…[Read more]

Capaldi needs to put his foot down and say ‘this isn’t good enough’

Putting aside your own displeasure for the moment, can you possibly live with the fact that you can’t speak for Capaldi? He looks like he’s having a whale of a time. He was a big fan of Matt Smith’s era He likes the type of storytelling that SM is doing. He’s living…[Read more]

I don’t think he is Jenny (the Doctor’s daughter), but that spectacular somersault reminded me more than a little of Jenny’s equally spectacular display of gymnastic ability.

Time Heist also reminded us about clones. Then there’s Journey’s brother. Are we…[Read more]

@idiotsavon congrats on the “Don’t Think” prediction. It seems like we are being asked to go against our human nature a lot this series.

@bluesqueakpip Was the teleport really the same effect as Gretchen’s? I didn’t recognise it as such. Are you saying that from memory or did you go back and double check!?

@ScaryB – Doctor…[Read more]

And I don’t think that needing a shape shifting mutant, a bomb, a computer specialist and a massive solar storm counts as ‘simply walking in’. 😉

That said, I know what you mean. Twice now, I’ve tried to watch it and twice now…[Read more]

The thing of using Hitler is surely that “what if you went back in time and killed Hitler” is a genre cliché? TV Tropes entry on Hitler’s Time Travel Exemption Act is not even comprehensive of its use, but covers a lot of the issues. There’s even a subset of the Grandfather Paradox called the Hitl…[Read more]

I’m sympathetic to @GothamCelt ‘s view – its fine to use humour to debunk inhuman or just plain stupid theories and actions, and has been done well and badly in the past. In fact humour is brilliant at bringing down fear and breaking unquestioned institutions.

This particular time it wasn’t done with much intent to…[Read more]

but what is a forum for if not idle speculation about what might occur in the future?

Absolutely. And I’m proud to say we’ve been living up to our strapline.

@Devilishrobby The Tasha Lem actress has also said she’s extremely good at keeping secrets!

There’s obviously a lot we don’t know about her…  her ability to fly the TARDIS is…[Read more]

😥 <grabs another box of tissues> 😥

I’m just a big blob of mush! Got me from Clara’s Gran’s story about wanting time to stand still (till the end!). I like Clara’s Gran.  Her dad and step-mum…[Read more]

That said I have thought about the Tibetan Buddhism thing before- because it is similar. The ‘same’ person, with memories of previous versions, but not the same personality.

It always makes me see a regeneration as death. And Matt Smith’s sadness here- he knows the memories…[Read more]

Hello everyone! <waves at all> Thanks for missing me @ScaryB and @Craig et al. I’ve just had a wisdom tooth […]