Don’t even get me started on why is there an open gantry going through such dangerous space as the eye, rather than a sealed, shielded tunnel, or why it’s so easy to fall through the banisters.

The bridge […]

@janetteb @whohar – I actually agree that the doc said ‘infinity’ in the casual, careless sense of ‘oh, endless’ or ‘everyone’ or ‘I walk in infinity’.

However that’s specifically what bugs me: it’s careless […]

@whohar – yeah I toyed with the idea he’s using a different tardis mid episode when it seemed it had been destroyed. But the doc seemed so genuinely distraught at being unable to save an old friend that I was […]

Aaaaand another inconsistency this episode raises: How could the Eye of Harmony – an inherently non renewable power source, actually inside and powering the Tardis – possibly square with the Tardis being […]

@shazzbot – ah, wise words. The Tardis being pretty much an dumb machine (one of many, and a not very good example of its kind – it was scheduled for deactivation when the Doc stole it) from Edge of Destruction […]

Aaaaaaand another thing: ArchRecon can “build any machine”. Now, a good % of who stories are resolved by the Doctor building some contraption; he needed a big gun in Dalek, In Parting of the Ways he sets about […]

@whohar @scaryB – I know I keep moaning when they tinker with continuity (e.g. eye of harmony) but an infinite tardis also really bugs me; much of the premise of the first 2 eps of Castrovalva hinge on the tardis […]

@wolfweed – the papal mainframe, a combination of 2 ideas: an obsolete, inflexible command and control structure serving as a centralised seat of absolute, infalliable power, without checks and balances and […]

@phileasf – I think moffatt has be nursing this gameplan for 20 odd years, and has refined it with RTD; it’s inevitable that there are roots right back in Rose (even if not, they can make callbacks that seem that […]

@miapatrick – oh I like that; doctor: “you didn’t go looking for my name? But I told you not to so that I knew you definitely would! You humans alway ignore what I tell you to do! Oh gawd – what am I going to do now??!!!!”

@scaryb – I likes! I agree that there’s hints that he doc not only inspired the GI but also created it (I suggested a matrix tie-in but yours is better as it sticks within the scope of nu who)

You could sort of […]

@ardaraith – yes! The only character I know of who was fragmented is Scaroth the Jaggaroth in City of Death who was fragmented in time when his ship (not a time ship) exploded taking off at warp 3. So there’s […]

@whisht – good find, interesting that the drawings for both the remote AND the archRecon “tree fruit” both explicitly call them “eggs”.

@scaryb – agreed that one the doc. I don’t think it’s a mannerism, so much as the hand is actually fused to his face (just as the brothers are fused together).

Possibly this explains at least his zombies […]

@scaryb @badwolf99 – you are 100% correct, it’s the big button on the remote. I’ve not woken up properly yet, brain is still scattered through time and space!

Hmmm ok this is timey wimey. The remote Clara […]

Ok it’s quite possible this story actually resolves some of the major threads weve been discussing:

In at least one iteration of the loop, they all get barbecued by the finest in TimeLord grilling technology. […]

@badwolf99 – I don’t think Clara willed a new button into existence, the “big button” was just for the shields the doc had just disabled moments earlier, was it not?

The circular paradox nature of the […]

@wolfweed – I thought the same, I’m assuming they used the same cgi model with minor tweaks to save money.

@scaryb @juniperfish – oh don’t get me wrong, the letting definitely develops over time. I’m just saying it’s fully legible before the engine room!

@besd1 – Clara passes the observatory just before the pool. You see it actually named later on the tardis map on the console room screen.