@kharis  Not that bit, but a rendering of “Breaking the Wall” that lays out the basic architecture of that part:

Might help in identifying?

@missy  Well, she did lie to him, a teensy bit: . . . “Danny and I are fine!”  “He says it’s perfectly all right, me traveling with you!”  Etc.  But she thinks of him as The Person she would never, ever lie to, because she wishes that were true, and excuses her lies to him as “white” ones that don’t count.  As people tend to do . . . it’s part…[Read more]

@winston  Yes; I know that moment and that place, too, from visits to a dementia facility.  So much of the feeling involved is determination to *not* make it any worse for the person who can’t recall who you are.

@missy   One wonders whether clara wishes that she’d been the one to forget after all – just for a moment.

Even as he collaps…[Read more]

@missy   Thanks for the info on the boxed set, I’ll check over at Amazon.  And yes, Moffat does a Q and A (and’or sometimes an interview) for Doctor Who Magazine.  There’s a guy at reddit who reproduces them there, a month or more later.

Can anybody clarify the boxed set situation for me, S9?  Whatever Blu-Ray is, I don’t have it.  I run DVDs on my iMac, which is 5+ yrs old.  There is supposedly (announced some time ago) a boxed set of S9 that includes “Last Christmas”. all of S9 with commentary and features etc., and possibly “Husbands of River Song” as well.

Is this tr…[Read more]

Hi, people — a new, post-I’m-outta-here announcement, interview with Moffat:

Production Notes (Steven Moffat Q&A) for Doctor Who Magazine #496: "Head Canon is important, because that’s where the show really happens: in the hearts and minds of viewers." from gallifrey

I love hearing what the DW people have to say *for themselves* about the show, especially because most of them are so amazingly articulate . . . !

@bluesqueakpip  About Capaldi consulting with that very exclusive club, specifically Tennant — good points; and thanks. And I like your longer view on Chibnall/Whithouse.  There are the viewers-at-large, a (probably) small percentage of them hardcore fans, of whom and even smaller percentage are aware of and fully invested in genius-level work th…[Read more]

@kharis  Her mom taught her that you don’t leave, you always go back for the people you care for. So, maybe?

Hey, it’s Doctor Who; of course, “maybe”.

@pedant   “Tomorrow is promised to no-one, Doctor, but I insist upon my past”

Oh, yeah.  What are we, without our memories?  Blank slates, with the childish impulses of the ego-bound infant as…[Read more]

@kharis  (of Clara)  It must be a horrible temptation to stay in his life and watch over him like a guardian angel.

I hadn’t thought of their parting from this angle; maybe because she, I think, had already made the decisive cut when she said goodbye in Raven.  For me, what she’s wanted most in S9 isn’t to be with the Doctor, but to be her own Do…[Read more]

@janetteb  Definitely won’t be watching the Steve Jobs film. I am rather tired of the hero worship of people simply because they succeed in making lots of money. 

I have a similar aversion; will wait to see it on TV sometime, maybe.  I’d rather see Kung Fu Panda 3, and in fact am going to do so this weekend — good animated films (“The Book of L…[Read more]

@bluesqueakpip  they handed Who over to a writer (Moffat) that they knew was brilliant. And then they discovered that the ‘brilliant’ writer was in fact a f*ck*ng genius.

Nail; head.  Whatever Moffat was before, DW brought his amazing capacities to the fore, and gave him the scope he needed to bring those capacities fully on-line for a show that…[Read more]

@puroandson   He can and does travel alone, but we’ve seen (“Listen” particularly) and has been repeatedly told by Clara, recently, that it’s not good for him to do so on any extended basis; and maybe he’s known this for quite a while himself — Doctor 11: “I want a mate.” River Song: “Well, you’re not matin’ with me, Sunshine!”  You’d think a T…[Read more]

@pedant     the exquisite torture on her face, as she realises he has no idea who she is  . . .  @missy   part of her really wanted him to remember her.

Yes; even though him remembering would have undone the work of the blocker, so she turns that stricken face away.  Imagine how tough it must be, to give him up utterly, to keep the memori…[Read more]

@missy   Indeed, no problem asking about anything DW around here, the show being about time travel and all . . . !  Personally, I found the idea that CapDoc knew who the waitress was all along very attractive, since it added a layer of hidden motivation and deception to the scene (as did the suggestion from some fans that Clara *knew* he knew b…[Read more]

@pedant  Right, I had completely spaced this scene, so I cede the field to you in this respect: the makers of this show did try to wrap it up.  If it worked for you, good!  For me, it was and remains so deeply unsatisfying that it was downright annoying.  I can stomach the idea of all the weird anomalies on the island being hallucinations or met…[Read more]

@pedant   Nope, it’s still not gettin’ in, and for more reason for that than twitter.  There was no twitter at the time — as I recall — and the problem of goldfish attention spans being so common hadn’t reached its currently alarming level. If  99% of those let down by “Lost” think the characters were all dead throughout indicates pretty cl…[Read more]

@winston   I am screaming at my own lack of proof reading.

Argh, no, no more screaming!  I’d rather have my name spelled wrong!  Seriously, I’m half deaf from all the screaming in that ep, and have ear-strain (or have invented the idea of ear-strain) because of having to try so hard to make out what anyone was actually saying under all that sc…[Read more]

Hmm.  Thanks for the comment.  No wonder people were confused; little of this, little of that, little of some other thing . . . a whimper rather than a bang, messy and unsatisfying.  What comes to mind now is the acres of filler, with  everyone racing around the forest yelling the names of whomever they (or some of them) had misplaced lately.  Th…[Read more]

@puroandson  Puro  Ah; that would be American-style, especially in the Bible belt . . .

@puroandson   Mulled wine, please — a good, relaxing send off to a very late (around here anyway) bedtime.  Thanks for the explanation.  Calling this “pastoral care” has a baffling charm to it, I must say!