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@spider  @purofilion  Got it; sorry for any spillover into spoilery — I have a tendency to forget which thread I’m on, in the very pleasant heat of discussion.  Must watch out for that.

@phaseshift  I’ve been wondering about these counter-messages about hybridization, if that’s what they are.  Yes, we are all hybrids in all sorts of ways, and…[Read more]

@purofilion   Happy to help; got some word-chops, me, feels good to deploy them from time to time!  And I like that word.  It has character(s).

@puro  Oops — In my defense, such as it is, I was quoting a now rather widely quoted comment by Moffat during an interview shown on one of the other discussion sites — Den of Geek or Doctorwhotv, I think — so I thought that was okay; it’s been up there now for a while.  Or is it my comment about what we might infer from it that’s s…[Read more]

@kharis  Morpheus has dream crabs inside feeding, the rest is a story. “Don’t trust anything you see” as the Doctor said in Last Christmas, and his glasses are proof he needs help looking past the obvious. He needs to listen more, see less. The biggest wild card in this: River. She is always trying to bend time to save the Doctor at any cost.…[Read more]

@bluesqueakpip  I think there’s definitely a link between stories. The biggie, I would bonkerise, is that what we think is the story isn’t the story.

Good god(s)!  Now, there’s a chilling thought — a story hidden in a story (like a Clara hidden in the mind of a Zygon Clara . . . no, that’s just NUTS).

He asked her to see him – but right now, he…[Read more]

Blast it!  Moffat turned *54*, not 34!  I am a idiot!  Well, my fingers are.  The left hand especially.

@puro  Oh, I agree — it gets annoying when people come here with what looks like every intention of complaining (as some of our recent Underbridges have actually stated outright!  Godsakes, as if there weren’t plenty of other sites just dying to hear all about it!).

@frobisher  Yes, I felt the same — Smith’s era had turned me off.  When Dee…[Read more]

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@lisa  Yes, thanks for the link — I’ve referred to it in reply to a (new?) member posting a lugubrious comment on how dark S9 is and it’s been putting him/her off the show.

@janetteb  Yes!  Let’s see all that anxious quibbling about the different ways the show could be in format next year (not on this site, obviously, but on several others) do…[Read more]

@ohboyatoycar  Goths and Batman?  Huh?  I just don’t see it, but as you do, you might skip the rest of S9 and rejoin the show at the start of S10.  There’s a short interview with Capaldi and Moffat on the Den of Geek site in which they discuss how they’re expecting to shift the tone of the show for that season using the tone of the com…[Read more]

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Damn it.  “A smarlinb, stumbling lump” = “a snarling, stumbling lump”, post #47202.

@jphamlore  @whisht  When I was learning to read Tarot cards, The Moon was also interpreted, broadly, as “Seeing things by a False Light”.  That’s kind of what we’ve been saying here about “Sleep No More”, isn’t it.

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@kharis  — What an excellent Nutcracker scheme!  Drosselmeyer does look like a Doctor Who figure — and there must be others: the older, mysterious, clever, “magical” authority who’s often not just a trickster but an evil-leaning character manipulating the story behind the scenes, like Lindorf in “Tales of Hoffman” (“je suis vieux mais je suis v…[Read more]

@geoffers   i think rassmussen himself is the man who hasn’t slept in five years, perhaps? his nervousness and mannerisms throughout the episode, at first, could be due to the monsters, the life or death situation. but when we find out he’s been a bad guy all along, i think it’s a clue that he’s just not been sleeping well/or at all. [Read more]

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@blenkinsopthebrave  — It’s a story.  Which Rasmussen is telling us, admitting at the outset that bits are missing.  But he’s the bad guy; must we accept the ending we see — his victory, the Doctor’s failure and retreat — is the truth?

@django  Ah, you got there before me:  I loved the audacity that what we had all just watched was not only…[Read more]