@purofilion  Or, PissedOffPuro — lovely! — Yes, it wants more watching, partly because it goes very fast, and there are lots of visual figures to keep track of in many scenes (while you’re figuring out whose “eyes” you’re looking through).  Just got home from a family visit in San Diego and watched for the first time tonight.  It’s all a bit he…[Read more]

@bluesqueakpip  Clara was born to save the Doctor – but the Doctor no longer needs saving.  Her job’s done.

Whew!  That’s strong.  Are you suggesting a voluntary departure?  Or someone else making the determination that she’s no longer needed here and so *should* move (or be moved) on?  I like how you’re thinking here . . .

I think my main prob…[Read more]

@supernummerary  Re the playground scene, older man, two kids:  that was part of the point, the alien Doctor’s lack of awareness as to how this looks- as well as the general gag of having the commanders hide out as two tiny blonde girls.

Thanks!  Now it makes sense.

@blenkinsop @pedant  I’m with you too; I don’t think the Doctor is a zygon…[Read more]

@soundworld  Knowing ourselves better is of course the Fool’s journey, as we have been discussing this series. That it has provoked these reactions shows just how bang-on the series is, not shying away from awkward and painful topics.

Your comment is bang-on as well.  And thanks, @pedant, for the good Vonnegut material.

@purofilion  I can trul…[Read more]

@bluesqueakpip  I live in an area where children are being groomed by terrorists. This is too serious an issue to NOT make it family entertainment,

Second.  Absolutely.  Talk about it, don’t hide from it, or hide it from kids.  Darkness encourages mold; sunlight kills germs.

@mudlark  Yep, I hear you.  And ever since “Mary Tyler Moore” dealt…[Read more]

@starla  the one who travels to New Mexico, is zygon Kate. We don’t see what happens to her once the police officer changes into a zygon

Well, not exactly — but our last shot of Kate — isn’t she holding up and looking at what sure looks like a zygon finger or something?  I thought, if she’s a zygon copy but a *good* one, she’s taken out a *ba…[Read more]

@soundworld  life on earth was seeded, and continues to be, by genetic material carried through space, virii and so on. What manner of hybrids might we already be, unknowingly?

I think that’s an excellent question!  And it raises one of my ingrained objections to concepts of “purity”, in the name of which so many great crimes have been c…[Read more]

@millymac  he brings a darkness with him, very very different from anything I’ve seen before, it makes you feel like there’s going to be something sinister coming, but it doesn’t happen! So strange.

Oh, I think it’s coming; but it’s Moffat’s genius to make us *wait* for it.

@doctordoctorwho  Turmezistan… what?

Uh . . . chief export, turmeric?

@jphamore  the two real leaders who made the human-Zygon peace treaty, the Doctor and Kate Stewart, must be shown to not be incompetent fools. They must have a plan, or be able to devise a plan on the spur of the moment to make it look like they had a plan, so that we can tru…[Read more]

@purofilion  I didn’t see Captain Jack as intense, just as always just-this-side-of-hysterical and way too exhausting, like a large, over-eager dog with (sometimes) soulful eyes constantly sniffing crotches and trying to hump your leg (or the leg of the guy standing next to you).  Let’s just say I liked him best as the huge, jarred, and s…[Read more]

@purofilion  I also agree that in T/wrd the physical stuff was “obtrusive” to the point of ridiculousness.

It was like being in bl**dy High School again — who’s going out with who, who had a fight with their maybe s.o. and is sulking over it, who’s not attracted to the satyr Captain Jack, god almighty, can we please get some of this damn soap…[Read more]

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@millymac   I’d really love for the new companion to be an older woman, maybe a historian. So when she and the Doctor are travelling she’s interested in artefacts and the history, and he’s away busy dealing with a hidden alien society or something. It would be fantastic

It would be fantastic, and I for one would love it — but can you imagin…[Read more]

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@arbutus Yes, I’d hope for a different slant too, if that happens. In any case, though, the Doctor will be having some dark thoughts about his own part in shaping whatever sequence of events brings her departure about — unless she goes zooming off in her own Tardis or something (and maybe even then?).  Further thoughts on the “BBC spoiler” page,…[Read more]

@arbutus    I’m pretty sure that the Doctor himself has moved on. I think that in his view, he is neither a good nor a bad man, and that the question itself is irrelevant. He does what is right by his own standards, or tries to. Goodness has nothing to do with it!

Agreed — but wouldn’t that be called into question again if he were to see *hi…[Read more]

@purofilion  I’d rather be discussing the potential for a female Doctor with a female companion than program numbering

Me too, and that’s me who wore meself out discussing that very issue elsewhere!

@mersey  Crazy Man Michael makes a terrible mistake, kills the raven, and so kills his own true love. Given the great play in the series so far on the problems of separating friends from enemies, and the pre-season promise from Peter Capaldi (as far as I can tell, unlike SM, Capaldi might be economical with the truth but does not lie) that the…[Read more]

@jimthefish  Orphan Black took me a long time to get into and it’s still a case of like but don’t quite love. Tatiana Maslany is going awesome work on it though….

My feeling too; it never became “appointment TV watching” for me, so I missed some episodes and completely lost the thread, so I went elsewhere.  By all means, send in the clones…[Read more]

@blenkinsopthebrave  It is very nice that people seem to have responded to my idea, but…it doesn’t have to turn out that way. 

No — but your way is very elegant in its simplicity and potential impact.  On the other hand, of course the story might go in a completely different direction, delight us all with something unforeseen.  Only people…[Read more]