@mudlark   Gawd, you’re right — Colony Istlum or Colony Rat would be searching for Missy to give her awards and banquets.  I suppose Davros might have “made” CS, or found it already made and hired it on.  I like the idea of naturally evolved colonies like this (what evolutionary forces would produce them?), and would hope that democracy would be…[Read more]

SEB, yes — fussy, loquacious, full of delicate euphemisms for being, ah, dead . . . he’s a virus in the computer network the kids work with in their classrooms, sometimes makes his own announcements over the P.A. system . . . Is anxious to stay hidden from Missy — all right, all right, that’s enough of that, me.

@lisa   Danny could be the ghost haunting Coal Hill School . . .

@mudlark  @denvaldron  @lisa   Colony Sarf is just Colony Sarf, not “Colony Sarf #1” or “Colony Sarf pal of Davros”, which suggests that maybe CS is in fact unique in its sarf-ness.  Perhaps there are similar “colonies” of other animal forms out there somewhere — ?  Then “Colony Rat” (what’s Welsh for “bat”?) might decide to avenge the rubb…[Read more]

@purofilion  (Missy) will exploit Clara and then carry out a further plan which may well cost Clara her life: and in the process the Doctor will blame himself or perhaps Clara may indulge a whim to do something quite mad….and the Doctor will be truly angry with her (and not blame himself and Missy will smile gleefully but quietly): Do as YOU ARE…[Read more]

@jphamlore  . . . Clara is . . .  a plot by Missy to break the Doctor once and for all of his desire to travel with a human companion as opposed to Missy. Missy wants Clara to be the absolute limit in the good sense of what an ordinary human companion can be. Peak Clara and Doctor. And then of its own weight, perhaps not even with Missy’s dire…[Read more]

@lisa   There’s a Mrs. Sarff that has democratically voted to hunt Missy down to avenge her late SO. 

Thank you, Lisa!  So satisfying . . . cue Mrs. Sarf, please!  Or, maybe a little bit later on . . .

Drat.  Italics got away from me.

@bluesqueakpip  . . . she had a bang-up exit. Her potential exit in Death in Heaven was heartbreaking, and her other potential exit in Last Christmas was bitter-sweet. So from her point of view, I’d think it’s more than a bang-up exit; it’s some kind of show-off plot-line or series of stories.

Well, that’ll do too, of course; though I meant “…

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@bluesqueakpip  The two traditional arguments are a) more money and b) an interesting plotline. Since this is the BBC, not US TV, we’re probably talking b). 🙂 My question would be ‘why did Steven Moffat want so badly to convince her to sign on for S9?’

Then I’d guess she was promised a bang-up exit!  As for why, why not?  Capaldi clearly…[Read more]

For anyone who hasn’t come across this — good stuff, though occasionally there, it looks a bit like Capaldi being interviewed by Davros:

http://www.ora.tv/larrykingnow/2015/9/28/dr-whos-peter-capaldi-talks-new-season-maisie-williams-a-bbc-under-threat-0_6uiw4en5w3vp

@pedant   Clara saw the full power of the Time Lords not as a 3D artwork in the Under Gallery, but up close and personal – and felt tiny.

Yes — she doesn’t go all outraged — “How dare you!” etc. — about being identified as “the puppy”.  Quite telling.  This isn’t a two-hander on a dizzying whirl of locations with her amazing star-man; this…[Read more]

@pedant  this episode really delivered in spades the full and epic scale of the arrogance of the time lords in a way that would have been unacceptable coming from The Doctor. And again, that is about the character of a people who have mastery of time itself and to whom stopping a few thousand planes is flight is a mere parlour trick.

Yeah — but…[Read more]

@purofilion   Did anyone think Capaldi looked really quite sick? I’m assuming in addition to weight loss – although his hair has grown weight 🙂 that perhaps the colourisation of the episode as well as the extreme close -ups have an effect. . . . Maybe one needs real regen. energy to survive this show. And how come Moffat always looks well rested…[Read more]

@kharis  So many other “discussion” sites I’ve had a look at turned out to be less like joining a discussion and more like falling into Colony Sarf.

@whisht …the secret of Clara.
I’ve now read through these posts and I may be wrong but so far we’ve theorised that:
Clara is CAL (bloody hell I’ll have nightmares about those anagrams again);
a previous regeneration of the Master (I like this – Clara regenerates into Missy, exits stage left as Missy and Missy enters stage right); she is Susan (hm)…[Read more]

@denvaldron   If I was a Dalek, that’s probably where I’d stash my porn.

@arbutus  I would have thought it was obvious. Davros keeps his beer down there. 

Too tough to get to — he keeps his medical records there.  Must be a lot of them, and they’re no damn use anyway.  Or really old telephone directories, for ballast and also for heft when you…[Read more]

My candidate for the witch’s familiar:

https://www.facebook.com/awvwv/videos/1020348338016079/

Ah, the majesty of Eee-villll!

@denvaldron   Davros lives in a chair designed for him and him alone, and he’s got no legs or lower torso? So what exactly is the Doctor squeezing into?

Well, one shudders to think, doesn’t one?  Do the squiddy Daleks have legs?  People do keep getting into the Dalek suits, so I guess by this time we’re not supposed to be asking that ques…[Read more]

@arbutus  @nerys   On the Daleks as one dimensional baddies — there were times when my husband and I would just look at each other (we were fans together) and say, “Oh no — Daleks!” and go off to do something else, because the Daleks were so flat that they were comical, which tended to disrupt the stories.  Now that there’s a suspicion that th…[Read more]