@denvaldron  You feel that there’s something honest in Davros opening up. I don’t feel that there’s anything honest in it at all.

Yup.  We disagree, as we’ve both been saying for several rounds now.  Thanks for the detailed explanation — I still disagree, and so do you.  I grew up with siblings; I’ve had plenty of experience with disagreem…[Read more]

@purofilion  He’s never going to be fluffy.

Good grief, did I write something that made it sound as if I think the Doctor is “fluffy”?  Or even could be?  Not my intention, I assure you!  It’s his sharp edges that I most admire, and find true to his nature as presented.  I thought Clara was rather fluffy in S7, which was one reason I didn’t…[Read more]

Damn, I am not kidding — timey-wimey drives me crazy-wazy sometimes.  *When* are we, with TMA/TWF?  Clara rebukes the Doctor for keeping Missy’s survival a secret: “We both saw her die, but that was ages ago.  You’ve been keeping secrets”, more or less.  Clara’s not a TL, so “ages” doesn’t mean to her what it would mean to the Doctor or Mis…[Read more]

@denvaldron  . . . the charge I level at Moffat. He’s taken a character with the potential for life-like depth and flexibility, for fallibility and humanity, and he’s reduced her to a plot pawn to perform a prescribed story function. 

I disagree; but where she can go after the special circumstances of S8 has been a question since S8 ended.  I don…[Read more]

@denvaldron   Perhaps the Master’s title refers to something else. Perhaps it simply means ‘Better.’ Or ‘Best.’ The smartest, the fastest, the winner, etc. Perhaps the Master has truly gone blazing through the universe, not in a quest to rule it, but to test himself/herself against it. To beat it, to demonstrate that he’s better, that he’s the…[Read more]

@missy  Very sadly, my OH decided to watch part two with me last night. when it was finished he said, and I quote:
“What a lot of crap (sorry), I don’t know what you see in it.” *sigh*

My sister checked out TWF and told me she changed channels after two minutes — “Everybody was so busy *Acting* like crazy!”  She hates live theater, too — “The…[Read more]

@mudlark  There, you just said it so much more concisely!  Yes, the Doctor plans — but when it comes to the crunch, he ends up improvising brilliantly, because a) that’s what happens to even “the best laid plans”, and b) brilliant improvisation is one of his strongest suits.

@purofilion  you’re quite right in asserting its not completely B&am…[Read more]

@juniperfish  I like your conclusion — a bit of good eked out of a massively destructive confrontational node for all our main players . . . even Davros got something, a dash of warm contact with the Doctor, out of it.  And yes, yes, yes, “The Chariot” = the Tardis — the vehicle that takes you where you need to go!

@Kharis  Of course, The Ha…[Read more]

@Braddy  I feel the doctor let slip to Davros that Galifrey had survived. Maybe both will have a race through time and space to locate it. Now that Davros has tasted the doctors powers, the hunger for more could trigger a Time War part 2. Destroy Galifrey for the last time and drain all time lords creating the hybrid army. This could be an…[Read more]

Great starter — fantastic whiplash effect of the final quarter — headspin!  I kept thinking we were going to somehow segue right into “Souffle Girl”.

@whisht   Thanks for that, good lively sound — always welcome!  Sister is okay, and has been scared into changing her (culinary) ways, so I may get to have her company a lot longer!  Thank goodness, and thanks for your good wishes.

@purofilion  If she’s a claricle, then her time is up at some point! And this is what the Doctor fears? Can he now prevent this? Would it mean a pre-emptive regen?

Maybe something like that — but with a different outcome (CapDoc remains CapDoc despite it?).  I remember that they’ve been saying something happens that will make us “think again abo…[Read more]

@bluesqueakpip  If you insert a living being into a time-stream, someone who should never have existed, how long will they live?  Possibly, like all those Claricles, precisely as long as they’re needed.

Whoo, that is *cold*.  But yes, I can see it.  It could work, and be quite horrible — if Clara has never *been* anything other than a pawn in a…[Read more]

@purofilion  @bluesqueakpip  It is worrisome to me that Clara other than her teaching has no life outside of her travels with the Doctor.  What other life is she supposed to have that we’d see? 

Exactly, IMO, the kind of “other life” that was completely omitted for Danny, which made him a nonviable character for so many viewers who have poste…[Read more]

@brewski  “Davros remembers” what the Doctor did to him. He allowed him to live that awful life. Curse his compassion!

Brilliant, brewski!  I love it!

@phamlore  It might have been perfect to have some countdown occurring appearing to be for the Doctor’s demise but instead to wind up being Clara’s, perhaps her time being up so that she would…[Read more]

@papermoon   There’s the Doctor’s cryptic question to Clara ‘Which one of us is dying?’, maybe it is Missy.

I don’t think Missy is being referenced here; she hasn’t been greeted yet by CapDoc, and the conversation is still jus between Clara and CapDoc.  The question, “Which one of us is dying?” is asked by Clara, not the Doctor; and his respon…[Read more]

@janetteb  It’s even more difficult to assess a story told in two parts — without having seen both of them.  Word I hear is that TWF answers a lot of questions opened by TMA, and that it’s “better” than TMA, so . . . Agh. It’s not even *Wednesday* here!

Gawd, it never occurred to me to doubt Missy when she identified the CD player of Rassilon as a “Confession Dial” and explained it as a Last Will and Testament.  Drat that Michelle Gomez!  She has one again pulled ze wooool over my eyes!  That there’s a slice missing doesn’t mean it’s been opened or broken into, apparently, but it could mean th…[Read more]

@janetteb   I keep thinking about that, too — that Danny’s first death might be revisited and revealed to have been part of Missy’s larger plotting . . . Though in a way I hope not.  I do love the idea of Danny having a first death that’s just as meaningless as most of our accidental deaths seem to be, then being succeeded by a truly heroic d…[Read more]

Started here in the States last Saturday night.  Next, part two of S9 Episode one: hurry up, damn it!  It’s outrageus that tomorrow is only *Tuesday*