@5faces @geoffers

Hope I’ve pasted the image correctly! It’s exactly the same poster. Good spot! 🙂

@ barnable

Hmm… Dino-Missy-Tesselecta…

Now I think of it…  Cor dear, that’s a bit too mad even for me…

If it actually happens , please feel free to point at me and laugh 🙂

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It definitely links with my new idea about robots vs humans, and what robots can never do (Robots can never believe). 🙂

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Right.

@lisa and I have had an idea  (well @lisa really… and I really like it!)

It centres around the similarity between  names: “Neverland” and the “Nethersphere”, and the notion of belief…

I’m not a big expert in Peter Pan (@Lisa???), but I think the whole point is that you have to believe in Neverland… And the name “Nethersphere” is n…[Read more]

@barnable  I’ll be honest with you, it’ a bit of a gamble 🙂

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@ barnable

If it comes true, you will regret ever having doubted yourself 🙂

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@barnable

We can have a dino-missy-tesselecta if you like. That’s why it’s called Bonkers Theorising  🙂

Interesting that you think Missy is an “Evildoer”. I’m not so sure. I very much hope that Missy is completely mental, because Michelle Gomez does that brilliantly 🙂 But I suspect there’s a mixture of good and bad involved (maybe good…[Read more]

@thommk @fatmaninabox @bluesqueakpip

I’ve spent 10 years teaching 11-16-yr-olds. I second @fatmaninabox: Thommk junior will be back behind the sofa before too long :). And I second @bluesqueakpip : Being bored of (and possibly a bit too cool for) everything your parents do is a rite of passage for every teenager:)

And I’d just add this:

Of…[Read more]

@purofilion

Have a great holiday and lots of fun 🙂 I learned to scuba dive in St Martin. Very nearly got my PADI but couldn’t for the life of me change jackets in the water  🙁

Still, even without a certificate it was money well spent. I’ll never forget the deeper dives. It was an amazing experience. I’d love to have another g…[Read more]

@lisa

”go to your assembly and worship something”

Ooh interesting. Probably just a throw-away comedy line. But within the story arc?? Maybe a bit more sigificant 🙂

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@lisa – I ike your episode references. A belief theme running throughout the series so far, I think.

And in Time Heist, the belief theme was subtle, but in a way it was central: each “bank robber” had to believe that the heist was worth doing. And they had to trust (believe in) each other.

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@barnable (and others who are asking “How can Future-Karabraxos call the Doctor and cause him to do something she knows he’s already done??”)
The best explanation comes from Tennant Doctor in Blink:

DOCTOR : People assume that time is a strict progression of cause to effect, but actually from a non-linear, non-subjective viewpoint, it’s more…

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@thommk

It seems like we are being asked to go against our human nature a lot this series.

Yes, I think you’ve hit the nail on the head… And I think it’s going to have something to do with robots.

What separates us from robots? Well… We’ve got involuntary reflexes and involuntary thoughts – but we can control them (to a point). we’ve got…[Read more]

Wow, only gone a few days and absolutely loads to catch up on. (Gives a whole new meaning to “Don’t Blink”!)

Will do my best to catch up on all the recent posts. But in the meantime, here’s a bit of bonkers for you…

In Let’s Kill Hitler, when the Doctor talks to the Tesselecta (or with Carter, controller of the Tesselecta), the…[Read more]

@banjofiddler

Clara laughing inappropriately 23:44??

Wow, that’s mad – good spot. I missed that completely. Clara is pleading with him not to use the shredder. Why on earth would she suddenly be smiling? I can only imagine there’s a bit of dialogue that was cut – but then why wouldn’t they edit the smile out? It’s so wrong!

Senses, thoughts and reflexes: Don’t breath/Do breathe/Listen/Don’t look at it/Think of your childhood/Don’t not think of your childhood… The obvious one this episode was “Don’t think at all”. But we also got “Don’t touch it” with the memory worm before the opening credits, and Saibra who doesn’t normally allow herself to touch people, but whose…[Read more]

@PhileasF: I really like your point the Doctor’s self-loathing being the key that allows him to figure out who the Architect is. There was a similar resolution in Amy’s Choice, where Matt Smith was able to figure out who the Dream Lord was because “There’s only one person in this universe who hates me as much as you do”.

I also like your…[Read more]

Cor blimey, that needs a re-watch. I’m not entirely sure what just happened!

“picture the thing you want most in the universe and decide how badly you want it.” (Faust, anyone?? 🙂

“Everything has a price tag I think you’ll find” (What about the Doctor’s new regeneration cycle?)

From Don’t Blink to Don’t Think… I’m convinced that…[Read more]

Right, with 5 mins to go before the next episode, I’m watching out for anything Faustian (If there’s a servant called Wagner I’ll claim my £5.) But also for anything that involves controlling and/or suppressing senses, reflexes or thoughts – which I think is becoming a bit of a theme. (Don’t breath, do breathe, think of your childhood/don’t get…[Read more]

@ whisht Crosswords and join-the-dots are both really good analogies, I think. I came across this forum when I was pondering the Impossible Girl mystery and was blown away (have been ever since) by everyone’s ideas and the level of discussion. It doesn’t really matter whose ideas turned out to be right. The conjecture was the fun and interesting…[Read more]