Great episode. Agree with @django that there’s a definite Prisoner riff here, most notably the Once Upon A Time episode.

@delta — I think @pedant and others are correct in that we’re not talking about a Doctor ‘clone’ just because he’s teleported. How many times has the Doctor used a teleporter throughout the 50 years of the series? If your…[Read more]

@puroandson — I’m so pleased you’ve decided to come back. And welcome to ‘son’. Even in these few short days, you’ve been missed. Welcome.

While I think I’ve taken to Capaldi’s Doctor more than @bluesqueakpip has (and I think @blenkinsopthebrave is right in his description of his character arc), I think Pip does have something of a point about how Clara’s demise has been written. Whether deliberately or not, I think it does send out a message that’s dubious at best, although I do…[Read more]

Just to emphasise, Puro has not been banned but has left of her own accord. This is a clearly very tough time for her so I’m sure we’ll understand that if she wants to take a step back from the site, while emphasising that we all value her amazing contributions to our little community. I hope you do decide to stay, Puro but everyone’s thoughts…[Read more]

@purofilion— yeah, a wee bitty on the harsh side there. I think @geronimo is getting at the same thing that @bluesqueakpip and others pointed to above. That Clara’s death was a wee bit too ‘easy’ to be her final bowing out — especially as this is the Impossible Girl we’re talking about here. It’s just not sufficiently satisfying for her to go…[Read more]

That was bloody excellent. More Gaiman than Gaiman rather oddly. But excellent.

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Still formulating and wanting a rewatch or two but can I just say that Peter Harness totally failed to drop the ball there. And Capaldi has definitely had his defining Doctor moment now. And it was a cracker.

That’s three for three cracking pieces from Harness now.

@mersey —

You absolutely shouldn’t feel ashamed. Your misgivings are absolutely valid. That some don’t share them, or at least not to same level, is neither here nor there really….

The important thing is that we all feel able to talk about them.

@bluesqueakpip—

Alternatively, Inverness villages and the Fox Inn are packed with Zygon milkmaids

There’s an image I’m never getting out of my head.

I’m inclined to think @jphamlore is right that this particular story has something of a responsibility to ‘get it right’ in the second part. There was definitely a case to be made with Kill The Moon…[Read more]

@Mersey —

I’d imagine that most people on this site are familiar with the MH17 incident and this weekend’s events in Egypt. However, I personally don’t see it as particularly offensive or in poor taste. This episode was in the can months ago and Steven Moffatt can’t be expected to predict what world events are going to be at the time of…[Read more]

@doctordoctorwho — post deleted. If you like you can repost it but only in the spoilers section…

More detailed thoughts later but I thought that was absolutely excellent.

And it now becomes painfully clear why The Times were desperate to give Who a kicking this week.

A quick style proposal for the bloggers. It’s probably best if blog titles are kept in upper and lower case. All caps headings look rather like SHOUTING and unbalance the rest of the site from a design perspective.

@bluesqueakpip — that’s an excellent theory and I think you could well be right on the money there.

Just to say that on rewatch I enjoyed this far more. I still see vague glimmers of the tenth Doc in this story — I don’t know whether because it reminded me slightly of The Shakespeare Code or whether Tregenna views the Doc through a Torchwood lens that’s bound to be a Tennant-ey. Or possibly because the plot was a bit Waters of Mars-ey.

The…[Read more]

@plainolddave—

I won’t surrender to the new numbering style because it’s wrong. I have never made a habit of apologizing for being right and see no reason to stop now

No, you are wrong, I’m afraid. Doctor Who originally ran from 1963 to 1989. Then it was cancelled. Over. Finished. Then there was a one-off TV movie that didn’t go anywhere. And the…[Read more]

@arbutus — absolutely. You can love one period or style more than another. But its pointless to try and isolate and refuse to acknowledge the worth of anything that comes after it. And of course nothing emerges divorced from the cultural contexts around it.