Reading comments is always an added pleasure and an excellent way of procrastinating when there is R.L work to be done.

@drben Your theory regarding the possibility of an earlier regeneration than expected chimes with my thinking. It is even possible Moffat will throw in an extra regeneration. I have often thought that one way to really introduce…[Read more]

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@jimthefish  Lets not forget Romana trying on new regens like she was shopping for a dress!  Lol…

@brewski @jimthefish This in fun bonkering, but exactly how are all these Time Lords suddenly disguising themselves as each other and fooling everybody?  I’m thinking they don’t all have rubber masks, wigs, eyebrows, dresses, etc. on their persons right now.

First thoughts:

LOVED IT!  I was also too engrossed in it to catch Razor being SimMaster.  Felt silly that I missed it, too. :p

I liked the “Doctor Who” stuff at the beginning.  It was so clearly poking fun at fans, especially the ones who get a bit bent out of shape when he is called “Doctor Who”.

Along these lines, though, I thought what wa…[Read more]

Loved it. So many things to say, but I think they’ve mostly been covered already.

It strikes me that the dark, nightmarish world at the end of the spaceship where they are converting humanity into the first iteration of the Cybermen is like a dark, inverted version of the Nethersphere.

@Blenkinsopthebrave Yes, I thought that.

although it obviously…

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One thought in reflecting on this episode: SM puts himself head and shoulders above all other AG writers for me in part because of his delight in, and willingness to push up to the limit and beyond, various notions and perceptions of time. Here we had the different time rates at the top and bottom of the ship. His best monster does not obliterate…[Read more]

@jimthefish

I’m still hoping for a hidden in plain sight, totally gobsmacking surprise regeneration. Maybe it’s not too late for it still be Pearl — the Doctor’s tribute to the girl he couldn’t save? A future reproach, not unlike having to wear Caecilius’s face this time around?

I am hoping for something very similar, but with Michelle Gomez. For…[Read more]

@jimthefish – I agree with everything you’ve just said but especially that’s how I’ve been wondering what will happen with Missy.

She saves the day but no one will know.
Except us – we learn that there is redemption.
That the Doctor doesn’t witness it means that he’ll ‘remember’ that the Master is evil but it won’t matter, because he’ll think…[Read more]

@jimthefish

And yet, and yet. SM also has the problem of the Master to deal with. I’ve said before it’s a perennial problem in bringing back the Master — once you’ve brought him/her back, you have to find something to do with them. Even the original show had this problem. After a bit of disguise tomfoolery, inventive dispatching of bit charact…[Read more]

@devilishrobby

Zathrus

Yep – had a twitter exchange about it pretty well right after the episode. I also thought hints of the mad doctor in the orphanage in Impossible Astronaut.

@jimthefish

and I’m not sure Chibnall would thank Moffat for that.

Don’t disagree with anything you say, but I think it absolutely inconceivable that Moffat will not l…[Read more]

@JimTheFish

I’m still hoping for a hidden in plain sight, totally gobsmacking surprise regeneration. Maybe it’s not too late for it still to be Pearl — the Doctor’s tribute to the girl he couldn’t save? A future reproach, not unlike having to wear Caecilius’s face this time around?

That’s been my thinking exactly. “I couldn’t save you, but I can…[Read more]

@JimTheFish many thanks. I was at friends in Cambridgeshire yesterday and have only just got back. @Pedant @thane15 @rorysmith @devilishrobby et al, I will keep an eye on it but feeding the troll now would probably do more harm than good.

But it is noted.

@jimthefish:

Mmm, you could be right. he could play either with panache.

Missy

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.@Blenkinsopthebrave  @thane15 (puro)  @JimTheFish  @Nick

Thanks for the good wishes.  It was a rather disconcerting attack of tachycardia – for no apparent reason my heart rate went through the roof and stayed in the stratosphere for the better part of an hour, which to say the least felt weird. After things had settled down again the med…[Read more]