<span class=”useratname”>@purofilion</span>: Correct me if I am wrong because I probably have no idea what I am talking about, but it seems to me that Beethoven’s Fifth is worthy of being called a precursor to rock music because it marks a break with what Western music used to have as its function.  The Fifth is, unless it is turned into disco as…[Read more]

The Doctor is already a rock star with one group of females as has been shown at least twice relatively recently:  Osgood and O’Donnell, the younger technically inclined ones who are familiar with UNIT and the Doctor’s work.  This is starting to be a trend.  Look at how giddy O’Donnell was to actually be able to travel to another time in the Ta…[Read more]

@Arbutus: What I am thinking is that Missy’s plan is to create a companion Clara with whom the Doctor will be so emotionally invested that her loss would completely shatter the Doctor’s desire to have longterm human companions, at least for a while.  Because Missy means what shes says:  She wants her friend, the Doctor, back.

I wouldn’t mind if f…[Read more]

<span class=”useratname”>@bluesqueakpip</span>: I like your theories about Clara.  I try to temper mine to leave the door open for the show to bring her back for a guest appearance or two should Jenna Coleman’s schedule be favorable.  That is why I reject theories that leave Clara simply dead.

And I do like how the Fourth Doctor’s companions w…[Read more]

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<span class=”useratname”>@supernumerary</span>: As for relationships, I think what this episode is doing is highlighting a big problem with Clara and the Doctor’s relationship.  O’Donnell and Bennett’s relationship was one that could have become permanent pretending to be a temporary one.  What if for example O’Donnell had been cleared and was p…[Read more]

Wouldn’t audiences have been familiar with causal time loops at least as far back as Bill and Ted’s Excellent Adventure? 🙂

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I’m more trying to understand the stories of the Fourth Doctor and how time works. Back then both the Doctor and the Time Lords in Genesis of the Daleks seemed to think he could change the Daleks past, perhaps even wipe them out, and the Doctor and the Jagaroth in City of Death seemed to think it was possible the Jagaroth could save his ship to…[Read more]

@bluesqueakpip: A causal loop should be a mainstream idea by now considering it was a major plot point of the movie Interstellar …

@ichabod: In my opinion, considering everything that has been shown in the series since the return to TV, having the Time Lords ever return to the normal Dr Who universe would be a complete betrayal of everything that has been asserted.

The Time Lords can’t return because it has been shown clearly if they ever return it would start another Time…[Read more]

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In Under the Lake I remember seeing O’Donnell hitting Bennett playfully after he survived the first trapping with a ghost; therefore I considered there might be more between them. In retrospect, there should have been.

O’Donnell sadly was doomed before the episode ever began as I noted because as a lance corporal the Doctor would never invite…[Read more]

Here’s why I think Clara will turn out to be baseline human: Because Moffat needs to show her being vulnerable as a way to wound the Doctor as he has never been wounded before.

In Under the Lake the Doctor and Clara have an exchange where states his responsibility to keep her safe. But by the end of the episode the Doctor appears to be a ghost.…[Read more]

This is speculation about what I believe will never be confirmed in the series.

I conjecture that around the time of the Fifth Doctor serial Warriors of the Deep, 2084, the two superpower blocs were looking for excuses to hide nuclear missile launch bases. So under the pretext of looking for oil, there was a boom in constructing underwater…[Read more]

@purofilion: When one starts a PC the BIOS initializes the hardware and provides services so that the operating system can take over. What I am trying to say is that in the Dr Who universe, in analogy to ideas from Snow Crash, what we have seen in Under the Lake is that across species such as humans and Time Lords there is a lower level of…[Read more]

Toby Whithouse has quite an impressive resume. I wonder if he is being considered by the BBC for a far greater role in Dr Who as a backup if Moffat should decide to leave. What would his grand vision be.

School Reunion was a big deal in many senses, with the return of the character of Sarah Jane Smith. But also there was a big idea, that there…[Read more]

I am wondering if this is possible: Could a Faraday cage or a modified version prevent the signals the Zygons use to synch with their captives? Do they need such signals?

Given that the Tower of London in the 2010s was Tardis-proofed, I find it difficult to believe it wasn’t enclosed in a version of a Faraday cage, so this theory is probably…[Read more]

@purofilion: I’ve just had a better thought that might explain the anomalies. What if the Drum is meant to explore a hopefully abandoned Zygon base not a Sea Devil base?

Suppose that humans in that time had determined that the Zygons from the Fourth Doctor serial Terror of the Zygons, as part of their plan to terraform (Zygonform?) Earth, had…[Read more]

The more I think about it, the undersea base the Drum does not make sense.

Ostensibly the base seems to be there for resource exploration. But a trillion dollar base? Now obviously more than a hundred years from now inflation may have made what is a trillion dollars now be a billion or less, but I think the context really was Vertex and…[Read more]

@jimmythetulip: Breaking the fourth wall to me is the character acknowledging and directly addressing the audience. In this context, not that I think this has any chance of happening, that would be Capaldi addressing the TV audience wondering why no one noticed the Doctor was acting so strangely.

I welcome reading your theories. Since at least…[Read more]