@ichabod In The Name of the Doctor, I interpret Vastra as basically acting as a shaman even using drugged vapors to get Clara from the 2000s to be able to attend the conference call from Victorian England. Then and after in the series it has been mentioned that time travel can occur in dreams.

I personally believe the Tardis is programmed by a future version of the Doctor to do various magical things when they are needed, such as the door slamming shut in Journey’s End which eventually led to the short-term creation of the Doctor-Donna.

I believe before he was diverted to Skaro, the Doctor was actually investigating the Weeping Angels,…[Read more]

Now here’s another bonkers speculation: The sonic screwdriver the Doctor gave to Boy Davros had two types of extremely important information that would shape the Daleks into a force that could threaten the universe: Time Lord tech from the future and Time Lord DNA. The Daleks have both the talent and the knowledge to stand toe-to-toe warring…[Read more]

The poodle belongs to both members of the older couple. Missy created Clara as much as the Doctor did. Missy has stated she has been all up and down the timestream of the Doctor’s companions, so she has probably seen Clara’s end. After all it is the Master who looked into the void while the Doctor ran away when they were kids. And it was Missy…[Read more]

Here’s a speculation that should blow everyone’s mind: What if the Doctor figures out a way to send kid Davros, perhaps through using some sort of binding contract on Missy, back as a human kid to be adopted by Amy and Rory? That would force the Doctor to never interfere in kid Davros’ life again and let kid Davros find his own destiny.

And for the nitpick of the day: How did the Doctor know that Davros wasn’t an extremely common name on Skaro? Just think if the original Terminator had assumed the first Sarah Connor was the only one. For all the Doctor knew that kid had nothing to do with the future Davros leader of the Daleks.

One big objection to the Doctor assuming the…[Read more]

It is amazing the lines one finds in “Genesis of the Daleks.” The Fourth Doctor asserts he KNOWS the Daleks existence will be for some good millions of years into the future.

And Davros actually asks his creations the Daleks for pity to spare the lives of Davros’ team of scientists.

“Davros created the Daleks. But who created Davros?”

The Doctor created Davros. He owes that kid, and if he’s anything of what I think the Doctor is, he’s eventually going to find a way to let that kid have his own destiny.

It might not be resolved next episode. It might not be resolved this season. But I’m really thinking that the Doctor…[Read more]

The Doctor was looking for a bookstore. I wonder if he was going to Sally Sparrow’s. I wonder if he was investigating Weeping Angels and they made a diversion of him. I wonder if the Weeping Angels are fallen Time Lords.

There’s an astonishing possibility hinted at by Davros’ remark that he approves of the Doctor’s Capaldi older face. Davros is a role. What is done, what has been observed by the Doctor, cannot be undone. But it has been the role that has been observed. This could take the entire season to play out, but this could be the greatest Dr. Who twist…[Read more]

There is a pretty easy, too easy, way to “resolve” the problem of the Doctor changing time. He doesn’t.

The Doctor reprograms a sonic screwdriver (he had a spare K9, why not a spare screwdriver?) and switches it with the one he gave the child Davros. This sonic screwdriver has subtle errors programmed into the information it contains. This…[Read more]

Colony Sav reminded me of the Mara.

If Davros has had the sonic screwdriver ever since his childhood, has he deciphered the program the Doctors used to hide Gallifrey in the first place?

It is interesting to me the Daleks wish not to obtain the secrets of the Tardis, which they were offered by Missy, but to destroy it. Perhaps the Tardis does contain the Time Lord’s Eye of Harmony, the only captured black hole singularity that gives the Time Lord control over time. The Daleks must feel they are winning and that only time travel…[Read more]

More horrifying since the young Davros will survive, the Doctor just taught him the Daleks signature phrase of “Exterminate!”

@Juniperfish: Weren’t the Thals shown in the very first Dr. Who classic series as fighting the Daleks?

@Bluesqueakpip: You stated exactly what I have thought needed to be done with the Daleks.

I congratulate Steven Moffat for finally apparently trying to lance the boil that has been destroying any chance of moral legitimacy for the Doctor.…[Read more]

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I find it interesting this episode is showing that if one of the last of a male / female pair of a species, it is acceptable to commit atrocities to keep the hopes of a species alive.  I think this has something to say about the situation of the Time Lords.

@SuzanneMS But I think part of the point that Missy is trying to make with her very appearance, the time period she chose, is that the Doctor might not have love for her, but that he has duties as a member of the aristocracy and must remember that in the end he must be of a higher level than the servants, ie, humans.

Thus the manipulations of…[Read more]

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