The Doctor Who Forum | jphamlore | Activity https://www.thedoctorwhoforum.com/members/jphamlore/activity/ Activity feed for jphamlore. Sun, 26 Jul 2026 14:22:49 +0000 https://buddypress.org/?v=2.9.1 en-US 30 hourly 2 5d219c870d0a1aab11f3a306091e473d jphamlore replied to the topic Hell Bent in the forum The Twelfth Doctor http://www.thedoctorwhoforum.com/forums/topic/hell-bent/page/15/#post-49895 Fri, 01 Jan 2016 08:33:25 +0000 At least from The Rings of Akhaten, which was written by Neil Cross and not by Moffat, the Doctor’s knowledge of beginnings and endings may dwarf that of anyone who has ever lived in the universe:

DOCTOR: I walked away from the last Great Time War. I marked the passing of the Time Lords. I saw the birth of the universe and I watched as time ran…

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]]> 9e6eaa3e395625d5ecb9145ac056693b jphamlore replied to the topic The Husbands Of River Song in the forum The Twelfth Doctor http://www.thedoctorwhoforum.com/forums/topic/the-husbands-of-river-song/page/3/#post-49805 Tue, 29 Dec 2015 08:23:10 +0000 The starship on which the TARDIS lands, Harmony and Redemption, is shown passing by the star Gamma Eridani which apparently by that time had gone supernova.  This star is also known as Zaurak.  Gamma Eridani is located in the Constellation Eridanus, which in many ancient cultures was associated with a river.

In astrology some give the following i…[Read more]

]]> c099dfcfe8955c645231e74636323b47 jphamlore replied to the topic The Husbands Of River Song in the forum The Twelfth Doctor http://www.thedoctorwhoforum.com/forums/topic/the-husbands-of-river-song/page/3/#post-49794 Tue, 29 Dec 2015 03:00:33 +0000 @nerys: I think the Doctor through much of the episode was hoping River Song would recognize him but did not want to do something completely obvious that would announce his presence such as pulling out the sonic screwdriver.  Thus the use as you have noted of the glasses at one point.

I love the idea of the glasses and hope for even more radical…[Read more]

]]> aa98f74134437efd95fe1bf829c533cd jphamlore replied to the topic The Husbands Of River Song in the forum The Twelfth Doctor http://www.thedoctorwhoforum.com/forums/topic/the-husbands-of-river-song/page/3/#post-49787 Tue, 29 Dec 2015 01:34:05 +0000 I am sorry if I created an argument.  I just wanted to speculate if from what we have seen of the character River Song, would she be happy to be confined for an eternity in the virtual reality of the Library.

At least people should be happy that the Doctor did not swipe himself with River’s sonic screwdriver before he handed it to her.  The e…[Read more]

]]> 1a7b4ba95ff8a669969bd76d16af944c jphamlore replied to the topic The Husbands Of River Song in the forum The Twelfth Doctor http://www.thedoctorwhoforum.com/forums/topic/the-husbands-of-river-song/page/2/#post-49767 Mon, 28 Dec 2015 18:31:16 +0000 @blenkinsopthebrave: I like the speculation that the Doctor did much more than that:  The Doctor went back in time and arranged for the construction of the Singing Towers of Darillium himself.

@ichabod: I agree completely with your ideas on how to transition the Doctor to a more balanced emotional relationship with his companions.  U…[Read more]

]]> 08200b91ad210744ec9209cfa7de68b4 jphamlore replied to the topic Hell Bent in the forum The Twelfth Doctor http://www.thedoctorwhoforum.com/forums/topic/hell-bent/page/15/#post-49750 Mon, 28 Dec 2015 05:47:23 +0000 @ichabod: Clara did return to Gallifrey in an instant of time and then had herself put back in her body for her death at Trap Street, so the Time Lords were none the wiser.   Except this “instant of time” was relative to her stopped pulse, her one moment of time left.   Clara even alludes to this:

Clara: Mind you… seeing as I’m not actually ag…

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]]> 09ef74c79cac25d025602ab8e5fdefbd jphamlore replied to the topic The Husbands Of River Song in the forum The Twelfth Doctor http://www.thedoctorwhoforum.com/forums/topic/the-husbands-of-river-song/page/2/#post-49749 Mon, 28 Dec 2015 04:02:09 +0000 @tardigrade: I think the pattern is that in the new series, Doctors have one companion with an extreme emotional relationship, and then a follow-up companion they can hold more at arms length.  Thus the Tennant Doctor had Rose, the Smith Doctor had Amy, and the Capaldi Doctor had Clara as their extremely close emotional companions, but then the…[Read more]

]]> 3ad09bbf6eff13cd2c22fb4e5598e6be jphamlore replied to the topic Spoilers (2) in the forum General http://www.thedoctorwhoforum.com/forums/topic/spoilers-2/page/20/#post-49722 Sun, 27 Dec 2015 06:52:15 +0000 Here’s my bonkers theory for season 10, perhaps Moffat’s swan song. We are going to see an evil Doctor, but not the Valeyard, because Moffat redoes as much as he can from the classical series, to paraphrase, not as history repeating, but sometimes having it rhyme. And who better to play an evil Doctor than Capaldi himself?

But this evil Doctor I…[Read more]

]]> 4c7866954f47a20be7fbd9b425b96ab6 jphamlore replied to the topic The Husbands Of River Song in the forum The Twelfth Doctor http://www.thedoctorwhoforum.com/forums/topic/the-husbands-of-river-song/#post-49718 Sun, 27 Dec 2015 04:52:01 +0000 Now that I think about it, I simply am not sure whether the Library that River Song winds up in Forest of the Dead will be heaven or hell for her.  I think at the end the Doctor repaired the Library’s computer’s virtual reality so that it would be a much more pleasant place to live in.  I am trying to remember whether in theory the Library can b…[Read more]

]]> e29ccb46cbae28fd54e888e537a99ff8 jphamlore replied to the topic The Husbands Of River Song in the forum The Twelfth Doctor http://www.thedoctorwhoforum.com/forums/topic/the-husbands-of-river-song/#post-49687 Sat, 26 Dec 2015 08:46:11 +0000

The Doctor: Things. There are things that have to be checked before I get it to you. If we don’t check the thing, then…

Reminded me of Woody Allen and Diane Keaton in Sleeper pretending to be surgeons who were to clone the Leader.

]]> 02c9871d36b56753f654bdb81627186c jphamlore replied to the topic The Husbands Of River Song in the forum The Twelfth Doctor http://www.thedoctorwhoforum.com/forums/topic/the-husbands-of-river-song/#post-49682 Sat, 26 Dec 2015 07:20:56 +0000 @theconsultingdoctor: The reason why this was such an emotional episode that could be the conclusion of the River Song saga is that this episode apparently could have been Steven Moffat’s last as showrunner.  Fortunately for us he is staying for at least next season, at the cost of his having to juggle his duties with Sherlock.

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]]> 64f986d9aff93918c0adf80ba0602317 jphamlore replied to the topic Hell Bent in the forum The Twelfth Doctor http://www.thedoctorwhoforum.com/forums/topic/hell-bent/page/14/#post-49626 Thu, 24 Dec 2015 00:16:37 +0000 @MikeofMcr:  I argue below that the Doctor has to recognize Clara, at least for a moment, from Rigsy’s artwork on the TARDIS, so that subconsciously he will no longer have a mystery gnawing at him, because the show itself asserts the Doctor cannot resist a mystery.

I contend Hell Bent and in fact the entire season after the first two Davros /…[Read more]

]]> 006bfa086ab083702eb43d069e9c8508 jphamlore replied to the topic Hell Bent in the forum The Twelfth Doctor http://www.thedoctorwhoforum.com/forums/topic/hell-bent/page/14/#post-49590 Wed, 23 Dec 2015 01:44:51 +0000 The Doctor’s death as shown in The Wedding of River Song was also a fixed point in time, recorded in history apparently by many.  Yet the Doctor found a loophole.  Why couldn’t he find a loophole for Clara other than his desperate attempts at the very end of time that didn’t seem to be working very well until Clara and Ashildr’s intervention?

I t…[Read more]

]]> 13260b6ac0c2af27bf23c619bd40ebd2 jphamlore replied to the topic Spoilers (2) in the forum General http://www.thedoctorwhoforum.com/forums/topic/spoilers-2/page/20/#post-49542 Sun, 20 Dec 2015 06:47:15 +0000 @tardigrade: As I have written elsewhere, as a fan of the Fourth Doctor serial The Invasion of Time, I found it perfectly within the Doctor’s character to shoot the General and force a regeneration.  The Fourth Doctor was willing to appear to be a traitor to Gallifrey, assuming the Presidency apparently to destroy the transduction barrier to…[Read more]

]]> 4d3edd9fd431f1650ea36b7264e793a4 jphamlore replied to the topic Hell Bent in the forum The Twelfth Doctor http://www.thedoctorwhoforum.com/forums/topic/hell-bent/page/13/#post-49476 Thu, 17 Dec 2015 16:31:40 +0000 I think Rassilon will be the Minister of War mentioned by O’Donnell this past season. I speculate Moffat will use themes from Shakespeare’s play Richard III. I am thinking in particular that the vibe could be similar to the Ian McKellen 1995 film version of Richard III that brought that play into an alternate Britain of the 1930s with fascist…[Read more]

]]> 3b0c6139524df886bbaf441ad1bc923e jphamlore replied to the topic Hell Bent in the forum The Twelfth Doctor http://www.thedoctorwhoforum.com/forums/topic/hell-bent/page/12/#post-49368 Sun, 13 Dec 2015 07:30:59 +0000 @ichabod: I do believe the Doctor obtained some sort of closure and at least for a moment he recognized that Clara was the waitress.  He had to obtain closure because for all he knew, if he did otherwise he could be blundering and cost Clara her existence.  Compare this to Amy in the Moffat-written The Big Bang having to stand up during her w…[Read more]

]]> 34352d200832df68466f9bd825530775 jphamlore replied to the topic Hell Bent in the forum The Twelfth Doctor http://www.thedoctorwhoforum.com/forums/topic/hell-bent/page/12/#post-49363 Sun, 13 Dec 2015 06:16:09 +0000 Once upon a time there was an astonishing, and too short-lived, British television spy drama The Sandbaggers, one that inverted all the spy drama tropes of the day by featuring far more conversation and office politics than gunplay or anything resembling action.  In this show the main character Burnside had grown somewhat fond of his second-level…[Read more]

]]> 523df13a285e3958c42f78fbaed74421 jphamlore replied to the topic Hell Bent in the forum The Twelfth Doctor http://www.thedoctorwhoforum.com/forums/topic/hell-bent/page/11/#post-49331 Sat, 12 Dec 2015 15:56:19 +0000 @soundworld: I suggest things such as Tardis’ mysteriously being left unguarded are not simply from incompetence.  Just as for Davies Dalek Caan was shown to be manipulating the timestream for his own purposes, I think for Moffat the Time Lords have their own rogue to worry about who is not the Doctor.

The Doctor: When Time Lords die, their minds…

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]]> b8027cf775609eb49c115d72930cc075 jphamlore replied to the topic Hell Bent in the forum The Twelfth Doctor http://www.thedoctorwhoforum.com/forums/topic/hell-bent/page/11/#post-49315 Sat, 12 Dec 2015 06:43:41 +0000 I speculate the talk of the hybrid could have died with the events of Hell Bent, but tragically, now Rassilon, due to having lost his power due to an obsession with the hybrid prophecy, will actually feel compelled to create a murderous hybrid just to show he was right.

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]]> b3c7c84bf74e76bd3686c37ee20c25b4 jphamlore replied to the topic Hell Bent in the forum The Twelfth Doctor http://www.thedoctorwhoforum.com/forums/topic/hell-bent/page/10/#post-49257 Fri, 11 Dec 2015 07:50:50 +0000 @tardigrade: I think it is possible that at certain times the Doctor knows more about the hybrid and at certain times he doesn’t, because

The Doctor(O.C.): I don’t know.

Ashildr: Sometimes you do. It’s always the way with things we’d rather forget. You remember now, though, don’t you? Tell me, Doctor, who is…the Hybrid? Who threatens all of…

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]]> 2dd5640cf65424f2255a86b67a23e9d2 jphamlore replied to the topic Hell Bent in the forum The Twelfth Doctor http://www.thedoctorwhoforum.com/forums/topic/hell-bent/page/10/#post-49253 Fri, 11 Dec 2015 02:59:25 +0000 Is it possible that Moffat has throughout the season been portraying the Doctor as a victim of PTSD since he was a student held captive in the Cloister by the Sliders for up to 4 days?

Look at this checklist of symptoms for PTSD:

http://www.mayoclinic.org/diseases-conditions/post-traumatic-stress-disorder/basics/symptoms/con-20022540

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]]> bcf40c7fd156986b20259a382c6ee97d jphamlore replied to the topic Hell Bent in the forum The Twelfth Doctor http://www.thedoctorwhoforum.com/forums/topic/hell-bent/page/9/#post-49204 Thu, 10 Dec 2015 07:57:41 +0000 @ichabod: Another thing that I just remembered, what I had been arguing earlier this season, is that, because of the Doctor’s hatred of war, if you put on a soldier’s uniform, with the possible exception of someone who is a Gallifreyan foot soldier, the Doctor is almost going to go out of his way to make sure you die for your country for your…[Read more]

]]> 191d06b80ce681dcd61055b587ab2d48 jphamlore replied to the topic Hell Bent in the forum The Twelfth Doctor http://www.thedoctorwhoforum.com/forums/topic/hell-bent/page/9/#post-49202 Thu, 10 Dec 2015 06:57:32 +0000 @ichabod: It is an interesting take that the Doctor’s shooting the General to allow Clara to leave the room is a sign of how unhinged the Doctor is, but unfortunately for me perhaps, I am completely comfortable with the idea of an enraged Doctor doing this as a result of having seen the Fourth Doctor serial The Invasion of Time.  There the Doctor…[Read more]

]]> db02665eb72a7e788aee41f19dade92c jphamlore replied to the topic Hell Bent in the forum The Twelfth Doctor http://www.thedoctorwhoforum.com/forums/topic/hell-bent/page/8/#post-49119 Wed, 09 Dec 2015 02:50:29 +0000 @morpho: In retrospect didn’t the confession dial look a bit hacked open in The Sorceror’s Apprentice when Missy handed it tauntingly to Clara?

http://vignette1.wikia.nocookie.net/tardis/images/b/bd/Confession_Dial_The_Magician%27s_Apprentice.jpg/revision/latest?cb=20150929175948

]]> a5d7d78498a298d4023b55b40efaf9b8 jphamlore replied to the topic Hell Bent in the forum The Twelfth Doctor http://www.thedoctorwhoforum.com/forums/topic/hell-bent/page/8/#post-49115 Wed, 09 Dec 2015 02:14:03 +0000 @soundworld: But then we found out in Heaven Sent that one second clock time to the Doctor can be the equivalent of minutes thinking inside his head.  🙂

]]> 8cf8ca806b25c22567f7f92c12d6caf5 jphamlore replied to the topic Hell Bent in the forum The Twelfth Doctor http://www.thedoctorwhoforum.com/forums/topic/hell-bent/page/7/#post-49095 Tue, 08 Dec 2015 20:49:42 +0000 @ichabod: I just thought of this wrinkle:  Why exactly is Ashildr quizzing the Doctor at the very end of time about the nature of the hybrid?

My speculation is that eventually Gallifrey appears to be destroyed, or at least its population mysteriously disappears.  I believe this will occur in some “white event” where the Matrix achieves g…[Read more]

]]> 0cbee4afd0da0bc3050cbbdaf163e213 jphamlore replied to the topic Hell Bent in the forum The Twelfth Doctor http://www.thedoctorwhoforum.com/forums/topic/hell-bent/page/7/#post-49093 Tue, 08 Dec 2015 20:37:55 +0000 @bluesqueakpip: Actually I think Clara and Ashildr will be somewhat equals, in part because their scope for interference will be far less than what the Doctor enabled,  but that Ashildr will bring Clara back into line whenever Clara is interfering too much with what happened in history.  But both will recognize there are severe limits to what t…[Read more]

]]> 01d867673d0cd274cd4a6e24cf18f89f jphamlore replied to the topic Hell Bent in the forum The Twelfth Doctor http://www.thedoctorwhoforum.com/forums/topic/hell-bent/page/7/#post-49090 Tue, 08 Dec 2015 20:14:44 +0000 @bluesqueakpip: The point I am trying to make is the unique nature of the Doctor, his knowledge, his abilities, his cunning, made him somewhat of a demigod to Clara, and she began to assume he could conjure up a plan to solve anything at the last minute.  This in turn egged her on to ask anything and eventually to just assume the Doctor would…[Read more]

]]> 4446cd95206a9ba269f5e6255fa35fe4 jphamlore replied to the topic Hell Bent in the forum The Twelfth Doctor http://www.thedoctorwhoforum.com/forums/topic/hell-bent/page/7/#post-49083 Tue, 08 Dec 2015 19:20:57 +0000 @mudlark: I think as far as ideas this season is very tightly written.  In Under the Lake and Before the Flood we have already seen an ability to program sentient beings using something equivalent to a BIOS underneath conscious thought.  I imagine the neuro block effect is a program that actively counters explicit recognition of Clara in the D…[Read more]

]]> c968f6030fb2c521d49e27277d3cd102 jphamlore replied to the topic Hell Bent in the forum The Twelfth Doctor http://www.thedoctorwhoforum.com/forums/topic/hell-bent/page/7/#post-49075 Tue, 08 Dec 2015 17:48:28 +0000 @bluesqueakpip: Except the episode has taught Clara there are some things that simply cannot be done, that would endanger time and space itself.

The sequence of events that led to Clara’s death started with her asking the Doctor why couldn’t he do more to save Ashildr’s village.  Ripples that turned into tidal waves.

]]> 4ce0523098dafcc3ed67ca6e4e4386e5 jphamlore replied to the topic Hell Bent in the forum The Twelfth Doctor http://www.thedoctorwhoforum.com/forums/topic/hell-bent/page/7/#post-49073 Tue, 08 Dec 2015 17:37:43 +0000 I think there is no more misunderstood showrunner from fandom of a classic series than Steven Moffat at the moment.  Because I think Moffat is going to gift the next showrunner the freedom to take Doctor Who in any direction by Moffat’s writing the last classic series storyline, given closure just as he gave the story of Clara Oswald closure in Hel…[Read more]

]]> fb37efefad79daa92694564a64d82a67 jphamlore replied to the topic Hell Bent in the forum The Twelfth Doctor http://www.thedoctorwhoforum.com/forums/topic/hell-bent/page/7/#post-49072 Tue, 08 Dec 2015 17:14:52 +0000 It seems to me there is going to be a vital difference in how Clara and Ashildr travel time as opposed to Clara and the Doctor’s traveling time.  Because with her greater knowledge, I believe Ashildr still holds the balance of power as to what can be done if they arrive in a situation where there is some trouble.  The Doctor is looking to see w…[Read more]

]]> fbf9aee747f2e20685fa56ebe1530a76 jphamlore replied to the topic Hell Bent in the forum The Twelfth Doctor http://www.thedoctorwhoforum.com/forums/topic/hell-bent/page/5/#post-48967 Mon, 07 Dec 2015 11:59:01 +0000 @arbutus: The Doctor couldn’t help being irresponsible when it comes to Clara because she was specifically designed by Miss / The Master to be his earworm obsession.

Ashildr: Missy. The Master. The lover of chaos. Who wants you to love it, too. She’s quite the matchmaker.

]]> d4bde8fe731598f8c8324a6b7f1db66b jphamlore replied to the topic Hell Bent in the forum The Twelfth Doctor http://www.thedoctorwhoforum.com/forums/topic/hell-bent/page/5/#post-48964 Mon, 07 Dec 2015 11:51:16 +0000 @geoffers: This would have been the end of the hybrid story except I speculate, by the laws of this type of storytelling, that Rassilon is going to try his best to create the horror he was supposedly trying to prevent.  So Rassilon is going to conduct unspeakable experiments trying to combine species for his army.

]]> 52c36bc437c7594382c75017c2401a44 jphamlore replied to the topic Hell Bent in the forum The Twelfth Doctor http://www.thedoctorwhoforum.com/forums/topic/hell-bent/page/4/#post-48912 Mon, 07 Dec 2015 03:01:06 +0000 @bluesqueakpip: I don’t agree that Clara’s death was due to “bad luck.”  I think what is being portrayed is that the Doctor and Clara are in a “can’t live with ’em, can’t live without ’em” relationship, which is why it had to be broken by one of them forgetting about the other.

At some fundamental level, Clara and the Doctor simply can’t…[Read more]

]]> bc73b57b416b81bf9f18f5d36f2dda17 jphamlore replied to the topic Hell Bent in the forum The Twelfth Doctor http://www.thedoctorwhoforum.com/forums/topic/hell-bent/page/4/#post-48889 Mon, 07 Dec 2015 01:09:17 +0000 I’m going to guess Ashildr and Clara’s Tardis is going to start exhibiting signs of taking them where they need to go versus where they want to go.

Because I think both their Tardis and the Doctor’s Tardis were programmed by the Matrix while they were in for repair.  I think the Doctor is more directly an agent of the Matrix after his encounter…[Read more]

]]> 7cecccb8ee42709871b2345068259980 jphamlore replied to the topic Hell Bent in the forum The Twelfth Doctor http://www.thedoctorwhoforum.com/forums/topic/hell-bent/page/3/#post-48858 Sun, 06 Dec 2015 19:33:07 +0000 @arbutus: Au contraire, we may have found out something astounding about why the Doctor no longer uses his original name on Gallifrey.

What if he was the student who escaped the Cloisters and was so traumatized by whatever happened to him that he afterwards refused to use his given name, but instead used other ones to describe himself?

The…

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]]> fd6f3c6e68ae0d58ee3e3dfced84377a jphamlore replied to the topic Hell Bent in the forum The Twelfth Doctor http://www.thedoctorwhoforum.com/forums/topic/hell-bent/page/3/#post-48834 Sun, 06 Dec 2015 17:40:21 +0000 @puroandson: Like I said, I thought Moffat way exceeded my expectations which is why he is the one running the show. 🙂

I really think the horror of what Rassilon is about to unleash has only begun.  He is very old so he will regenerate to a new face, probably much more younger, energetic, maybe more obviously cruel.  Missy and the Doctor m…[Read more]

]]> 2f8b7fa605b666806a41beaba3f441b5 jphamlore replied to the topic Hell Bent in the forum The Twelfth Doctor http://www.thedoctorwhoforum.com/forums/topic/hell-bent/page/2/#post-48807 Sun, 06 Dec 2015 11:48:10 +0000 Oh and I really do think the Doctor has unleashed his greatest and most deadly enemy in Rassilon, especially when Rassilon regenerates into a much younger and more energetic form.  If the Doctor thinks he has no limits, what about the tricks known by one of the co-founders of the Time Lords himself.

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]]> 9f2f8c0f5f9bbffa8d972428513d6385 jphamlore replied to the topic Hell Bent in the forum The Twelfth Doctor http://www.thedoctorwhoforum.com/forums/topic/hell-bent/page/2/#post-48806 Sun, 06 Dec 2015 11:40:16 +0000 I read tons of spoilers and still Moffat exceeded all my expectations.  Well done!

There was no choice but for the memory of Clara to be erased from the Doctor, because as Missy plainly said, and I have speculated,  in Death in Heaven, Clara was created to be an earworm for the Doctor, to obsess him.

And just like I speculated the hybrid was t…[Read more]

]]> c127167a444225270c88f32f11014e99 jphamlore replied to the topic Spoilers (2) in the forum General http://www.thedoctorwhoforum.com/forums/topic/spoilers-2/page/19/#post-48643 Fri, 04 Dec 2015 21:19:23 +0000 @tardigrade: The Doctor seemed to know something about quantum shades, and quantum shades seem to want to capture souls for some person.  Also, quantum shades are said to be able to pursue a victim anywhere in space and time.  I wonder if a quantum shade can cross dimensions.

I therefore hypothesize if some version of the Clara who was killed m…[Read more]

]]> 5299eaa4a158a37eca61422f1b1b6472 jphamlore replied to the topic Heaven Sent in the forum The Twelfth Doctor http://www.thedoctorwhoforum.com/forums/topic/heaven-sent/page/9/#post-48614 Fri, 04 Dec 2015 04:38:12 +0000 @puroandson: Thanks for sharing your story, it was very moving and relevant to Heaven Sent.  And thanks for correcting me about using “early societies” versus “primitive.” 🙂

As for the Doctor’s initiation at age 8, as I have noted, his description of it in The Sound of Drums makes it clear that he was motivated by being scared not boredom to…[Read more]

]]> bc029097e7cae2d17061cf1a539bbc65 jphamlore replied to the topic Spoilers (2) in the forum General http://www.thedoctorwhoforum.com/forums/topic/spoilers-2/page/19/#post-48611 Fri, 04 Dec 2015 02:05:52 +0000 I could never figure out why the Time Lords would want Ashildr or how she would get to Gallifrey considering what an arduous journey it took for the Doctor to return home.  Until now.

What if Ashildr’s physical body could somehow be replicated by the Time Lords into many more immortal self-repairing human bodies.  What if these bodies were s…[Read more]

]]> 3b2092a166a7feca27b2d144437b6c01 jphamlore replied to the topic Heaven Sent in the forum The Twelfth Doctor http://www.thedoctorwhoforum.com/forums/topic/heaven-sent/page/9/#post-48604 Fri, 04 Dec 2015 01:22:10 +0000 Perhaps the nature of what is programmed in the confession dial as the Doctor’s worst fears tells us why he left Gallifrey and what he is really afraid of.

The Doctor may as well be speaking of the Veil when he has his monologue at the beginning describing how something shadows one through life, ending one’s life when one stays in one spot too…[Read more]

]]> f3bd3f48604f0b0850406735086110e4 jphamlore replied to the topic Heaven Sent in the forum The Twelfth Doctor http://www.thedoctorwhoforum.com/forums/topic/heaven-sent/page/8/#post-48581 Thu, 03 Dec 2015 16:15:11 +0000 @puroandson:  Thanks for sharing such a moving and relevant personal story.

Perhaps we have this all wrong about the confession dial meant to be a torture chamber.  As Moffat himself wrote in Listen:

CLARA: I know you’re afraid, but being afraid is all right. Because didn’t anybody ever tell you? Fear is a superpower. Fear can make you faster a…

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]]> 80d0dc73854531dd5df4fb6fc2ba8ead jphamlore replied to the topic Heaven Sent in the forum The Twelfth Doctor http://www.thedoctorwhoforum.com/forums/topic/heaven-sent/page/8/#post-48562 Thu, 03 Dec 2015 06:46:49 +0000 Ironically in the context of the new series, didn’t the Doctor already imply the reason he left Gallifrey was because he was scared? Here is one scenario he hinted at, from The Sound of Drums:

DOCTOR: Children of Gallifrey, taken from their families age of eight to enter the Academy. And some say that’s when it all began. When he was a child.…

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]]> a8488ae9ce9d540aad2566da0f1efe0c jphamlore replied to the topic Heaven Sent in the forum The Twelfth Doctor http://www.thedoctorwhoforum.com/forums/topic/heaven-sent/page/8/#post-48552 Thu, 03 Dec 2015 03:00:04 +0000 So if it is acceptable for theorizing for the Doctor to use “me” to refer to “Me” and thus Ashildr as a possible candidate for the hybrid, would it be equally acceptable to say when the hybrid is supposed to “conquer Gallifrey and stand in its ruins,” perhaps we misheard the Doctor and it should be “its runes.” As in Viking runes, Ashildr being a…[Read more]

]]> dfa9742e5cc83282f39eb917280534a3 jphamlore replied to the topic Heaven Sent in the forum The Twelfth Doctor http://www.thedoctorwhoforum.com/forums/topic/heaven-sent/page/8/#post-48527 Wed, 02 Dec 2015 16:52:06 +0000 As I have remarked on another forum, there is already a major science fiction franchise whose premise is that leadership should be determined by a genetic lottery, Star Wars.  I like the current situation where the Doctor and Missy are the only Time Lords left in this universe.  I am really hoping the hybrid is not by DNA but by spirit, mind, s…[Read more]

]]> 55d1dc486d3e44d2d7a7a1f8c686aeb2 jphamlore replied to the topic Heaven Sent in the forum The Twelfth Doctor http://www.thedoctorwhoforum.com/forums/topic/heaven-sent/page/7/#post-48515 Wed, 02 Dec 2015 11:05:53 +0000 To me it is all about the music. That also explains to me why some would dislike *Heaven Sent* at a very visceral level.

I also can’t get enough of Andrei Tarkovsky’s Solaris because of its use of Bach’s “Ich ruf zu dir, Herr Jesu Christ”, BWV 639. On the other hand I know someone who can’t stand either Heaven Sent or Solaris, especially those…[Read more]

]]> 5752c6bf35d23ac221f752eea19272a9 jphamlore replied to the topic Heaven Sent in the forum The Twelfth Doctor http://www.thedoctorwhoforum.com/forums/topic/heaven-sent/page/7/#post-48513 Wed, 02 Dec 2015 10:46:34 +0000 But over time the ability to transport into the confession dial was more a forgotten feature. Any ordinary Time Lord could record his confession and keep its secrets safe from Gallifrey. It is only using the backdoor to enter the confession dial, forcing one to give the secrets to avoid being killed, that allows Gallifrey to monitor the answers.

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