I thought it turned into a bit of a game for him — how far would things have to go for her to catch on?  Some fans a…[Read more]

• The Doctor went back in time and arranged for the construction of the Singing Towers of Darillium himself.
  • What a delightful thought!  Making good use of his Heaven Sent

I think the story we saw is much more interesting: the a courageous everyman who was rewarded for trying to find survivors in a dangerous crash…[Read more]

What a delightful thought!  Making good use of his Heaven Sent experience in breaking down the unwanted rock around and between the towers, only with tools this time . . . tuning them, now, that would take real genius!

ideas o…[Read more]

Ah — okay, yes, if she pops out of time at a point shortly after her escape with CapDoc, the TLs wouldn’t know that she’d been gallivanting about time and space with…[Read more]

Okay, that answers my major question: this is CapDoc *post-Clara*, having traveled back in time to a Christmas season between Angels Take Manhattan and Silence in the Library.  This is the echo we need…[Read more]

Good point — and whether he’s telling us that or not, it certainly is my intention to do just that!  Though another 24 years might be a t…[Read more]

I think it’s “OR-go-rain”.  She had a linguist friend generate a language for that book, I think (or maybe it was for another one later on . . .).  I can ask about the pronunciation, if you like, via e-mail.…[Read more]

A thought about the General.   I’m feeling  that regenerations never fundamentally

changes the people that are having the regeneration and they don’t always go

younger.  The Doctor certainly hasn’t.  I don’t think you an predict that.  However,

as with Missy I think there are some gender quirks and also  some new preferen…[Read more]

Not that Doctor Who can get Cumberbatch…

Cumberbatch as Rassilon- now there’s a great prospect- the role could certainly do with that sort of boost when it returns. But if he is available (in this fantasy world), then why not as the Doctor? Much as I like Capaldi in the role, if Cumberbatch was available, regenerate away :-)…

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With you on seeing Capdoc hang around for a very long time !   TomDoc is also a big

favorite of mine.

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@puroandson

“The obsessional bond had to be broken”     is a post I’ve  read here.…[Read more]

Well, he was *trying* to set it up thi…[Read more]

@mudlark

What fuelled his determination to hold out against the interrogation, even to the extent of enduring repeated torment over billions of subjective years, was above all his hatred of and rage against the…

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Thanks for sharing your meanderings on the Graun!  Great post.   I have a question.

If we think Clara got pregnant then when ?  Because after dead would be too weird so when

did that opportunity occur? Also,  I’m one of the folks that is convinced that the Doctor

went for plan B as soon as he realized Clara had no pulse .   He…[Read more]

the Matrix …  It needs an agent to go out there and explore. It needs a Doctor

Interesting idea. The Doctor did tell Clara that the Sliders talked to him when he went into it as Matrix in his youth, though he was referring to himself in the third person when he did so, and spoke as if it was a matter of hearsay.

@Bluesqueakpip

the Ti…

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Logically, Rassilon’s mind should have been uploaded to the Matrix.

Since we know that Rassilon describes himself as the ‘resurrected’, and that people scooped out of time don’t have heartbeats, he was almost certainly uploaded to something; then reconstructed out of it as needed. However, he seems to have an independent post-mortem e…[Read more]

Except, Rassilon and the High Council have been exiled, near the end of time, where there’s ‘only one or two star systems left’.  In these ‘end times’ where is there left to actually exile them to?

There won’t be many races left to raise armies from, either.  I presume (uh-oh!) they’ve been exiled without access t0 time-machines (…[Read more]

I was also thinking about Asylum of the Daleks too.  I remember in some forum

both SM and Capdoc were asked which companion they would bring back and

both of them simultaneously said Clara.  Still totally agree that there will be a build

up going in some new direction.        At the same time will Capdoc  still be feeling

c…[Read more]

if this is their standard of collective decision-making on issues that potentially affect the fate of the universe, this does seem to be another fairly rash one, so maybe it is better they go their separate ways.

Yes.  They don’t even know for certain w…[Read more]

Interesting; it would be no surprise if the Doctor *were* subject to PTSD for a long succession of highly traumatic events, but some core elements seem not to apply (suicidal thoughts and impulses?  Flashbacks?  Uncontrollable ou…[Read more]

Oh, hardly; he didn’t blow up the plane or insist on a military patrol to go to the church.  But he seems to feel that if you…[Read more]

I’m a bit late to the party and don’t think I can add anything new to what all of you have so eloquently expressed.

I was a day late watching, by which time you were up to page 4, time has been very limited so a rewatch late last night – and now you’re on page 7!!

Its great to rewatch bearing in mind all the wonderful comments, theories…[Read more]

Yes, but Clara’s wasn’t the only death in Face the Raven. Her complete faith in the Doctor’s ability to get them out of anything died too. The whole point of the ending is that she’s now making her own decisions; getting yourself killed is a particularly brutal way to discover that you might not always make the right ones.

That’s the…[Read more]

@pedant  All of the times I thought the Doctor knew something, those sideways furrowed-brow glances (leading to the whole “Are the episodes in the right order?” debate) can now be more easily and more realistically interpreted as becoming increasingly concerned: the difference between “bad luck” and “an accident waiting to…[Read more]

Except the episode has taught Clara there are some things that simply cannot be done, that would endanger time and space itself.

Ummm… yes?

I’m really not sure what you’re trying to say here. Apparently Ashildr is going to be so focussed on limits, that Clara will give up?

Or that Clara will have to choose to return to Trap…[Read more]

Frankly, given Clara’s success in getting the Doctor, Bonnie, Ice Warrior Field Marshals and assorted other aliens to think more like Clara, I suspect she’s considerably more likely to Clara-ise Ashildr rather than the other way round.

Ashildr may have lived over several billions of years, but it’s been stated quite firmly that she…[Read more]

@Morpho
It sounds as if, having agreed to treat the Eighth Doctor’s audio adventures as canon, Moffat’s going full tilt for the audio canon explanation of the Sisterhood – which is that the Sisterhood aren’t just neighbours of Gallifrey, they’re exiled Gallifreyans. Rassillon didn’t like their religion, so they had to do a…[Read more]

And this:  When we see Face The Raven in hindsight, as the ‘regeneration’ story of Clara into Doc…[Read more]

The General’s regeneration seemed pretty toned down. We may have come in at the tail end, but there were no signs of damage. New regeneration style, or perhaps on Gallifrey these things can be tempered somewhat?

Regenerations might go more smoothly on Gallifrey- the environment does appear to have some impact? It does seem though that t…[Read more]

I therefore hypothesize if some version of the Clara who was killed makes it to Gallifrey, it would be by way of the quantum shade that killed her.

Interesting, since that would imply that the Doctor may suspect she’s gone there and been given a reason to return to Gallifrey. He does say “You’d still be gone”, not “dead” when…[Read more]

I wonder if a quantum shade can cross dimensions.

Quantum entanglement?

Sorry if bits of  this is preaching in large parts to the choir ande been aired on this sites lots of times before, but anyway….It seems to me that in BG Who, there was a strong emphasis on tight stories. In AG Who, there is far less concern for tight stories and much more emphasis on the dramatic flourish or the `thing’ (I wish I’d come…[Read more]

I made four attempts to watch Andriej Tarkowski’s Solaris and I failed every time. I can’t agree with his vision of the future.

Excellent point — he’s been wrong before, after all.

@jphamlore  Not only that but for just this one episode, that the Doctor’s pocke…[Read more]

@jphamlore like the ideas about the dial

I wondered the same thing since he put them on after stepping on  Galifrey. Obviously they don’t work to break down crystal walls.

What a lovely, generous idea . . .

@swordwhale  Love the conversations with Clara, how she is always back turned, sort of a s…[Read more]

What if Ashildr/Me had contacted the Time Lords (via Missy?) and is the one driving all of this

Oh yes! I can see how that would work very well, though I suspect that it would be Missy’s idea, with her as the driving force and Ashildr/Me acting at her instigation.

The anachronisms in The Woman Who Lived suggested that by the…[Read more]

@ichabod

He’s accepting what he feels is just punishment for Clara’s death; and it’s hardly enough, because he needs absolute *masses* of expiation if he’s to move beyond the enor…

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Well, you’d think so, wouldn’t you?  This is going to be *very* interesting.  It’s also going to be the plot-heavy complement to Heaven Sent, since there are lots of loose ends to be tied up (of course they won’…[Read more]

Well in my humble opinion this was something that all happened inside his mind

and if that is the case the Doctor is still roughly the same age.   The crystal wall at the

end of the puzzle wasn’t effected by the rest of his journey getting to it probably

because   whoever it was that put this scheme together probably t…[Read more]

I also like how the Doctor communicated with Clara to find a resolution and

how this episode gave a new meaning to ‘run you clever boy and remember me’.