@Phaseshift and @Kharis

Ooh here we go – I love a good tarot card theory.

Yes, I remember your illustrated post about Missy as Death back when now @Phaseshift , when she was teleporting people to her own “afterlife” last season, as part of her cyber-army plot.

You’re right @Kharis – Clara as the Hanged (Wo)Man card was super obvious! Hung in…[Read more]

@Kharis Oh I love the idea that Moff is taking us on a Major Arcana journey this season – if so then we’ve had the Magician (also the Doctor) the High Priestess (“the witch” aka Missy) and the Emperor (Davros) which means we should be heading for the Hierophant, the Lovers and the Chariot next.

Alas I doubt Moff is being that systematic about it…[Read more]

@Kharis What tarot correlation? (and yay for hippy upbringings!)

Well having watched the two-parter, the fullness of the story reveals a couple of things more clearly.

I enjoyed the time-loop paradox too @Mudlark. The Doctor must always have saved Davros, because Davros lives, and because he tells the Doctor (before we see him go back and save the boy) that he has been unable to eliminate the design flaws of…[Read more]

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@Bluesqueakpip  A good thing 🙂 I’d be disappointed if Clara’s discovery of the Doctor’s cot in the TARDIS way back when was just a throw-a-way gimmick, rather than a narrative thread. But Clara was very much associated with being a Pond earlier on (the blowing in on a leaf, the knowing the magic word “Pond”, River’s interesting psychic co…[Read more]

Ha ha – the advert pasted into @DanMartin ‘s recap over on The Grauniad is “Boss – for men”. Capaldi’s Doctor would be so wonderfully, witheringly rude about it. “Smells like what? Boss? The boss of Who, exactly?” No doubt some dalekian tracker algorithm placed it there.

I had Paul Simon’s “Still Crazy After All These Years” playing in my head as Davros and the Doctor got the giggles together (really loved that part). Then Davro’s line “Am I a good man?” held up a mirror, re the Doctor’s own line to Clara last series and the chill was back.

If Who ever does a musical episode (oh go on, please) Davros and the Do…[Read more]

The freaky time echo of Oswin dalek in Clara dalek was really nice. The Doctor must come across that sort of disconcerting time-wrinkle all the time, and it was fun for us to be able to experience one too.

Missy’s daughter and the Doctor’s gift on the occasion of… was definitely an intriguing tidbit @Ardaraith ! The complexity of their long…[Read more]

Oh dear, it’s rather late for a snifter of the hard stuff but much needed – I’ve been on Twitter reading too many #baeofpigs #piggate jokes. Sometimes life on earth is more surreal than the darkest corners of the universe 🙂

The Doctor’s “frenemy” relationship with the Master/ Missy is a tough one for Clara (and us, quite recently, thanks to the deaths of Osgood and Danny).

The Doctor wonders whether he’s a “good man”. Thanks to Missy, no wonder Clara isn’t quite sure. His relationship with the Master/ Missy means a certain level of toleration for the many deaths…[Read more]

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@jphamlore

Yes, Skaro was inhabited by two peoples, the Thals and the Kaleds. They were involved in a horrific war, and Davros was the chief scientists to the Kaleds. He invented the daleks (a re-working of the Kaled name) to give the Kaleds the advantage (see Genesis of the Daleks). So, if we are back on Skaro, it would be nice to find out what…[Read more]

@Bluesqueakpip

Yes – and given the news about the Christmas episode <spoiler klaxon and happy dance> I have no doubt Clara’s parentage will be revisited 🙂

@Bluesqueakpip Heh – love it. Those sneaky Time Lords – if you can’t win the Time War against the Daleks by means of front-line all out fighting, Nightmare Child and all, then tamper with their time-line in order to add a teensy pinch of empathy, and win the war by love-bombing them instead!

@thekrynoidman Lol – oops!

Also interesting that the Doctor seems content to leave Clara in Missy’s hands – as if he knows she won’t hurt her… hmmn…

Just also realised that Missy previously sings “Hey, Missy you’re so fine, you’re so fine you blow my mind” (Toni Basil’s punk-pop 1980s hit) in Death in Heaven, just before she callously kills Osgood 🙁 Moffat you monster…

@Bluesqueakpip I didn’t notice, but have no doubt that was indeed the escape mechanism…

Just realised that boy-Davros got his inspiration for the Dalek eye-stalk from the hand-mine design (an eye in a limb) – nice touch!

@DoctorDoctorWho  Clearly, the TARDIS wasn’t actually destroyed… She’s always been dalek fire-proof historically, so I’ve no doubt she popped off just before the explosion on her own initiative to dust off a new sonic for the Doc and get back in the game.