@Bluesqueakpip

The Moment’s punishment is still in operation: the Doctor still has to live.

Yes, and not only that, but eventually he has to face his people, the Lords of Time, for whom time stream one (Gallifrey destroyed) and time stream two (Gallifrey saved in a bubble universe) will be equally real. How will they judge him, murderer of the c…[Read more]

@Pedant Lol 🙂

@ScaryB Yes I also love the lesbian lizards. And speaking of which – I hope we get another Jenny and Vastra adventure this season. I love those two actresses – they have mischievous chemistry.

Woo and hoo to the solar storms. It’s also a lunar eclipse tomorrow morning.

I think @Phaseshift is right – because this season has been…[Read more]

@ScaryB – awwww the Soup Dragon!

@pedant et al on the subject of the egg – behold the whip-tailed lizard (a cousin methinks of Madame Vastra) http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p006v48r

@Whisht You’re right I would like that 🙂

Annoyingly, the Egyptology seems to have disappeared.

Missy as Anubis would be awesome.

@ScaryB <waves> Yes I’m not bothered by the accuracy of moon gravitational science etc. either.

@Whisht So there are three candidates for Missy’s “Heaven”

1. The Time Lord Matrix

2. The Library (in which River is entombed)

3. The Papal Mainframe

I think Moffat, who is a bit of a sarcastic bugger, is messing with those of his critics who…[Read more]

@JimtheFish  Hello fellow fish-friend – I like your idea that Clara is a future version of Missy

Moff does like his mystery female antagonists – Mme Kovarian and now Missy.

I’m still banking on Clara being a relative of the Doctor’s (grand-daughter as top fave).

<throws some glitter just for @ScaryB>

@Phaseshift I like your thoughts on the Twelfth Doctor as a “dead Time Lord walking”. I’m still hoping the Valeyard comes into this somewhere along the way.

There’s no doubt that the Doctor behaved abominably in this episode. I’m not sure this is just about his legacy. We’ve already gone there – remember River’s speech on the top of the pyramid…[Read more]

Well someone is a Bowie fan – this was a grouchy Ziggy Stardust (the doc in a spiffy spotty shirt) meets the spiders from Mars  ok the moon.  It also contained a bit of a reference to John Carpenter’s The Thing (1982) and also to the recent hit Gravity (2013) methinks.

This story was a fun jab at the sci-fi disaster blockbuster, wherein scie…[Read more]

@Phaseshift 🙂 Yes, that all, re the medical profession, resonates only too strongly, unfortunately.

Santa Muerte is very interesting – news item here from National Geographic  http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2013/13/130512-vatican-santa-muerte-mexico-cult-catholic-church-cultures-world/

And much more in depth info from Lucky Mojo ht…[Read more]

Waves at @ScaryB  x

There’s a lot of bait and switch going on. The narrative wants to sow some suspicion concerning all the characters – did the Doctor kill the automaton? Is he a good man? Is Clara two-faced (all the mirror images)? Is Danny not who he seems? Classic detective fiction device to keep us all guessing before Professor Plum in the…[Read more]

Waves at @Phaseshift :-}

Thank you for your offer – it wouldn’t go entirely amiss and is very much appreciated x

I actually went to medical school when I was a young thing and managed a year and a half before leaving because the word “empathy” had not entered the classroom. It seems it is still not a valued skill, as it’s pot luck whether your…[Read more]

Thanks to @Whisht @Arbutus and @ScaryB for the good health wishes – I really need them – so very much appreciated x

@Phaseshift How right you are x I love Halloween / Sahmain and think it’s fascinating that the dead are commemorated in so many cultures at this time of year. In Haiti the Days of the Dead are Nov 1 and 2 and the people take…[Read more]

Ha ha @Blenkinsopthebrave – I agree the redemptive power of love is absolutely going to be in the mix 🙂

@PhileasF I liked your distaste for/ discussion of the way the Doctor and Danny speak to Clara. I agree that Moff focuses on commenting on the physicality of women in a way he does not focus on when it comes to men.

Frankly, in other parts…[Read more]

@Phaseshift Thankyou x  The squeaky helium voice made me smile – but yes, in reality ENT stuff is awful.

@Pedant The Doctor tried to keep out of the Time War but he ended up on the front line fighting the Nightmare Child, the Horde of Travesties and the Skaro Degradation (End of Time). This season is drawing a parallel between reluctant fighter…[Read more]

Oh – and the irony at the heart of this episode is, of course, that the Doctor fails to recognise that Clara actually has chosen someone like him – not superficially a la bow-tie, but a scientist (mathematician) and fighter who has renounced war…

Hi @Phaseshift – hee hee – was it “otter” or “Auton”? A rewatch is required.

I thought, if “otter”, that this might be when the Doc and River met @JimtheFish !

Thanks for asking – I’m still pretty sick and a bit miserable. But Who always cheers me up.

I’m still liking the snippy fighty Clara/ Doc dynamic. They give good comedy together.

The Doctor also took on the persona/ role of “the caretaker” in the 2011 Christmas special “The Doctor, the Widow and the Wardrobe” and that what he was doing to himself emotionally at that point was feeling alone, until he was invited in for Christmas with Amy and Rory.

Twelve’s obvious affront at having to share Clara with someone who isn’t j…[Read more]

Hi All,

A fun comedic outing for “the caretaker” in all his cantankerous and obstreperous glory.

And yay – a mention for River. Apparently the Doctor hung out with a bunch of otters after a “big fight” with her. Was that his cute way of saying “sorry” given that otters live in rivers? Awwww….

I’d just love to see Capaldi and Kingston t…[Read more]

@PhileasF I  like your theory. But not sure our-time Doctor knows that people aren’t dying – only his upstream self.

And if that’s what’s happening then I predict a fall – someone is going to really die for really real and break his hearts down the line.

“Listen” revealed that Clara and Mr. Pink have kids and that she also has a deep fam…[Read more]

@Pedant I think the two time streams or not has been argued before on these boards – so, in two times streams spirit 🙂  you can keep your always-already and I’ll keep my second-time-around saved Gallifrey.

But I like the blue pill/ red pill as an addition and if you go back and watch the episode for lighting, you will see that it switches  be…[Read more]