@pedant – thanks!

@juniperfish – fantastic – a list!! I think I maight suggest a couple of alternatives (as might jpamplore methinks!)

@bendubz – the psychic worm things which acted as lights were… well worms (thus dragon-y)

@jphamlore – I’m liking your current bonkerising (apologies if you don’t consider it as bonkers!). So, The Doctor went…[Read more]

A few thoughts –  loved everyone’s ideas a lot and the tarot match ups are very interesting.

@Juniperfish

Totally agree about Jack.  He owned that part and  he made it special for me too

@Nerys                                   @jphamlore                                    @Ichabod

I think that ignorant is when you are not completely informed b…[Read more]

@phamlore  It is explicitly said the quantum shade seeks souls. And we know something of what Moffat thinks of souls in the Doctor Who universe from the episode he wrote The Bells of Saint John, an episode that features the character Clara Oswald. In particular, souls can be captured and imprisoned.

True; nobody said the Quantum Shade *eats*…[Read more]

@juniperfish Awesome tarot summary!

@drben I have wondered, since the Doctor knew it was a trap, if the key was actually to the Tardis.  Darling Rigsby had time to paint his tribute…guess the plotters haven’t found the box….or they have the wrong key.

A little love for Puro everyone, she is back in the hospital and needs our warm thoughts.  Remember, she was in pain when she wrote that post.  Puro loves the show and this Forum and I’m sure it’s eating at her to be part of any disruption or hurt here.  I think she is just taking a break here because of her illness and stress.  I’m sure she wil…[Read more]

@Frobisher @starla – yep!

;¬)

Seriously though, Frobisher I agree completely!

@Juniperfish – why the Lovers? Though Clara and Danny spring to mind, that could be a bit sentimental. Quickly flicking through the cards, might we get Judgement and The Star at the end?
I think the Star is meant to represent hope (light after darkness).

Not…[Read more]

@juniperfish lol great minds I had just started thinking who else bar the timelord and Missy “they” could be and the shadow proclamation and the fact that there were judoon marked as police officers on the trap street came to mind.

@Ichabod

I suspect the scene was cut because it implies too strongly that Clara genuinely died in that alleyway.

I think that while Sarah Dollard probably didn’t intend the reading, a script suggesting that a female companion is more fragile (more breakable) than a male Doctor and therefore should not have tried to be Doctor-like has…[Read more]

Thanks @juniperfish – feeling very welcomed and enjoying hearing the ideas.

SPOILER, SPOILER, SPOILER...

@Juniperfish

How far is the Doctor responsible for Ashildr? I think – very – especially as she was a child when he gave her the immortality chip.

I agree, and I pretty sure that he is very much conscious of that fact.

As Lady Me in the 17th century she told him that she was going to protect the universe from him, or words to that effect – a ret…[Read more]

Totally agree with @Juniperfish and @Nerys. Ashildr has arrogance-squared (that of teenagers who think they have all the answers AND of the immortal). That is a fascinating character with an inbuilt balloon for a Doctor to prick, or let down gently.

I made the error of going over the kasterbouros.com, where the three or four posters they have…[Read more]

Theories
@juniperfish
Speaking of roses, Clara in series 7 is heavily connected with the imagery of roses. There is always red in her apparel; Oswin has a rose on her ear; Victorian Clara work at the rose and crown.  I always think that Rose/ Bad Wolf has arrange the meeting of Clara and the Doctor.  I think there are still something mysterious a…[Read more]

I personally loved the episode and one thing that has been somewhat overlooked was Coleman’s superb acting throughout the episode. For instance when she was dying I felt like she was real and she was leaving us. This is one of the reasons why I personally don’t want her to return because it would feel too cheesy and unreal but her dying like this…[Read more]

@Craig and @Juniperfish

Yes, that’s extremely Sleeping Beauty, isn’t it? The roses growing up outside the TARDIS.

And Anah turned out to be Very Not Dead, didn’t she? Just sleeping. Oh, look, there’s a handy stasis thingy just ready and waiting.

Or Clara could regenerate… 😈

@Juniperfish Juniperfish. Didn’t we do this about two years ago? 🙂

Maybe this will help…

@hudsey

Oooh. I’ll nip over in a second and have a look.

@juniperfish

I’m guessing Time Lords. I think a lot of us thought that Ashildr had gained knowledge of the Time Lords from Missy. What if Missy is acting as an agent of the Time Lords?

Looking at CapDoc in this, I can’t help but remember the furious eyebrows in Day of the Doctor.

@Juniperfish

I hope this is the real death for her, because I loved it

It could well be, but as I said over at T’other place, this really does feel to me like last week’s episode was incredibly important. Because, again, the characters are being told a story.

Or rather, the Doctor was just told a story; one designed to make him be at his…[Read more]

@juniperfish Thank you for the tipple (large gin and tonic tonight, in case you were wondering) 🙂

I think we all have reservations about the French state at the moment. They have done some terrible things recently. But so has our (UK) state, and those United States. We’ve probably done worse.

I don’t agree with a lot of what is being done in…[Read more]

@juniperfish I understand your reservations. I have them myself. While flag waving can seem nationalistic, I had hoped to show solidarity to all people of France, whatever their beliefs – be they Christian, Muslim, Jewish, Sikh, Hindu, Atheist etc. etc. There was not one religion attacked on Friday night. It was indiscriminate.

I can’t do much to…[Read more]