@bluesqueakpip @juniperfish

Sorry, my schedule is hell at the moment and I completely glossed over your fascinating discussion on the Arthurian references.

Yes, completely bang on with the Battlefield reference @bluesqueakpip, and I always got the impression he’d both been and would be Merlin again. The once and future Wizard.

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@juniperfish

Good calls on the Tarot!

On the deaf character, while it is early days into the series, I’ve noticed a couple of lines that play into synesthesia, that blurring of the senses. Missy had that line about artificial gravity ‘tasting coppery’. The skewed senses of the Daleks being transmuted into weaponry.

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@Juniperfish

If they are having a ‘Merlin’ arc, a Battlefield reference is absolutely essential. The Doctor is very specifically equated with Merlin in that story, to the extent that he admits to Ace that a future or alternate version of himself may well be Merlin.

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@Juniperfish

And, of course, the Ace of Swords. I didn’t spot that one; the Battlefield references are definitely all over the place.

@Feanor

Yes, ‘projections’ would certainly explain how we could have a Doctor-ghost without the Doctor genuinely dying.

@Juniperfish – what I think they may be harking back to is a purely Whovian reference. Battlefield, where the ‘Lady in the Lake’ was Ace. ‘Merlin’ was quite specifically referenced as the Doctor – this was the Cartmel…[Read more]

Had actually hoped the screwdriver would be back this episode… not a big fan of the glasses.

On the other hand, really stoked for the next episode. I think that the ghosts are some kind of projections created by something from the spaceship.

Also loved the base under siege, love it how they manage to give a new original spin to it again and…[Read more]

@Mudlark agreed, I think it was a metaphor Missy would have gotten as well.

@Juniperfish it seems he will continue to struggle till he finds Gallifrey, remember his reaction when he went to the co-ordinates Missy gave him and nothing was there. The TARDIS console got quite a beating – poor Sexy.

@purofilion yes, back after the summer hols and…[Read more]

@bluesqueakpip @juniperfish @pedant

Interesting news. I got back earlier today and tried to get some sleep this afternoon. A repetitive ‘pinging’ sound interrupted this attempt and I finally discovered the source was this story. It was the sound of a couple of hundred dummies ricocheting off computer monitors as they were spat out by intemperate…[Read more]

@Juniperfish @Bluesqueakpip

I’ve just seen the Guardian article – a replacement for the Sarah Jane Adventures, after a suitable pause following Elizabeth Sladen’s untimely demise.

I’m not so sure about that. I know several writers who trade in the YA market and I would say that they are most definitely not in the same genre as SJA – and it is BB…[Read more]

@Juniperfish

a replacement for the Sarah Jane Adventures,

A lot of people are saying that, but my slightly satirical take would be ‘Doctor Who meets Press Gang’. Putting it under the BBC3 banner aims it firmly at older teenagers, whereas Sarah Jane Adventures was under the CBBC banner – so pre-teens and early teens.

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@juniperfish  I like your conclusion — a bit of good eked out of a massively destructive confrontational node for all our main players . . . even Davros got something, a dash of warm contact with the Doctor, out of it.  And yes, yes, yes, “The Chariot” = the Tardis — the vehicle that takes you where you need to go!

@Kharis  Of course, The Ha…[Read more]

@lisa @juniperfish Watching ‘The Witch’s Familiar’ again I started to wonder about the sisters of Karn.  Like Missy they are unpredictable.  Maybe Missy works for them, maybe she’s the familiar?  Just a random idea while in bed with bronchitis.   (;

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@blenkinsopthebrave   Well, presumably the Doctor didn’t know beforehand what Davros wanted; he was simply reading and second-guessing him as the game played out, and when it comes to the crunch he can reason and calculate at far more than light speed. So he seized on the cues and clues that Davros was giving him, taking each of them a step furt…[Read more]

@mudlark, @juniperfish

On reflection, I think I will go back to my initial observation that he had it all planned out in advance. He knew from the time he was on Karn that Davros was dying. Not a huge leap to assume Davros wanted his regeneration energy. So everything is put in place to assume Missy will come to his aid if he needs it (and she…[Read more]

@Kharis @juniperfish I thought that theory of yours lived on FotD thread? if it is the theory I’m thinking of (which is in no way certain)

@Juniperfish

If she turns out to have Time Lord blood she might regenerate!

Something that I’m increasingly contemplating. If you think about it, had Jenna Coleman decided to leave after Last Christmas, the Christmas episode would have ended with Clara’s death from old age. A death from old age which was deliberately mirroring the Doctor’s death…[Read more]

@juniperfish  I was warned by the emperor that there was indeed spoiler info in it.  I honestly had no idea, and don’t want to accidentally do it again.

The lengthy theory lives on SitL, but in short I think all of this Clara trapped in the wi-fi, trapped in a Dalek three time is a foreshadow of her final destiny about the fragment of herself t…[Read more]

@Juniperfish

The Doctor, the whole time he is riffing with Davros about compassion, knows Davros is trying to get him to give up his regeneration energy.

@mudlark

The Doctor, as so often, had to react on the hoof, relying on his own sharper, or at least less blinkered and rigid intelligence and his reciprocal understanding of the flaws and blind…

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