Just popping in to say I hope everyone really enjoys the finale tonight (or whenever). I believe we’re getting a full hour show as well 😀

This season has gone fast though, can’t believe it’s nearly over already.

@JanetteB

because Moffat is evil and would enjoy tortouring us by keeping us in suspense for two months..

I completely agree with…[Read more]

I have one big complaint, and I mean big, with this series. It is almost over. @Juniperfish I hope there are some tissues handy because, even if Danny does not die and Clara lives on to continue her wayward adventures on the Tardis, I am going to need them. I will bring some Jammy Dodgers. I have a couple of packets in the pantry. Just wishing I…[Read more]

Just wanted to log in and thank @craig for that latest avatar. Epic, my friend. Also to @juniperfish – a true collaborative effort from both cross-dressing genders would be welcome. I’m sure you would make a fine Doctor 4. This is what we want! Many thanks to all those who responded, either yay, or nay. I’m sure a meet-up or two may convince some…[Read more]

@Juniperfish

maybe Clara is the Doctor and Missy’s daughter They’ve both called her “Clara, my Clara” if I’m not mistaken.

If so, then wouldn’t she have two hearts? Surely somebody at the NHS would have picked that up by now.

@Juniperfish – oh I think the Doctor/Master/Missy history is open to a wide range of interpretations, ship away my fishy friend 😉

@Purofilion – re the Doctor’s shrinking hair – have you made a list of where it suddenly changes? 🙂 And could you possibly throw in when he wears the black sparkly jumper and when it’s a shirt please…? And check…[Read more]

No one’s mentioned (or have I missed it?) that these are different cybermen from previous ones. These are Missy’s “cybermen from cyberspace”. They appear to be the consciousness of the (recently?) deceased, without emotions (choices again – delete your own emotions (and become a cyberman)/live (your death) with the pain of…[Read more]

@miapatrick

Different phone call…?  I didn’t pick up on that 🙁  Are you saying that because of the post-it notes? (Will need to rewatch)

One thing that has slipped down our collective awareness – well mine at least, and it’s just occurred to me – Missy’s “Clara, my Clara…” hasn’t been explained yet. (Tho at least there was an explanation a…[Read more]

@spider

Yes – I think it it’s sad that the crew couldn’t possibly get away with something like that these days. I still think that Earthshock managed to deliver genuine “holy crap” moments for its time. I can certainly remember discussing them at school the next day with the few people who I knew were still watching.

@Juniperfish

While I’m…[Read more]

@Juniperfish

Superlative acting by Capaldi as ever – “Do you think I care for you so little that betraying me would make a difference?” being my favourite line.

If the Doctor is not Clara’s Dad or Grandad, he’s certainly acting like a parent.

Whatever she does, he’ll still love her. She can lie to him, steal from him, betray him – and it wi…[Read more]

@scaryB

Is it really bad of me to find that roll-on-floor funny 😆

It’s pretty evil of us to laugh, but what the hell. We like it. And, in the grand tradition of the internetz, that is the important issue.

@juniperfish

Superlative acting by Capaldi as ever – “Do you think I care for you so little that betraying me would make a dif…

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@juniperfish “this was a eco-fable about the majesty of forests; one where the Doctor was a wizard who knew to listen to children rather than medicate them.”

Exactly – this was a children’s fantasy told pretty much entirely from a child’s POV. As such not all of it worked for me (wish fulfilling dodgy science, empty London, reappearing sister,…[Read more]

@Juniperfish

My creepy theory is not that some magical hydrangeas sequestered her @pedant but that she was dead in the woods and the magical tree

There was not a thing in the ep which suggested powers of resurrection. The Little Sparkly Things of Treeness protected.

I feel a little guilty for not liking this episode more after reading all the wonderful comments. I loved the premise and the children but even the drama between Clara and Danny felt underplayed to me. He took the revelation that she had been lying rather too well. I will be disappointed if that is the end of that and by next week is is all tidied…[Read more]

@Juniperfish   I too loved the TARDIS door scene. I have never tired of Capaldi’s brilliance throughout this series. Good question about Missy, what exactly was it that surprised her? Clara choosing to save the Doctor and die herself? Clara choosing Danny over the Doctor? Or Clara going in the TARDIS at the end and not staying with Dan…[Read more]

@Juniperfish @Bluesqueakpip

I don’t think Maebh’s sister was “missing” at all and certainly not dead.

I think she was the first to be protected (or rather taken into protective custody) – by the hydrangeas that their mum thought the neighbours had planted – and the last to be released.

Which might also explain why London was so empty.

Groan @juniperfish I wondered how lon until the wood puns would be 🙂

Some great posts since the other day, really fun reading. @purofilion’s post about the Doctor’s “hero moment” is beautifully descriptive. And @Juniperfish’s “he can be the slow burning fuse at the heart of something” is actual poetry!

@thommck   Loved your Missy post… I’m looking forward to the blog!

And Puro, I can only say Eww. With stuff lik…[Read more]

@Juniperfish

Interested to know what makes you think that this was RTD’s moral view.

Pretty much the same thing that makes me think ‘dying isn’t a defeat’ is Moffat’s view: RTD’s had more than one character act in this way in more than one script, and he seems to approve it in other scripts where he was the showrunner. If he doesn’t personally b…[Read more]

@Thommck

Great posts, great links!

(love the VFX blog one, and the caterpillars. (Can only imagine what the slug mat was like @Purofilion. Sounds like the stuff of nightmares!))

Re the background in the Missy screengrab from the end of Flatline – that looks very like a cyberman style eye to me (on the right). Does that rule her out for being a…[Read more]