@Juniperfish

We don’t have much to go on in terms of a Gus/ Missy relationship.

I think you are forgetting this place’s mission statement!

It might be quite interesting if Gus and Missy turned out to be rivals, but I am suspecting different variations on the same theme  – in the sense that Judaism, Christianity and Islam are all Abrahamic re…[Read more]

@Juniperfish – I agree that this is another ‘mirror’ episode. This is what I said on another site:

When is the war over? When one side admits defeat.

There is a war. An eternal war. And in that war, there is an eternal soldier. He wanders the universe, unable to ever stop fighting the enemy. And until that war is over, he cannot ever go home and…[Read more]

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Well technically we don’t know that Missy’s is a “virtual” world. Could still be a physical place/thing.

@Seyhall Technically I’d say that counts as a potential spoiler – info pulled from elsewhere than in-programme or on BBC site. @Craig @Phaseshift @Fatmaninabox Am I being oversensitive here…? (if not can you move the post…[Read more]

@Juniperfish <waves back>

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Roman empire/Time Lord analogy would always hold up well! Re Missy as possible TL, I’ve been wondering that myself (along with many others!) – with all the potential tech involved. Is she making a present for her “boyfriend”?

And another misunderstood monster this week – well, the mummy was still a monster but…[Read more]

*looks out cautiously over the sofa – is it safe to come out yet? 😯 *

Yay! @Juniperfish and everyone calling the mirroring of the Doctor’s choice.

And also delighted that what I’ve been banging on about the Doctor still being the Doctor, as in compassionate and warm but just hiding it well, has bubbled to the surface.

Yes the Doctor lies…[Read more]

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Also, after last week’s episode, which passed the Bechdel test with flying colours, this one deliberately took the piss,

I laughed out loud at that one. The two women had, of course, already passed the Bechdel test as they’d previously been discussing Maisie’s horrible Grandmother.

@Juniperfish so right, PC just incredible, was captivated by 12 already but this episode took it to another level. Felt from the beginning of this series that 12 had so much to reveal and to give. Only 4 more episodes, then its the box set and novels.

I’m not sure about Clara now, liked her with 12 at the beginning, but through the series and now…[Read more]

Hmm, I don’t want to mis-remember but I think it was @juniperfish last year who introduced many of us to the fanfic notion of ‘shipping’.

Now we’re getting a Mistress Master (a la Major Major), with Autons discovering how to take over rubber rather than plastic.

A dark twist for the show indeed… The timeslot might have to be pushed back even…[Read more]

@Juniperfish

killed in the previous time line

Let’s not a start that one again!

Incidentally, there will be a Moon Sperm(tm) outbreak later this moth courtesy of Halley’s Comet.

@Juniperfish

When Twelve asks Clara whether or not he is a good man, I imagine he is bracing himself for the judgement of his people.

But they have already judged him and found him worthy of a whole new set of regenerations. “If you love him, and you should…”.

@Juniperfish

Each of these decisions mirror, on a smaller scale, the terrible decision the War Doctor was faced with. The link is overtly made in-text when we actually revisit the War Doctor in Listen.

Yeah, I think so too. If we see the Eccleston, Tennant and Smith Doctors as basically ‘broken’ by that decision, the Capaldi Doctor is the one who…[Read more]

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Death and difficult choices – also Into the Dalek – should they try to treat a “the Doctor’s deadliest enemy” or let it die (presumably) and the Dalek’s choice at the end – to go on a killing spree. And that’s in addition to Gretchen’s choice.  Maybe the “I’ve made many mistakes” line was  bit more than a throwaway and he actually do…[Read more]

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And the Iron Chicken (tho don’t ask me which came first) 😉 Love the lesbian lizards. Apparently there were reports of newly discovered seismic activity on the moon (not that it happened recently but it’s new information that wasn’t known before) -…[Read more]

@Juniperfish – – OMG! The Gay Agenda is back!

@Juniperfish

Re Missy’s world – there’s a 4th option – that it actually exists, rather than being somewhere digital.  It could be in a bubble universe, it could be where the lost Time Lords are.  IF people are being teleported there, it suggests something timelordy to me. But I love the idea that it’s a Moffat tease to folk who say he never k…[Read more]

@Purofilion If Clara’s lacking a bit in energy it’s not surprising – she’s got a secret Doctor life, a demanding day job and a love life – and she’s trying to keep them all separate. Not surprised she’s knackered and her flat looks a bit unlived-in. She’s literally fitting in a lot more hours than there usually are in a day.

As a side issue, I…[Read more]

he he @juniperfish – I thought you’d be hoping that Missy gets to weigh the Doctors hearts against a feather…

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and @Spider – that’s 😈 – I like!!

@phaseshift, @scaryb, @barnable, @juniperfish — thanks for the welcomes back. What can I say? I just couldn’t stay away, although I will be flitting in and out for the next few weeks as I’m once again the throes of moving house on top of other stuff….

@barnable — feel free to argue away. That’s what we’re all here for. I’d also urge you to…[Read more]

Sorry for the long rambling previous post – that was the edited version, LOL.

Couple of short things to add –

@PhileasF  Re your comment about this universe not conforming to our reality because it was rebooted from Amy’s memories –

Post of the thread!

@Juniperfish -Loved your comment: “Peter Capaldi’s worlds weary misanthropy with flashes of…[Read more]

@Juniperfish    I’m not so sure that the Doctor’s ambivalence about his own morality comes from Time War at this point. I wonder if it’s a more general angst related to living a long time and having had more power than most of those around you. As PhaseShift says:     The few Time Lords we’ve seen who have had extended life (Rasillon, The…[Read more]