Random thoughts about random comments:

@Juniperfish     Yes, I loved the moment where the president is revealed to be a “she”, and then a moment later, the Doctor refers to “womankind”.   🙂

@Apopheniac   Was is just me who saw them slo-mo running and thought, sigh?   No, I had exactly the same thought. That felt contrived and unnecessary to me…[Read more]

Aaarghh! So many times I’ve said this in this series.

I need another rewatch. It seems a cop-out, but I was like this in Series 6 and only Steve Moffat can leave me like this. Which I assure myself is A GOOD THING. I enjoyed it, although tired and I want to see what comes next (which is a five star rating in book).

I’m looking for certain…[Read more]

@Juniperfish

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.

Hah! Yes, you seem a bit too interested in people to have that career. 😉 I don’t know if you’ve ever come across it before, but Radio 4 did a comedy series “Struck off and…[Read more]

@Juniperfish    Moffat bingo???  Is that a thing? I can imagine the cards…  🙂

@BadWulf     Our subway/skytrain has had several big outages recently where whole lines have been shut down for hours. Today the spokesperson suggested that next time, people should take the opportunity to go have a coffee! You can imagine how that advice went over.…[Read more]

@Juniperfish *waves back*

There is, isn’t there? (didn’t notice any red/blue streams particularly this week but lots of reflections).

Interesting you mentioned Professor Plum. I noticed Missy’s coat last week (plum-coloured) seemed to bear a bit of a resemblance to Matt’s last jacket (as worn by Capaldi in Deep Breath). More of a style…[Read more]

Nice thoughts on timings of the epsiodes (now thinking happy thoughts of Hallowe’en (thanks @Phaseshift and @Juniperfish (glad you’re still hanging in there))

FWIW I don’t think we’ll be losing any kids – been there, done that with River. But Danny could be fair game.

For those of us keen for an Ian Chesterton cameo – this is an interview with…[Read more]

@Juniperfish

GET BETTER!! WE NEED YOU!!! (Sorry, but people screaming it at me seems to do something) 😉 Seriously though, I hope your Doctors taking good care of you. If he has the people skills of 12, let me know and I’ll come and slap him, until he improves.

I’m guessing it’s all part of the European heritage that’s been shipped about,…[Read more]

Just following on from the bit about the timing of the last episode, I note with some humour that the penultimate episode is on November 1st. The day after Halloween, but still, before sundown, Semhain. When the dead return.

I think our poorly @juniperfish may enjoy that thought.

May I just say that I love Autumn anyway. Having Doctor Who back…[Read more]

@juniperfish  You must have posted your comment concerning the Doctor’s remarks to Clara about her appearance around the time I started writing my post #32698 (which took a long time, owing to interruptions), otherwise I would have referenced it.  As I said, I think it is deliberate, if rather clumsy.  After all, he cannot really think that she…[Read more]

@Whisht

Good to see you back.

re Clara’s age – I was wondering that. She’s been mentioned this series as being 27, which is, I think, several years older than she was when we first met her (in Bells… rather than as a Claricle). Has she been travelling with this Doctor for that long? Their relationship maybe suggests that she has. Danny…[Read more]

First batch of replies!  I hadn’t made the connection to The Lodger. One of my favourite episodes for Eleven.

@Marconi     I disagree that this story doesn’t fit into the arc, it very much fit in. If the only “arc” issue you are concerned about is Missy, then some episodes have had less to do with that than this one. But that’s not the only arc…[Read more]

@Juniperfish

This season is drawing a parallel between reluctant fighter Danny Pink, who wanted to dig wells and save people, and reluctant fighter the Doctor, who wanted anything except to use the Moment, but went there [in time stream 1 :-)], don’t you think?

Indeed, but there seems to be an assumption at large that only the Doctor can jump to e…[Read more]

Hi all – been a tad busy recently at work (the other part of my real life – this is real life too y’know, tapping on my keyboard!).

Anyway, just watched The Caretaker and was a bit ‘meh’ about it at first, but may give it another watch as I think I may enjoy it more on a second viewing.

I guess my ‘meh’-ness was mainly around the alien robot (in…[Read more]

@GothamCelt – my mind is also running along the lines of ‘Danny isn’t what he seems’.

I don’t think he is Jenny (the Doctor’s daughter), but that spectacular somersault reminded me more than a little of Jenny’s equally spectacular display of gymnastic ability.

Time Heist also reminded us about clones. Then there’s Journey’s brother. Are we…[Read more]

@Bluesqueakpip @Phaseshift @Juniperfish

Apart from Listen drawing a very clear distinction between the Army and the Academy. He rejected the Army and did all he could to keep out of the Time War.

He is of the political class – although not very interested in playing politics.

(Also, Danny was hamming to take the piss out of the Doctor, so I…[Read more]

@juniperfish

Get well soon x. ENT infections can be the worst. I once had an inflamed ear for six months, and the infection made me lose my voice during the period. I sounded like Kermit the Frog on helium, which is pretty embarrassing for someone who sports a virtual goatee.

I was interested in the wordplay that @ScaryB made on this one – The…[Read more]

@Juniperfish

I hope you’re feeling better!

I may of misheard that. I thought I heard “I had to pretend to be an Auton for a while (couple of months)”. Something about he and River falling out.

I thought it may have been related to that bit in the Big Bang when River revealed she’d dated an Auton replicant for a while, but it didn’t work out! 🙂

@Juniperfish – hope you’re feeling better?

As far as I can work out, the Doctor’s Grandchild Stakes are:

Clara: the favourite – pros are that she’s very similar to the Doctor in many ways. Cons: two – the whole ‘boyfriend’ thing and the fact that the TARDIS really doesn’t like her.

Danny Pink: bit of a late entrant, but his background (Creepy…[Read more]

OK – @juniperfish was quite right. I did enjoy it a lot more the second time around. It’s actually really well put together, and the idea of Doctor Who doing a heist movie is such a good idea, you wonder why no-one has really done it before.

I’ll echo the praise @JimTheFish gave to Douglas Mackinnon after last weeks Listen. His direction is gre…[Read more]

@PhileasF – I thought that was a ridiculous theory at first “Everybody Lives!” but the more I read what you said the more possible it could be. Especially as the whole Time Heist episode was basically the Doctor getting his past self to do something

@juniperfish, Listen didn’t prove there was a family link, it just implied that perhaps, Clara and…[Read more]