@Juniperfish

It seems odd to me that Smith is the only one to suffer memory loss. Then again, different regens deal with the war differently?

The memory loss was foreshadowed in previous eps (as @geoffers pointed out). I’m reading something into that – it’s what we do right? – for the Christmas ep.

Agree re Silence and loose ends btw.

@purofilion and @juniperfish – the Doctor’s going in a cycle. Nine’s not got a clue (can’t ‘dance’). Ten’s like an adolescent who’s just discovered relationships – and while he’s got an idea that he’s good looking and the girls fancy him, they’re the ones who tend to dive on him. He’s also terrified of commitment – could never tell Rose he loved…[Read more]

@Juniperfish – The clips are from a BBC1 trailer, so I would class them as a teaser.

I presume that they’re pretending to be boyfriend & girlfriend and that the Dr is a bit rubbish at it & therein lies the comedy.

   ”Exterminate all Hanky-Panky!”

Nobody complained when Liz 1 (& Zygon C…[Read more]

@Juniperfish

Thanks for that link to the interview. I hope you don’t mind, but I added it to the blog I did on target a while ago (crediting you of course). Nice to hear he’s more upbeat and less curmudgeounly than some of the old script editors (Bidmead comes to mind) on the new series. Always knew he had class. I hope I spoke for all of us…[Read more]

Oh, hey!  The cot is in play!  @Juniperfish, I may need to live dangerously and join the wager!

Smith regenerates into Capaldi and Clara gasps “grand-father”?

Talk about catching my breath!  What a perfect little bow (tie).  But Who is in the cot??

I don’t think we are done with River’s story.  She may not be present anymore, but Moffat love…[Read more]

@Juniperfish – death and rebirth. Will the rebirth be simply the regeneration, or will there be a ‘rebirth’?

Yeah, I’d go for a baby. We’ve just got the major problem cleared up; any baby isn’t going to be stuck with ‘last of their kind’. Gallifrey’s now out there; like Susan in the original episode, they’d be exiled but able to look forward to…[Read more]

@Juniperfish Brilliant, thanks;  I was only looking on iPlayer – which is suddenly working hard and downloading season 6, which I didn’t even know was current again. Which is nice, but not great for catching up on all the bits I missed in the scurry up to 23rd Nov. T’webs are mostly a big mystery to me. Life too. 😀

@Juniperfish @PhaseShift @Curvedspace : my favourite thing to do on this site is to hark back to comparisons to the classic series, so I have to say I agree that Moffat is mostly thinking about how time travel affects people’s relationship with death. The comparison I have in mind is to something that has irked me ever since I first saw it: the…[Read more]

At least Moffat has a better handle (in my opinion) on death, timetravel and the Doctor than the carry-on at the end of the McGann movie. Now that was a complete cheat if you ask me!

Just occasionally people actually do die – the recent death of Cass (in Night of the Doctor) was particularly shocking because she chose it, rather than travel with…[Read more]

@curvedspace

I think it’s a popular complaint about Moffat that his tenure has seen a decline in overall deaths. It’s not something I really mind, as I’ve seen the show lurch in the other direction too often, with seasons of “everyone dies” and that gets even duller.

I think @Juniperfish has made some good points, but I’m less kind about the…[Read more]

Thank @PhaseShift , and @Juniperfish @JimTheFish @ScaryB

As above, real life has taken me away from the site for most of the week and have only been able to dip in occasionally.

It HAS been a weird week and I was a bit disappointed by the lack of civility and inclusiveness of some. I admit that some, perhaps even most, new members do not seem to…[Read more]

Great post @Phaseshift.

Just to reinforce how much your commitment is appreciated, so that we have this great space to discuss all things Who in.

Also – I don’t think you stressed enough that this site is run on a VOLUNTARY basis!   It might look slick and professional but it relies on the goodwill of all members and especially on the time of y…[Read more]

@Bluesqueakpip @Phaseshift @Juniperfish @jamesunderscore

All great posts esp re Clara only being able to help with the otherwise timelocked Gallifrey/TimeWar because she was in the Doctor’s timestream*, and thereby ensuring his future.

Would be great to see TotD knitting together the last 3 seasons big arcs/themes.

*goes off to rework whole…[Read more]

@Juniperfish @ScaryB

I think the duality has to be the key here. The Doctors time line has been cocked up in a way that pleases me a great deal.

I think we anticipate the Trenzilore end point will be lost at Christmas, and become something that will no longer happen. Perhaps the key to that (and therefore a fresh perspective on this episode is…[Read more]

Duality

I agree with @Juniperfish and others that to take away the Doctor’s guilt re committing genocide diminshes some of the myth set up in AG.  But is it not enough that he believes he did it?  And he would have done it, maybe did, without the Moment butting in. Even then his only solution was for all 3 incarnations to do it together (…[Read more]

@ScaryB

1 detemined grumpy Dalek is all you need to kill you.

I love the implication of the concept of a non-grumpy Dalek!

@All

On The Time War I don’t think I can put my view better than in this reply to @Juniperfish  (damn she brings out the best in me). I was especially proud of “Deus ex Moment”, so I’m damned well gonna highlight it again!

@Shazzbot, @pedant, @scaryb, @juniperfish, @geoffers and everyone else
RE: Time War
I must admit, I was a little disappointed by what the last day of the time war looked like, and not just because we didn’t see any Daleks outside of their casing!

I always interpreted it as a “non-violent” war, i.e. a timelord would alter time, then a Dalek…[Read more]

@pedant @Juniperfish @Bluesqueakpip

Yay! A discussion!

Reading your posts I realized it does not have to be black or white. It’s more of a gray-ish mixture.

My take on things after reading your thoughts has been this: There has been once a different decision made by the Hurt Doctor. A decision to burn Gallifrey. However in this time-stream…[Read more]