@everyone- I would say Masie is better in Game of Thrones- but she’s been doing it for so much of her life. Watching her act with Charles Dance was one of the best experiences in my life. She is very good, but creating a new character (or two) for this season is very different from growing up in a role. She will only get better. (As for Game of…[Read more]

Hmmm, @lisa that could indeed be the reason for the sonic sunglasses. The Doctor sees her as Clara, and somehow the sunglasses make it so that everyone else (except the Tardis) sees her that way. And except for Lady Me, who is there to let the Doctor know she knows exactly what’s going on. Maybe thanks to Missy, who unlike River is big on…[Read more]

upon re-watch, i took extra notice of this line, from me to the doctor, when she’s telling the story of being accused of being a witch: “fortunately, i’m very good at holding my breath.”

an echo of clara! it almost sounds as if me/ashildr is talking up her abilities, maybe applying for the “job” of next companion?

also, @kharis , her highwayman…[Read more]

Finally read thru al these posts and whew! Late arrival to this weeks party

I Wiki’d the leonine character Leandro and found that it is related to the Tharils from the 4th
Doctors time. So it was basically the return of that time sensitive and time shifting alien.

@Kharis A truly amazing visual spot! I wonder if there is any…[Read more]

@JimtheFish

Hello old fish friend.

Glad you are on board with the tarot theme. It was @kharis who first spotted it on here in relation to this series, although @Phaseshift had been talking about Who and the tarot in the previous one, but, I am a believer.

As you say, there may not be a supreme coherence to it, it’s just a piece of symbolic…[Read more]

@jimthefish – You are correct that that never gets old!  It’s funny – when Capaldi was announced, I thought I would never be able to unsee Malcolm Tucker.  Now that he’s been the Doctor for over a year, I’m having trouble the other way!  Why is the Doctor in a suit swearing at people?

@kharis – The (K)Nightmare Child thing is tantalizing.  I can…[Read more]

@Kharis — Point well taken about how Ashildr could probably alter her face/voice with technology.  Totally plausible.

Tangent: @pedant taking someone to task for misspelling his name is, as they say over at Metafilter, “eponysterical”. 🙂

Presumably the X-rated Doctor Who outtake would also include Capaldi employing some of the language that…[Read more]

@kharis

 or she is making a point that she is in control of Clara’s mother.

Or simply filling in for Clara’s mother. Or offed her….

@kharis

@pendant *cough* *cough* No first “n”!

, completely relies on blood, violence, horror and porn to keep the audience involved.

You say that like it’s a bad thing *smiley winky thing*

Her character goes WAY beyond bow and arrow, though.

Somewhere I hope there is an X-Rated Doctor Who outtake of her using the kind of language she gets to…[Read more]

I greatly enjoyed this episode, and again, my comments are going to come out as stream of consciousness and replies to what I’ve read here, most of which will be un-tagged because I can never remember who said what.  You’ve been warned.

— @missy – I disagree.  I think her acting was quite good.  She shows a tremendous self-possession for such a…[Read more]

@kharis and @ichabod Could Clara hallucinate the deaf woman’s experience of being followed down the corridor by the axe ghost for example?

This just came to me. She could infact imagine all of this because it has happened to her. She was walking down a corridor while not being able to do something once (S8E1 when she couldn’t breath). To go wi…[Read more]

And while lauding @kharis‘s excellent spot, I’m also a bit sceptical that she’s going to turn out to be Clara’s mother.

@jimthefish I agree, but would say the clothing looked out of place – I did spot that. And somebody over on the Guardian is very upset about the hats the highwaymen were wearing. Of course dressing a few decades out of fashion…[Read more]

I thought Maisie Williams was pretty good and for my money (bar Dinklage) is the best thing in Game of Thrones. She maybe didn’t quite capture the worldweariness that her character required in the second episode but she was still pretty effective. The episode belonged to Rufus Hound though, I think.

And while lauding @kharis‘s excellent spot, I’m…[Read more]

@kharis and various – I’m not inclining to the view that Ashildr is Clara’s mum.  The clothes she’s wearing in the photobomb are clearly meant to be a message, but not necessarily that message.  Deliberate photobombing has been described as ‘a narrative of surreptitious sabotage’ (according to Wikipedia)… One thing I’m not sure we know about A…[Read more]

@kharis Brilliant catch on the clothing match! I never would have remembered that about Clara’s mom, much less paid attention to what Ashildr was wearing way back in the background. Bravo!

@kharis  Wonderful catch!!

With Ashildr/Lady Me now looking out for those the Doctor abandons, and now at Clara’s back, I couldn’t help but think of an exchange from Deep Breath.

Half-Face Man: Where is the other one?
Clara: I don’t know. But I know where he will be. Where he will always be. If the Doctor is still the Doctor, he will have my ba…[Read more]

@kharis

I fear I am going to come across as a bit of a party pooper, but I think that the Nightmare Child is actually too abstract and unknown for the bulk of the audience. If reference was made to tthe Nightmare Child now, in 2015, I suspect that most of the audience would be perplexed.

Dear me, I do think I am coming across as the party…[Read more]

@kharis

Perhaps the most brilliant spot ever.

As to what it means, my suspicion is that it was planted by Moffat et al for us (meaning all those who love seeing bonkers theories in the show). To be honest, I don’t think it has a meaning. Why? Because it is too deeply embedded. Moffat only drops hints of what is to come if everyone sees it, and…[Read more]

@kharis: Brilliant catch, bravo!

@arbutus: Try this bonkers theory.  Where else would Clara’s mom be but in Missy’s Nethersphere?  Taking a life can open a portal to another dimension.  What if Missy is sowing the seeds for Clara to go into the Nethersphere, perhaps to trade her life for her mother’s, just like Danny Pink was able to send back to…[Read more]

@kharis Welcome back, and thanks for the Tarot updates and the most brilliant wardrobe spot.

I want the Ellie Ravenwood = Ashildr thing to be true, but Clara’s 101 places book from series 7 has ‘Ellie Ravenwood, age 11’ inscribed on the inside leaf. Possibly misdirection, or…?