@Kharis The Doctor wore the glasses on Skaro. He was looking for traces of what?
Traces of Dalek or traces of Dalek nano genes in Clara? Or perhaps traces of other
stuff in Clara as well. All these new traces in her may be indicating that there is
about to be a metamorphosis of Clara. Those sunglasses maybe keeping track of her,
When he put…[Read more]

@kharis and @craig Well said both. This has indeed become a community. It is a very nice place to be and a privilege to be part of it.

Cheers

Janette

@Kharis Many thanks, is honestly how I feel a forum should be run. I was very lucky to have a lovely group of people who enjoyed commenting on The Guardian reviews help start this forum (because The Guardian only allowed seven days for comments). Between us all we’ve managed to keep the convivial spirit they brought to The Guardian threads…[Read more]

@Kharis

What still bothers me is how is Clara born in her Claricle forms?

No idea. 😀

Seriously, what has always puzzled me is how Clara’s Mum also turns up for the Claricles. At least, we see Ellie Ravenswood (or the Victorian version thereof) with little Victorian Clara. And Oswin Oswald was dictating her diary to her Mum, as well.

See, I…[Read more]

@pedant On the question about Clara, (already at least a page back), I don’t think she panicked until she was unable to communicate with the Doctor given the extremely limited vocabulary available to her. When whatever she said translated to either I am a Dalek or You are an enemy of the Daleks there really were any options available to her.…[Read more]

@kharis  So many other “discussion” sites I’ve had a look at turned out to be less like joining a discussion and more like falling into Colony Sarf.

@Kharis I noticed that when Clara was tied and hanging she has both legs tied
as opposed to 1 leg tied and 1 bent as it appears on the tarot card I saw. So my question
is if you happen to know if that changes in any significant way the tarot message?
This is me being a bit nit picky over probably nothing and I’m really thinking it was…[Read more]

@Kharis  @purofilion

I’m pretty sure that after little Rupert falls asleep, Clara asks the Doctor if he will remember, and the Doctor says no, something about a memory wipe or perception filter. And that he’s replaced the true memory with a dream of Dan the Soldier Man. So Danny would never remember any of those events.

@Kharis

No, the Clara walking away walks back sadly to her flat. Only to discover that she can’t get into her bedroom because the nightmare date now has 50% more added nightmare – Space Dad hiding in her bedroom to make absolutely sure she doesn’t get up to anything. 😉

In other words, Clara Walking Away is walking back to the beginning of the episode.

@Kharis and others: Thank you for bringing to our attention the tarot card references, which are no doubt correct.

In some sense I see this as a throwback to the early part of the Fourth Doctor’s classic series, because back then any sort of mysticism that could be tied to extraterrestrials was fair game as an explanation. For example, consider…[Read more]

@kharis – Good call with Missy’s pointed stick and the Queen of Wands!

@ichabod – Completely disagree.  She’s shut up in horrible, stinky Dalek armor that transforms her into a monster, to the outward eye (and ear).  The Doctor is in a fury because he thinks Clara is dead — so he’s not thinking clearly.  Missy is lying to the Doctor, and Clara knows that the Doctor has old bonds with her, and seems to be believing…[Read more]

@juniperfish  I like your conclusion — a bit of good eked out of a massively destructive confrontational node for all our main players . . . even Davros got something, a dash of warm contact with the Doctor, out of it.  And yes, yes, yes, “The Chariot” = the Tardis — the vehicle that takes you where you need to go!

@Kharis  Of course, The Ha…[Read more]

@Braddy  I feel the doctor let slip to Davros that Galifrey had survived. Maybe both will have a race through time and space to locate it. Now that Davros has tasted the doctors powers, the hunger for more could trigger a Time War part 2. Destroy Galifrey for the last time and drain all time lords creating the hybrid army. This could be an…[Read more]

@Kharis      Thank you! I didn’t notice that pattern either the first time through, only on rewatch when I wasn’t so busy looking for clues to things. What was fun for me about that macro-pattern is that it was entirely unrelated to any story or character arcs, but was just another way in which things hung together. As an entity, Series 8 was prob…[Read more]

@kharis Can I join the Mega-Spoiler-Theory club? I won’t repost anywhere, cross my hearts!

@Kharis much appreciated :~D

@Kharis Hostile Action Displacement System, it’s the name for what the TARDIS did to survive

@Kharis 100% promise, my lips/fingers are sealed

@Kharis I’m intrigued to find out what your mega spoiler theory is