I liked Segun Akinola’s music, so there you are. And, much as I loved Murray Gold’s music (I own the CDs), by the end of Peter Capaldi’s run I really was feeling as if he’d said what he had to say for Doctor Who.

I’m with @Thane16 and @Pedant – it’s going to take more than one episode for the new composer to find his…[Read more]

Not sure what is my favorite part of the episode….I liked how the Doctor shouted at the hunter to stand still and then bolted in pursuit when it fled.   Got a kick out of that wouldn’t be the first instinct reaction for us mortals.

Early o…[Read more]

“Every show a self-contained story” sounds to me like a return to 100% “monster of the week” and no need to bother staying for the end, because there’s no chance of failure, and everyone ends up exactly as they started so the next “self-contained story” can toddle on without any continuity with what came before.”

Literally don’t really ge…[Read more]

I was a professional musician. So, speaking as an orchestral conductor the music was quite difficult to write; it’s new; it’s not Murray Gold but it IS a composer with a pretty legitimate background. I think that were he, or his family, reading comments that it’s “extremely b…[Read more]

What a generous thing to say.

Not very true of me, although I do say what I think – regardless. However, this doesn’t mean that I am always right.

Missy

I was only joking about we Leo’s. We can  be a great pain in the rear!

Missy

I understand the teeth, though. Check my post on page 1.

As for the music, ooh, that’s harsh! I actually thought it had some lovely orchestral moments? It wasn’t Murray, that’s for sure, but I do think it was in the upper portion of successful for something so obviously new. Again, that’s just my personal opinion….

Puro

If you are talking Astrology we Leo’s are by far the best! Followed by Aries and Sagittarius. *winks*

Missy

I have an aversion to referring to anyone as as ‘coloured or nigger.’ I remember an English actor getting into trouble for saying ‘coloured’ not long ago. The person in question preferred to be referred to as ‘black.’

I also become angry when people  say, ‘Frogs, Ities, Yanks, Wops, Chinks,’ etcetera. Are they too lazy to say the…[Read more]

On the other hand, you also got ice cream and wine . . .

Well, it’s just the wait now.

Thing that frustrates me is what @mudlark says above, and the inevitability of it.  When DW was a low budget, quirky show for family viewing that h…[Read more]

@oswald  I feel the same as you about Peter Capaldi and Bill. Although I had great affection for Clara a…[Read more]

Absolutely: Loved PC in this role; loved all the stories -even The Moon As an Egg which, despite the general hilarity, I found rather endearing. And it had Hermoine….? wonderful actress who isn’t seen often enough (on telly at least).

Still, looking forward to the nex…[Read more]

I too am mourning the loss of PC.

@janetteb:   We just (re)watched Deep Breath two nights ago. We have been working through all of AG Who, with a few exceptions. I have enjoyed every Doctor and wish they had all done at least one more season but I don’t think any burst onto the screen with quite the same “Doctorishness” that Capaldi…[Read more]

It would certainly be a bold final flourish from SM — and the sort of meta thing I’d imagine him doing, making some kind of commentary on the endless speculation over new Doctors.

And I’m increasingly inclined to think that the whole simulation thing was handled at great length in Extremis because it’s going to be significant to…[Read more]

@kharis

How many trial programs do you think the Monks are running?  Could be quite a lot.  This could

be only  1 simulation among many.  So killing yourself in 1 simulation what does that mean

in others?  Is it  the same scenario in every trial program.   Are there shadow Doctors in each

of them ?

Also. the regeneration we see is only the…[Read more]

Yes, I think there’s a bit of misdirection going on re. The Vault. I don’t think there’s any doubt that it was Missy that was put into the Vault but I’m not sure it’s Missy that’s going to come out. There always seems to have been this assumption the Doctor and Master’s confrontations happen in the linear order that we’ve…[Read more]

On the politics, I’m utterly bemused when you see on FB, Twitter and the The Graun bitching about…[Read more]

The general consensus is that these are the best episodes in a long time, they’re solid, a consistent run. D…[Read more]

Trying, really trying, but — love it just the way you put it!  Ah, there we are — Alan Moore!

@arbutus  . . . villains who aren’t really villains. I confess it’s a theme that resonates with me.

M…[Read more]

Also, all this talk about how the Doctor would be mad at Missy, cause he now knows about her involvement in Clara, or any of that kind of theorising about the Doctor remembering things about Clara has a fundamental flaw – before that kind of theorising takes place we would have to establish he consiously remembers her in the first p…

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There was far too much emotional punch invested in Clara’s not-quite-death and the Doctor’s auto-mind-wipe for that to be retconned. Do not believe for a second that Moffat would go there. also, I am pretty sure we would have heard if Maisie Williams was coming back. If she is, and they have kept that secret, I will be…[Read more]

There was also some filming reported by @SirClockFace (here, POSSIBLE (BUT MAYBE NOT) SPOILER) that is still to be accounted for.

I wonder if Steven Moffat will write the odd episode in series 11?  After all, he did when Russel T. Davies was in charge. here’s hoping.

Missy

Oh, I second that — I’d love to see it happen!  But if so, I doubt it would be published for a long time — he has (I hope) a long writing career still ahead of hi…[Read more]

It would; but Capaldi may be telling the simple truth when he says he decided to go, […]

I think Moffat wanted people to spot them. The painting hangs in the background and thin circles as they are in the oryginal could be missed.

@kharis the bust I’ve mentioned has a mane of hair and chubby cheeks. I think it’s Beethoven.

Thank you, that’s nice. I think this picture is significant (or maybe not, maybe Rembrandt is Moffat’s favourite painter and he wanted to pay him tribute, it definitely tells something about his excellent taste). But Rembrandt throughout his life painted plenty of self-portraits, as a young man, as a middle-aged man, as an old man, as a…[Read more]