@purofilion @jimmythetulip @lisa and others

Once again, I hate to do this, but can we keep discussion of “Next Time” to the BBC Approved Spoilers thread please? Some people (not me I might add) might not want to know about a certain actor appearing next week.

I discovered just last week that it’s not only people on this forum that are like that.…[Read more]

@lisa   You’re right.  He won’t run.  I just looked again at that phone call — “You made yourself essential — die on the one that comes after me — you *don’t* leave me — ”  Clara is still wrecked by Danny’s death, and the only thing holding her back from the brink is the Doctor.  He says we all have to go sometime, and she says she’s not read…[Read more]

@lisa     Lots of theories are good. It increases the odds of one of them being right. Then, as discussed yesterday, you get bragging rights.  🙂

@Jphamlore    @ScaryB    The question of the ghosts and when they showed up is a good one. I’m adding it my list of things to think about as I watch through both episodes with fresh eyes. There’s a…[Read more]

@lisa: I have a theory that Missy trapped Osgood’s soul in the Nethersphere and that it is possible for her to come back if Clara offers to go to the Nethersphere.

@supernumerary   I think the rock theme more came down to “wouldn’t this be cool, guys!”, and having Capaldi’s guitar right before the theme provided a nice excuse.

Sounds good enough to me!

@jimthefish  . . . despite the comprehensive embracing of the BG show in these episodes, the troll-brigade on t’other place are still baying for cancella…[Read more]

@lisa

(this is in response to your post on the Before the Flood thread, though you were responding to @blenkinsopthebrave above)

Who doesn’t wish Clara an ending in which everything works out

Only up to a point as far as I am concerned, because I am not too keen on the taste of saccharine. I would more happily settle for a…[Read more]

@lisa  @GothamCelt   Does anyone know why the groups of black birds might be given such interesting names (Conspiracy of Ravens, Murder of Crows)? There must be a reason, historically, presumably something to do with the negative image of those birds. But it would be interesting to know more about how it came about.

@Mirime     Yes, same here…[Read more]

@lisa Yes,I would rather see your theory be the case. The Master is truly a psychopath and I can see her/him sacrifice Clara quite easily.

I think over the years the Master has not so much tried to impress his old friend but tried to lean him into his/her mindframe of being selfish. I look at the Master like an old friend I had as a kid that’s…[Read more]

@lisa River will be reappearing after Clara leaves. She told the Doctor in ‘Name of the Doctor” that she was connected to Clara.

But MissMaster is connected to Clara too, having “chosen” her somehow?  And I thought I was confused before . . .

@lisa    That may be true. It wouldn’t surprise me if it were; equally, I wouldn’t be surprised to hear him say, “Oh, cool, I hadn’t actually thought of that. I was actually channelling …” Some other source. Myself, I don’t have a strong view either way.   🙂

@lisa    Half-faced man was dressed in late nineteenth century style, it’s true, but then Deep Breath was set sometime in the 1880s, judging by the style of the women’s dresses, so it was in keeping – certainly not as anachronistic and out of place as the costume appropriate to an undertaker of that period would be on for a newly arrived alien…[Read more]

@lisa  Clara’s leaf looked like a sycamore or maple leaf, so you are right; nothing like a rowan (also known as mountain ash) leaf.  The rowan was sometimes planted by the doors of houses to guard against witches and other evils. I’m a bit doubtful about the druid connection, though.  Almost all of what is known for certain about the druids of an…[Read more]

@lisa  No, I have never met Rohan, despite the Edinburgh connection.  I came across his books originally while browsing in bookshops, as is my habit, but it is clear from his writing alone that he has eclectic interests and a thorough understanding of the essentials of archaeology, cultural anthropology and mythology.  I tend to be highly cr…[Read more]

@lisa   Good call re Raven.  All the discussion of raven references had reminded me, also, of the Tlingit myth (although I wasn’t sufficiently well informed to know that it was specifically Tinglit; only that belonged to peoples of the north west coast of  North America).

Have you ever come across the Winter of the World novels by Michael Scot…[Read more]

@lisa You may be onto something regarding the Dalek nano-genes effect on Clara. Taking it a bit further, do you think Clara could have been affected when the Doctors Time lord regenerative energy was transmitted into all the Daleks on Skaro? While she was inside  the Dalek, Clara may have “evolved” or taken on some of the doctors personality. Per…[Read more]

@lisa

Oh yes! I’d forgotten her mother’s maiden name was Ravenwood…

@lisa thank you too.

@lisa thanks for the link. That is lovely. I was in a lego shop on Saturday but no sign of any Lego Dr Who, yet. They have done a good job with that set.  I especially like the Dalek. Not bad, for Lego…

Cheers

Janette

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