@lisa

Missy could have found the Doctor herself. She has always been able to follow and find
both him and Clara. So why does she really want Clara to be there? Hm?

Indeed. I suspect this is a plan that has been arranged by the Doctor and Missy. Clara’s role in it? Yeah, that one stumps me too.

@lisa

A great link! I read the article. It was fascinating. And the symbols on page 2 were, as you point out, very evocative of the markings on the Doctor’s Portable CD Player. Others on the site, who are far more erudite in matters medieval than I, will, I am sure, enlighten us further.

Thanks!

@lisa  @purofilion  @Ichabod

Re the CD (of Rassilon):  I paused that scene to have a good look at the object, and I’m not sure that the black segment represents a missing piece.  The design on the surface consists of two concentric circles crossed by lines radiating in the manner of the lines on a sundial.  The black segment extends only to the…[Read more]

Gawd, it never occurred to me to doubt Missy when she identified the CD player of Rassilon as a “Confession Dial” and explained it as a Last Will and Testament.  Drat that Michelle Gomez!  She has one again pulled ze wooool over my eyes!  That there’s a slice missing doesn’t mean it’s been opened or broken into, apparently, but it could mean th…[Read more]

@lisa Possible. But what was the viewing audience of PBS back in those days?

I tuned into Doctor Who through PBS. I donated money. I still have the mug. But it was hardly a mass market phenomenon back then.

@lisa

Of course, we only have Missy’s word that the CD player contains the Doctor’s last will and testament.

And how much stock would one place in Missy to tell the truth?

@lisa  And Delgardo Master watched the Clangers (and was beguiled into thinking that they were a fascinating, and genuine alien species).

@lisa  Oooh, the CC  personifying itself as the Moment did?  Well, if it’s the Doctor’s story, the *whole* story, then couldn’t the CC manifest as any one of the past Doctors whenever somebody triggered the right “bookmark”?

@Lisa

Exterminate!

I think that’s exactly what we’re supposed to think.  The clear implication throughout this episode is that the answer to  “… but who (Who??) made Davros?” is that it’s the Doctor’s (in)action in abandoning the boy in the minefield that started Davros on his journey to create the Daleks and filled him with his hatred of the D…[Read more]

Portable CD Player of Rassilon

That is just brilliant. And actually with what we find out about it in The Magician’s Apprentice, maybe not so far off. (Oh… and I definitely want one, haha)

It does look like this scene takes place before the events of TMA, but I agree, it’s highly likely there’s something VERY wibbly wobbly timey wimey going on…[Read more]

@lisa

Good theory lisa. I remember The Doctor’s Wife (written by Neil Gaiman, who also wrote Neverwhere) and the Tardis telling the Doctor that she loved him. so, The Doc, the Tardis and Clara + all the other companions (possible exception Rose)as the puppy.

Missy

Loved it, great starter to the season. Clearly, Clara and the Mixmaster have not been exterminated, but where are they? Is someone playing games with the Doctor’s mind here?

@lisa well called, Davros.

Off to watch it again.

Hurrah! Many, many, thanks to @ichabod for the iTunes suggestion. I have purchased season 9 on iTunes, and just watched the trailer (again) to prove that I actually had it. Many thanks also to @scaryB, @janetteB, @purofilion, @lisa, and @juniperfish for the suggestions and support.

Time for Mrs Blenkinsop and I to break out the jammy dodgers!

Hi @lisa, thanks so much for that. Still trying. Will give it a go. I am sure I will prevail!

SPOILER, SPOILER, SPOILER...

@lisa

it seems like a small shift that might roll into some more good stuff eventually?

Let’s hope so! Australia has some really good traditions, like a healthy social egalitarianism and a self-deprecating sense of humour, but it comes with some unhealthy historical baggage (like the legacy of the White Australia Policy) which it has never been…[Read more]

@lisa

While it is great to see the back of him, it was only an internicine putsch, not a change of government, alas. It is as if the Daleks had turned on Davros, but it is still the Daleks running the place. As for Davros’s replacement, is he a “good Dalek”? We shall see.

Although, at least the replacement to Davros supports same-sex marriage…[Read more]

@lisa  Yeah, on Layer-cake guy, he’s on Karn (I think) and disguised (?) as a Sister, so I think he’s revealed himself and is interrogating the real Sisters in a menacing way about the whereabouts of the Doctor — who may already have left them.  Apparently the Doctor really did have to go someplace else one way or another, because bad guys had a…[Read more]

@Lisa    I’m sticking with Davros. Because I think the Doctor is going to try
again to change history and it maybe likely to be something to do with changing Davros.
The sisters line ‘his servants seek you everywhere’ to me that probably means Daleks?

That one disguised as a Sister of Karn, but with a stratified face, says in a sinister tone, “…[Read more]

@purofilion  Sorry, my post above on S9 thread was for you (and also @lisa) except that I dropped an “o” out of your @!