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@lisa I agree that this fussing over the Doctor’s state of mind is important yet may be missing a forest for the trees. Can Missy be good, and for how long?  That’s the most pressing question. The finale would be tragic enough if she cannot be… 😉

.@Blenkinsopthebrave  @thane15 (puro)  @JimTheFish  @Nick

Thanks for the good wishes.  It was a rather disconcerting attack of tachycardia – for no apparent reason my heart rate went through the roof and stayed in the stratosphere for the better part of an hour, which to say the least felt weird. After things had settled down again the med…[Read more]

@lisa  Wow! I’m inspired! I shall market it on Etsy and at Comic Cons 🙂

You’ll make a fortune, at least until “Deadpool Face and Bleaching Cream” comes out, not to mention “Batman’s Bat musk”.

@nick  Anyway Ichabod, the questions that most relate to S10’s strange behaviour, is why and how does it relate to the last 2 or 3 episodes of D12.< …[Read more]

@lisa  “New, exciting perfume scent is discovered: A Whiff of Rassilon!  It’s inter-galactic!”

@nick  Being The Doctor means accepting fate, accepting companion’s decisions sacrifices (River sacrificed herself to save Him after all) no matter the personal cost.

Agreed; but it *also* means sometimes giving up, stepping back, “Why can’t I just …[Read more]

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@lisa

Whilst stealing regeneration any might be involvec(or not), I suspect Moff has a rather more complicated idea in play.

@lisa @blenkinsopthebrave

The Master plotted to steal the Doctor’s remaining regnerations as did the Valeyard in BG Who (it came up in three or four different stories).

@lisa

what’s the deal?

I know I am hoping for a “Michelle Gomez as the new Doctor” scenario, but:

Could it be possible that the Doctor has already (partially) regenerated, and…somehow…they split in two and the newly contrite Missy is really the new Doctor in embryo, as it were? That might explain why the Tardis zipped off to get Missy. Or…[Read more]

@lisa

Not a lot. From what I recall USA agri-industry was growing large straight banana’s in Central America (Honduras ?) while Europe was importing smaller curved bananas from the Caribbean  – ex-French colonies  ? and using product standards to exclude the larger bananas.

The biggest problem with brexit right now is that its a phoney war (ie 9…[Read more]

@lisa

Who can replace May. It looks like the party is sufficiently split that no one will. I’m guessing that they’ll leave her there to sort Brexit and then dump her in a couple of years for someone more popular. Boris Johnson is probably the most obvious candidate (he is at least popular), but he’s also a wag (that is a general joker and…[Read more]

@blenkinsopthebrave — yes, the power-sharing arrangements are still in a state of flux and had been put on hold for the general election. And yes, some form of formal alliance between the Tories and the DUP does skew the nature of the talks somewhat. Certainly I don’t imagine Sinn Fein will be at all happy about it — and I wouldn’t be at all…[Read more]

@lisa

Hi Lisa. I don’t know how knowledgeable you are regarding British politics and the political system. So apologies in advance is this is old news for you.

Whilst British Prime Ministers appear and act like presidents, they don’t actually have any personal mandate to rule. They are the boss, the CEO, but the Board of Directors (the Cabinet)…[Read more]

@nerys  I think the Doctor’s basic problem is that he is lonely for his own kind. Missy is the only one left

Well, Gallifrey is back so there are TLs for company if he wants to make some kind of a deal for visiting; but if we take “his own kind” to mean other *rebel* TLs who’ve broken away from Gallifreyan rules and attitudes, then I’d agree th…[Read more]

@lisa I shouldn’t have said the only one left. Maybe the one most readily available is a better way of putting it. But they were childhood friends, as I recall, and so maybe that’s why the Doctor feels compelled to try to save her. It certainly is a dysfunctional relationship, as you rightly point out.

@missrori

All that’s certain is that the execution that wasn’t was “A long time ago” — at least from the Doctor’s perspective.

Unfortunately “A long time ago” doesn’t mean a lot for a time traveller. It seems to have been at least 70 years, which by itself would be a long time for Missy to be in solitary confinement- not the best way to foste…[Read more]

@lisa Yes, I think the reason he regards Missy as “the other last of the Time Lords” stems from their being the only two who exist in the wider universe anymore — since all the others, cruel and cowardly lot that they are, have chosen to hide at a point the end of time and space, where there apparently aren’t many places left to go (as “Hell…[Read more]

@lisa  I wasn’t bothered by the Appalling Hair Girl line — this Doctor does tend to be casually insensitive when he’s grumpy (as he was there) in a hurry and the like, and it fits in with his preference for nicknaming others.  P.E., Sexy One, Lofty and the rest…Heck, even Clara wasn’t immune to comments about her appearance in Series 8…[Read more]

@lisa:

Most resolutions usually are simple.

@missrori:

Perhaps he didn’t use his regenerative powers to cure his blindness, because he didn’t think it important enough to waste them?

@wolfweed: I remember In The forest of the Night, the Doctor tells Clara that humans forget, and they just become fairy stories.

Did anyone notice that the e…[Read more]

@wolfweed and @missrori I agree with you that one reason for dissatisfaction has to do with the episode’s time constraints. There’s only so much you can cram into a 40-minute episode without turning it into a three-parter. A two-parter may have been too short, while a three-parter might have felt like it was dragging things out. Dunno.

@lisa I…[Read more]