@bluesqueakpip hope – and Grace. Never such a well named character. I’ve kept thinking, through this series, of this line ‘Justice is getting what you deserve. Mercy is not getting what you deserve. Grace is getting what you don’t deserve.’ You can give out justice, you can dispense mercy, or you can bestow grace.

It’s an arc, though, it’s an arc. Tim Shaw returns, and with him the idea of the consequences of actions. This series has focused on the consequences of actions in the past, this Doctor has been very aware of this – here we see her confronted with the consequences of her actions full stop, at any moment in time.

Graham and Ryan have passed the…[Read more]

@arch I get what you say about Sci-Fi. As @bluesqueakpip has pointed out, it’s a very fairy tale take on sci-fi in this episode. Proper fairy tales, and the solitrect is of a particular take of fairies, that is, sometimes they’re evil, sometimes they’re just powerful and wistful, and want to play but don’t understand and are dangerous.

The show…[Read more]

@seeoswald I’d say that was hands down the best episode of the series. It’s even managed to somewhat impress  some critics of the series, including two very different (can’t emphasise their difference enough) posters on this forum.

So it’s interesting that you say that because broadly the consensus seems to be that the series has improved in the…[Read more]

@bluesqueakpip thanks for posting this, rumours she was only doing one series were everywhere and I honestly think that would be a terrible outcome. Not just because I like what she’s doing as the Doctor.

@nerys – I think it might the the third time I’ve posted it on this site. I tend to have it primed and ready to go wherever I go to discuss this season. Feels a little sad that it’s needed.

We do indeed. Because we’re not on a ladder or staircase of progress, it’s more like an Escher picture. Or an escalator where the steps keep turning into a…[Read more]

@magickirin the original members (including @bluesqueakpip) can only be amused at someone using the word snowflake in that manner of insult here. This forum was created out of the dying embers of a comment thread for The Snowmen.

It was also created as a place to discuss Doctor Who – including disagreeing, strongly, about episodes and eras of…[Read more]

@bluesqueakpip @kevinwho – something to do with the ‘Timeless Child’, something buried in her memories?

@bluesqueakpip I completely agree, and I can see a good reason for this, because I can see a good reason why the number of regenerations was capped at 12. It could simply be a fact that huge and powerful as Time Lord brains are, the memory of so many personalities, with all their loves still locked inside you, carrying on all those emotions is a…[Read more]

@thane16 or to put it even more succinctly: wobbly-wobbly, timey-wimey… stuff.

Headache.

@swankycriminal I think the elder version remembers the previous meeting only when it happens again. Before that he’s forgotten it because it still lies in his future.

So, in Day of the Doctor, Eleven remembers meeting, well, Eleven, back when he was Ten only when he, Eleven, meets Ten.

And both Ten and Eleven remember meeting Ten and Eleven…[Read more]

@ichabod I think the Doctor felt that one person could possibly stay but with so many both universes were in danger of collapsing, and it might be that she knew that if she was that one person it would continue to collapse because of her nature.

But Graham would only be with a copy of Grace. If you remember, in the Name Of The Doctor, when he…[Read more]

@Paul in Europe between 75-85% of the people persecuted for witchcraft were women.

In Early Stuart drama, Witches are overwhelmingly portrayed as women.

@tardigrade see this is why I actually like the use of frog form. I think the Doctor found it slightly endearing, and found it easier to feel warmer towards the Solitract when it wasn’t using the form of one of her friends (albeit a short friendship) the form that was being used to trap another of her friends, a form that completely screwed up by…[Read more]

@mudlark It’s looking at them closely thats the problem, something about the size of their bodies…

@jimthefish well just the one frog actually…

But aside from confirming what I always suspected about the bloody creatures, good episode. Looked amazing, great initial misdirection, and a baddie that isn’t really a baddie, just a dangerously lonely and powerful entity nearly blowing up the universe. It managed to both be a ‘the universe is in peril’ story and carry on the overall theme of…[Read more]

Just wanted to say, always hated moths anyway. They’ve always creeped me out.

Really didn’t need an episode of flesh eating moths chasing people down dark corridors…

@thane16 experiences are great presents! a friend of ours bought my boyfriend one with birds of prey, and added me on to it (carer’s perk!), so we get to have falcons etc on our arms.