<span style=”color: #000000; font-family: Times New Roman;”>@bluesqueakpip, @mudlark- yes, it was a very different Osgood. I don’t know how that ties into their connection, unless it’s the fact that most people lose their confidence when they deal with the master- and as ultimate fan-girl, she would be as terrified by missy as she is bolstered up…[Read more]

I meant to say as well- seeing Clara inside her own mind, fighting for control was a brilliant call back to Coleman’s first appearance.

Re: Osgoods- for a moment Bonnie turning into another Osgood actually disturbed me. Partly because Bonnie had been quite insistent on her own name and identity. It made me think about Osgood as hybrid, because it…[Read more]

Absolutely loved this, and the last one.

I’m not a Clara hater, I like her as a companion, I just like Coleman’s other characters a little better. Now the order is: Dalak Clara, Bonnie, Governess Clara, Companion Clara. It shows what a surprisingly subtle actor she really is.

The Doctor slightly reassured me this week. The moment in the last…[Read more]

@everyone- I would say Masie is better in Game of Thrones- but she’s been doing it for so much of her life. Watching her act with Charles Dance was one of the best experiences in my life. She is very good, but creating a new character (or two) for this season is very different from growing up in a role. She will only get better. (As for Game of…[Read more]

I defiantly get the feel of a recurring character.  And I loved the way they developed her story telling. From the last episode where she told stories to try and affect the outcome, then told herself bad stories and thought she was making them happen. Now she is writing stories about herself, which become just that, stories, because her human…[Read more]

@Bluesqueskpip, @scaryB fair point over the machina and I hang my head- to be fair a lot of it was foregrounded- she thought of stories and worried that it would make things happen, she made weird puppets, there was a projection of an illusion. I suppose I was as confused as the baddie was, (and in my defence, it’s not my tec!

thing is I did…[Read more]

oh i have a bad feeling about this. And I don’t just mean the insane moral flaws in the Doctors decision- that I liked. Giving her the chance to give another immortality- just as flawed, I’ll take that.

And I really liked this episode. Capaldi was great. Clara was almost like a calmed down Dalek Clara. Hints that the doctor wants her to quit for…[Read more]

@TheBrainOfMoffat– I do also think they were a troll, or at least, someone looking for a place to moan and criticise. But they spent more time huffing about having apparently (before their own post) discovering their opinions were unwanted then they did expressing their opinions. This site was started as a reaction to the depressingly negative…[Read more]

I know a lot of attention has gone on the breaking of the forth wall. This might be because so much of what I read comes from the 19th and 18th centuries, but the idea of the forth wall- the idea of the pretence that this is not a play, a book, a television program seems quite modern. (Well, inevitably for the last one…) Internal monologues on…[Read more]

@Craig– re guardian comments- I had noticed they were a bit better (and, sadly this seems to be connected, fewer) but that could partly be because some of the constant complains have been addressed- we now have lots of two partners, actual aliens, people running down corridors- its all quite old who. So most of the moaners who have ay streak of…[Read more]

@hudsey– brilliant- yes, I think that would work. (Doctor in the life support, that is.)

I love the two parters, a slower build up. I spent about the first half of this episode smiling, Capaldi was fantastic. The second half I actually felts half panicked, which doesn’t usually happen.

One question- if the ghosts ‘don’t come out during day’, how are they messing with the computers to bring day? I love the literalism of it, and I get…[Read more]

@221BadWolf– Dalak Clara was actually called Oswin Oswald. No Clara in her name. and by saving River she did help save the doctor in The Name of the Doctor.

@hudsey I think Missy made it clear earlier on that the slime were, understandably, resentful of the still functioning Dalek who still get to move around in cases… and the confession dial came in throughout the two episodes… yes sometimes here the theories are more insane than what is actually happening, but as @Bluesqueakpip says, a lot of thi…[Read more]

<span style=”color: #000000; font-family: Times New Roman;”>@jphamlore– and it was interesting to re-visit Davors’ motivation. Not that I want, particularly, to feel sorry for Davros, but some understanding is helpful. ‘it’s just- the war’, war for his entire life and probably generations before this. The Time War, for context, might have gone on…[Read more]

Mmm, there is a fair bit of moaning in The Other Place, but really a lot of positives as well. I’m glad to read people talking about their children really enjoying it. I love the mystery, and I would have as a child, but its good to confirm the enjoyment isn’t as tightly confined as some make out.

Watched it again yesterday, and a couple of…[Read more]

OK, loved it. Had a friend over for his birthday last night so we had a poker and no TV rule, watched it this morning when I was still a little drunk (there’s only really one cure for a hangover…) and with a lot of non-fans, and everyone was impressed.

@Mudlark– I liked- well I didn’t like- but its good that they showed Missy do that. It can b…[Read more]

@Ichabod, @Mudlark– I woke up the other night and there was a monster under my bed- we have a lot of boxes pushed under, and one of the dogs fell between the bed and the wall and couldn’t get out. @Purofilion– I even know people who go to spiritualist meetings. Personally I think they just make death seem deathly dull. However many years on this w…[Read more]

oh, by the way, has anyone here bought/used an edition of ‘The Chambers Dictionary’? It’s been suggested by my course, but looking at Amazon reviews (which are not always helpful, unless you’re browsing male hair removal products) editions after the 11th seem less good quality and are missing many, many words. The 11th is from 2008. Is that too old?