@Badwulf yeah, I kept thinking of abortion arguments and it did nag at me a little. Particularly because, to make it a pregnancy metaphor, it’s the whole world that is pretty much equally late stages pregnant with something that might or might not kill them all. And then the choice is made by a person who has the best chance pretty much in the…[Read more]

@Marconi– sorry, but are you complaining that the episode is too soap operary- too much romance- or not enough because they didn’t show us every step of the way?

sorry, it’s something else to link thingy your name isn’t it? Can’t remember what it is.

@pedant, that’s it!

@IAnNotAFishIAmAFreeMan- well, quite- but still officer class… and that’s probably why he lost it when he said that. He has a noticeable way of taking charge- as noted in the last episode. I think Danny touched a nerve.

@PhaseShift– yes that was interesting. The Police Officer also differs in that he didn’t willingly go to his death- no self sacrifice, just wrong place at the wrong time.

I meant to say as well, I liked what Danny had to say about the Doctor, officer class etc. (I also think this strongly implies that it was a boarding school we saw in the…[Read more]

I did love that he was quite happy when he thought it was the Matt Smithalike. Yes, healthy.

Despite this episode being so much about rivalry between the two men, I think it has also established that the relationship between the Doctor and Clara is no longer romantic. (Her space dad. Perfect.)

re-watched earlier today, and- did Orsan say that the Tardis is ‘smaller on the outside?’ like Victorian Clarical?

The shot of him packing his bags ready to go with the Doctor reminded me of Dalek Clarical as well. Not that a person wouldn’t be packing their bags in such circumstances, just that it isn’t the kind of thing that is usually shown.

@TheatreGuy when the Teller was getting at her memories, I thought that there was some kind of reference to her time in the Doctors time stream, and wondered if she was trying not to think of it.

Then when the Doctor used him to undo the effect of the memory worm, I wondered if she might have begun to remember something about it that she had lost.

Since the first two episodes featured Missy, and the first three mentioned the ‘promised land’, I’m assuming that the last two episodes must contain some sort of a reference/clue. This one could be quite simple. Imagine what you want most of all in the world…

On that subject, what did the Doctor want most of all in the world? Obviously he sent…[Read more]

Immediately after watching this, I had to walk out of a house, up a dark country lane, open and lock a gate (no light from the sky, no street lights, pitch black) across a courtyard, into a barn, to turn on the light in my campervan/ex disability bus with an airmattress in the back.

Anyway. I don’t think any episode that comes after Blink will…[Read more]

damn just lost quite a long post, bloody bt.

main points, the doctor and robin: heroes and stories. I liked Clara’s comment about the sonic. In this episode, trickery feature heavily: Robins’ response to the doctors ‘box’ (yes, that was a tad vulgar) the cheat with the arrow, Clara bluffing the Sherriff. Then she points out the absence of the…[Read more]

OK, while my bath is running:

I liked this for one of the lighter episodes- compared to COTBP (which I didn’t hugely rate)  and DOAS (which I enjoyed especially for Rory and his dad, and also, incidentally, had Rory playing the move the doctor mentions here- getting captured) I found this somewhat better. I actually laughed at the spoon. I…[Read more]

I was talking to someone about Who last night (like you do) and they suggested, if the library mainframe and the papal mainframe are the same, could Missy be a virus? Then I was reminded on how a coding mistake (or something) warped someone face but made them a genius. So glitches can happen…

@Nick @janetteB I agree about Jenny’s self assertiveness. What’s surprising me is so many people seeing her as submissive. She seems perfectly prepared to call her wife out when she thinks she says something out of line.  In a way I’m reminded of Jane Eyre. Originally she is more comfortable as Rochester’s employee, he is her employer but outside…[Read more]

@midnyt– actually, I was trying to remember if she slapped him there, thinking if she did there was a kind of justification for it.

A lot of classic film noir and pulp fiction seem to involve women slapping men rather painlessly, and men slapping women, harder, either to calm them down, or knock them out (for their own protection, naturally). For…[Read more]

Hi @DoctorBoe– although I don’t agree that Missy is River, but you’re right to remind us about the unbroken physic link. I’m sure River’ last ‘spoilers’ wasn’t just a farewell trotting out of her catchphrase, and I do agree with you (and @giulia42, as I meant to mention earlier) about the Library being connected.

If only that meant we would see…[Read more]

@purofilion– well, not arrogant all the time. I’m just thinking of his tendency to try and drive away enemies (sometimes successfully) just by telling them who is was. For example, in his first episode, ten drove away the badies by pressing a button, fighting a duel, and quoting legislation (the shadow proclamation at them. Eleven, in his first,…[Read more]

@purofilion, @Bluesqeakpip, I like this idea of a less humanised doctor. This definitely fits with what Vastra said about him ‘trusting them’ and ‘letting down his guard’, rather than trying to impress them. Someone once said eleven ‘imprinted on Amy like a little baby chick’, tens relationship with Rose got a little… intense. It might be nice…[Read more]

OK, back to try and make a more coherent post, now that I am sober and have watched the episode on a television screen.

I think the young girl shown in this and episode one will be featured more prominently in an episode. Maybe that will be the episode where Danny first comes along in the TARDIS? This would be like the first ever episode, only…[Read more]

I liked, for the things I liked and the things I disliked. The doctor feeding the doomed man something so that he could use his death, I hated that. So did the doctor, and what else could he do? The loss of triumph when the dalek went off fueld by the doctors hate. We saw the difference between this and the last doctor. Essentially, they’d feel…[Read more]