@Shazzbot– regarding Victorian display- there really was, including very grotesque arrangements including baby skeletons holding preserved pieces of human organs. A kind of art meets parable (death comes to us […]

@Shazzbot– fair enough, sorry about that.

It could just be courageousness- reasoning that if the monster started anything, she’d just kick its arse. It seemed to me though that she was interpreting his double […]

just watched it again and was struck by the way Mrs G talked about the coming ‘Golden dawn’. At first I thought of the Greek far right party, then about the late 19th century philosophical/occult […]

@Juniperfish– *waves back* defiantly. Nice to come across someone else who’s read it.

Loved that episode. Ada was especially well written and well played, sympathetic and unsettling- the moment when she said she would never forgive her mother and her mother said ‘that’s my girl’ beautifully avoided […]

@HaveYouFedTheFish– modify away! yes, I had a thought after I posted, Amy re-booted the universe from her memories, and ended up writing stories.

@ScaryB– not only is she written on, Clara has fairly few […]

@wolfweed– Thank you! I can’t believe I only just twigged-

I can’t help thinking at least that Moffat has read the book, and it is an influence- maybe one of the reasons I’ve taken to 11 so much is […]

OK, was just browsing through the DM thread, and some people talking about all the aliens in 11’s first series fleeing the silence, and whether ‘the silence’ always meant the alien Silence, or something else, and […]

@Phaseshift, @JimTheFish re: Truculent Alexander. I’ll admit I did wonder for a while, when TS posted a few really quite reasonable comments about the foolishness of calling for the cancelling of DW by people just […]

@HaveYouFedTheFish– I can really imagine the conversation.

It does highlight the differences between the Clara’s- Victorian Clara would look for his name, she did insist on following him- she was a much more […]

@ScaryB– mine too! I know the cloth thing is a bit tenuous, but pieces of cloth did seem to get a lot of screen time, considering there was a swimming pool and a library and all kinds of exciting things to show […]

Just re-watched- a couple of thoughts. It was a cloth at the end (I thought it was paper the first time too), but it looked a lot like the cloth at the beginning of the episode, that the youngest brother was using […]

@Juniperfish– yes, I thought that from the start of the episode. (Though in Red Dwarf they would have played the whole ‘we told you you were an android cos we were bored’ more for laughs, I think, whereas here it […]

loved that.

‘Never follow a mad man onto a spaceship’ (or something like that). He really should get that tattooed on his forehead.

@HTPBDET, agree, both Clara and the Doctor were brilliantly played in this […]

@IAmNotAFishIAmAFreeMan- thank you for that link. How brilliant is that announcement? ‘Do me the honour of becoming my widow’. I have a personal love for ‘ghoulish humour’. It really does work. And a good […]

Hi everyone- and welcome to all the new members, it’s lovely to see this forum take off like this.

Been trying not to spend too much time here and on the thread because I have an exam this afternoon. (Shame one […]

Minimal snarking on the other site so far… the night is still young I suppose.

Interesting about the Tardis translation field still working. And I loved the chained up parallel between Dalek Clara and the Ice […]

Re: sonic screwdriver- I can’t remember which episode it was, but wasn’t there one when Amy had hold of it, and Rory asked what she was going to do with it, and she said ‘point and think’, and lo and behold, it […]

@thedoctordude, yes, it’s interesting the reference to her mother. I’m tempted, after this last episode to think that the Clara of The Bells of St John is the original- she takes the name Oswin, comes up with ‘Run […]