Yes the ‘hello’ really struck me. There’s usually a moment of confusion – though not so much I think with Fifteen? But at least, maybe a sense of being newborn. She was more as though she’d stepped through something.

@blenkinsopthebrave – yup, when I thought it, I thought I knew the lot that would appreciate…[Read more]

and yet, if some of them turn up – oh he’s extraordinary now. All the things he’s done and the people he’s met. He…[Read more]

I think somebody has said here that this Doctor hasn’t shown the kind of awe inspiring anger that some of the last Doctors have, there is an outside chance that a Doctor might be too  well adjusted – or alternatively, we’re just not used…[Read more]

At…[Read more]

the total death and destruction so early on confirmed we were watching to see how he undoes it, no ifs. Which is fine and it wasn’t badly done but…

Ruby is important because she was important to the Doctor. Which isn’t a bad shift back in emphasis rather than a second Clara.

but what does this explain? Why was she mak…[Read more]

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and we have two mysterious older women, two mysteriously abandoned babies.

this has been such a playful series!

final predictions in descending order of confidence:

Ruby is whatever the Doctor is. Potentially his daughter.

The heart issue won’t be 100% satisfactorily explained.

The Doctor is linked to the pantheon. He comes from magic.

there should be a few between t…[Read more]

another thing that’s occurred to me. When he explains regeneration to Ruby he says sometimes their faces…[Read more]

I wonder why is that that when, briefly, Ruby had not been her daughter, she was just so cold, and blank, and uncaring. A…[Read more]

This Doctor is very in touch with his emotions. Crying every episode, his horrified frustrated rage in Dot and Bubble. His instant flirty crush in Rouge. After all, if Fourteen is working through his stuff on earth, with his earth family. it’s probably going to lean into that. And…[Read more]

@janetteb I was thinking of you during the first half. I think at least, it’s like when you get the wrong answer on The Chase and so does the Chaser, because the Doctor was really buying the Susan theory for a while there.

And we have new Susan knowledge! The Doctor isn’t a dad (yet). And he’s scared to become one. What would that…[Read more]

I feel the Doctor might have found the Mr Darcy to his Lizzy Bennet. (Only the Doctor knows damn well he’s handsome enough to tempt him). It was interesting seeing a little reversal of the Doctor-River encounters, I saw a little of River in the Doctor in this encounter. And to see a little of that dynamic…[Read more]

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I did play with an idea of a stray regeneration of River for a second. Would have been fun, but probably not.

I feel they made this episode work with it, the last episode worked too, but there is a weirdness in pacing in having two Doctor lite episodes in a row in quite a short run. But I think a lot of that is logistics and doing what they…[Read more]

In the 18th century, there was a kind of explosion of social media…[Read more]

And it is interesting to think about the early signs. I had barely registered, I’m afraid, the total whiteness,…[Read more]

re RIP and I miss you – I think you can love someone and miss them and be absolutely determined that they remain out of your life.

is it possible the dangerous prime minister remains a more m…[Read more]

I’m envisioning Dalek’s advancing, spinning slightly, towards someone electronically demanding CUD-DLE-ME! They could be the most terrifying iteration of the species yet.

But yes – so nice to speculate! I think, even when I enjoyed quite a few of Chib’s episodes more than I have these last two, they didn’t give me as much to think about and say.

@ps1l0v3y0u: indeed. But holy high expectations. I don’t…[Read more]

The space babies are on the whole, more so if you like that kind of thing, sweet, affectionate, don’t cry all that much, make intelligible sense, are clever, brave, are maybe something close to a platonic ideal of a baby that…[Read more]

so… I don’t know.

I came in with moderate expectations, remembering I wasn’t all that obsessed with Doctor Who under RTD the first time. On the other hand, I really liked the anniversary episodes and the Christmas episodes, much more than his original ones. So what about this?

It doesn’t help that I don’t find babies…[Read more]