@davros Isn’t that last screenshot Brendan?

It’s still not clear to me why the regenerations of the Timeless Child are so different from the regenerations we have seen of the Doctor. Throughout the series, the Doctor doesn’t age to that extent. The closest I can recall is Matt Smith’s Doctor in “The Time of the Doctor”, in which he had visibly…[Read more]

@miapatrick Hmm, that’s true. The memories that the Doctor saw of the Timeless Child could have been projected into her mind by the Master, perhaps, like he apparently did with the Brendan thing (not that there was any indication from the Doctor that she was receiving those images, which was odd).

By the way, was it explained why the Doctor’s…[Read more]

Other lovely, ironic stuff. The Doctor standing in the ruins of the Citadel, automatically telling her fam that they can’t be here because no aliens are allowed on Gallifrey. When she’s the original alien…

Also explains why the xenophobic Time Lords disliked The Doctor so very much. They needed her to become Time Lords, but she was an alien.…[Read more]

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I’m almost done. About halfway through s4… I shall miss it….

@miapatrick “it’s most likely a case of how, not if, the Master got away/survived).”

The Master escape was signposted. just before the bomb went someone offscreen said, something like, “quick, come through here”

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Totally agree with you about the Hybrid.  The Timelords tortured the CapDoc

over the Hybrid’s identity and as it turns out it was always themselves!

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the supposed unlikelihood of one of the handful of survivors being a nurse, another a teacher.

I found those comments a bit odd, to be honest. Soldiers wouldn’t be the last people to survive: they’d have died – or the good ones would – protecting the nurse, the teacher or fighting the Cybermen. The people told to refugee out would be…[Read more]

@miapatrick. Yeh I’m really not sure regarding Brendan. That’s why I was left a little disappointed at the end of the episode, there was so much left open. I was more confused and had so many questions rather than feeling excited for next week… but I guess if next week delivers it doesn’t really matter. It is a 2-parter after all.

Well, this was fun, and surprising, too. (As I have determinedly been avoiding spoilers, even little ones, I was good and surprised when the “traveller” turned out to be the Lone Cyberman.) I enjoyed the setting and the guest actors, and felt that the creepy/scary component was just right. I agree with @bluesqueakpip that, for whatever reason, the…[Read more]

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Yes, I only knew it because I was in a play about the mad foursome a couple of decades back.

It can be referenced in The Letters and Journals of Lord Byron, with Notices of His Life, which is on Google Books.

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I didn’t much like (this is actually possibly the number one complaint on t’other place which is delightfully positive so far) the implication of cowardice in Byron.

A sign that the writer’s done her research. He certainly wasn’t a coward, as such, but he had what you might call fits of nerves when he acted like one. Con…[Read more]

@geekknocker123 These articles do a good job of exploring the history of social consciousness on Doctor Who:

Doctor Who’s History of Political and Social Consciousness

Doctor Who has always been political, and it has the right to be

Sylvester McCoy says Doctor Who has always been political as classic series lands on BritBox

@miapatrick You…[Read more]

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Perhaps the contrast between last week’s episode caused me to be a bit harsh in my comments yesterday evening, but I certainly didn’t think it was as bad as Orphan 55 and, as I said, it held my attention. After a second viewing, now that perhaps I am in a more tolerant mood, I feel less inclined to be critical, but I still have the…[Read more]

Thought the episode was good. Difficult after the expectations raised by last weeks blockbuster.

Agree with @psymon regarding the difference between Tennant and Whittaker when explaining things. I also always think the best Doctor’s are the ones who demonstrate anger the best. Whittaker doesn’t ever seem to angry, she showed it a little more in…[Read more]

I pretty much agree with @jimthefish here. I personally found this one very disappointing. For me it fell (as so many have) into the ‘great idea and set-up for a story that was ultimately let down by being poorly executed’.

I was pleased that the environmental issue was done a bit more subtly than in Orphan 55, also the supporting cast were,…[Read more]

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Yes, I definitely got the impression that the split into different investigating teams has been happening a lot more than we’ve seen on-screen. We’ve seen it a couple of times this series, but they keep referring to off-screen adventures, so it’s not too big a leap.

If all three actors are leaving at the end of the series (Doctors…[Read more]

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Maybe on early pre-Hartnell Gallifrey it was assumed to be impossible?

That’s what I’d go for. The Martin Doctor and Gat are from Gallifrey’s past. Which past isn’t what the Doctor thinks, maybe. Or maybe it’s her own and the Master’s past?

The thing about the alternate timeline – where are the clues? The only clue I could possibly…[Read more]

Okay, that was exciting.

@Jimthefish – remember last week that I said Doctor Who had no compunction about using stuff from the New Adventures? And this week, guess what? A reprise of Human Nature.

@miapatrick I’m with @devilishrobby – I’m really not convinced this is an alternate timeline Doctor. Now admittedly, as far as we know the Doctor…[Read more]

@Miapatrick Yes,  in terms of the distance WhitDoc has been keeping from her companions, from a character point of view, we can argue it make makes sense, particularly after all the trauma of the Time War and its aftermath and losing River and then Clara and Bill, all in upsetting ways.

Although, that’s also, perhaps, a little generous to the…[Read more]

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I think quite possibly somewhere else.   This still means they’ve still majorly meddled with the time line to wipe out the human development of

If that is the case, and they don’t travel back to a different planet from that of their origin and don’t thereby generate an alternative future for themselves, then I don’t see why they wo…[Read more]