@ Serahni Yes, he does.

C-DOCTOR: They’re waking from their tomb right now. You can either die or live on as one of us.
(Meanwhile, his right hand is writing Hit Me on a notepad.)
CLARA: The Doctor will stop you.
C-DOCTOR: He can’t even access the lips.
(Clara hits him. Hard.)
DOCTOR: Argh! Ow! Oh, that hurt. No, stop. Enough, Bit of pain,…[Read more]

so, slapgate. I just went back and re-watched the episode.

Doctor: There was never a good Dalek. There was a broken Dalek and we repaired it.
Journey: You were supposed to be helping us.
Doctor: I gave it a shot. It was a Dalek, what did you expect.
Journey: No more talking, you are done. Ok new objective, we are taking this Dalek…[Read more]

@Phaseshift – You forgot one. 🙂 River also clocked Eleven in “The Angels Take Manhattan”

Def no justification for that one either.

@Othrworldr
I think this is the first time I’ve heard someone suggest that the screwdriver might be sentient and have it’s own personality. I hope not, cause Ten fried it once, and I’m pretty sure it has been lost in the past. I much prefer to think it’s more like my smartphone, and the TARDIS is it’s home computer.
And what about the one…[Read more]

Welcome DoctorBoe. I don’t think Missy is River. She just doesn’t feel like River to me. River would have called him her husband, not her boyfriend. Also, River’s still in the mainframe, she doesn’t have a body. The Time Lords would have had to download her into a body first to grant her a new regeneration cycle, and I just can’t see that…[Read more]

Ok, I’ve just been through my first watch through of episode 2. I really enjoyed it. Note to all future companions, don’t forget your purse/wallet. 🙂 You never know when you might have to get home from Glasgow. Danny has a lot of potential, I’m really interested in seeing how his character progresses.

I didn’t really have a problem with him…[Read more]

@janetteB I’m sure Moffat has enough trouble slogging through the emails people send him tryinging to get person a or b onto show c or d. LOL. But I know he’s been shown some of it. He mentioned the WhoLock video in one of the Sherlock talks.

If Tasha’s not a personification of River, I honestly believe we were meant to think she was. So…[Read more]

@Arbutus I don’t think that was ever explained. However the Daleks are geniuses with advanced technology. I don’t doubt it’s possible. I also don’t think Tasha was human. While the Doctor aged on Trenzalore, she did not. While I suppose it’s possible that something in the Papal Mainframe could have kept her young, I don’t think that’s the case.

@Serahni I still subscribe to the theory that Tasha was a personification of River.

@Arbutus, the Daleks would kill Tasha and restore her only to kill her again trying to get the info they needed.

DALEK: Information concerning the Doctor was harvested from the cadaver of Tasha Lem.
DOCTOR: Bet she never told you how to break through the Trenzalore forcefield, though. She’d have died first.
DALEK 2: Several times.

This reminds me of Amy in the short “Good Night” (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LefejNy7mWU)

She talks about how she never had parents, then he rebooted the universe, and she had parents, and has always had parents, and how she remembers it both ways at the same time. This is the way I see the Claricles. They didn’t exist until she entered…[Read more]

@bivium6 “I wonder why Eleven is so sure that Twelve will need Clara.” Well, he is the Doctor. I think its a combination.
I think part of him telling/asking Clara to help him is for her as well. Take some of the focus off the “OMG he changed”. Isn’t it sometimes easier to do something knowing the other person is just as scared as you are?…[Read more]

@Silverman, I though that excuses line was just puro calling me out. (ie both you and puro gave arguments for Clara’s actions, and I called them excuses) 🙂

The only excuse I have for the creatures in Father’s Day vs the Doctor jumping back in later on is: Fixed point? Maybe? Kind of like all of history happening at once in The Wedding of…[Read more]

Gotcha  🙂

We’ve had a lot of troll sightings this week.

Gotta make sure we don’t scare of the newbies who aren’t trolls.

@purofilion

I suppose arguments would have been a better word.  I didn’t mean it in a negative way towards anyone posting.   🙂

Like I said, I have hopes for the future now that we’ve gotten the regen out of the way.

@silvermanre: A Good Man Goes to War – I’ve never felt the “rising higher” was a positive thing.   I think that’s exactly what River was calling him out on, and I don’t think she was out of line to do so (as someone else mentioned).  “The man who can make an army turn around at the mention of his name.”   That’s what I always thought she was refe…[Read more]

@Arbutus  I miss Donna too.  Most of my friends hated Donna, but she was my fave companion for 10.   Looking back, doesn’t Rose just look comfortable?  She took off in her jeans/t-shirt/hoodie.  Maybe its the Midwest girl in me or the fact that I’m older, but it would be jeans for me.  Seriously, can you imagine trying to put on tights while…[Read more]

@purofilion  Probably a script issue.  I haven’t seen Jenna in anything else so I don’t really have a feel for her as an actor.  I did enjoy Clara in Time of the Doctor when we got to see her interacting with her family.  I had hopes (still do) that we might see some better development from her character.   I think the flip-flopping was what got t…[Read more]

@purofilion – “When she spoke angrily to Vastra about not liking ‘pretty boys’…”  methinks the lady doth protest too much.

I think she got called out on her shortcomings and she got defensive.

Granted I understand that knowing about him regenerating is different than experiencing it, but even if she didn’t remember being in his timestream and…[Read more]

Well, that was an exercise in patience and avoidance.   The episode didn’t air in our theaters until Monday here in the US.  So I’ve been managing to avoid all things Who-related for for a extra couple of days.

My ramblings:

I enjoyed Capaldi’s first out tremendously.   I love the accent myself (wish David had been allowed his back in the day,…[Read more]