@midnyt

Me too. My sentiments are that if you don’t ‘get’ Moffat, don’t watch anything he writes.

cheers,

Missy

@arbutus @puroandson @midnyt

Yes, I thought about that. If we want to be so down-to-earth it will always ends with: time can be rewritten/not always time can be rewritten (sorry, Steven Moffat had bad mood this time); I’m the last one of my kind/ but guess what, I’m not (this season we have a bigger budget); I would create another paradox and…[Read more]

@midnyt @mersey @puroandson

I still think people (and the Doctor, for that matter) underestimate the power that certain kinds of “knowledge” have over our perceptions. River “knew” with absolute certainty (as far as she was concerned) that SmithDoc was on his last regen. This single “fact” was powerful enough that it would have allowed her…[Read more]

@pedant    Yes, @JimTheFish is ours now, and we aren’t giving him back!

@midnyt @puroandson @mersey

For me, part of the difference was in the fact that River (by the time we were getting to know her) had to some degree earned the right to a little arrogance. She is closer to being the Doctor’s equal. She has lived a long life, travelled in time…[Read more]

I expected to like River and Twelve together and was not disappointed. I always liked her best of all in her first outing with Ten, finding her dynamic with Eleven somewhat irritating at times (albeit with some very funny moments), except for the last time, in The Name of the Doctor, when arguably Matt Smith had reached his most mature take on the…[Read more]

@midnyt @lisa @mudlark

I don’t think the Doctor deliberately left the sonic glasses on the tardis panel.  He sort of throw them out of anger and despair.

I think the Doctor intended to use it on Clara up to the point which Ashildr and Clara change his mind.  There is a long pause before the line of “better than a coin toss”. This is the point th…[Read more]

@midnyt    Not sure that Clara’s ending was meant as “leaving it open for her to come back”, more as something that Moffat saw as a reasonably positive and convincing end to Clara’s character arc. As you didn’t like the character then it might not matter as much to you, but for someone who did like Clara, it was really a very uplifting fi…[Read more]

@midnyt – that jacket design is awesome. nice one.

i’ve drawn Doctor 12…

@midnyt, that is incredibly festive!

Still haven’t rewatched the episode so nothing new to add in terms of theories. (I am waiting until our youngest returns from a school trip as he left Sunday morning.)

@JimTheFish I have the article open but haven’t read it yet or responded but I will certainly recommend your post.

@Bluesqueakpip I agree with you and @Dr Ben re’ the pregnancy…[Read more]

@DrBen   You’ve actually hit on the bigger point, which is that, sexism aside, two pregnant companions in a row would just be lazy writing.     I’m a woman and a writer, and this sentence makes me laugh! Because, shockingly, I have some sympathy for the notion that it matters not if Moffat is sexist, as long as he can write!

Obviously, it is mor…[Read more]

Thanks @Midnyt ffor the screenshots, you have better pausing skills than me!

@Barnable, some nice extra links to chalk up on my blackboard 🙂

@Wolfweed 😀

BTW, if you’re spoiler sensitive, try and avoid any of the official pre-release shots for the next episode. I saw one with somebody’s name on that I wish hadn’t been revealed to me…[Read more]

@midnyt
It’s the hand of the chair of Sutekh!

(unless it’s a Dalek mutant from the 60s… or a snack-passing facehugger…)

Thanks, @Barnable for explaining that the Dr eats ‘pudding brains’…

@midnyt good point. I will cross fingers and toes for a one off special then or lots of minisodes.

Cheers

Janette

@VashtaNerada @midnyt

Hi – we had a bit of a discussion last year about how to discuss the Eighth Doctor movie. As it wasn’t episodic, we decided to confine the discussion to the Faces of the Doctor thread where we were trying to do “a Doctor a month”.

You can find the discussion starting here, with some observations on the Movie. I’d say add…[Read more]

@midnyt

the lovely Mr. Paul McGann and his poor, poor movie?

Well said. I hope that the BBC will provide Paul McGann to reprise the role again. He certainly deserves it and after TNofD there is plenty of demand for it. There could actually be Dr Who spinoff episodes featuring the Doctor trying, and perhaps failing, to avoid the time war.

Cheers

Janette

@midnyt     Another reason I love DW. What other show could inspire this sentence:    River has been dead since we met her.

😀

@ScaryB   These are really good points (and isn’t it fun to use the word “slapgate”?). However, I also agree with @Nick that I didn’t see Clara as being upset about the danger they were in, more angry about the conclusion the Doctor had drawn. “Is this what we’ve learned?”

@midnyt  I think that in the previous episode it was deliberately est…[Read more]

@midnyt – ah, I see – you were referring to Clara merely being a plot-point who saves the Doctor, instead of a rounded person? I get your point about the slap showing her as a real person, albeit one with flaws. I know we all have them, but – bearing in mind the ‘look’ on  @thommck ‘s kids’ faces – there’s an issue somewhere here about role…[Read more]

@midnyt – thanks for putting the text for the ‘slap’ argument down, as it helps put it into context. I can see now that feeling in very real danger of dying, and the Doctor almost loving it, because he was ‘proved right’ about Daleks, would be enough to push anyone to anger – especially as this incarnation is so much more ‘alien’ to her that…[Read more]