@midnyt  Thank you, that’s the conversation I was recalling.  It’s the same conversation that I think at least gives Clara some precedent for believing a slap might jolt the Doctor’s think processes back into line.  I admit it’s quite out-of-character for her to suddenly strike out like that but it is a least fairly symptomatic of the huge ch…[Read more]

@midnyt– actually, I was trying to remember if she slapped him there, thinking if she did there was a kind of justification for it.

A lot of classic film noir and pulp fiction seem to involve women slapping men rather painlessly, and men slapping women, harder, either to calm them down, or knock them out (for their own protection, naturally). For…[Read more]

@purofilion  @midnyt  I’m guessing that the “no spring chicken” remarks aimed at Clara are meant as a joke regarding the fact that it is the Doctor himself who has aged rather dramatically! As she is so clearly young and gorgeous, they don’t bother me as they might if they were aimed at an older companion.

@midnyt Thanks for that! I guess I miss a lot of the backstory when I have only watched the recent seasons. I do love DW and I would like to know the whole story, it’s just there are so many episodes and I don’t have the time to watch them all.

@purofilion – no worries, and definitely no offence taken! I was just confused as I was sure I hadn’t mentioned anything about ‘excuses’. Sadly, I even resorted to highlighting the word ‘excuses’ on screen to double-check I hadn’t missed something in one of my comments!

@serahni @arbutus @midnyt and many, many others…

Great theorising on…[Read more]

Good point, @midnyt, Tasha was presumably not human. Very long-lived? Or somehow preserved due to her role as head (or high priestess or whatever she was) of the Papal Mainframe? (Which, by the way, is such a great name for a church!)

@bivium6, that would also explain why she was confused about having died when she finally told the Doctor that. I…[Read more]

I often wonder if Moffat is reading through our posts and either laughing at how wrong we are or thinking, “um I could use that idea”.

@midnyt I would have liked Tasha to have been a personification of River too because the “yet another woman whom, Time Lord Casanova, has been flirting with” annoyed me a little but I can’t come up with a theory…[Read more]

@Serahni, it’s beginning to look as if there is nothing that Moffat can come up with that someone on here won’t have twigged before it happens.

@midnyt   But since when can the Daleks bring someone back to life whom they’ve killed? Have I missed something? Probably.

@janetteB, yes indeed, that teenager sleeping thing. My son has been outdoing h…[Read more]

@bivium6  Good point, @midnyt. I would also say that Eleven regenerated alone, but he latched immediately onto Amy, to the point where he apparently offered to take a little girl with him in the TARDIS. He knows how much the Doctor always needs a companion.

Bivium, I think the Doctor’s exact words were, “It might be Clara, it might not. It’s a lottery.”

@midnyt meh. never apply logic to who. at least not with Moffat at the helm.

“That he’s mad, ’tis true,

’tis true tis pity,

And pity ’tis, ‘its true.”

~Shakespeare

I wonder why Eleven is so sure that Twelve will need Clara.  Eleven went out and found himself new friends even though Ten was so heartbroken you think he may never have traveled…[Read more]

@midnyt – good point about the ‘rising higher’ – I’ve never considered it as a criticism before, or at least not being a positive. I still think that achievement was overstated though. Either that or it’s pacing meant that the achievement of staging the rescue mission just didn’t ‘seem’ as great as the other feats 9, 10, and 11…[Read more]

Sneaks past @FatManInABox with extra large mug of coffee and sips it surreptitiously glancing over shoulder

@Purofilion waves a big hello 😀 nother slow day in Mudville but at least not raining

@Midnyt Clara is a great companion,  sacrificing herself three times on screen for the Doctors and probably many many times over off screen, she has to…[Read more]

@Silverman   I completely agree with this. From a dramatic point of view, I liked what the dinosaur brought to the Doctor’s post-regen recovery. But I wish they could have come up with a way of presenting it such that it didn’t leave such an obvious gaping hole in the history books. It’s more clever to have sci-fi events that tie in with real on…[Read more]

@midnyt Love the art work. Great pattern there.

Cheers

Janette

thanks @midnyt

Presumably all the released “saved” people will spread the word the Library’s a bit shady!

It’s also possible that the Vashta Nerada hybernate or do a suspended animation thing till food arrives, then they wake up and do mega-lunch!

I love the Vashta Nerada – one of my favourite “baddies”.  “Not every shadow… but they could be…[Read more]

Just adding to the general enthusiasm for recent artwork posts.

Great poster @Phaseshift (and love the new home page avatar @Wolfweed )

Meant to comment on @Midnyt‘s beautiful Gallifreyan scripts before (and say hi to (fairly!) new member)

@Fatmaninabox – no it doesn’t need any more colour 😉 but agree with @JimtheFish‘s remark that you’ve…[Read more]

@TheCrackIntheWall

I just realised that @midnyt already answered your question. Sorry, @midnyt, I missed you reply as well!

@bluesqueakpip @midnyt @JimTheFish @purofilion

Oh, you have to love Mark Sheppard. I’m convinced he’s on a one man mission to simplify this whole “six degrees of separation” thing by appearing in just about every genre show possible. Usually in an extremely memorable way.

I have a massive soft spot for Shindig myself, but the flavour of the Wes…[Read more]

@purofilion and @midnyt  Thanks for the translation!!  Apparently he must not be the best with Galifreyan, because it is supposed to say something like, “I won today” or something like that.  My co-worker usually comes in pretty early, and apparently this day he beat her to the office, so he was gloating I guess.

Thanks for the translations an…[Read more]