The Doctor Who Forum | midnyt | Mentions https://www.thedoctorwhoforum.com/members/midnyt/activity/mentions/ Activity feed mentioning midnyt. Wed, 28 Oct 2026 12:34:09 +0000 https://buddypress.org/?v=2.9.1 en-US 30 hourly 2 248f03ff6d50b375e2e01027406019a7 Missy replied to the topic The Husbands Of River Song in the forum The Twelfth Doctor http://www.thedoctorwhoforum.com/forums/topic/the-husbands-of-river-song/page/4/#post-50001 Tue, 05 Jan 2016 09:12:41 +0000 @midnyt

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

cheers,

Missy

]]> f556077bd657b29f0aa2d6cd18b5dbdc Mersey replied to the topic The Husbands Of River Song in the forum The Twelfth Doctor http://www.thedoctorwhoforum.com/forums/topic/the-husbands-of-river-song/page/3/#post-49830 Tue, 29 Dec 2015 22:16:19 +0000 @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]

]]> 38a7d325d35aa166fc892d7b379bbdd0 Arbutus replied to the topic The Husbands Of River Song in the forum The Twelfth Doctor http://www.thedoctorwhoforum.com/forums/topic/the-husbands-of-river-song/page/3/#post-49829 Tue, 29 Dec 2015 21:56:34 +0000 @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]

]]> aef324cb8ac782e4e6b65a94e2b4071b Arbutus replied to the topic The Husbands Of River Song in the forum The Twelfth Doctor http://www.thedoctorwhoforum.com/forums/topic/the-husbands-of-river-song/page/3/#post-49824 Tue, 29 Dec 2015 19:00:28 +0000 @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]

]]> 6614c20e9f1a291ea3e684aa4d53bda6 Arbutus replied to the topic The Husbands Of River Song in the forum The Twelfth Doctor http://www.thedoctorwhoforum.com/forums/topic/the-husbands-of-river-song/page/2/#post-49740 Sun, 27 Dec 2015 19:01:28 +0000 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]

]]> 75ac20b437d7c3c54fe2125174797b4b Avaris replied to the topic Hell Bent in the forum The Twelfth Doctor http://www.thedoctorwhoforum.com/forums/topic/hell-bent/page/5/#post-48991 Mon, 07 Dec 2015 17:28:45 +0000 @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]

]]> 9e0b33e2520fda6000651eac77cc9280 Arbutus replied to the topic Hell Bent in the forum The Twelfth Doctor http://www.thedoctorwhoforum.com/forums/topic/hell-bent/page/4/#post-48885 Mon, 07 Dec 2015 00:10:38 +0000 @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]

]]> 64042dd27472bc7563590bbd08244122 tommo replied to the topic General thread – fan creativity (2) in the forum Fan creativity http://www.thedoctorwhoforum.com/forums/topic/general-thread-fan-creativity-2/#post-48593 Thu, 03 Dec 2015 23:03:26 +0000 @midnyt – that jacket design is awesome. nice one.

i’ve drawn Doctor 12…

]]> 09bb57e3e5febfa1f2a2e62170d9b9d6 Barbara Lefty replied to the topic General thread - fan creativity in the forum Fan creativity http://www.thedoctorwhoforum.com/forums/topic/general-thread-fan-creativity/page/18/#post-36360 Thu, 25 Dec 2014 07:53:37 +0000 @midnyt, that is incredibly festive!

]]> 571d4fcb85d8b7db6f3563843af8d3dc janetteB replied to the topic Dark Water in the forum The Twelfth Doctor http://www.thedoctorwhoforum.com/forums/topic/dark-water/page/7/#post-34842 Thu, 06 Nov 2014 02:26:45 +0000 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]

]]> 85832a1c3ba9d521c6b85aeb28ae64bf Arbutus replied to the topic Dark Water in the forum The Twelfth Doctor http://www.thedoctorwhoforum.com/forums/topic/dark-water/page/7/#post-34819 Wed, 05 Nov 2014 22:39:24 +0000 @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]

]]> 3be70cbf0211e5d53c6612ed6cc2d79c thommck replied to the topic Robot of Sherwood in the forum The Twelfth Doctor http://www.thedoctorwhoforum.com/forums/topic/robot-of-sherwood/page/4/#post-31457 Thu, 11 Sep 2014 15:38:50 +0000 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]

]]> 632f54405a1ed43951c10657166f15c9 wolfweed replied to the topic Robot of Sherwood in the forum The Twelfth Doctor http://www.thedoctorwhoforum.com/forums/topic/robot-of-sherwood/page/3/#post-31405 Wed, 10 Sep 2014 07:17:32 +0000 @midnyt
It’s the hand of the chair of Sutekh!
z

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

 

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

]]> 9c15eac535c15b213d2c6f80e4c70873 janetteB replied to the topic On The Sofa (5) in the forum General http://www.thedoctorwhoforum.com/forums/topic/on-the-sofa-5/page/11/#post-31177 Sat, 06 Sep 2014 09:35:50 +0000 @midnyt good point. I will cross fingers and toes for a one off special then or lots of minisodes.

Cheers

Janette

]]> 3ef78a0a2de9bdd8215df05e78c49a2b PhaseShift replied to the topic On The Sofa (5) in the forum General http://www.thedoctorwhoforum.com/forums/topic/on-the-sofa-5/page/10/#post-31174 Sat, 06 Sep 2014 09:19:20 +0000 @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]

]]> 8a25e7763c6ea4e7692b56e4a779c991 janetteB replied to the topic On The Sofa (5) in the forum General http://www.thedoctorwhoforum.com/forums/topic/on-the-sofa-5/page/10/#post-31173 Sat, 06 Sep 2014 09:03:59 +0000 @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

]]> 0f888b3491f7ae5092ed2efd704a6499 Arbutus replied to the topic Into the Dalek in the forum The Twelfth Doctor http://www.thedoctorwhoforum.com/forums/topic/into-the-dalek/page/7/#post-31168 Sat, 06 Sep 2014 04:26:34 +0000 @midnyt     Another reason I love DW. What other show could inspire this sentence:    River has been dead since we met her.

😀

]]> 8ae47310072828494a36956a3ee2e176 Arbutus replied to the topic Into the Dalek in the forum The Twelfth Doctor http://www.thedoctorwhoforum.com/forums/topic/into-the-dalek/page/5/#post-31025 Wed, 03 Sep 2014 15:26:19 +0000 @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]

]]> e128c42174a92ffb7f9440fe99741897 Silverman replied to the topic Into the Dalek in the forum The Twelfth Doctor http://www.thedoctorwhoforum.com/forums/topic/into-the-dalek/page/5/#post-31023 Wed, 03 Sep 2014 15:07:34 +0000 @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]

]]> b955333acfbf8ad6633684f44db9a3eb Silverman replied to the topic Into the Dalek in the forum The Twelfth Doctor http://www.thedoctorwhoforum.com/forums/topic/into-the-dalek/page/5/#post-31013 Wed, 03 Sep 2014 10:31:09 +0000 @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]

]]> 8692da95687c11886963221828982bc5 Serahni replied to the topic Into the Dalek in the forum The Twelfth Doctor http://www.thedoctorwhoforum.com/forums/topic/into-the-dalek/page/5/#post-31011 Wed, 03 Sep 2014 10:10:03 +0000 @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]

]]> 587121ccf28dd1f3676df22b0e18b2b5 Miapatrick replied to the topic Into the Dalek in the forum The Twelfth Doctor http://www.thedoctorwhoforum.com/forums/topic/into-the-dalek/page/5/#post-31003 Wed, 03 Sep 2014 07:37:38 +0000 @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]

]]> 3349a4d574b2fd4ea623674dc5a3e49d Arbutus replied to the topic Into the Dalek in the forum The Twelfth Doctor http://www.thedoctorwhoforum.com/forums/topic/into-the-dalek/page/5/#post-30994 Wed, 03 Sep 2014 01:12:32 +0000 @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.

]]> 570055363b54e4b2c1554ab476280edf okcorral replied to the topic The Faces of the Doctor in the forum General http://www.thedoctorwhoforum.com/forums/topic/the-faces-of-the-doctor/page/11/#post-30988 Tue, 02 Sep 2014 22:39:34 +0000 @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.

]]> 1fa7f629d38731c96ebcb64efd00a643 Silverman replied to the topic Deep Breath in the forum The Twelfth Doctor http://www.thedoctorwhoforum.com/forums/topic/deep-breath/page/12/#post-30645 Sat, 30 Aug 2014 11:22:29 +0000 @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]

]]> bd70f0679aea939f5568c3d5e2a377e2 Arbutus replied to the topic Deep Breath in the forum The Twelfth Doctor http://www.thedoctorwhoforum.com/forums/topic/deep-breath/page/11/#post-30630 Sat, 30 Aug 2014 03:23:05 +0000 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]

]]> b6f0dd0401dfc3b45c4f6b18db9c6603 janetteB replied to the topic Deep Breath in the forum The Twelfth Doctor http://www.thedoctorwhoforum.com/forums/topic/deep-breath/page/11/#post-30624 Sat, 30 Aug 2014 03:16:03 +0000 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]

]]> 389b0cc80d3170d1d5402e6e191ab30f Arbutus replied to the topic Deep Breath in the forum The Twelfth Doctor http://www.thedoctorwhoforum.com/forums/topic/deep-breath/page/11/#post-30623 Sat, 30 Aug 2014 03:13:03 +0000 @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]

]]> f00f0665b0131787623e8937fcae1bea Arbutus replied to the topic Deep Breath in the forum The Twelfth Doctor http://www.thedoctorwhoforum.com/forums/topic/deep-breath/page/11/#post-30593 Sat, 30 Aug 2014 01:57:05 +0000 @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.”

]]> f73459af9d97f9567c3083817df4bf2d bivium6 replied to the topic Deep Breath in the forum The Twelfth Doctor http://www.thedoctorwhoforum.com/forums/topic/deep-breath/page/11/#post-30590 Sat, 30 Aug 2014 01:17:28 +0000

@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]

]]> 6e31ac3160ad072295fb02fabdd01c7d Silverman replied to the topic Deep Breath in the forum The Twelfth Doctor http://www.thedoctorwhoforum.com/forums/topic/deep-breath/page/10/#post-30573 Fri, 29 Aug 2014 15:31:34 +0000 @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]

]]> 160aee523bf1c0073ce92bfba24693db Rob replied to the topic Deep Breath in the forum The Twelfth Doctor http://www.thedoctorwhoforum.com/forums/topic/deep-breath/page/10/#post-30558 Fri, 29 Aug 2014 08:07:12 +0000 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]

]]> e6e1c4b1244bcd8c1bcaf1296aa3cbb2 Arbutus replied to the topic Deep Breath in the forum The Twelfth Doctor http://www.thedoctorwhoforum.com/forums/topic/deep-breath/page/8/#post-30446 Thu, 28 Aug 2014 05:12:40 +0000 @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]

]]> 0a6d363d4d306a607b543c405e8776b4 janetteB replied to the topic General thread - fan creativity in the forum Fan creativity http://www.thedoctorwhoforum.com/forums/topic/general-thread-fan-creativity/page/15/#post-28996 Mon, 14 Jul 2014 12:01:52 +0000 @midnyt Love the art work. Great pattern there.

Cheers

Janette

]]> 1a2fe0b7d8537c8657bbb29dce7dc46b ScaryB replied to the topic Forest of the Dead – S30 (4) 9 in the forum The Tenth Doctor http://www.thedoctorwhoforum.com/forums/topic/forest-of-the-dead-s30-4-9/#post-28885 Fri, 11 Jul 2014 11:15:19 +0000 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]

]]> 789b29457856a5ed2a9d55e05c8c5818 ScaryB replied to the topic General thread - fan creativity in the forum Fan creativity http://www.thedoctorwhoforum.com/forums/topic/general-thread-fan-creativity/page/15/#post-28870 Thu, 10 Jul 2014 20:46:47 +0000 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]

]]> 97ee19f829e35820663de6dbed79fb1d blenkinsopthebrave replied to the topic Forest of the Dead – S30 (4) 9 in the forum The Tenth Doctor http://www.thedoctorwhoforum.com/forums/topic/forest-of-the-dead-s30-4-9/#post-28862 Thu, 10 Jul 2014 16:41:38 +0000 @TheCrackIntheWall

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

]]> e97f6ad718c6b467e4c5c1a9da8052e6 PhaseShift replied to the topic On The Sofa (5) in the forum General http://www.thedoctorwhoforum.com/forums/topic/on-the-sofa-5/page/4/#post-28708 Fri, 04 Jul 2014 16:01:28 +0000 @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]

]]> ab22025deda808b434f9717ae789d506 ihasgun replied to the topic General thread - fan creativity in the forum Fan creativity http://www.thedoctorwhoforum.com/forums/topic/general-thread-fan-creativity/page/14/#post-28363 Sat, 21 Jun 2014 06:29:22 +0000 @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]

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