But your average domestic moggie and fancy breeds? They would be very quickly ‘selected out’.

@pedant, many individuals would, and of course many domestic cats are spayed/neutered so it wouldn’t matter from a gene pool point of view. But I’ve certainly had cats that were fantastic hunters (unfortunately for the smaller creatures in our local wil…[Read more]

@pedant I suspect cats would do OK without us overall – obviously plenty of individuals wouldn’t – and the next generation would all be feral.

<p style=”text-align: left;”>Or at least Missy said the Daleks told her about Darillium. The Daleks have never struck me as being the gossipy type!</p>

Meanwhile at io9’s review, the critic noted that the Doctor’s shabby coat in the Missy scenes is the same one he wears in the regeneration tease clips in the trailer for Series 10…

@missrori that is probably why I was wondering about how disheveled he looked. There was something nagging at me about that and there’s the explanation.

Which now m…[Read more]

@wolfweed I think we knew he’d killed a lot both from his reaction to Bill questioning him and the comment made in ‘Hell Bent’ about the Doctor in the Time War:  “The first thing you will notice about the Doctor of War is he’s unarmed. For many, it’s also the last.”.

<p style=”text-align: left;”>@pedant thank you, will have to watch again when I’m more awake!</p>

Too many questions!

Why did the book exist? Where did it come from? Was it a bug in the programming or deliberately placed?

What exactly was Missy being executed for? Why did the Doctor look so scruffy and dusty?

@missy there are a few actors I like and I am gutted that Capaldi is leaving. I don’t think I’ve been this upset about a regeneration since Tom Baker left and my parents had to reassure me that it was OK this new guy was still the Doctor!

And yes, I’m dreading the final episode.

@missy well I have a bit of a thing for Richard Armitage who played Lucas so that may explain why I didn’t mind his character 😀

@missy I liked Lucas in Spooks, didn’t like how they chose to kill him off, that whole storyline was ridiculous.

OK, more ridiculous than normal.

@hillforest I like it. I keep thinking that the very careful explanation and example of a bootstrap paradox in Under the Lake/Before the Flood is of wider significance.

Oh, and I rather enjoyed Oxygen. It was rather more tense than usual as I had a feeling the blindness might not be magically fixed at the end. There are consequences, he was…[Read more]

Alan Moore is in the vault.

@wisht I would love this. Now I’m going to be so disappointed with whoever actually is in there.

as for how did they survive? perhaps being absorbed into the wood is just the first stage, and victims are held for a short while, before the inevitable “digestion?”

@geoffers

I initially rolled my eyes at the most recent lot being brought back, but I recently read a book called ‘Uprooted’ by Naomi Novik which had people being absorbed by tre…[Read more]

Iirc, there is no way different regions could show a different version. How curious though.

I’ve checked my recording, definitely Bill.

@mersey Bill wasn’t completely unaffected though, difference being that the child was a child, the guy with a tattoo was a thug who was going to let her and the Doctor die and a lot more people were going to die if they didn’t do something.

@nick Castrovalva for me, I was four and a half. Anything before that I don’t remember any stories just the…[Read more]

Poor Adric, you know I completely forgot about his existence. In my defence I was very young. Tegan and Ace were my favourites BG.

AG I think Donna was excellent, and I was dubious as I’ve never been a fan of Catherine Tate. I actually stopped watching for a bit, but caught up again and found I’d been wrong!

Bill, so far, is great. From the…[Read more]

@mudlark The accents weren’t confused, it was the disagreement over ‘book’ and ‘buck’. My husbands pronunciation is clearly confused.

I have no ear for accents anyway, unless they’re very strong.

@bluesqueakpip there is absolutely nothing wrong with a fez! Though mine is nicer than the one the Doctor had and I don’t wear it outside or anything…[Read more]

Different accents are a marvellous thing.  My husband and I had so many enthusiastic discussions on whether ‘book’ and ‘buck’ (or ‘look’ and ‘luck’) are pronounced the same or differently that he mentioned it in his speech when we got married. He’s from round Lincolnshire, I’m Welsh.

For the record they do not sound the same and it’s ridiculous…[Read more]

@thane15 Thanks for the welcome back. Had a bit of a difficult year last year healthwise, and of course no Doctor Who.

Liking this series so far, and like Bill a lot more than I thought I would. Still love Capaldi as the Doctor and don’t want him to go!

Horrified at some comments on the Guardian blog – I mean the BBC should be impartial about racism?

@mudlark

The close parallel between the scene where the Doctor and Bill are tied up and trying to retrieve the sonic screwdriver and the scene in Deep Breath. where he and Clara were in a very similar situation.

Yes, I liked that. And giving Bill the choice like with Clara in “Kill the Moon”.

eta – Also liked the conversation when Bill is upset…[Read more]