• Mirime replied to the topic The Zygon Inversion

    @bluesqueakpip I mostly agree really. I was just thinking about it last night after rewatching Invasion/Inversion. It was late and though I did a quick search I couldn’t find the posts I’m sure I read.

    Though maybe the Doctor is looking for a cure – maybe saving Ashildr wasn’t just because he felt responsible for her death, perhaps she was a bit…[Read more]

  • Mirime replied to the topic The Zygon Inversion

    Another thought on Clara, what if she never left the Dalek (I’m so sorry…) and is unaware she’s still in there? Could the Doctor have created a hard light hologram and linked it to her?

    I’m sure this has been said already but can’t find it!

    Holograms were used in Under the Lake/Before the Flood. In The Girl Who Died the plan involved hacking…[Read more]

  • Mirime replied to the topic Spoilers (2)

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  • Mirime replied to the topic The Zygon Inversion

    I believe Missy chose Clara for her own scheme but might not be an actual part of the Claradox.

    @lisa I’m inclined to agree – she chose the person who is perfect for the Doctor and if as I tend to think all the Clara’s are Claricles, that’s why she was perfect.

  • Mirime replied to the topic The Zygon Inversion

    I like the theory, that I think I have by now read in multiple places, that the episodes at some point will not be in an order linear in time to when events occurred.  Thus I think it is quite possible that Clara has died in the future but that the Doctor has gone back in time to when Clara was alive to enjoy some final moments with…

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  • Mirime replied to the topic The Woman Who Lived

    So now I’m thinking Ashildr isn’t Ellie but is teasing that she is possession of knowledge as it relates to Clara origin story and has the intention to do something to her.

    @lisa I like it. I’m sure something about memory or knowledge of something is going on. Me’s journals with pages cut out made me think it even more.

  • Mirime replied to the topic The Woman Who Lived

    And while lauding @kharis‘s excellent spot, I’m also a bit sceptical that she’s going to turn out to be Clara’s mother.

    @jimthefish I agree, but would say the clothing looked out of place – I did spot that. And somebody over on the Guardian is very upset about the hats the highwaymen were wearing. Of course dressing a few decades out of fashion…[Read more]

  • Mirime replied to the topic The Girl Who Died

    Shades of “Time Lord Victorious” in this episode, but with a wholly different feel.  While Ten in “The Waters of Mars” was basically completely unhinged by the thought of letting history take its course in that particular instance, Twelve views his predicament as freeing in a way — as an old rebel, he is used to breaking the rules and getting aw…

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  • Mirime replied to the topic The Girl Who Died

    Had he been too much the detached Time Lord, like in Pompeii? Needing Donna to remind him, again, that his job is also to save someone.

    @bluesqueakpip In Pompeii everyone was going to die and he saved one family. Here he saved everybody except one person and then, presumably unwisely, saved her as well.

    And now I’m thinking again of  The Empty…[Read more]

  • Mirime replied to the topic The Girl Who Died

    @221badwolf The Doctor seemed to recognise Ashildr in some way, maybe that’s why. Maybe it was, in a sense, ‘supposed’ to happen, perhaps part of some bigger loop we can’t see yet?

    His reaction was rather Tenth Doctor ‘Waters of Mars’. ‘I can do whatever I want’. We had a bit of that last week as well with his ‘I don’t see anyone here who is…[Read more]

  • Mirime replied to the topic The Girl Who Died

    @starla re “run, you clever boy, and remember”

    I keep wondering about that phrase as well. Three stories now with serpents in, two with aliens taking the name of gods associated with ravens/crows. Apart from the associations with death there are also associations with knowledge and memory.

    And sorry if this has already been said (I’m in wor…[Read more]

  • Mirime replied to the topic The Girl Who Died

    @221badwolf I thought translating baby might might involve some telepathy as well. It’s not really a language after all. Don’t know about when it’s not translated for aliens, maybe there are limits to what it can translate?

  • Mirime replied to the topic The Girl Who Died

    Waters of Mars seemed in play too

    @countscarlioni glad you saw that too 🙂

    The existence of technology that can grant near immortality with such a simple procedure as implanting a chip makes ZERO sense whatsoever, and some way needs to be found to expunge this from the Dr. Who universe.

    @jphamlore what about the nanogenes in The Doctor Dances/The…[Read more]

  • Mirime replied to the topic Spoilers (2)

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  • Mirime replied to the topic On The Sofa (7)

    @ichabod @janette yes, detachment is the right word. I was just amazed at the amount of people who did think he was callous, when to me he clearly wasn’t.  I’ve sometimes thought I must be watching a different programme as some people’s description of the twelfth Doctor’s personality seems so at odds with how I find him!

  • Mirime replied to the topic Before The Flood

    @mudlark ahh, thank you. Not rude at all. I did see some of season one of GoT but was rather busy with a new baby at the time and couldn’t keep track of names or much else really!

  • Mirime replied to the topic Doctor Who memories

    @craig it was referenced by the tenth Doctor in The Christmas Invasion – though I can’t remember the details now. Must have been to do with the dressing gown.

    And in Ghost Light now I come to think of it.

    I do seem to have a soft spot for 80s BBC Sci fi as I must admit I loved the Hitchhikers tv series.

  • Mirime replied to the topic On The Sofa (7)

    @ichabod hmm, looking at the whole though,  yes, he is more alien, but even in Mummy I didn’t get the feeling of him seeming callous because that’s what he was, more that there was a puzzle to solve and solving it was the only way to stop people dying so you just have to get on with it. His conversation with Clara at the end showed it wasn’t a…[Read more]

  • Mirime replied to the topic Before The Flood

    @bendubz11 feel free, but as I’ve not read the books or seen much of Game of Thrones can I ask why?

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