@wolfweed

Thank you so much for the videos.

@mirime. I’m pleased too.  Heather needed a friend and Bill is about to lose hers, so good luck to them. Great end.

Missy

@mirime: I think that quite a few of us feel the same.

Missy

@mirime:

Thing is, they are cats not far down or up the scale of their wild counterparts – what do people expect?

They are hunters yes, but so are we.

Missy

@mirime:

As for hunting, that’s what cats do – well, most of them. When the odd person has told me that they don’t like cats because they kill wildlife, I remind them that if dogs could climb trees, so would they. Also, cats do not hunt in packs , bring down sheep and lambs and attack children or adults. You,  I tell them,  don’t like them b…[Read more]

@mirime:

So that is why I have never been keen on Tolkien, a man of little taste. *chuckle*

Of course you know your place. Haven’t  you heard that “Dogs have owners but Cats have staff.” *winks*

Missy

@mirime:

Doesn’t every intelligent being? *chuckles*

Dogs are a delightful, but cats have a certain (if you will excuse me) “up yours Jack!” I admire that immensely.

And that purrrrrrrrrrrrrr, so soothing.

Missy

@mirime:

It definitely suits him. Glad I’m not the only one. *winks*

Missy

@mirime: He actually says that, when he retreats to his Tardis. back to the diamond wall he thinks “why Bird?”

You see his face change and coming back to the Tardis he says, “That’s what I remember!” He repeats this to Clara, without mentioning the bird.

Nick: he wasn’t cowardly, he had a duty of care – and he missed her.

@ichabod: I don’t…[Read more]

@pedant  Or he was thoroughly few up with losing people and had been tortured for 4.5 billion years.  

Yes; that’s my version of the story, and I’m sticking to it.  DW deals in depression quite a bit, and that’s <i>our human </i> story too, for the most part, just scrawled all over the universe over massive amounts of time instead of over a smal…[Read more]

@mirime

Thanks for the clarification.

@nick

be intellectual and not physical as there are no accumulated memory.

I’m going to take a wild stab in the dark here and guess that you have never had to be treated for depression.

@mirime

I have a strong suspicion that there is something we have not yet seen of events on the Chasm Forge.

@ichabod

I’ve generally found the Master  (in the…

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@mirime

In Hell Bent, was the first version we saw, the very first time. He left himself clues to speed up the process of getting to the barrier. Whatever memory he has, must be limited. Less than all, or the episode is a lie.

In any case, I’m not sure that it changes my overall idea, or even that @pedant ‘s argument does. Pedant’s suggestion…[Read more]

@nick:

As we say, just speculation.

@mirime:  I’ve only watched it once but didn’t he say ‘this is the other last of the Time Lords’

Yes he did.

@miapatrick:

Good point, but we are watching an episode written by Toby Whithouse, not Moffat, so who nose?

@missrori: Clara wasn’t immune to comments about her appearance in Series 8!

Ex…[Read more]

@Nick @Mirime  That bedroom… (2001ASO)

@mirime

Isn’t it a design riff on 2001’s final scenes ?

http://www.collativelearning.com/2001%20chapter%205.html some pictures in here.

@mirime I have long felt that your explanation of why the forgetting happens is why it’s done. If people didn’t forget, then the world in which Doctor Who is set would be vastly different from the one we know. Which wouldn’t be an altogether bad thing, but it would be harder to relate to.

@thane15 Puro, thank you for that reflection on…[Read more]

@mirime  This is a good point.  Sometimes it’s hard to remember watching the show in the here and now, but the Doctor and his companions have dealt with tons of traumatic situations and invasions like this in varying points of Earth’s timeline since the early days.  The main difference, I think, is that the aftermath is given a little more th…[Read more]

Here’s a cool theory I found at TVTropes: The Doctor did try to tell Bill he was blind twice but he ended up distracted both times — first when the pyramid “activated”, second when he had a moment of inspiration as to what the “real” threat to humanity was.  That easily could have been the Monks stepping in to make sure the Doctor wouldn’t tell…[Read more]

@mirime    This. They would just find the next point of imminent doom. They didn’t look like they were giving up, they looked like they were going back to check out their simulations.

Yes, I agree, the Monks just don’t look as if they are going to abandon the Earth of their own accord. I argued upthread that, given the information available to…[Read more]

@Mirime

So looking it up on Tardiswiki  that particular room in the Tardis is called the

‘Architectural Reconfiguration System’.

Its purpose is to reconstruct particles to your needs.    Isn’t that really a lot like ‘simulation’?

Yes,  properly piloting the Tardis according to 10 takes  {I think he said} 6   🙂