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A little love for Puro everyone, she is back in the hospital and needs our warm thoughts.  Remember, she was in pain when she wrote that post.  Puro loves the show and this Forum and I’m sure it’s eating at her to be part of any disruption or hurt here.  I think she is just taking a break here because of her illness and stress.  I’m sure she wil…[Read more]

A few early, jumbled thoughts based on one viewing…

A powerful and gut-wrenching episode, especially as I’d expected Clara to somehow or another avoid the death that’s been flagged-up for so long.  But I agree with @supernumerary that’s where the arc has been going for a season or so (Clara initially shocked at the 12th Doctor’s seeming d…[Read more]

@Mirime

Another thought on Clara, what if she never left the Dalek (I’m so sorry…)

This is beginning to remind me of the long period of speculation between Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire and Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix. One major HP discussion site eventually had to put ‘Yes, we have noticed the gleam in Dumbledore’s eye…[Read more]

@Mirime  @Arbutus  @purofilion

The cocktail. Minor errors with hats and Viking helmets I can understand. But calling for a cocktail in 1651?? Even for a village theatre group to make that sort of mistake would be very embarrassing. On the face of it this is such a ludicrous anachronism that I wondered if we were being told something, that A…[Read more]

@mirime – Interesting that you bring up anachronisms. There’s been a few… electric eels, horns on helmets also come to mind. I would love to rewatch to see what Missy said exactly about this topic!

@CathAnnabel      I’m not sure. I think she must age at least a bit, because the gizmo that’s keeping her alive is “healing” her. Unless it’s healing her literally every second? It’s kind of hard to imagine how that could work, actually. But hard luck for her having been essentially frozen at such a young age, because the lack of visible aging wi…[Read more]

@mirime – Yes and no.  Adelaide Brooks, after all, felt very strongly that history needed to play out the way it was supposed to.  I think that was more about the Doctor’s God complex – realizing that he was letting bad things happen to good people because of rules that he felt no longer applied to him.

Here, a bigger difference was that he was d…[Read more]

@jimthefish  On which note, I for one am very glad that she didn’t turn out to be Susan, or Jenny, or Romana or whoever.

Me too.  Too much backstory, better to move on to something new, IMO.  @denvaldron  Thanks for the Viking overview — densely packed and concise; only what, exactly, does kaput mean in this context?  A swift and somewhat catast…[Read more]

@mirime: I think Ashildr is important because even before she met the Doctor and Clara she was a born dreamer and creator of stories. She is a future shaman.

Whoever controls the story controls what can happen, particularly concerning what Time Lords can do and not have paradox. An immortal storyteller could potentially put an unlimited number…[Read more]

@purofilion  Funny that you should say this, for I always feel you to be quite optimistic and ‘heart-y’??

I am, a lot; this has been largely a damn good life, and looking back over it (as you are forced to do when you really need to, as they say, “get your shit together”, ie documents etc.) I’m pleased.  On the other hand, I think I inher…[Read more]

@Mirime @Ichabod

Thanks for these comments –

I absolutely love Capaldi as the Doctor . . . I never felt that he was cold, callous, uncaring etc. or un-Doctorlike . . . I think he might really be the Doctor

Somebody over at — doctorwhotv, maybe — posted (more or less) this about Capaldi a little while ago: “Somehow they got confused, looki…

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@Ichabod, I loved your post and agreed with every word. Agree also with @Mirime that I can’t understand the people who find Capaldi’s Doctor, to varying degrees, cold or unpleasant. What I see is the emotional detachment that was almost always a part of the Doctor in BG days, and even in Nine. It was much less evident in Ten and Eleven. (As an…[Read more]

@mirime  Although your query was addressed to @bendubz11, I hope that it will not seem rude of me to butt in and answer it while I am here.

In A Song of Ice and Fire and in the Television adaptation, Bran is a young boy, rendered paraplegic by a fall, who has visions of a three eyed crow or raven who promises that, though he will never walk a…[Read more]

@mirime and @ichabod I agree that “detachment” is a far better word than callousness because the Doctor isn’t and never could be callous. He is pragmatic and that sometimes appears callous to others. He focuses on what must be done because he cares and there are times when only a pragmatic approach will solve the problem and save the lives.…[Read more]

@Mirime Indeed the dressing gown was very Arthur Dent whom I am quite sure the Doctor does mention. The cross referencing between the two shows goes waaay back. The fourth Doctor was reading a tome by Oolon Calluphid in The Creature of the Pit. (Don’t quote me as to the story. I may have that wrong.) The HItchhikers TV series is a favourite here…[Read more]

@mirime  His conversation with Clara at the end showed it wasn’t a complete lack of caring.

Oh, I agree — he did care, but he closed that off and ran on his colder, more analytical, alien track — that callousness (see also, “She cares so I don’t have to”) that was the only way he could get to a solution and stop the dying.  It’s part of him…[Read more]

@cumquat  I know this will be tough for you to take, but as a troll of course you *completely* deserve it — lovely to have you aboard, oh Mother of Bassets!

@mirime  I absolutely love Capaldi as the Doctor . . . I never felt that he was cold, callous, uncaring etc. or un-Doctorlike . . . I think he might really be the Doctor

Somebody over at -…[Read more]