Me too; I’d love to see that bloom into something gripping, something to help anchor this Doctor to her own deep past maybe,…[Read more]

Agreed. Also I have many friends who watch DW but aren’t fans, they also feel that a female Doctor is a mistake.

Time will tell of cour…[Read more]

@Wolfweed – Thanks for the Barrowman clip. I love him and I love him for wearing his TARDIS glittery…[Read more]

In order for that to happen, there first have to be such characters presented, and there has been a dearth of them.

I do get it when people are saying what made the Doctor a great male role model ‘kind, non violent and somewhat unconventional’ is rather well put. He didn’t fall into the category of many male hero roles. He’s a professor, he uses his words not his muscles and so forth. It’s a good version of what being a man…[Read more]

Also, as far as the Doctor having to explain her new form, she can just say “A thing happened” too.  W…[Read more]

Well, it’s certainly true in-universe that th…[Read more]

@mirime – I suspect we’ve seen the last of Missy (in that form, at least) but boy would that be…[Read more]

@mirime  Good point about your mum.  I’m within uncomfortably more than squinting distance of 80, myself, and the more I think about it, the more I…[Read more]

For those cut to their own hearts by this choice, here’s an op…[Read more]

Does the Doctor now have existential angst not knowing how many regenerations he has left, I wonder? Or has he now got all the regeneration energy of all Time Lords no longer around, and is effectively immortal…

If anything the angst appears to stem from not knowing how much more change he can go through, rather than a more c…[Read more]

@exfan — love the name change. Hope your faith in the future is justified. (Actually, I’m sure it will be.) And yes, the wait is going to be excruciating. Not sure I agree about Capaldi being the ‘worst Doctor’. Like @mirime I’d count him as one of the best.

@frostfair — I think I’d love to see Bill back and…[Read more]

<span class=”useratname”>@jimthefish: </span>Well, he Kris marshall, isn’t to blame for bad choices is he. The role (apart from PC) was made for him. Unlucky 13 mayhap?

@exfan: Now that’s where we part. Peter Capaldi was the best, and I’m certainly not an EX fan.

@mirime: I did see her in B…[Read more]

@mirime So you’re going to be reading the Twelfth Doctor novels?  They are good, especially this year’s batch.  🙂

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

Missy

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

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]

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

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

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

Missy

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]

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]

Thanks for the clarification.

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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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]

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]

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

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

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

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]

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   🙂

@mirime  I don’t think the Doctor has a smartphone

That would have saved me a lot of screaming. 😉

But that brings up a big problem with the Monks — because they’re so powerful and all-seeing, the D…[Read more]

OMG!!! MY EYES!!! MY EYES!!!!

@mirime

Farm cats might – and within a few generations they would be indistinguishable from the African Wildcats they are descended from. Bengals might because they are only 2 generatiosn removed from the Asian Leopard Cats they were bred from.

But your average domestic moggie and fancy breeds? They would…[Read more]

@morpho, There is something substantial to this story — it’s confirming and expanding upon the most important element of the Twelfth Doctor’s character in this season, perhaps his whole run.

At heart, this is about his determination and willingness to…[Read more]

Gin and tonic, my favourite tipple, well, that and Champagne – or what passes as same. You? Hide behind the sofa? Never!

@pedant: The ‘blue object’ mentioned by me, is in the flippin’ trailer. How can it be a spoiler? Or do you mean that I shouldn’t mention it anyway? Sounds a bit…[Read more]

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

It is a checksum. If too many sprites start suiciding, then it will alert the aliens that the sim his found the upper decile of human intelligence and insight.

What exactly was Missy being executed for?

Being Missy.

Why did the Doctor…

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Missy

Not as ridiculous as you think.

In one episode, you may remember a cat escaping from a house in the rain, and the team had to use a hair dryer on it? That really happened. A fair while ago I was talking to a woman who had worked for M15 in the distant past, she told me that story was true. A lot of  Spooks was reasonably aut…[Read more]