@geoffers That’s a neat idea.  Michelle Gomez’s latest io9 interview today noted that she’s the kind of craven person who’d do anything to escape the Vault and save her own skin.  But this supposedly false Doctor is doing too good a job at being the real one then.  And it would severely diminish the Doctor and Bill’s relationship if most of the se…[Read more]

@tardigrade I was going to say the same thing — regeneration by suicide would be too dark and family-unfriendly for this show.

The next two episodes could both turn out to be multiple simulations or just one — I like the idea that another Sim-Doctor, or even the real Doctor, lets them conquer and then surprises them — but pulling the rug out…[Read more]

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Well, maybe it’s one person literally split in two?  😉

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…

@blenkinsopthebrave IIRC, that idea was being floated in the days of Pertwee but Delgado’s death nixed that or other ideas on what made them so close and yet so far from each other.  Moffat reviving something like that now…hmmmm….

@thane15 Hey Puro, I see your point about his many past wrongs (as I noted yesterday he does seem to be an atoning Doctor from the start).  And yeah, he’s having truth issues with Bill, an interesting parallel.  But I’m still unclear on how this connects to “Hell Bent” and its events, and the point on forgiveness and the person doing it…Missy s…[Read more]

@thane15 But if the Doctor wronged Missy, I think he’s paid enough for any mistake he made after all the trouble she’s been for him all their lives…

See the confession dial in Season 9 and at end of the Hell Bent two-er.

I see what you’re getting at about the former, but what about the ending of “Hell Bent” has to do with something he needs to < …[Read more]

@thane15:

Many people wander about embellishing their lives with the ornate and the refined, but simple decency, anonymous actions without reward or respect are sometimes labelled trite and passé.

This is all too true.  What you note as happening in your country is similar to what I’m seeing in mine, the me-first attitude.  A lot of people are ha…[Read more]

@kharis Or was it?  Seriously– Already I’m seeing comments elsewhere theorizing that even after this episode it is NOT Missy in the Vault after all.  Did we see her sealed up?  Did we go inside?  No and no, so the theory goes that she’s elsewhere, but the Doctor can communicate with her from afar.  And in the Vault?  Well, more bonkers theor…[Read more]

I love 12 more and more too each week @kharis!

I’m thinking of his lines in “Deep Breath” about all his bad years and the mistakes he’s made.  He wants to be better than that, and trying so hard…so hard.

@thane15  Your points are good, they always are, but if he doesn’t trust Missy enough to ask for a sparkly cup of sugar as it were, why does he appear to be willing to let her out to get the help he needs to fight the Monks?  She does seem to like the prospect of team-ups with other villains, going back to the Delgado days…  😉

Also, yeah, he’…[Read more]

@pedant Good point about the influence of women on the Doctor.  I think Bill will be stepping up to the plate soon enough, going by the episode synopses.  😉

Yes, having this mostly be a simulation is gimmicky — but kind of understandable if only because the “mass suicides” premise did seem way too much of a downer for a family show.  I’m amo…[Read more]

Looking forward to this (though I have to wait till tomorrow morning).  Something dark, but ending on a note of hope and strength, I would imagine….

I see that the advance spoiler-free “Extremis” reviews have been strong, saying that this is a dark episode in terms of the content and tone.  One critic argued that it’s the darkest the show’s been since “Dark Water”.  Good news for those who feel Series 10’s been a bit lightweight so far…and it apparently sets up very big things for the sec…[Read more]

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