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@missrori I agree that the Monks did pose a genuine, dreadful threat — they just seemed oddly easy to defeat after being near-invincible for two weeks.  And it was never really clear why they wanted to rule humanity; they didn’t have some master plan in mind.  Between that and the lack of personality, they weren’t the most compelling villain…

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@missrori  The Eleventh Doctor had his Day, and so will the Twelfth Doctor in the end.

I’ll drink to that!  I don’t think Steven Moffat or Peter Capaldi would want to end on a note of doom and despair, so the Xmas special gives them a place to soften and brighten the final landing for this series.  And I do think they’ll use it well.  After all…[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!

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All that’s certain is that the execution that wasn’t was “A long time ago” — at least from the Doctor’s perspective.

Unfortunately “A long time ago” doesn’t mean a lot for a time traveller. It seems to have been at least 70 years, which by itself would be a long time for Missy to be in solitary confinement- not the best way to foste…[Read more]

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@missrori I think all in all the “sometimes all we have are bad choices, but we still have to choose” is a good thing to do in a show, and it was well shown in the Thames frost party episode with Bill, the moon egg with Clara, and the Liz 10 and the space whale(?) ep back with Amy – can’t remember the episode names. The right choice has generally…[Read more]

@missrori

An interesting analysis and some valid points I feel. However, whilst this

He might boast about himself in the heat of the moment but whenever all seems lost, he sees himself as the expendable one, the nobody, the one who was lost long ago and can’t be saved.  If there’s a chance a life can be saved, he will try to save it.  In his e…[Read more]

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Perhaps he didn’t use his regenerative powers to cure his blindness, because he didn’t think it important enough to waste them?

But he did waste it on a silly test for Bill, who wasn’t even aware of regeneration (if she was, why would she have been concerned about the small explosion in Pyramid). This could just be…[Read more]