@ichabod   I think “power” to the monks is freedom to make effective choices, so their idea of “love” is just what the Doctor says it is: “Love is — slavery.”  Well, he should know: he was recently shown increasingly enslaved (and perverted from his natural, chosen course) by one hell of an obsessive love for his former companion.[Read more]

@missrori

I think you’re also onto something about budget issues — some of the special effects were quite poor (especially the withering plants).

I was also thinking that budget might have meant a more realistic airlock system wasn’t implementable. Even some sort of token effort like a decontamination spray would have been better than doing not…[Read more]

Thanks to those encouraging me to continue commenting- to be clear I don’t feel ostracised in the slightest due to making negative comments on an episode- my reluctance to make further negative comments was my own, though a preference not to add too much negativity to the thread, since there are doubtless positive things to be said. I don’t wan…[Read more]

@missrori
Yes, I think I agree with everything you say about Bill’s actions and responses and motivations (as she is written) in this episode. But, as you say, there is next week. I have high hopes that we well all collectively gasp in adoration about how it all comes together.

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But your average domestic moggie and fancy breeds? They would be very quickly ‘selected out’.

@pedant, many individuals would, and of course many domestic cats are spayed/neutered so it wouldn’t matter from a gene pool point of view. But I’ve certainly had cats that were fantastic hunters (unfortunately for the smaller creatures in our local wil…[Read more]

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Another politically charged episode with meditations on rulers and ruled, with the main thought, How on Earth do the rulers get away with it? I need a second watch to try to get properly to grips with this one.

@blenkinsopthebrave  @thane15      and why a pyramid exactly?

I’d dearly like to think the explanation is: Pyramids have turned up bef…[Read more]

@countscarlioni:

That’s a good reminder to never forget the Daleks! They do seem to be at least trying to keep tabs on the Doctor, and  told Missy the Doctor had been on Darillium.

Glad you mentioned that. I have often wondered how Missy got away from Skaro and the Daleks? Then again, as I said, it might be the Silence, they wouldn’t be fond…[Read more]

@missrori– ah but he didn’t agree. He would rather have died. But then they would have just waited for the next crisis.  Bill had a point that wasn’t entirely sentimental.

Frankly this would have been a good time to plug in the temporary sight restorers, I’d have thought. Was that actually an invention of the monks?

I do see a flaw in their…[Read more]

@countscarlioni Daleks ? This is very amazing but ı dont thınk

perhaps Missy escape the Vault such as @missrori‘s said or maybe Doctor allow the Missy for quit the vault

I look forward to the new episode

@pedant: Interesting post. thank you for that.

A simm-ulation. ahahaha hahahahaha ahahahaha. aha.

Oh very droll. *chuckles*

@missrori;   As many are now asking elsewhere, how does the main plot of “The Return of Doctor Mysterio” fit into this timeline?  If the execution is happening shortly after the Doctor bade goodbye to River, and this i…[Read more]

@morpho   net result of *all* of that is that the (real) Doctor is alerted to an imminent alien invasion, i.e. pure exposition.

What’s the “net result” of Don Quixote, or Alice in Wonderland, or “Midnight”, for that matter?  DW isn’t a novel; it’s a long picaresque tale of tales that goes in circles (Doctor wakes, goes on adventures, “dies”, re…[Read more]

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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…

@missrori that is probably why I was wondering about how disheveled he looked. There was something nagging at me about that and there’s the explanation.

Which now m…[Read more]

@missrori    . . . “Without hope, without virtue, without reward”…if that is to be the Doctor’s fate in “The Doctor Falls” for doing what’s right, well, no wonder there are so few heroes in this world!

I think there are many, many heroes in this world — and a lot of them go unrecognized til after they’re gone, if then.  The nature of our li…[Read more]

ha ha Hi @MissRori – ah, but as I don’t watch the Next Time trailers and try to avoid spoilers as much as possible (I don’t even know the episode names) I can keep my bonkerising ‘reality free’!

😉

@missrori

oh, i agree, it would be a cheat, and would cause more problems than it could solve. i’m merely throwing out some mad thoughts about how two mad characters might work together…

as to the how, look no further than the chameleon arch, which disguised the master at the end of time, and the doctor when he was hiding out from the family…[Read more]

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