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@MissRori– me too, which is why I prefer the idea of the road to hell paved with ‘indifference’. To say it’s ‘good intentions’ is to imply it might be best to do nothing. Indifference.
The entire point to the doctor is that he meddles. But I do love that the show doesn’t shy away from the fact this is also problematic.

@MissRori

Perhaps he will find a way to work with/around his disability, however long it lasts.

I expect so- it would be too good a narrative opportunity to pass up with a quick resolution, and a positive story about disability if he is still bad-ass regardless. So I suspect that the Doctor may be blind until he regenerates.

@missrori    Twelve isn’t nice to all those poor souls who end up in the Nethersphere, but Missy is. “Nice” can easily fill a hole where “good” would otherwise be.

Spot-on.  The Doctor’s focus is on doing good; he rarely seems concerned at all with “being nice”, which makes a great deal of sense since there’s often not time or space for niceness…[Read more]

@missrori  Yes this Doctor has had a hard time. I was happy to see him get a group cuddle ,he needs it.

@MissRori    Interesting. I confess I’ve stayed away as much as possible from any information about what’s to come. However, based on even the little we know about the vault, that doesn’t seem surprising.

Just a few odds-and-ends before tomorrow’s episode….

Someone (apologies I forget who) asked about the boot that falls onto the Beast below so that it opens its eyes at the beginning of the episode.
For me, the boot was simply stuck to the bottom of the ice sheet and got dislodged by the ‘bump’ of the falling fruit that landed on the ice…[Read more]

Ooops — it’s the Bad-tempered Schism, right?  There’s a vortex lying around somewhere too, but they’re not the same thing?  Brain on strike . . . !

@missrori  Thanks; it’s been on my mind since that line of Missy’s, because “the puppy” rang true for that aspect of the Doctor/companion relationship, right on the mark about this niggling un…[Read more]

@janetteb @missrori

I agree with you why is just or more important than who is in their. I assume that the ship and the bio-liquid that was ‘released” from it is ep 1 will also have a part in the answer.

I really like the idea that the promise (I would take an oath to be something more formal and beyond a promise) was made to River to be a…[Read more]

@missrori we were speculating in the car tonight that the promise might have been made to River as he spent 24 years with her and most likely reassembled Nardole during that period. Nardole worked for River and he appears to be endeavouring to keep the Doctor to the promise.

Cheers

Janette

@missrori  . . . they’re all, effectively, set free in the end. Freed of chains, of programming, of…oaths…or promises…don’t mind me, I’m just overthinking things again.

Oh, please, indulge — Well, drat, I just overthought of something: the Doctor, end of S9, set himself and Clara “free” of each other.  Is he now going about committing oth…[Read more]

@pedant and @missrori I re watched Doctor Mysterio recently and really enjoyed it and it is nice, especially for S.M and Capaldi for the episode to get a nomination even if it has no chance of winning given the quality of the opposition. I really must watch Stranger Things. The rest of the family loved it though there were complaints about some…[Read more]

@MissRori

I was more surprised (and pleased) by the particular episode getting enough votes in the face of a very much back-on-form GoT and some other excellent SFF. The Expanse is top drawer hard SF, Stranger Things  a dark delight, San Junipero exquisite. Not familiar with the other nominee.

I thoroughly enjoyed Mysterio, but it is up against…[Read more]

@Mersey

Some of the clues we perceive no doubt exist only in our overactive imaginations, but some do prove eventually to have significance within the narrative. On the other hand, one of the examples you cited, the toy soldier in Listen, is a clue in the strict Ariadne sense, because it was one of the tangible links in the somewhat conv…[Read more]

@missrori    Perhaps he was thankful for something to keep him “grounded”,

Maybe he has been, and felt that he needed a “resting life”.  And teaching in a university setting is a good way to be around young people and be useful to them without expectations of very close bonds developing to any individual.

So along comes Bill . . . and all bets a…[Read more]

@blenkinsopthebrave  Still waiting for my own copy of DW Magazine to make it here (also in Canada but not such a remote part I suspect) but Dan Martin quoted a section of the interview in his Guardian review of the episode. Here it is: “I love watching what happens with emojis, how people use them for different things, and the change of meaning…[Read more]

This was a wonderful intro to season 10.  Adore Bill, but how could a person not adore Bill?  She’s original and absolutely endearing.  Agree with @jimthefish and @nerys that this has a wonderful introduction to a companion and I enjoy the sense of whimsy, humor and wonder infused back into the show.

@winston @MissRori, @mudlark @juniperfish @phas…[Read more]

Adore Bill, but how could a person not adore Bill?  She’s original and absolutely endearing.

@MissRori, @mudlark @juniperfish @phaseshift @pedant @miapatrick @jimthefish Agree, agree, agree.

Peter Capaldi has been my favorite Doctor since season 9 (not feeling it in season 8, plus still loyal to Doctor 11) but this episode reminded me why he is…[Read more]

Adore Bill, but how could a person not adore Bill?  She’s original and absolutely endearing.

@MissRori, @mudlark @juniperfish @phaseshift @pedant @miapatrick @jimthefish Agree, agree, agree.

Peter Capaldi has been my favorite Doctor since season 9 (not feeling it in season 8, plus still loyal to Doctor 11) but this episode reminded me why he is…[Read more]

@MissRori

I’d like to read that poem. (:

Okay, for various reasons tonight I’m back on my extra crazy theories regarding ‘Listen’ but can’t get into all of them without spoilers for the new season.