@MissRori

I think that it’s just the Doctor coming to terms with the fact that Clara’s time had come to die and he had to move on and stop sulking and start being the Doctor. I agree, though, that the story arc wasn’t as good as in series 8, but I did enjoy the episode.

@missrori   @ichabod   I don’t know if the Space channel here in Canada is airing Class in October but I sure do hope so. I will try to find out later. Thanks to @infinityandbepond for the link to the interview. She does sound fun! I have to agree with @blenkinsopthebrave that the next series looks to be lighter. Certainly any episode with Nardo…[Read more]

@missrori  not in the U.S. til next spring.

Brilliant decision.  Aargghhh!

@missrori;  What a read, and you could be right, his heart’s did need to be mended. he has lost so many people.

“I’m so sick of losing” he says in The girl who died.” anyway, your theory sounds as good as any other, thank you for that. You too @ichabod

Missy

@missrori   She certainly did not think her life was worth risking the Web of Time or burning a billion billion hearts….

True: “I was dead,” she says, and not needing anybody to do anything for her any more.

The Hybrid was destined to do what it did because it had to heal its heart(s). Her heart did not need healing…but his did.

That’s an very…[Read more]

@missrori  and @ichabod  I can’t wait to see the new companion and how she comes into the Doctor’s life. There is so much to look forward to and to wonder about. Will she live on the Tardis like Rose, Martha and Donna or have home bases and travel with the Doctor when he calls, like Clara and Amy and Rory? What time is she from? Why does she w…[Read more]

@MissRori @winston @ichabod @Missy

I wrote out most of this reply to your discussion on the Husbands of River Song thread, and then realized that it really belonged here!  🙂

Sometimes people have to find themselves in particular places, circumstances, or company, in order to achieve their full potential. This has been in the front of my mind…[Read more]

@missrori  @winston  The companions as heroes — yes, that’s the other side of the coin, isn’t it?  The Doctor turns his companions into “weapons” or at leasts into adventurers fit and willing to risk their lives to help him.  But he also, apparently not by design but by the nature of his life’s special qualities and requirements, calls out the…[Read more]

@missrori  I agree with what you say about every companion being the most important person in the Doctor’s life at the time. After all Rose saved 9 from the Living Plastic and the Daleks by becoming Bad Wolf and then she protects 10 through his regeneration. Martha then saves 10 by getting his heart started when the earth is on the moon and when…[Read more]

@missrori         Some people still don’t see him, I guess…

There loss, our gain.

@ichabod: A very good point. Terry Prachett, had a way with words and with looking at the world. I’ve all his Disc World books.

@winston: Count me in on that one. *thumbs up*

@ichabod:      Wherever S10 goes, it’s going to take one he Hell of a trick to pull…[Read more]

@missrori  Oh, ugh, sorry to hear about your disappointment at Comicon.  The thing is, I think, that however much comic books have “grown up” in recent decades (see Neil Gaiman’s Sandman series, for example, or the point at which the comic book Batman took a characterological dark turn that was supposed to change superhero comics forever), most c…[Read more]

@ichabod and @badwolf11  Ichabods answer was so good I have little to offer except to say that the theme of seeing what you expect to see is also there in the retaurant where we see people eating that turn out to be autons. Maybe even when the Doctor and Clara see a message in the paper and they both see the what they want to see. They were bot…[Read more]

@MissRori

Over at Tumblr there was a poster who argued that Clara is the most powerful hero in Doctor Who history because she kept the Eleventh Doctor from dying

This is an example of when fans would do well to rein in the hyperbole, because exactly the same could be said of Amy who wished the Doctor back into existence, after he had deleted h…[Read more]

@missrori—

I’ve not read Supremacy yet but I’ve largely heard good things about it. Think I’ll wait for the inevitable TP.

As to the Doctor finding peace — well, do we really want that? Wouldn’t that mean that the story –and the show — was essentially at an end?

@missrori

In Doctor Who, everything and anything makes sense. That’s the beauty of it.

Missy

@missrori and @bluesqueakpip

Actually, given the heaven/hell and death motifs in his tenure thus far, perhaps the Twelfth Doctor’s “big” arc will finally reveal there is a real promised land and give him something to work towards/look forward to?

Yes, this has definitely been an arc for the 12th Doctor. But I think with Heaven Sent/Hell Bent w…[Read more]

@missrori and  @bluesqueakpip  Thank you both.

Very interesting posts. I haven’t an opinion one way or t’other (for once *chuckle*) simply enjoyed reading them.

Certainly food for thought.

Missy

@MissRori

The Doctor certainly seems to believe that – but he always does seem to have believed that. The Time Lords (as distinct from the Gallifreyans) seem to be the type of atheists that make Richard Dawkins look like a devout Anglican. If anything, Dark Water seems to indicate that he’s becoming a little less certain, a bit more agnostic. The…[Read more]

@missrori  @missy    I agree with you both on the forceful words the Doctor has for the Zygons and humans in this episode. It must have been the wind but I had a few tears in my eyes during his impassioned speech. A superb  2 parter and one of my favourites. I wish we would all listen to the Doctor.

@missrori  Thanks for the comments on the Titan comics.  Gotta go look for that, sounds interesting.

@missy  The Clara/CapDoc chemistry is what got me, too — I think it was so strong that they could play a great number of variations on it and it *worked* because of being grounded in that natural and solid connection.  There are people you fee…[Read more]