no Susan and Rogue are definitely NOT illusory. Nor is Roger ap Gwillem, Stukey Bill, or the Space Babies. However, everyone apart from Susan, but perhaps her too, are disguised. If anything, they are all rooted in The Doctor’s REAL consciousness.

We know now the exterior of The Bone Palace is unreal. But is the interior? Mavity p…[Read more]

Poppy and the army can’t do anything if they’re dead, and they all just fell into giant purple portals with buildings collapsing onto them to boot. The whole Earth’s gone to dust, and they’re not going to have a TARDIS swooping in to scoop them up. We already know from previous episodes that Earth is dead-dead-dead post May 24 2025, an…

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Of course, WE (on first viewing) don’t know which (if either) of them remembers.   In fact we don’t even know they’ve forgotten, except that becomes fairly obvious in the fi…[Read more]

…and no master, and no regeneration. I thought for sure memories were going to LEAP out of the watch and create a new doctor in a new way.

I’m alone here I know.  But I am not surprised about the lack lustre response for the next series.

Perhaps when the REAL Doctor returns, things will be different.

Still my opinion. *grins*

Missy

@missrori There’s not much I can add to what’s already been said. I’m glad that it at least helps for you to express your thoughts and feelings here.

@blenkinsopthebrave Congratulations on your Canadian…[Read more]

as I know others & @janetteb is already aware, @missrori has been told “advice,” stories and help many, many, many times.

None of it is followed. It reappears every few months when people suddenly show up again.

@dentarthurdent Belated Happy Birthday. Getting older is a misfortune we all share, like lockdowns. Hopefully yours will soon be over. At least you have a responsive government and have lots of water between you and N.S.W though Delta has a way of infiltrating. I believe that we…[Read more]

Being positive is hard these days but my Mom used to say “this too will…[Read more]

As for my dad’s recovery, we think this is his last day of isolation. But now my stepmother is faced with the task of finding him a…[Read more]

@whisht Ah, the boy will survive. Thane The Boy Who Lives (a bit much?).

Denmark? DENMARK??…[Read more]

This might sound corny, but you have got us.

One of the great things about this site is that it is populated by people who are attracted to a show where the central tenant is “to be kind”.

Some of us, like the Old Syzygy, are coping with stuff I cannot possibly imagine, yet she can share an incredible knowledge and love of music;…[Read more]

Absolutely great advice from Whisht & others. it’s true: life aint fair. I’m real lucky that due to Crohns I have “self isolation down pat” -as my niece said when COVID blew in.

That was just after devastating fires where thousands of people & animals were displaced. Entire towns with huge histories gone overnight even though…[Read more]

y’know, that’s kinda about it.
It ain’t.

There are wiser folks than I who have built on the wisdom of people over millennia, so I’ll let people that understand that wisdom share it.

Me?
Life ain’t fair. I try to roll with the punches.
The ones that hurt, hurt.
I don’t think I ‘learn’…[Read more]

Truth  –  https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/34-days-of-pandemic-inside-trumps-desperate-attempts-to-reopen-america/ar-BB13wlAp?ocid=spartanntp

The USA federal government is incompetent under this administration.  So is China. So is the EU.

Big government has been much worse at reacting than all the smaller ones.   The orange cov…[Read more]

Yes, I think it’ll be well into s13 before we see any of this stuff returned to. I fully expect we’ll be seeing RuthDoc back in some form or another.

@badwolfalice

Yeah, there is already what amounts to a DWEU, I suppose. But I wonder if we are about to get something that keeps that extant but has another branch that can be explored…[Read more]

@bluesqueakpip

Really? Sherlock is currently over a hundred and thirty years old and Doctor Who has a much more flexible structure than good old Sherlock

Allow me to clarify slightly. I’m not saying that the cultural text of Doctor Who won’t be around in 2063. It most definitely will. I…[Read more]

Think there’s so much to clear up in the last 70 mins of the series… is there possibly to much to clear up, maybe?

Dont think we’ll be seeing Ruth again this series. I’d imagine she’ll return in a special or S13.

I keep thinking the lone Cyberman looked like the old Brendan. What did the lon…[Read more]

Firstly, while I’m going to wait and see what next week’s like, I think I may have to apologise to CC for saying his ‘future-set’ episodes aren’t that good. Given the massive amount of information that had to be given to the audience, this was a very well paced first…[Read more]

Time is becoming all messed up because the Cybermen are changing it to benefit themselves.

This is also  how we can have changes on Galifrey and the Ruth Doc and  Master in current time.

The divergence does seem rather sudden.  Did  the Master destroying Galifrey  have an

effect on  these new differences too?   Because he gives…[Read more]

I’d save the Ruth Doc stuff imo. Keep the excitement going.

@missrori. Is the Cyberium the thing the Alliance sent back through time to destroy the…[Read more]

In that link the BBC do make a valid point. It is true that a lot of people have difficulty responding to those who have suffered a bereavement or who are in mental distress, and they do tend either to avoid the issue altogether or to resort to euphemisms or platitudes; if someone has died it seems people have difficulty saying the…[Read more]

Oh, and nice research @whisht on the Kraftwerk connection!

I love my parents dearly, but they live in a part of Canada where the politics are so different from those of mine that I end up avoiding a lot of topics. It’…[Read more]

That sounds stressful, and dealing with parents as an adult can be tough – I also live with my mother, though in my case it’s more her living with us.

I feel for kids nowadays, I hate those memes that get circulated mocking young people for protesting about the…[Read more]

@missrori @jimthefish

Essentially, the whole of Nu Who, up until the “fix it” of The Name of the Doctor, has the Doctor as having committed genocide against his own people. In The Satan Pit, the Beast refers to Tennant Doc as “the killer of his own kind” and we eventually find out what…[Read more]

Interesting points re. Morality and the Doctor and I think we can say that Doc’s morality and system of ethics sometimes doesn’t resemble ours and is sometimes contradictory to what we’ve seen in the past (largely to do with individual writers). You could credibly argue, however, that the Doctor’s entire character arc from An Unearthly…[Read more]

That’s a fair point re. Dinosaurs and I think you could be right. That was certainly a theme in s7 up to and including the 50th anniversary

@juniperfish and @missrori

Yes, let’s take the question of the Doc’s morality over to the Orphan thread. I’ve certainly got some thoughts on @missrori‘s interesting post above

@everyone

I’d be…[Read more]

I agree with you @Rob , it wasn’t clear what level of sentience they had. Were they…[Read more]