@thane15: I see. I get what you mean: I didn’t realise you meant selfish! Or cowardly and I must say that I cannot agree with you with regards to Clara. It upsets me I suppose: that a man, as @Missy eloquently put it (and yes you DO add to the discussion. Always!) who has saved countless lives, should not let  Clara out: I think you said that Cla…[Read more]

@nick:  I suspect that we will need, in a couple of years, to rewatch the whole of Capaldi’s run, using hindsight to fully appreciate what both Moff and Capaldi actually achieved.

I have watched the whole run  quite a few times – up to now – and fully appreciate their achievements NOW. I don’t need a couple of years. Perhaps I am easily ple…[Read more]

@blenkinsopthebrave:  Capaldi’s first outing as the Doctor has one important characteristic that has stayed with him throughout…self-doubt.

Forgive me if I am misquoting, but I remember Nardole telling the Doctor that  he knew everything. The Doctor replies that he doesn’t. Nardole answers that he always acted as though he knew everyt…[Read more]

@bluesqueakpip:

Thank you for that.

Puro:  A lot of today’s youth have no idea just how lucky they are. But then how can they? That’s the problem.

Missy

@wolfweed: The BBC Click article on binaural sound suggest it’s going to be the next big thing because everyone goes around with headphones on all the time now. First signs of becoming Cybermen…?

Either that or dumb.  People have stopped talking to each other, they spend their time prodding away at their mobile phones – gawd I hate those thing…[Read more]

@missrori:

Hmm, I suppose we shan’t know until we see it. Of course, it also depends on Who the Doctor is.

@tardigrade:

Babylon 5? Really enjoyable and a great shame when it was axed. The X files never interested me for some reason.

@thane15:

Like @nick; I to wish him well and hope for the best.

@wolfweed:

I didn’t know there was such an…[Read more]

Blimey!  Posts are getting too complicated for me, too intellectual. All I know is that I loved this episode and keep watching it.

Missy

A thought occurred to me.  The Doctor took a big risk plugging himself into the transmitter Monk, in fact it threw him off. Surely that would have affected his mind.

Add to that, the machine which restored his sight temporarily, was dangerous – he said it could fry his mind (words to that affect.)

The loss of River and Clara, the girl  he c…[Read more]

@bluesqueakpip:

It’s interesting how opinions vary. The first three Doctor’s, from 2005, were convincing in different ways, but Capaldi was and is the best of the bunch – so far.

I find him  more convincing than the other three because he appeared to suffer more than they did, so although he is supposed to be non-human, he is more human than t…[Read more]

@mudlark: Ooops, sorry about that. I obviously missed your comment about Boris. A comfort to hear that the NHS is still functioning well.

Missy

@mirime: He actually says that, when he retreats to his Tardis. back to the diamond wall he thinks “why Bird?”

You see his face change and coming back to the Tardis he says, “That’s what I remember!” He repeats this to Clara, without mentioning the bird.

Nick: he wasn’t cowardly, he had a duty of care – and he missed her.

@ichabod: I don’t…[Read more]

I haven’t read all your posts as yet (shall do) but here is what I thought about this episode.

It was light relief from the last three episodes. A bit silly, but fun nonetheless.

Why did the Tardis take off all on its own? Did Missy have anything to do with it – how?

And why did  Missy ask the Doctor if he was all right? What, one wonders, was…[Read more]

@scaryb: Although the monks have gone by the end, most other people still do not have this awareness. They choose to go along with what they are told, and to not examine their thoughts/memories or the world around them in any depth.

Rather like the EU – innit?

Missy

Is there any truth in the rumour that Boris Johnson is a possible candidate for prime Minister?

Now, that would be interesting.

Shall be watching “Mars” tonight.

Missy

@janetteb:

I never visited the British Museum – always meant to, *sigh* and I only went to the Tower one week before we came here! *shakes head* Mind you, I did go to many castles, Stately Homes and each point of the compass on the UK. I believe that if you spent a year exploring every nook and cranny in just London alone, you still wouldn’t see…[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!

Ex…[Read more]

@thane15: PURO

Two Doctors and two Masters? Not entirely himself?

Hark, is that the soothing, sweet tones of the Twilight Zone I hear?

Missy

@lisa:

Most resolutions usually are simple.

@missrori:

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

@wolfweed: I remember In The forest of the Night, the Doctor tells Clara that humans forget, and they just become fairy stories.

Did anyone notice that the e…[Read more]

@wolfweed: Well, I’m glad someone said, you beat me to it. Steven Moffat didn’t write the script, Toby Whithouse did! All right he had to approve of it, but it wasn’t his work.  Not that it matters because, as I’ve already said, I really enjoyed this episode.

@thane15:  That laugh! *shudder* It had the same affect on me as the smile he gives in t…[Read more]

Now I have seen it twice, I can honestly say that I really liked it. Peter was almost manic (that smile made me shudder) and Pearl played her part admirably. As for Missy, I wouldn’t trust those tears for a second – she is planning something, and hopefully the Doctor won’t be taken in.

Now to your posts. This is likely to take a while. *grins,…[Read more]