Wow, is this the first ever instance of timelord regeneration gender-hop? I’m not sure.

It’s actually long-established canon that Time Lords can change gender on regeneration. Look up e.g. “The Corsair”.

I am, for example, completely certain that there were no Daleks in World War Two. Rose hanging off a barrage balloon is just about possible, but Daleks in the War Rooms – and Spitfires able to cope with vacuum? Nope.
Similarly, Reg in The Doctor, Widow, Wardrobe is flying a model of Lancaster bomber which hadn’t yet been bui…

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On another note: Doctor Who is not hard scifi. The facts of the real world are no more than props and devices. For example, in the real world, the moon actually masses in at something over 50 TRILLION tons, meaning that a space critter coming in at a few billion isn’t going to change gravity a wit’s worth of notice. But that’s OK with…

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Some of it is downright squirm-worthy. Especially, when Clara – who’s supposed to be a strong woman (and was in the Matt Smith episodes) lies to Danny. My wife and I were so relieved when she finally fessed up and made things honest between she, Danny and the Doctor. We loved the relationship bits in the Moon episode.
But now we’…

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What Danny is grappling to understand is that her relationship with the Doctor is not romantic.

I agree with the rest of your analysis, and I too don’t dislike Danny, but I can’t see that. On the contrary, he seems to understand better than Clara herself does that her relationship with the Doctor is not romantic.
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Don’t really see why people generally find it easier to suspend disbelief for a teleporting mummy on the Orient Express (IN SPACE!!) than for the moon’s an egg scenario, but happy people are generally on board for this epi 🙂

Given the way human nature works, an “Orient Express (IN SPACE!!)” is not just plausible but practically ine…[Read more]

I find the conversation at the end about addiction strange, because they both seem to have forgotten about the fact that the Doctor did give up traveling for ages and ages –

But the conversation wasn’t really about the Doctor. Clara tried to make it look like she was talking about him when she brought the subject up, but actually t…[Read more]

I was very keen on planetary science as a schoolchild. Most of what I was taught? Completely wrong.

OK there’s no jungles on Venus, but science never said there were, only that there might be, and pulp SF ran with that. And there are no canals on Mars, but science never said there were, it was just a misunderstanding due to a…[Read more]

Yup. In no particular order: Robin Hood exists, there’s a dragon in the Moon, dinosaurs were much bigger than we think they were, Daleks can become aware of their own evil, there appears to be life after death and bankers can repent of their misdeeds.
Am I spotting a pattern here? 😉

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So Clara-from-Blackpool is a product of the Doctor’s future. She’s either a Claricle herself, rather than Clara-Prime (and so would cease to exist if the Doctor never reached Trenzalore) or she’s a […]

Timeloop: Has anyone here metioned that the Doctor knows all of his future because he went in his Timestream (same as reading it in a book I presume)?  …
 WhoHar: If the Doc has […]

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I haven’t contacted the Dr, Who production team – I only had this particular theory at about 7p.m. and this forum was the first to get it, receiving the first part more […]

River can’t tell the Doctor why she wants to know his name, because spoilers. It therefore takes quite a while for her to learn it, but eventually she does. She then visits the Doctor’s […]

There has to be a first iteration, one in which Clara has not been fragmented into the timeline. Some events still pan out in a […]

OK, so, the Silence were supposed to kill the Doctor so he could never get to Trenzalore … why? I like your theory that they were guarding the Hurt Doctor (/keeping him from getting ‘out’), but … […]

It looks like Clara has the same mother in all her lives. If every Clara gets a whole past and future, just like any other real person… then how much of the human population of spacetime exists because […]

I think (correct me if I’m wrong) the doctor explicitly CALLS her “souffle girl” to her face. It may be when he confronts her on the cliff edge outside the TARDIS control room, in JttCotT, but she […]

Also – it’s bothering me that just before stepping into the Doctor’s timestream in TNotD, Clara says ‘well whaddaya know, I’m Souffle Girl after all.’ She hasn’t been fragmented yet – how does she know […]

Hurt … as in John Hurt?

Yes. I don’t have any special insight into the course of future episodes, I was just making the same pun that must have been made already by many others, and trying to be subtle […]

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Or maybe it was a continuity error.

@MTGradwell – or maybe the Eleventh is the Final Doctor.

I think you’ve got something there. The Eleventh is the final […]

(translation: What the heck page was your conversation on? in terms of 50 ‘conversations’ per page, please, and assuming no CifFIx.)

This particular conversation was on page 6.

I was advised very […]

But she also says (at the end) – just after they’ve found HurtDr – “But I saw all of you… 11 faces, all of them you, you’re the eleventh Dr”

He doesn’t disagree with her. So given that his timestream was […]

This is why I [sadly] suspect we’ve seen the last of River.  She knows that from now on, all she will have are the dreams of her Doctor, and no more adventures.

From River’s perspective, i.e. the […]

I thought it odd how the Tomb TARDIS looked the same on the inside. Does that mean the Doctor never changes it? That will probably be explained as all the versions of the TARDIS console where there, […]