@MTGradwell – sorry, that probably came out as a bit stronger than I intended. What I meant to say was that you’ve certainly convinced me that the science is rubbish.

I just think there’s probably a reason that the science and history have all had a theme of ‘what you think you know is wrong; it’s what the legends say that’s real’.

@Wordmuse and @MTGradwell

If I could do it in a few seconds, surely someone involved in the production could have done something similar.

Exactly. They could have found out in fifteen seconds. And we know that they do find these things out; Moffat’s on record as muttering bitterly that he checked tape machines were around at the date of The…[Read more]

@MTGradwell – I get what you’re saying (I think), and I mainly agree with you. But when I say its not hard scifi, that means that the authors and actors are asking me to suspend disbelief.  It’s part of the bargain I make with them as I watch.

That said, the minute they start relating the what’s going on in the story to our real world, where one…[Read more]

@MTGradwell – I think you should just give up on this one, mate.

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…[Read more]

@MTGradwell – I hope you are right. Both my wife and I had he same spontaneous reaction: “Really? Are we really going to stay in “Three’s Company” territory?

I would love nothing more than to be wrong.

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…[Read more]

@MTGradwell – however, the moon is our neighbour. Men have landed there, and brought back samples, which have been analysed and which are not noted for their resemblance to eggshell.

please note, i’m not arguing with you. you were disappointed in the science of the “moon egg.” but…

take a neighbor of your’s, for example. your next door…[Read more]

@thommck – Thanks. I’m not saying I have anything against Clara/Danny myself either – Danny seems to be a decent bloke – but I just wanted to emphasise that the ‘format’ of a character-driven arc-plot seems very effective.

@MTGradwell – Yeah I have to say I’m erring in your direction about whether Clara lied to Danny or not. I don’t believe she…[Read more]

@MTGradwell

It being an egg would contradict EVERYTHING we know about physics, chemistry, biology, and just about any other science you can think of.

Harking back to my blog on The Eleventh Hour, (other blogs are available) we are not in our local universe and our local laws on physics, chemistry, biology and just about any science you can…[Read more]

@geoffers—

 i think he stopped travelling the universe, in that case, simply because of the threat of the time war breaking out again

I’m with @bluesqueakpip on this one. It doesn’t really matter why the Doctor stopped travelling but the fact is that he did (and therefore could). It’s Clara that has the addiction because it’s now been shown that…[Read more]

@MTGradwell Thanks for the reverse engineering explanation. So GUS wanted to build more killer Mummies…

@Various

Interesting some people dislike Clara this season. I much prefer her. I remember when she first arrived as Oswin Dalek and I thought she was great, then she became a sort of blank canvas whose defining characteristic was fancying…[Read more]

@MTGradwell @Bluepipsqueak – “All the science was garbage …….. You might be onto something here”   I really hope you are onto something, because if I get you right and what you’re saying is that these multiple distortions of reality are a symptomatic of some over arching distortions, probably related to the status of Missy’s promised land, t…[Read more]

Real life has been getting in the way over the past couple of days, leaving me barely enough time to keep up with this thread, let alone post my own reactions, and most of the points arising from my thoughts on first viewing have already been raised and discussed at length.

My feelings about this episode are mixed.  I found the dramatic tension,…[Read more]

@phileasf I really like your Amy’s memories explanation for everything, and the Moon Dragon as a metaphor, and thought your point about the Doctor being/not being an officer was brilliant!

Re: the Doctor not knowing the future. In Cold Blood, humans and Silurians negotiate their respective futures on the Earth (the Doctor does not involve…[Read more]

Wow. So many great and interesting comments, I’m not sure how to go about responding to all of them. And as usual, because I’m a bit late in joining, some of my initial responses are rendered irrelevant by what comes later. But I’ll have a go.

@BadWulf, I was going ask you to explain your problems with the science, not being “sciency” myself, b…[Read more]

@Bluesqueakpip The universe of Doctor Who? It has time travel. And faster than light travel. And teleportation (which has already been used to bring people back from the dead). All of which are completely friggin’ impossible …

… as far as we currently know.

True – although these breakings of the laws of physics are usually engaged in order…[Read more]

@MTGradwell

but that’s not the same as stretching the laws of physics beyond breaking point.

And this is pretty well what I’m saying. You’re missing off the ‘as they are currently understood’ bit.

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

My A Level Physics teacher could remember b…[Read more]

@MTGradwell Then, the crew enters an abandoned/derelict base, they restore the power, the lights come on and INSTANTLY it’s safe for them to remove their helmets. As if it wouldn’t take time to get the air pressure and temperature back to something tolerable. Again I can see why they did it, but…

That’s one I didn’t pick up on! And yes, it is ano…[Read more]

@MTGradwell

All of the science was garbage. All of it.

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? 😉

btw – in terms of theories I’ve enjoyed… I didn’t want to mention posters by name, as I’d forget someone and that would be dumb.

However, perhaps its good to remember some of those who don’t seem to be around anymore, in case a mention gets an email to them that they open and want to take part.

So here’s to @MTGradwell @Bruin @CraigNixon @penny…[Read more]

@shazzbot and @MTGradwell – I’m uncertain that Victorian Clara is Clara-Prime, simply because she repeats Blackpool Clara’s last line – and calls the TARDIS ‘smaller on the outside’, as if she’s already done the […]