@bunface @nerys @mudlark

Who has, of more recent years anyway, been very reluctant to kill anyone (significant) off, most egregiously with Clara, but also Donna and to some extent, the Ponds.

As soon as we saw Kate L-S dustify followed quickly by the rest of the Unit team, I immediately thought “RTD is going to pull a Last of the Time Lords…[Read more]

@wolvesarerunning I feel like I’m defending an episode I was pretty disappointed with but here’s the thing – when pictures of Ruby’s mother popped up by instinctive, instant reaction was ‘oh, she looks so ordinary’. And RTD did, as you say, troll the hell out of us with possibilities. The woman in the tent, no one can’t convince me that wasn’t a…[Read more]

@mudlark @blenkinsopthebrave

Profiles of the Future: Arthur C Clarke’s 3rd Law…

‘Any sufficiently advanced technology is inextinguishable from magic’

…apparently.

The Time Window was tampered with…? Mmmm. We know someone who likes to mess around with that stuff, don’t we children? TUF guy. V. Mysterious. Could Warp your Mind! In fact the last…[Read more]

@mudlark

The problem, for me at least, was that after all the previous build up which misled us into thinking Ruby must be special in an extraordinary, possibly timey or extra-terrestrial way, and overpowered by the apocalyptic events earlier in the episode, it fell rather flat.

Yes, I did think it would have been awesome if Ruby’s eyes had turned…[Read more]

@mudlark my impression was that it was Ruby’s mother who he couldn’t see – this mysterious hooded person in the video that was projected into the room.

@thane16

but is that our problem rather than the writer’s, I wonder…?

The writer’s. Definitely. Like @craig, I too have an MA in scriptwriting. If I’d submitted this ep for comment, it would have been returned with copious notes, one if which would have intimated that it was really a first draft.

@mudlark, @blenkinsopthebrave

I’ve previously sta…[Read more]

@mudlark Ha! Well, given the choice between engaging in collective and convivial bonkerizing, and the dubious charms of coming up with script ideas that would guarantee sufficient viewing numbers to satisfy the suits at Disney+, I vote in favour of doing just what we have been doing and enjoying on this wonderful site for the last decade (can it…[Read more]

@miapatrick I think you won @mudlark some cash… “Mrs Flood chameleon arced til Christmas.”

Niiice.

I really, really would’ve liked the carol to have been used a little more. But overall, I can see why RTD has gone down this particular path. We’ve had reality bombs, the most important woman in the universe, the end of the world. And the death of…[Read more]

Wow – the Forum has been on fire with some super musings! (I’ve been immured in Exam Boards).

@thane16

If the Tardis was infected when the Doctor saved baby Ruby from the goblin dinner then do we account for his tears, at other times, because part of him, perhaps due to his connection with the Tardis, is aware that something is deeply w…

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<span class=”useratname”>@mudlark The more I think about I the more I like it, as much in terms of storytelling style as anything.

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and we have two mysterious older women, two mysteriously abandoned babies.

this has been such a playful series!

@mudlark Crikey, no offence taken at all! One of the great things about this site (beyond the accepting and generous calibre of the people who frequent it) is that any “wrong” prediction still captures the essence of the site; viz, “theories even more insane than what’s actually happening”.

And you take care of the shiny new knee and hip, my…[Read more]

@whohar it’s all good -it’s above under the sons new and independent username: @fanoftom…

Yes!  “Either Ruby will go through the one at UNIT HQ and end up exiting the TARDIS in the time window, and then find out who left her at the Church. I don’t think she’ll find it’s her mother there and agree that she will have been left by some prescien…[Read more]

Hallooo Puro here! I’m on Son’s new address. I did have some of this post saved in word doc…  This post addresses the musical concepts, in general, of current investigations into Time Windows, in relation to fractals in music and the interconnectedness of the universe and music. So many posters have written extensively on the importance of…[Read more]

@mudlark

That link is terrific. Very clever use of language. Science based puns.

“and the reciprocal of Pi to your good wife” Love it.

I confess I’d not heard of these two gentlemen before, so many thanks for broadening my horizons.

@mudlark

 I am, however, broadly familiar with the ideas concerning time and entropy and it has always seemed to me logical that the two were aspects of the same thing.

I was unsure whether to include my cod-scientific definitions – I assumed you’d probably be aware of the terms, but I wasn’t 100% and I reasoned it was better to include for…[Read more]

@mudlark

I’m also interested in physics and cosmology

Have you read any Carlo Rovelli? He’s an Italian Theoretical Physicist, who writes generally accessible books on Physics.

If not, start with Seven Brief Lesson on Physics and if you enjoy that then The Order of Time and Reality is Not What it Seems (though the latter is more challenging). Inte…[Read more]

Did you really think it that scary?  

@mudlark

Ooohh, no, not really! It’s just that my brain doesn’t work that way so I’m agog!

But thanks for the context. Knowing you are/were an archaeologist (?) makes your approach clear for me. And less ‘scary’ 🙃

I love that you see it from such a different angle, that you read with a different method t…[Read more]

@thane16 @scaryb

Psychic manifestation, I’d say absolutely. In the trailer for this ep STriad was all “they’re using my face”,  which must be a line in part 2 seeing as it wasn’t in The Legend.

All part of the AI theme: face hacking, deepfakery, identity theft.

Which leads me into more Doctor musing!

Interested in the orange connection…[Read more]

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@Mudlark @Blenkinsopthebrave

WOW!

That is 5 star bonkerising! 🙂

To take it a step further…  3 things strike me.

1. When did the TARDIS become infected? Let’s assume it was in Wild Blue Yonder, when the Dr did the salt thing at the border of the known universe and “the other”.  Although it may have been before (need a rewatch of the s…[Read more]