@nerys — I agree with you 100%, and if it was possible to agree with you more than 100% I would!

In many respects, I regard this site as the very best of a combination of a discussion among friends at the pub and a graduate seminar; neither work all the time, but when they do they restore your faith in humanity — nerdy humanity, of course…

@rorysmith @nerys It would be fun to see the Doctor regenerate and see her much more interested in her new hair colour than her changed gender, just based on comments from earlier Doctors. As long as that’s made clear that it’s not a preoccupation based on her new gender.

I really think it’s quite a small group who’ve had the inevitable kne…[Read more]

@nerys:     MISSY: Well, we thought we might chuck you off the roof, but I wasn’t sure how many regenerations you had left.

                  MASTER: Yeah, we could have been up and down the stairs all night.

That is my favourite conversation too. I posted this a while ago, but the wording was wrong.

Missy

@nerys:

Me too.

@craig:

Thank you.

@bluesqueakpip;

I bought Adventure in time and space a while ago. Very enjoyable.

Missy

@nick @jimthefish @blenkinsopthebrave @nerys @ichabod

I knew I couldn’t be the only sane one out there!  (Though that may be a questionable claim.)  I do agree that I see, in some sense, the necessity of Rose but I think that’s also what makes me so infuriated about her.  The idea that we needed that horrendous mush-fest to sell the merits of the…[Read more]

Thanks @nerys. Has been dealt with.

@nerys  Yes, that’s the beauty of it — she “played” the “two minds” she was in, one physically, the other verbally, at the same moment.  So good . . . (and bad).  Being “of two minds” about it is a neat marker of just how far along the Vault experience has brought her, when you compare that line with Simm’s “I will NEVER stand with the Do…[Read more]

@nerys

So I think this is why Missy clasps the Doctor’s hand as they part ways near the end. Without words, just this gesture, she is reassuring him that she is on his side.

When they clasp hands, earlier in this episode and previously, it clearly affects Missy emotionally. She actually rejects an attempt by the Doctor to clasp both her hands w…[Read more]

@nerys
Your last paragraph–I agree.

I just finished watching the episode again, and I know that others have suggested something changes hands, but I am more of the view that the holding of hands is just that. And its importance is precisely that–the emotional significance that the holding of hands signifies.

@nerys;

Precisely.

Silly question coming up.  Why was this episode called  World Enough and Time? It has never made sense to me.

Missy

@miapatrick  I’ve wondered before if the twelve regenerations limit is for psychological reasons? We now know that more regenerations can be granted, why is the limit set at twelve? What is the effect of carrying so many sets of memories in your head?

For us, destruction.  For a TL, maybe not so much — big mind.  But it’s an interesting ques…[Read more]

@nerys

I thought Hazran was Susan!    I thought she had a strong resemblance to Susan’s picture

sitting on the  Doctors desk at the University.  A matured version of the character was my bet.

I expect we will probably see a big party of returning characters for a big blow out Christmas

episode.  Very right too !!

@nerys
I confess that I didn’t make that connection to Hazran. What did spring to mind when I watched the episode was the connection with role played by Lillian Gish as the woman who protects her orphan charges against Robert Mitchum’s deranged Preacher in the fabulous “”Night of the Hunter”:

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0048424/mediaviewer/rm1069923072

@nerys  It’s like I almost get it … then realize I don’t.

Exactly!  Right to the edge — but not onto the carousel.  It goes too fast, and so many animals and colors!

@nerys  Insignificance Terrific movie! As well as the explanation of relativity, it also carries a very powerful punch and moral message at the end. Here’s Marilyn (played brilliantly by Theresa Russell) explaining special relativity to Albert:  

@mudlark @thane15 @nick @ichabod   As I understand it…[Read more]

@nerys:   “And poor Bill. Gosh, I’m with the kids who adore her and are heartbroken by what’s befallen her. I want her to get a happy ending! Kudos to the sharp-eyed souls who think they spotted Heather looking out of one of the windows. Let’s hope that she and Heather are reunited … somehow.”

I didn’t see Heather,but you have taken the words ri…[Read more]

@Nick

I’m curious if in the next season when Chibnall takes over if he might choose

to strike a new direction some where between the BG and AG styles?

Broadchurch is a serial format.  He’s done both.  Maybe he’ll create a hybrid  🙂

I’m also curious to see if he brings back any older Who characters.

He has a history with many of th…[Read more]

@nerys I didn’t notice the explanation by @geoffers, but it’s not simply time perception, it is the actual passage of time, measured by any means, that is affected. The really short explanation is high gravity = slow time. The difference of hundred of kilometres from the top to the bottom of the ship affects the relative gravity felt at the two…[Read more]

@lisa @nerys Yes- why Saxon is on the ship, and has no recollection as Missy of ever having been there previously, is obviously a key question. The suggestion of the TLs (well Rassilon) being involved is an interesting one, and may explain Missy not remembering it, if Saxon’s memory was wiped, or he was pulled out of his timeline for this mission.…[Read more]

@nerys

My husband and I were trying to figure out how there could be two of them (same way we got multiple Doctors in The Day of the Doctor).

in ‘tDotD’ it was the involvement of the Moment, a force/source of great power, that allowed all the doctors to interact, so i’m guessing any “great force” can overcome the blinovitch limitation effect……[Read more]