@bluesqueakpip

Absolutely agree with you here:

So its motivation is pretty simple: it’s a weapon of mass destruction that doesn’t want to be used. It’s quite willing to manipulate time in order to not kill 2.74 billion children.

but I see postulating from this

that weapon somehow created Clara (who seems to be a fully human individual) or cau…[Read more]

@Bluesqueakpip

Very interesting idea in there I think.

Incidentally, I think the ‘new regeneration cycle at the 50th Anniversary Year’ was planned from when Moffat took over as producer. Steven Moffat’s referenced the additional faces in Brain of Morbius a few times; it’s clearly something he argued about as a young fan.

Could you not use the…[Read more]

@purofilion @Barnable @Bluesqueakpip @blenkinsopthebrave @arbutus

Hi there. This makes interesting reading, but I’m not sure quite how you could make it work in practice. From what I saw in DotD, the Moment was a small box whose sentient AI system appeared to the potential user [Hurt Doctor] alone. I’m not quite how the best describe the how (but…[Read more]

@FatManInABox

I wasn’t paying any attention when that episode was discussed and dissected, but I guess you have to think the Doctor was also counting on River to have some kind of change of heart or something else to come along (given he could probably remember meeting her at the Library where it was clear they would had some sort of…[Read more]

You’ve probably seen the news, but it was announced that Roger Lloyd Pack died today from Pancreatic cancer.

@haggis

I think he probably just lost count. You know how it is when you get to 1,000+, you’re hair starts to go grey and fall out, memory loss …. 😉

Nick

@thegirlinthewind

12 regenerations (13 lives) is the “standard rule” I think that’s unambiguous going back many references over many years. On the River point you make, surely it depends on whether River is a Time Lord or not (I think technically she’s not). If she isn’t then how can we know how many regenerations she actually had to spare ?…[Read more]

@Arbutus

LOL – we’re on the same page then. The difference I was trying to express, is what was on the other side back when they were created isn’t the same as it is now, whereas what I was picking up from the discussion was that the cracks are essentially the same thing as before. My impression is that they’re being reused in a different way…[Read more]

@Bluesqueakpip

The Great Intelligence, it was explained at 90mph, would be scattered along the time stream and would die

Thanks as ever. I really should have expected something like that by now.

Nick

@BlenkinsoptheBrave

I’d actually like to see John Simm play the character in the way it seems to have wanted to. He’s on the record as saying his vision and RTD’s weren’t exactly on the same page.

I think any really good actor (or actress) who plays the role straight could be convincing if the script is written well and in that style, although…[Read more]

@Arbutus

One thing I think it might be worth bearing in mind, the cracks seen in TofD and previously don’t necessarily have the same properties. Those in TofD are weak points in the fabric of the universe used by the TimeLords, whereas previously the cracks were faults creating by the Tardis exploding propagating through the universe.

Nick

@Bluesqueakpip

That one’s easy – it turns out there was a production problem. Matt Smith injured his knee and it was all he could do to pick Jenna Coleman up. He certainly couldn’t manage the ‘turn and leap for freedom’ that they’d planned to show the exit from the timeline.

Sometimes the best-laid scripting plans come up against real life……[Read more]

@purofilion @barnable @blenkinsopthebrave @bluesqueakpip @arbutus

I’m with Blenkinsopthebrave on the cracks. I think the Doctor said (paraphrasing) that the cracks remained as points of weaknesses which in the rebooted universe after he restored it and that the Timelords (being outside the universe) were using these weakness to get back inside…[Read more]

@Arbutus

Regarding the question I posed – its one of opinion and preference.

The fair answer, I think is, time will tell. Will we be looking back in 5 or 10 years time (or more even) and saying that was a really great story that tied up large elements of the Moffat era story arc in a really satisfying way with a superb  regeneration scene at…[Read more]