@jimthefish – I agree with everything you’ve just said but especially that’s how I’ve been wondering what will happen with Missy.

She saves the day but no one will know.
Except us – we learn that there is redemption.
That the Doctor doesn’t witness it means that he’ll ‘remember’ that the Master is evil but it won’t matter, because he’ll think…[Read more]

@Nick 🙂

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@nick – oh, I might need to re-watch as I thought that the Master’s presence on the craft kinda makes sense of the situation *

ie
– He (and I’m saying that deliberately ie SimmMaster) boards the Mondas colony ship (before Mondassian Cybermen were ever a thing);
– Takes control/ guides it nearly into the black hole;
– Convinces as many of the…[Read more]

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@nick Could be.  But how much does the Doctor have to do to redeem himself?  He hasn’t been evil, like Missy.  Just making mistakes, having too much hope — trying to do noble things that perhaps were never meant to be, out of love and loneliness.  And when he tried to redeem himself by correcting Clara’s death, everybody was a jerk to him…

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Yes – the 50th anniversary multi Doctor out of time alteration stuff.

So new bonkers theory is that since they are near the black hole and there are so

many versions of time occurring at the ‘same time’  then maybe this could

mean that Missy doesn’t recall these events in a normal time sequence?

Its another/new revision of the events?  …[Read more]

@nick  I think he was too shocked by her shooting to react fast enough to the nurses taking her away — and he didn’t know why that would be so bad yet, either.  (Also, he just isn’t big on guns.)  And you’re right about the dithering.  On the other hand, he had to deal with the Missy issue sometime, and I’m not sure how else he was going to fin…[Read more]

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50th Special, the War Doctor (and Ecclestone Doctor) should have always known what happened when the Moment wasnt used.

Except that it was clearly explained in-text.

@janetteb  I wonder if Nardole has a bigger role to play. The Doctor brought him back to life possibly using some of his own regeneration energy. Is Nardole actually some kind of splinter Doctor, the shadow Doctor, created to be a kind of external conscience?

Oh, that’s tasty!

@nick  The more the season has gone on, the more I would have w…[Read more]

@nick I’ll see it in a few hours.  🙂  I know what you’re trying to say, but the Doctor is a healer after all. He can find a way…

And @devilishrobby has a point; he might not be able to fix her without causing a really bad paradox.  Maybe this was all meant to be.  So make the best of it…people who are disabled or suffer constant pain can sti…[Read more]

@nick But she will have the Doctor with her!  He can make her life so rich and wonderful, fill her heart with beauty to ease the pain, cocktails with Moses!  Wonders forever and ever.  She’ll be human as she ever was…alive…

@nick Well, as I said – if Bill is still there, then getting her out from under Cyber-control should be easy at least.  He tells her to shake it off, think of love, his love, her mum’s love.  And then they just take the lift.

Or, maybe he realizes he doesn’t need to “fix” her.  He doesn’t judge by appearances.  He will always love her no mat…[Read more]

@missrori @nick

It is fixed in the way that the universe sees it to be fixed. As far as the universe was concerned the Doctor died at Lake Silencio. We know the truth is a tad more complex (ie it was the idea of the Doctor as superhero that died).

I wonder if regeneration energy cures cyberisation.

@nick Hi — was following reactions on Twitter on my side of the pond.  😉

But the Doctor can’t stop Bill from going to the ship, can he?  It’s a fixed point now, and he knows all too well he can’t change one.  If he could do that with his TARDIS, why didn’t he do that to save Clara?  Why not just get Bill to a proper hospital, clone her a new…[Read more]

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@nick having just looked it up, my set was a Dalek tin not Tardis (that must be some other episodes), and the full series IS available on DVD

@nick not sure if has been released on DVD, but I have The Chase on a set of Dalek videos released in a Tardis