@kevinwho

Bonkers theory:  Great!

Sadly I think Chris has gone for a new set of characters including Missy. Who, at the moment, looks like she’s dead: but looks are deceptive. And like you, I think she’ll be baaaack 🙂

taking the Doc where and when needed.

Absolutely! The Tardis does go wherever she needs to. In this case the Doctor saw just…[Read more]

@notime @ichabod

pos coz the story wouldn’t have needed anymore pin-pointing of this? It’s in the “clever”  already? Or the time limits meant we had a good paced,on the edge of your seats thrill which is in symmetry with the nature of the siren idea?

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@notime   It didnt even try to trick the Doctor or Jaz with memories

Wonder why it didn’t try to draw Ryan in, maybe with a double of his father . . . ?  Or does it have to be a siren — female, singing to men of assured and deathless love?

@notime problem is, if she saved him, Yaz wouldn’t exist. Which also means they wouldn’t have travelled back there. Too much paradox. Besides, the Doctor’s words were ‘when people ask for help, I never say no’. She wasn’t asked to save him.

I think it makes a point as well, you can’t just run around taking away all the bad things that happen.…[Read more]

@notime  I did love seeing Venusian Aikido put to such a good, simple use, and so effectively.

@pedant Good grief — I did that?!  NO more wine at bed-time!

@mudlark  the dialogue did not have quite the wit and depth of Moffat at his best

Yes; no snap, little sparkle, but those are some of Moffat’s gifts — but not, as I thought watching B’Church, Chibnal’s.  It’s going to be workmanlike at best, which kind of suits the steam-punkish look of things so far.  I’d be missing Moffat’s brilliant fl…[Read more]

@mudlark  perhaps my ageing brain has a problem processing  words delivered at machine-gun velocity.

For me, it’s that plus the swallowed consonants — but I had trouble with “Deep Throat” for the same reason, and I’ve been watching with subtitles on ever since.  It helps a lot!

the redesign of the Tardis interior; at first glance it seems vi…[Read more]

@notime: That there is a custard cream. Absolutely useless in my opinion without a cup of tea, I hope there’s a kettle in there somewhere…

@notime

Ah, gotcha.

They’d usually be called the opening credits (terminology differs from the US, I believe, where the opening credits would be the bit AFTER the main titles, where the action has started and various writers, producers etc etc  names would appear), or title sequence as @thane16 says.

Anyhoo, in one of the…[Read more]

@notime

Yep, it’s called the Opening Title or Title sequence or Intro as opposed to “outro.”

@madtimetravellingscot A narrative in this instance was a called plot. ‘A’  happened then ‘B’ then ‘C’ with lots of discussion about what was happening in between. Felt like a very real situation: whether travelling on late night “ghost train” or “siege…[Read more]

@notime

Did the UK viewers get an intro segment

What do you mean by intro segment?

@tempusfugit

I’m not sure about the fact that Graham has cancer.

OK. Sorry, why?

I look a million dollars and I’m half dead. No kidding. I have a paramedic watching this as I type and he’s performing a truly hideous job/procedure (these doods get paid far too little).  Yesterday I was in the garden for 4 hours. Last night I had some peeps over fo…[Read more]

@notime Interesting transport theory.  Seems you have that “theories more insane” moto down already!  Cheers. (:

@notime Sheffield is a steel town and is known for its quality steel. It was fun to see so much of the personality of Sheffield; Chibnall seems like he is alright with getting a sense of place right in his episodes.  The part about the Doctor making her own sonic out of a Sheffield steel knife was my favorite part about the episode. (:

@notime – transcripts (mostly accurate, I have seen a few errors) here: http://www.chakoteya.net/

@arbutus – I agree with you about perceptions. It colors everything we do in life. I can absolutely see her being so stuck in “he only has these 12 faces” that it never even occurs to her that something could happen and he could have more.…[Read more]

@notime  I still can’t help but think the Doctor realized that Clara failed to reverse the polarity and in fact rendered the neural block useless so he decided to fake his memory wipe. It just seemed that way to me when I re-watched the episode. His mannerisms seem to show that he was working though the remaining moves in a game of chess and fo…[Read more]

@puroandson   You won’t hear me dissing Moffat , I think he is a genius.  I enjoy his writing and the direction he has taken the Doctor as show runner.

@notime   Your theory about the doctor pretending to forget , in order to release them both from his duty of care is good . I haven’t decided how much he remembered so I still need a rewatch or t…[Read more]

@notime  I presume Clara must have been very moved to see the tribute left on the outside of the tardis. She no doubt would have known exactly who did it. I wonder if Ashildr looked on with envy since she would never know what it feels like to be memorialized.

Seeing the proof of Rigsy’s admiration for Clara could be very inspiring to Ashildr as…[Read more]

@notime

I wonder if Ashildr looked on with envy since she would never know what it feels like to be memorialized.

Interesting point, I wouldn’t bet on it. It’s worth noting that, when the Doctor was making his cruel/cowardly/amends speech, Clara was not the only other person in the room. I think Ashildr is written as genuinely mortified at what…[Read more]

@notime – i second that entirely. welcome also.