@Craig thanks also from me. I have not had time to look at the scripts but like @papermoon will enjoy them very much when I do. Also thanks for dealing with the recent infestation of trolls.

Welcome to new members, @spud and @carrieanne

I suspect that there is as yet no replacement for Clara on the horizon. Of course Moffat may well be planning…[Read more]

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@PaperMoon

One thing I noticed was that the Doctor refers to Orion being viewed from the other side

The Doctor presumes that the message contained in the glyphs on the wall of the space ship and being relayed by the ‘ghosts’ consists of coordinates to guide someone to the site.  The problem with this, as I noted in an earlier post, is tw…[Read more]

@PaperMoon Didn’t you know? By signing up you subconsciously connect to our hive mind! We have you forever now. 😀

@Papermoon

Yes, I like your thoughts on the Doctor broadcasting re Clara as a warning to Missy to keep her safe as much as to the Daleks. As for the Doctor without hope… “He’ll burn us all”, I just got my copy of the Day of the Doctor and watched if for the first time since the anniversary. Capaldi Doctor’s face appears in there, from the…[Read more]

@PaperMoon

Also, the Doctor riding in on a tank is a nice reference to the Daleks.

Exactly what I thought, especially when the Doctor referred to the Dalek ‘travel machines’ as tanks.  That tank wasn’t there solely for the purpose of making an anachronistic splash which would resonate through time, or to provide the Doctor with an opportunity to…[Read more]

@PaperMoon

Davros wants to return the favour and save the Doctor from the Daleks… interesting! I like it!

@Phaseshift – Thanks for being our DW encyclopedia as ever. And thanks to you and @Bluesqueakpip re Sarff = snakes (and for the nest of vipers pun).

(And yes you’re right – I’m catching up with the posts backwards.. time travelling 😉 )

@PaperMoon Yes! agreed its SM’s joke. But jokes generally correspond
to observations on facts.

@papermoon   There’s the Doctor’s cryptic question to Clara ‘Which one of us is dying?’, maybe it is Missy.

I don’t think Missy is being referenced here; she hasn’t been greeted yet by CapDoc, and the conversation is still jus between Clara and CapDoc.  The question, “Which one of us is dying?” is asked by Clara, not the Doctor; and his respon…[Read more]

@mudlark @blenkinsopthebrave

As long as the Doctor thinks you are a ‘redeemable’ life form then yes, friend.
However if in his judgement there isn’t any possibility for redemption then
you are at that point still not necessarily an enemy but too dangerous to
other life forms to be left unattended to. I don’t think the Doctor likes
the…[Read more]

Great to see the return of so many fellow Who-sters back again!! Hi Guys !
@Mudlark @Geoffers @pedant I don’t think Colony Sarff would have been
sent out by Davros to find the Doctor if it was already known where he was. Also, I
totally think that Bors was ‘activated’ by Sarff. He was held in that jaws of life grip
with Sarff…[Read more]

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@JimTheFish  I found the Time Lords on Gallifrey utterly ridiculous, frankly, and forgot them as quickly as I could; I hope they stay gone for a loooooong time.  Bunch of pompous, puffed-up popinjays!  Of course the Doctor took off, makes perfect sense.  I’ve always had a problem wondering why the heck he wants so badly to go back, the rest of the…[Read more]

@PaperMoon

I don’t think he forgets, I think he compartmentalizes

I think he compartmentalises so well, he can’t even remember that he’s locked those particular memories away.

I think the thing with Matt Smith was that he visibly grew as an actor throughout his tenure. I’m not sure he could have delivered what he did in The Name of The D…[Read more]

@PaperMoon

how did ‘pluck’ become offensive

I think when it started to be used in a way that suggests the person concerned isn’t terribly bright. Or, indeed, competent. But they go forth and have a go anyway…. which fits Jo beautifully, in fact. Jo is the Doctor’s plucky young assistant. She’s sort of a female equivalent of Jamie; not ove…[Read more]

@papermoon Yes. Apologies. Just been a bit busy this week following my birthday. Normal service will be resumed shortly.

@PaperMoon

I honestly don’t think the Capaldi Doctor has yet been to the 50th Anniversary episode.

Mainly because of those calculations he keeps doing, but also because I think we’ll see him get there onscreen.

@Papermoon That’s weird. I have no problems. Here’s the link to it on DailyMotion:

http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x2948k7_the-daemons-pt-1_shortfilms

Hope that works.

@PaperMoon

 Rupert and Orson, such a big set up, if they are not important, why even put them there

You got the payoff in the episode. (Although I do hope we’ll see more of Orson).

@Ichabod Sorry you didn’t like Danny. I thought he got a raw deal from the fans on the whole. A lot of it seemed to be coming from the “What is this? The Clara show?”…[Read more]