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]

A really interesting idea!

it could just be that they both, coincidentally, have spikey faces.

Coincidence?  I think not.   That mural wasn’t just for decoration  😉

Though, as @purofilion pointed out, there are arguments against it being the spikey-faced monster in the suspension chamber/coffin.

So, monster under the lake* = (or at least represented by) se…[Read more]

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]

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]

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]

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 😉 )

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]

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]

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]

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]

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.

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

Hope that works.

 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]

thanks for posting.

It is indeed sad news. I remember being resentful when Star Trek took over Dr Who’s slot in the summer break in UK (especially cos Who used to run all year round – no concept as a small viewer of what that actually meant re the production schedules!) but I grew to love it and Spock was always my fave…[Read more]

But I was wondering if this was the first time a sentient ship had been seen on T.V.

It’s an interesting question that. Thinking about it I think it was beaten by a Martian ship unearthed in London in the serial Quatermass and the Pit, which we discussed last year. It holds a kind of malevolent intelligence that projects and harnesses…[Read more]

Russell T Davies and Sherlock Holmes?

Indeed.

@ebalk-kev

Then Davies left and took his beautiful, logical, lightening prose and gave it to Benedict Cumberbatch as Sherlock Holmes

I don’t know how to break the news to you, but RTD has nothing to do with Sherlock. It is, in fact, written by…Steven Moffat. In other words, that…[Read more]

It definitely does place The Daleks in its specific era – it is very peculiar to me to see how Barbara seems to automatically defer to Ian, and how Ian sends his fellow teacher and  a female alien away when dealing with the dying mutant inside the travel machine, just…[Read more]

I woke up, and wanted to know what happened.

That’s a wonderful sentiment about a dream.

Hello @PaperMoon and @purofilion

I have friends in River Downs, outside of Brisbane.  Do you know it?  It’s fantastic to see people congregating here from so many places around the globe.

Hello @BadWulf

I w…[Read more]

@Bobbyfat   do those who make it to the nether sphere have to believe there is an afterlife     Interesting idea. Half faced man certainly believed in the promised land.

how come missy bears an uncanny resemblance to my boss?…[Read more]

@Whisht I like that suggestion.…[Read more]

how could he have possibly known the Doctor’s history and felt justified at being angry towards him?

Exactly. Danny’s behaviour in In The Forest of The Night is perfectly consistent – IF he thinks the Doctor is dangerous. So dangerous that you can’t possibly leave Maebh with him, can’t let Clara collect Maebh (because she doesn’t k…[Read more]