Quantum shade? It looked like dark magic to me. Could be death and could
be some dark (shade) time (quantum) magic. Maybe dark Time lord magic. Could be
that her soul got trapped by Missy and she might not be in a nice place now.
Or maybe a place like we have seen previously. I’m thinking she might be having
her tea with Missy now. Wasn’t there…[Read more]

@Phaseshift and @Bluesqueakpip

Definitely Time Lords, and yeah not sure if Clara’s death is for real – there are a lot of roses on the TARDIS memorial (I’d upload a pic but can’t work out how to do that from my desktop) which made me think of Sleeping Beauty. And also the fact that in the last episode we saw Rigsy in, drawings came to life…

Great shout out to you at the other place @phaseshift ! Well deserved for a brilliant bonkers theory!

@phaseshift so THAT’s what the hybridness in Sleep No More was! The IndoJapanese environment!

@spider  @purofilion  Got it; sorry for any spillover into spoilery — I have a tendency to forget which thread I’m on, in the very pleasant heat of discussion.  Must watch out for that.

@phaseshift  I’ve been wondering about these counter-messages about hybridization, if that’s what they are.  Yes, we are all hybrids in all sorts of ways, and…[Read more]

@phaseshift

Really like your take on the hybrid theme. I also think it can cut both ways. On the one hand, we are all a mixture of races, cultures, languages, as you point out. On the other hand, it is only by recognising that fact that we can understand our own limitations and put aside our pretensions to moral superiority.

I am reminded of the…[Read more]

@phaseshift Thank you! sorry about that, I hope you had a good night.

@Phaseshift

TBH I am so ready to get some answers! I think we all know that her story will deeply
effect next season and probably have as part of the story arc the Doctor’s recovery over her.

It’ll be weird but also I feel like it’s time for a new and fresh direction change IMHO.

@bendubz11

It’s a great post – I think it’s just that last little bit that @phaseshift or @fatmaninabox needs to delete.

Anyway, moving swiftly on – I think there’s definitely a link between stories. The biggie, I would bonkerise, is that what we think is the story isn’t the story.

So – what we think is the story is Clara leaving? They’ve made…[Read more]

@Phaseshift  how do I move my post (#47346) to the spoilers page? I can’t seem to work it out

@fatmaninabox, @jimthefish, @phaseshift

I was trying to track down an old post I made to try and answer the questions of @frobisher and @nerys above. In my post #34221, I talked about making a post on the Trailers thread. But I do not seem to be able to find that thread. Any advice?

@Phaseshift. I want. Looks like a lovely book and the audio sounds rather compelling. I hope it appears on the shelves down here before Christmas.

I would love to see some of those concepts developed as episode scripts.

Cheers

Janette

ok – just one more (don’t want to hog the boards).

I liked the conceit of the Sandman if not the lumbering monsters.

Gatiss inverted the usual Sandman – the mythical character who sprinkles sand into the eyes of sleepers to induce (bad) dreams.
Instead, the ‘sand’ you get on waking is part of the monster within being forced out through dreaming…[Read more]

@phaseshift Yes, you gave me another reason to rewatch the episode. I really loved the ‘Rings of Akatan’ from the first watch, and was shocked that other people didn’t enjoy it.  I begged people to give the episode a second watch and look for the layers, artful moments and beauty of it.  So, in light of that, I will go watch it now with a very open mind.

@Phaseshift

I second @mudlark ‘s sentiment – recommended your post in t’other place – I’m convinced the tarot journey (all credit to @kharis for spotting the theme initially here) is heading for Gallifrey and I’m looking forward to it. Hoping to see Lord Borusa again!

This seems to have been a bit of a marmite episode BTL at @DanMartinUK ‘s…[Read more]

@PhaseShift   I meant to say before now that yesterday, for once, I ventured BTL  on the Guardian blog and so saw, read (and applauded) your splendid post there. It well deserved that OOOOOOH! from @danmartinuk .  Let us hope it has the desired effect and lures a few more interested and interesting contributors to join us.

@phaseshift thanks for the advice in #47107

Has this worked? I’ll find out when I hit submit.

Yes!

@craig, @jimthefish, @fatmaninabox, @phaseshift

When posting, is there a way of doing a link to a specific post (#xxxxx) that would take you directly to that post?

well, I watched this on iPlayer on a PC with a dodgy connection for my headphones (a TV that’s broken means someone’s making money out of me when sales time comes!).

So I had a few moments of glitching adding to the general disorientation of the ‘point of view’ camera angles and first person shooter feeling.

Even so – I kinda enjoyed it. ;¬)

I…[Read more]

Well I did find the shaky-camera “found footage” style disorienting.

As much as I like the “monsters on a claustrophobic space station” trope, I feel it has been a bit over-used.

I’d missed the Babylon 5 tribute @Phaseshift but I did pick up on the Gaiman Sandman reference, and felt this also owed something to The Ring (US version)/ Ring…[Read more]