@PhaseShift

It doesn’t strike you as being linked into this series in the same way as every story we’ve seen so far.

Not in the same way, no. But what play did our Scottish accented Doctor quote? And whose role did he place himself in? The Thane Who Would Be King??

They also managed to tie in the constant theme of ‘the Gods’/’God’ and how the…[Read more]

Finally got to watch and enjoyed far more than I expected after reading all the comments this afternoon. Certainly not one of the best but that does not make it bad and  I suspect it will improve on re watch but might not be an episode that invites repeated re watches.

@Phaseshift, That uniform did indeed seem like a nod to B.5 There have been…[Read more]

‘The Sleep of Reason Brings Forth Monsters’; and what could be more unreasonable than to interfere with the sleep function?  As the Doctor says concerning the importance of sleep ‘…we wake up, rub the sleep from our eyes, and that keeps us safe – safe from the monsters inside’.  Prolonged lack of sleep makes people first disorientated, ev…[Read more]

@phaseshift

Sorry, I must have missed the part where he stated that the signal was embedded at the end, I thought it was embedded throughout the whole video. Hence my confusion as to whether the Doctor and co. just left, now infected with this thing. Which I would find odd.

So what were the creatures? Were they created from a signal too, and not…[Read more]

@Phaseshift and @Ludivine

Yes, I’m looking forward to the Doctor Who Festival on Saturday – Cybermen Stream.

I did get hit by the seemingly inevitable ‘there will be a work clash that you can’t afford to turn down’, but fortunately the final schedule had my little bit wrapped yesterday.

Well, by the time we actually finished, this morning. :-)…[Read more]

@phaseshift I agree, and wondered the first time Asildr have her nickname if she was the Nightmare Child.   I posted something about it right after the Girl who Lived, but it wasn’t really a theory people seemed to think likely since it is so obscure for new viewers.   Everywhere I posted it people said it was unlikely.  Of course I get what th…[Read more]

@PhaseShift

I was thinking that something else came thru the crack when the Time Lords gave
the Doctor his new regenerations. That something is lurking in Clara. In the
Spoilers section I put my bonkerist theory but basically saying that Clara has been morphing
into something new since then. A little bit of Doctor, Dalek, Zygon etc. Possibly a…[Read more]

@PhaseShift and others      Yes, I meant to add that Coleman was fantastic. There really were two completely different characters in the room, and she completely sold me as the Zygon rebel. I actually thought for a moment that the Doctor was not going to win her over, she had that perfect look of someone being offered a helping hand off the clif…[Read more]

@purofilion Thank you. I have been known to make mistakes. Especially in the sites early days. But when I did I set @JImTheFish or @PhaseShift on them. I learned from the masters (with the small ‘m’)

@phaseshift

Brilliant reflection.

Over here in polite Canada (for the most part anyway) the people recently jettisoned the awful conservative regime in favour of something hopefully more positive.

But at the end of the day, as we used to say, “It doesn’t matter who won the election, the government got in”.

It would be good if Moore’s comic,…[Read more]

@PhaseShift Thanks for sharing this! I shared it on to a few more friends
and I know they will appreciate seeing this as much as I have! We have a epidemic
of poor governance in so many places. It’s more than just about sticking your finger up.
Its also about staying informed and making smart choices so that we get good government too.

On the subject of that recurring nightmare of failing a Uni course due to not knowing about a deadline or not having studied for an exam, (I too have been subject to those ever since finishing Uni. Seems they are more common than the hand under the bed nightmare which I don’t recall ever having though  I was frightened of monsters under the bed…[Read more]

@phaseshift

You are so right. It’s only Part One that’s coming! Drat! I should be more vigilant – daft tart that I am!

Oh well, thank goodness I have a special fund for DVD’s

Be warned, really check before you order, I shall.

Missy

@phaseshift   Thanks for posting the mural, it looked great. I was wondering if Tescos would ship a case of that brain bleach to Canada?  It sure would come in handy sometimes.

@mudlark  I  am glad I am not the only one who feels that way in supermarkets. Is it the layout of the store or the shoppers or the employees? Maybe the lighting or the…[Read more]

@blenkinsopthebrave Apologies!! lol – That was meant for @Phaseshift about
the series 9 on Amazon. 🙂 Didn’t mean to cause you any mental grief with that!

You think that Jac and the UNIT troop were Zygons which had become totally
absorbed by the Human personalities? Therefore Bonnie/Clara saw them as traitors
to her concept of Zygon…[Read more]

@Phaseshift  I should have put my approval of your righteous rant on record before now, but let it be known, belatedly, that I punched the air when I read it.  Was it a Koestler coincidence, or are you telepathic?

The only review of the episode which I have read, other than the Guardian, was in the Independent, and that was enthusiastically a…[Read more]

@PhaseShift     That mural is great. Epic, in fact.

I like the “mind bleach”– the nasty chemical version of the memory worm?

Wow. Just got through two pages of comments, and so much to think about and talk about!

@PhaseShift   Yes, you called it didn’t you, in the pub?  🙂  And good point about the Big Finish Zygon stories, I had forgotten that!

@Bluesqueakpip    Well, I can’t say that I spotted the switch, but I did think that conversation about middle age and th…[Read more]

Sometimes, when the issue is really important, subtlety is not the point. This episode said all the right things–assuming you agree with @phaseshift‘s impassioned plea before the episode, which I do.

Frankly, just about every popular TV show has a political agenda, and to pretend they don’t is ridiculous. Moreover, to demand that a show like…[Read more]

@phaseshift

@phuck-yeah!

A righteous rant that deserves a raised glass and a fair bit of table-thumping*

* with the other hand obviously.