@PhileasF and @BESD1

The fact that it did get through tells me that it wasn’t in anyway accidental.

It wasn’t accidental. I had a bit of a comment on that on another forum:

Medication versus listening. Everyone wants to give Maebh her medication rather than deal with those embarrassing habits and listen to the strange voices. Except for the D…[Read more]

@PhileasF        “it’s pretty amazingly irresponsible to have the Doctor say, in effect, that people who hear voices should stop taking their prescribed medication. Wow. Not sure how that one got through.”

The fact that it did get through tells me that it wasn’t in anyway accidental. Far from a glib comment offering general encourag…[Read more]

Hi, I’m new here and this is my first post, so I hope I say something that contributes to the discussion. I have read this thread, but haven’t had a chance to read all of the previous ones, so if I repeat things that have been brought up in those, I apologise. I’m not sure how to use the @thing, but I will try my best to acknowledge people where I…[Read more]

I feel a little guilty for not liking this episode more after reading all the wonderful comments. I loved the premise and the children but even the drama between Clara and Danny felt underplayed to me. He took the revelation that she had been lying rather too well. I will be disappointed if that is the end of that and by next week is is all tidied…[Read more]

@Juniperfish   I too loved the TARDIS door scene. I have never tired of Capaldi’s brilliance throughout this series. Good question about Missy, what exactly was it that surprised her? Clara choosing to save the Doctor and die herself? Clara choosing Danny over the Doctor? Or Clara going in the TARDIS at the end and not staying with Dan…[Read more]

Hi all – have been lurking all week (just haven’t had any time to post anything!)

Great theories from everyone and I love @PhileasF ‘s theory. Clara’s lies have been a ‘thing’ all series – she’s been shown as being good at making things up. So a very believable theory!

Also Maebh (sp?) says that she heard Miss Oswald’s voice in her head, telling…[Read more]

Well, I watched it, and this time read through the responses before posting, and am very surprised at the negative reaction by many. I actually quite liked it. For a children-centric story it was, in my humble opinion, miles better than, say, “Nightmare in Silver”.

It wanted to capture a child-like sense of wonder, and it delivered in spades.

I…[Read more]

I was putting together my Missy theories and it became more of a blog article! I’ll formulate it properly and send it to @Craig to see if he fancies sticking it up.

In the meantime, I’ll add a few of the juicy bits we get from her in this episode

Why do people think this episode proves she is a baddie? The “evil” laugh? I didn’t particularly get…[Read more]

@PhileasF   I had written this, before reading your post about the same subject:     For a Doctor-lite, I thought there was tons of Doctor. I confess I’m having a hard time understanding those who feel that there’s been too much companion and not enough Doctor. The balance doesn’t feel any different to me than the Amy/Rory/Doctor balance did…[Read more]

@PhileasF – liked your idea that Missy was watching Clara from the same hacking device as the Doctor but then what can that tell us?

Someone made the observation that Missy refers to “my Clara and my Boyfriend” {sorry cant find it again}

The writer likes to use trains in his episodes

There have been a lot of ‘conversions” from one thing to…[Read more]

Apologies to @Pedant – Credit where it’s due re the DMH info. Thanks

Ditto re @PhileasF Apologies for repeating your thoughts on Missy.

Note to self: read ALL the posts before posting!!

@soundworld   The next of my notes was to say how very much I enjoyed your little essay on myth, metaphor, and reality. My reality is always a lot more interesting with a bit of the other two mixed in! And then I looked, and you are off again, this time about the Cyberiad. Very well played.  🙂

@Mudlark   I completely agree about the Doct…[Read more]

@PhileasF

I’ve always felt that Doctor Who is basically a descendant of the Odyssey,

Watch out for a monolith!

@PhileasF I like the idea of Missy as Penelope but Missy refers to the Doctor as her “boyfriend” and I suspect if the Doctor’s children and grand-children are eventually part of the narrative (which I think they will be) then Moff (who is a bit of a traditionalist) would consider the Doctor had a wife once on Gallifrey (not a…[Read more]

My first thought was: What was Gus’s plan? If he was after the Mummy’s tech, why conceal everything. Why hide the lab equipment? Why bother with all the experts and then not use them. Fortunately I was rescued by:

@PhileasF b) It’s the people on the train who are being tested. Someone wants to find very clever people who are good at dealing with d…

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Not so mello after all, what a shame …

Anyway, I have my bucket of exclamtion/question marks at the ready so hear we go.

Despite the later showing we got to watch this one live! What a fun episode. We had the lights off and my 10y/o was clinging on to me from the start 🙂 It was almost Scooby Doo!

@Oblique: “Mummy on the Orient Express, the…

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Excellent episode. Lots to like in this one. It really has been an excellent series this year. I agree with @Blenkinsopthebrave in that it seems to be very much a stand alone while running with the general themes of the series. Compliments must go to the writing team and to Moffat for maintaining those thematic elements through the various…[Read more]

@PhileasF –yes ! Seb-Gus and who else as abbreviations of ancient saints as part of this Faith/Belief arc ? we might have missed another abbreviated saint name in a previous episode ? So I will go back and check over some of that re: is this some hidden clue/meaning – might be maybe ??
big longshot though – but I have as Clara said ‘the addiction’ 🙂

@PhileasF  Regarding your (a) above, GUS says that:

“Your goal is to ascertain the Foretold’s true nature, probe for weaknesses, with a view to capture, after which we will reverse engineer its abilities!”

Of course, GUS might be lying about the true nature of the enterprise, but what would “reverse engineering” of the Foretold’s ability to…[Read more]