• Pufferfish replied to the topic BBC Approved Spoilers

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  • Pufferfish replied to the topic The Zygon Invasion

    <span class=”Apple-style-span”>If you want to get off the religion metaphor, then I’d say that demanding Zygons always look human has overtones of ‘passing’ – that era when light skinned African-Americans would move somewhere they weren’t known and ‘pass’ as ‘white’.</span>

    That is brilliant. #zygonlivesmatter

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  • Pufferfish replied to the topic The Fox Inn

    Hello, virtual drinkers! I used to live above a pub, and don’t go that often now because my local not-Wholefoods shop does a buy-a-glass-bottle refill system with good French table wine for £5. My extremely cultured French friends (who believe you can drink any shade of wine you like so long as it’s red) approve, so who am I to argue?

     

  • Pufferfish replied to the topic The Woman Who Lived

    Oh dear, I think I’ve confused some of you! I’m not in any way married to the brain-capacity idea as being correct; I only sought to point out that it’s an option in fiction that wasn’t taken here. Fiction. Made-up. And let me reiterate that the full-brain/memory-loss concept is a lot more interesting to me, especially where this story is concerned.

  • Pufferfish replied to the topic The Woman Who Lived

    @ichabod There are different brain-capacity paths in fiction about immortality (eg the Heroes brain or the Ashildr brain), just as there are different approaches to how ageing works (or doesn’t) in same. I thought the forgetting was a more interesting choice, and tied in well with how people whose timelines cross the Doctor’s experience a change i…[Read more]

  • Pufferfish replied to the topic The Woman Who Lived

    Then again, human beings who live the normal three score-and-ten are said to use only 10 per cent of the brain’s capacity (possibly 20 per cent, can’t remember exactly) but there are LOADS of stories that suggest immortality unlocks the unused portion (eg. Heroes).

  • Pufferfish replied to the topic The Woman Who Lived

    Ashildr is dressed very appropriately for a teenager in London’s Trendy Shoreditch – stonewashed denim jackets from Su Pollard’s ’80s are a hipster-girl thing – but I don’t think hipsters have otherwise reached the Shoreditch of Coal Hill.

  • Pufferfish replied to the topic The Woman Who Lived

    @kharis Welcome back, and thanks for the Tarot updates and the most brilliant wardrobe spot.

    I want the Ellie Ravenwood = Ashildr thing to be true, but Clara’s 101 places book from series 7 has ‘Ellie Ravenwood, age 11’ inscribed on the inside leaf. Possibly misdirection, or…?

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  • Pufferfish replied to the topic Under The Lake

    Hello, all! Enjoying the new episodes a lot. And for once I have a bonkers addendum.

    If there’s a mute helper of Nimueh, why couldn’t that be Cass? Also, Cassandra is an oracle in mythology – faultless at predictions, but doomed to be disbelieved.

     

  • Pufferfish replied to the topic Website comments (2)

    Nomination for the Fitzroy Tavern?

  • Puro, I’m sorry for your loss too. My own dad died around this time of year, as did my favourite grandfather, both heart-attack casualties in the never-ending Midwestern battle with snow.

    American Christmas is […]

  • Pufferfish commented on the post, Missy

    I’m going with Missy being the Matrix (I stuck my flag in that particular idea a very long time ago) because ‘Matrix’ can be a feminine term. No reason, especially dealing with Time Lords, that the Matrix doesn’t […]

  • Pufferfish commented on the post, Trailers: Doctor Who series 8

    ThumbnailCarter Lane is really wee and twisty, a pre-1666 relic. I had no idea the choristers used to be in the hostel building, which is gorgeous:

    As to the matter at hand, I’m thinking Missy = Matrix and Seb is the Master.

  • Hi all, I think I might’ve cracked it.

    Everyone suggesting Perkins is not what he seems and has tinkered with the Tardis is on to something. This episode and the next are by the same writer, so maybe there’s some continuity between potential tinkering and its effects on the Tardis in the next episode? Perkins could even be GUS (or some kind of…[Read more]

  • Pufferfish replied to the topic Kill the Moon

    Hi all, I’ve been lurking and trying to come up with some bonkersness worthy of a theory, but none are forthcoming.

    However… I’m pretty sure pregnant people who know they’re pregnant don’t come home and pour themselves out a big glass of wine (Pond drank some red at the picnic at lake Silencio, but *ganger* so…) and stand there with the…[Read more]

  • Pufferfish replied to the topic Time Heist

    I really loved that. Generally I don’t re-watch until tomorrow so it will be interesting which things start stacking up following the application of 20/20 hindsight.

    Because she doesn’t think of herself as a person who lies, Clara’s guilty about the range of evasions and lies she’s had to make/tell to carry on travelling with the Doctor, and…[Read more]

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