I absolutely did not have ‘time hotel door opens to catch the Doctor’ on my rescue guess list! Enjoyed all of it (and the way it clattered along) until the first resolution, and then I thought ‘oh shit, he is outta there’. Millie Gibson was fa…[Read more]

…which shows my age, just a bit!

Moscow Expels 6 British Diplomats Who Would Not Shut Up About ‘Doctor Who’

We’re in a mythical world and have been since 14 chucked salt; b…[Read more]

The lyrics should tempt anyone looking for bonkersness:
<div class=”ujudUb”>I hear a wind<br aria-hidden=”true” />Whistling air<br aria-hidden=”true” />Whispering<br aria-hidden=”true” />In my ear</div>
<div class=”ujudUb”>Boy Mercury shooting through every degree<br aria-hidden=”true” />Oh girl dancing…[Read more]

In Boom, Ruby’s age is simply calculated from her birth year in the 21st century.

Loving the return to Bonkers Theories, and hello to all the other fishes, Puro and Scary B!

The most egregious Americanism (and I should know) was 14 saying LONDON TOWN. FFS, not even Dick van Dyke etc etc…

Enjoyed that, but before I elaborate, a few questions:

When Donna is at her computer, what is she looking at? RTD usually has people at laptops for reasons.

Sylvia – TUNA Madras? Is she trying to maim them?

Rose making toys – just foreshadowing or will something in that shed come to save the day?

On the day of execution/only women kneel and smile

That book inspired the internet itself:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/ENQUIRE

Kezzia is probably an alternate spelling of Keziah, one of Job’s three daughters – it means ‘sweetness’ and has the same derivation as Cassia (cinnamon). So the character’s name fits in with the general positivity of the other colonists’ names. Also a very popular name in Puritan/early Protestant circles (I have a few of them dotted…[Read more]

I’m glad to be back and glad to see everyone back. Big love to Puro – now let’s get settled in and see where we are.

Capaldi was interviewed recently and was delighted to be asked what David Bowie song should play in the TARDIS.  His answer: “Time”. Make of that what you will. I’m totally down with Bowie references as we go along…[Read more]

You’re one of the nicest and most accomplished people I’ve ever had the pleasure to encounter online. Thank you for being here, and know that I am so very sorry to hear about your health problems (I’d been reading between the lines that something wasn’t quite right, and it stings to have it confirmed). I’m sure I will not be alone…[Read more]

<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

There’s a call-back to Asylum of the Daleks here, with that Claricle’s mind in a room of her own, making soufflés, while her body is otherwise dormant and im…[Read more]

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…?

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.

American Christmas is […]

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

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]

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]

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]

Throughout the whole process I decided to do a very not-American thing, which was to stand back and let others speak up aye or nay, hoping that a few nuggets of truth might emerge by accident. My initial concern about this particular government setting up a referendum was…[Read more]

Hmm, I thought the path of the toy gunless soldier went like so:

Box in care home->Clara putting it under Rupert’s bed, when it’s named Dan Dan the Soldier Man->Eventually inherited by Orson…[Read more]

Ross shot the floor of the channel the group was in, not caring or realising that it was a living part of the Dalek. The Dalek antibodies identified him as…[Read more]

Missy Hyde – a splinter of the Doctor (remember, he went into the time scar, too)
A broken/amoral Tardis
The Matrix
A nasty Timelord who escapes from The Crack and retcons Doctor/Clara for REASONS
A CAL-type uploader of souls (FYI don’t much like the ‘soul’ rhetoric, I like my Who secular)

Who knows? I’ve got a few…[Read more]

I just thought of a great reason why The Crack has come back – the Timelords are behind it. And if you’re a Timelord after beating the Daleks, why not find ways to crack out individually, through individual Daleks? The radiation/lasagna outburst problem would kill a Dalek, but obviously not a Timelord. Wonder if one slipped out…[Read more]