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@WhoHar (and @Juniperfish)

Great summing up of questions, and possible answers.

So how much is RTD teasing us, how ultra meta is this going to go, and how much is relevant?

I agree with @Mudlark that it all goes back to invoking the salt superstition in Wild Blue Yonder... or actually to the beginning of that episode with Susan Twist’s first…[Read more]

Feathers McGraw rides again!!! Can’t wait 😀

Quick thoughts – I really enjoyed that – fluffy and silly, but really well done. And lots of fun.

Loved the Doctor and Rogue’s rivalry with gadgets and their spaceships. The Doctor waiting confidently outside as Rogue goes into his “shed”! (I noticed the console on Rogue’s ship also had a hexagonal design – coincidence?).

I like the TARDIS’s new…[Read more]

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@Janetteb @blenkinsopthebrave @mudlark (and everyone) –

I think the hugging/not hugging in this is indicative of how isolated these kids are – socially and physically. It’s also a wee throwback to Capaldi’s Doc who hated hugging, and Ncuti’s fist appearance in the bigeneration where he hugs his previous self (“I’ve got you”). They’ve been…[Read more]

Sad news tonight with the news of the passing of William Russell aka Ian Chesterton at the impressive age of 99.

It was lovely that he got to cameo in the Power of the Doctor as part of the Companions Support Group!

https://www.theguardian.com/stage/2024/jun/04/william-russell-obituary

Popping in here to share, and raise a glass to him.

Cheers…[Read more]

The other thing I’m liking about this season is not every episode is about the end of civilisation/the known universe etc. The threat in this one wasn’t even to the Doctor, it’s about his intervention in someone else’s story. Sometimes he can save them, sometimes he can’t (especially when they’re a bunch of entitled, selfish proto-fascists!).…[Read more]

@Ubik

Is Ruby a Space Baby?

That’s not any more bonkers than any other theory so far!

Abandoned/lost children of various ages are piling up all through this season 😉

Final thoughts (for now) – So far we’ve had 2 seemingly completely unrelated scenes at the start of episodes – the Isaac Newton one (Wild Blue Yonder) and the butterfly effect in Space Babies.

Are these clues to wider arcs? As @juniperfish says – they both suggest alternate timelines, and presumably (or maybe not) we need to get out of the mavity…[Read more]

Other thoughts…

The Doctor’s tears
@bunface thanks for the quote, that does make sense.
@juniperfish @miapatrick – the tears are noticeable, even when the rest of his face is still. Also reminded me of Bill’s puddle-person who can come back in a teardrop.

Also @juniperfish – I’m liking your 3 witches (or 3 fates?) theory 😉
I do also like the…[Read more]

Late to the fray and still catching up on last week’s threads, having had a lot of RL in the way!

First of all, just to say I really liked this one as well. And interesting that again, the real baddies are the humans. I kept waiting for Lindy to see the light, and then wham! Not one, but two sucker punches at the end that showed that she was…[Read more]

@juniperfish

It’s interesting, isn’t it, that those great foes in The Time War, the Daleks and the Time Lords, now turn out to be species which have both have been genetically engineered by Mengele-type immoral scientists (Davros and Tecteun respectively).

Absolutely! (And both with aspirations to rule/control the universe).

I’m just hoping RTD…[Read more]

@Whohar

how did he get injured?

That struck me as well. I like the idea that the “enemy” doesn’t exist – metaphorical shadows and mud. But yes, in that case, who/what causes the casualties? Are the ambulances even more sinister than they look? Are there ambulance equivalent “enemy” tanks that we haven’t seen?  Villengard (or whoever is buying…[Read more]

Back to Boom – interesting image from the first scene, which is at the head of this page – a blinded (and blindfolded) soldier stumbling around with a big gun. Very metaphorical. It also reminds me of something but I can’t think what yet… It does put me in mind of the art from 1980s 2000 AD – particularly Ezquerra, Brian Bolland. Especially the…[Read more]

Haha @juniperfish

Great to back to proper bonkerising again!

How about Mrs Flood? Where does she fit in? I get the feeling we’re being distracted from her. (Flood, unfrozen snow, Pond, River… )

@blenkinsopthebrave

But why Larkin?

Well it COULD just be the poem, but the Doctor does make reference to the sad little man who wrote it… Course he…[Read more]

@Whohar

Lots of mad theories already, and that’s great. On the Devil’s Chord thread I postulated that the whole season might be based in a Mind Robber-like Land of Fiction; this would help explain some of the anachronisms.

Who-oof! That’s a thought and a half!

@cookgroom Good call on the “next of kin” thing about Ruby. Maybe it was unable to fin…[Read more]