@ScaryB

Ach! You guys always beat me to it.  🙂

Have to go back and re-read now!

@ScaryB

If it’s only referenced by Missy, then no, I wouldn’t trust a word of what she says,

True, but she’s pretty obviously struggling with a translation problem. First she calls the CD Player of Rassillon a ‘Confession Disc’. Then, when it’s obvious Clara has no idea what that is, she translates it as ‘Last Will and Testament’.

‘Will’ – ins…[Read more]

@ScaryB

Even if we (cynical viewers) don’t believe they’re dead – the Doctor looks like he does.

Yes, it’s always worth remembering that the characters don’t know that they’re in a TV series or that they have a contract for the whole of Series 9…
😈

@purofilion, @janetteB, @scaryB, @ichabod, @mudlark,

I confess that once this forum was set up (how long now?) by the wonderful @craig and monitored by our worthy Time Lords, I abandoned the Guardian Doctor Who site, and have never returned. Even reading your posts brings back the foul stench of what it was like over there. I feel for @DanMartinUK…[Read more]

@janetteB

I agree that Missy and Clara are most likely dead as is the Tardis.

Missy and Clara possibly. As I said a while back, the fact that their skeletons showed briefly as they disappeared suggests that they may have been caught in the Dalek fire, whether or not they were using the vortex manipulators to shift themselves.  The Tardis is…[Read more]

@ScaryB and  @Blenkinsopthebrave I am hoping that Bors will be restored to full humanity by the end as I suspect that re writing the time lines is the solution to the dilemma. Bors was a good character and I would like to see him return from time to time. He could be the Doctor’s friend in the middle ages.

Cheers

Janette

@ScaryB

Somebody’s telling porkies…. they’re for the chop.

@scaryb  It’s not in the DNA of the show to put the central character on that much of a psychological journey (Look at the problems they ended up with, with the last of the TimeLords thing). The companions change so the Doctor doesn’t have to.

Brilliant!  Yes . . . he is not and can never be a child-murderer, except in a horror show about a good…[Read more]

@scaryb  Whatever, that last scene of the Doctor shouting “Exterminate!” is as chilling as the boy saying his name at the beginning.

Yeah, beautiful bookending there — call, as it were, and response . . . separated by the rest of the episode.  That missing piece is a whopper too — getting back without the Tardis (how?!), but with a gun stick…[Read more]

@scaryB

poor Bors

Actually, I thought Bors was treated rather shabbily as a character. In The Doctor’s Meditation he came across as a really likeable and comic character. He really had  served the Doctor well, and would, in fact, have made a great companion. So to have him Dalekized in TMA was, I thought, a cruel waste of a good character and a g…[Read more]

@ScaryB I also thought it was quite chilling to hear the Doctor say ‘exterminate’.
I briefly entertained the possibility that the Daleks most infamous phrase could have
originated from him? Too hard to accept

Its tantalizing to imagine that the Doctor would recruit Missy. But then I can imagine
that its why Missy returned from Galifrey.…[Read more]

BBC APPROVED SPOILERS...

Great to see the return of so many fellow Who-sters back again!! Hi Guys !
@Mudlark @Geoffers @pedant I don’t think Colony Sarff would have been
sent out by Davros to find the Doctor if it was already known where he was. Also, I
totally think that Bors was ‘activated’ by Sarff. He was held in that jaws of life grip
with Sarff…[Read more]

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Hurrah! Many, many, thanks to @ichabod for the iTunes suggestion. I have purchased season 9 on iTunes, and just watched the trailer (again) to prove that I actually had it. Many thanks also to @scaryB, @janetteB, @purofilion, @lisa, and @juniperfish for the suggestions and support.

Time for Mrs Blenkinsop and I to break out the jammy dodgers!

@purofilion @scaryb

Envious, is putting it mildly. I can barely contain myself until tomorrow evening.

Missy

Greetings!

Nice to see that the Beeb have relented and will release ‘The Underwater Menace’ on dvd, just 2 months after they confirmed that they definitely wouldn’t at all ever. Now you can actually (legally) complete your collections…

the-underwater-menace @bbc shop

P.S. Big shouts out to @ScaryB , @JimTheFish & @XaD4 (…. as well as…[Read more]

@kharis — the screening was actually in Scotland as part of the Edinburgh International Television Festival. There was quite a good Q&A with Steven Moffat too and other forum members lucky enough to be there were @scaryb, @wolfweed and @xad4.

Yes, it’s tough getting a BBC gig for residents in the UK, so it must be doubly daunting for those overseas.

@scaryb @jimthefish @xad4 @wolfweed

Glad you all enjoyed it! I look forward to any snippets you can remember (hint hint) from the Q&A when the episode airs.

Don’t look at the extra wait for part 2 as a drawback. Look at it as extra time to develop theories on how part 2 will go. 🙂

It was indeed a most lovely evening! 🙂

A big thanks to Mr and Mrs @JimTheFish, @Wolfweed, and above all @ScaryB for being so welcoming.

Only downside: more than three weeks to go until the re-watch! 😮