Sprinkles a tonne of glitter on the sofa  in anticipation of the finale this evening (oops @ScaryB – hope it doesn’t get in your tipple).

Then sniffs a bit, because it can’t be the finale already, can it?

@pedant @Mudlark @ScaryB @Blenkinsopthebrave

If the Master’s TARDIS is the mausoleum, then the Doctor’s TARDIS has materialised inside it, which would cause a recursion problem, which doesn’t appear to have occured in this instance.

@ScaryB @Mudlark

I just sort of assumed the Nethersphere was inside Missy’s Tardis. Bigger on the inside an’all.

The masters Tardis does not nee to be superimposed, it just needs to be inside the door (or indeed disguised as the door, since his chameleon circuit works).

@ScaryB

you can’t make a call on what’s happening unless you see the whole picture

…but that should on no account be allowed to inhibit bonkers theorising 🙂 .

@ScaryB I think she was a Resident at a hospital.  But she willingly let the beast take her and was scared of losing her faith.  Was a good character in The God Complex.  I think she was the last to die before the Doctor cracked it – and he pleaded with her because he wanted to save her.

@ScaryB I agree completely on Doctor Who being quite respectful of religions.  I recall the respect the Doctor showed to the Muslim doctor in the God Complex and also the respect shown in The Rings of Akhaten towards that people’s belief system.  When Clara asks him about whether life did originate there, he said it was what they believe and a n…[Read more]

@ScaryB – the last time we saw the Timelord matrix, it was the consciousness that was uploaded.

The thing that has made me wonder about miniaturisation is that the Master used to be a bit of an expert at the old tissue compression thing. If they don’t want to go for ‘Danny is dead’, they could have used miniaturisation at the scene of the…[Read more]

Well, really. I step out for a few short hours to watch a volleyball match, and someone leaves the screen door open and lets the trolls in. Seriously, are there no responsible adults present?    🙂

But there’s still @PhaseShift, whose eloquent letter really says it all. And @lisa‘s bonkers speculation on the meaning of post-it notes!

I agree wi…[Read more]

Why does one of the post it notes say Jenny-apologies if this was already mentioned but might that be the Doctors daughter Jenny from Doc 10 instead of Vastra’s Jenny?
Probably not but could Clara be a regeneration of that Jenny [possibly using the cameleon arch] ??
@ScaryB Maybe that has been the “unseen presense” and maybe Jenny/Clara was the…[Read more]

@Scaryb

Awesome.  That was perfect.  Thank you for the laugh.   (Big bugs bunny fan here)

@ScaryB – if clara is pregnant with danny’s child already, she can still live through this, to have at least the one great-grandchild, orson, whether danny is rescued or not. but i don’t see danny getting out of this alive, since the doctor told her that fixing his death would cause a massive paradox, the results of which would (presumably) be…[Read more]

@Craig Spiffy new avatar –  looking good in blue eye-shadow 🙂

Everyone who has been speculated that Clara is already dead – oooh shivers – I like it.

@ScaryB I agree with you re the kiss, that the Master likes to freak the Doctor out, but… I also reckon the Doctor and the Master had a bit of a fling when they were young at the Ac…[Read more]

@ everyone – so many great comments, so little of my own to add! lol… i’ve watched the episode three times, now, and i’ve cried every time at the “do you think I care for you so little that betraying me would make a difference?” line. this incarnation is so “emotionless” that he can only resort to words to try to get clara to realize how muc…[Read more]

@ScaryB Glad you like the new look. I don’t think it’ll last long though. Enjoy it while you can!

Re @RobertDaller ‘s post, it’s just a discussion of the episode, no spoilers. Robert, once the episode has aired it can be freely discussed and mentioning what happens in it does not count as a spoiler. Spoilers are only mentions of what has not yet…[Read more]

@ScaryB –  Apart from Doctor Who, my favourite thing is books, so I love looking at people’s bookshelves, especially TV and movie characters. It’s great when someone has put some proper effort into stocking a character’s shelves, and you can see that their books match who they are.

Sadly, the Doctor’s books are mainly of a vintage that makes…[Read more]

@Whoville    You’d think that by now he’d be relieved it’s just the Master again       No kidding!

@TheKrynoidMan   To me it just doesn’t seem like something any of the other incarnations of The Master would ever do.   I disagree, I think the Simm Master would have done it. In fact, even as a man, I can imagine his Master having done it!  :-)…[Read more]

Hello @PhileasF

I also suspect much of what Danny and, presumably, other dead people are being told is a lie, intended to persuade them to allow their personalities to be deleted.

Your post is one of the reasons why I think this site is so wonderful.  Deeply thoughtful, contextual (bringing in PK Dicks “Ubik” and also SMs “Coupling” is…[Read more]

@ScaryB

It is probably a perception filter, just like the one making everyone believe there was a second floor to the house in “The Lodger”.

So, next week the dastardly Master (and I am still holding out hope for the second part of my original prediction–that at the end of that episode, perhaps after a tremendous battle with the Doctor, Missy…[Read more]

Have been reading everyone’s posts (and thanks @ScaryB!) and I may have missed someone already noting this, but at the cliffhanger, when Danny’s finger is hovering over the Delete button, we see the reflection of the little boy from Danny’s very bad day appear as a reflection on the iPad. Not sure how that will play out next week (so long to…[Read more]

@scaryB

Is it really bad of me to find that roll-on-floor funny 😆

It’s pretty evil of us to laugh, but what the hell. We like it. And, in the grand tradition of the internetz, that is the important issue.

@juniperfish

Superlative acting by Capaldi as ever – “Do you think I care for you so little that betraying me would make a dif…

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