This was so richly layered that I would not dare attempt an analysis after only the first watch, and it will in any case be a while before I am fully coherent, so for now I will confine myself to the observation that it was utterly riveting, ranging from gut-wrenching to laugh-aloud funny and back again.  Even the reveal of Missy’s identity, th…[Read more]

@ScaryB @Arbutus @Whisht – Thank you for your kind words!

Arbutus – this one’s for you 😀

Anonymous was @Barnable! What has happened to Barnable??? 😮

I’m still disappointed at the lack of take up for the Kursaal Flyers theory : *stares at @ScaryB *

@melloyello – what @thommck , @spider and @scaryb say is correct; Clara didn’t recognise War Doc, Tom Baker and indeed Tennant or anyone else because she lost most of the memory of her time in the Doc’s time scar.

This is established in Day of the Doctor (which I re-watched recently) when she meets WarDoc and TennantDoc in the cell.  To…[Read more]

@ScaryB hee hee! No probs, great minds do indeed think alike 😉 Nice to have someone backing me up (since I wasn’t entirely sure I was remembering bits of episodes correctly).

Ah ok, cheers for the reference. I’m kind of torn about whether or not I’d want to see River again, on the one hand I’d like that story line to be finished but on the other…[Read more]

@scaryb, @geoffers you are making my head spin with all the things about the thing!

@arbutus & all, my Missy blog is up now, enjoy

@ScaryB – Re a “thing” being a “thing” in this series… I think it’s just a thing! (And yes wasn’t the Thing thing a great thing!!)

so, is this “is this a thing” thing… a meme? or a trope? 😉

if i’m not mistaken, a thing only became a “thing” in smith’s era, no? so, every “thing” is now a smith’s doctor’s “thing,” like jelly babies are a…[Read more]

@ScaryB – no worries, i would post it in the spoilers thread, if i could. (i put foxes’ “don’t stop me now” in there, because it doesn’t fit anywhere else.) it is surely un-official and spoilery, since the bbc didn’t want it released. but the young man in that scene can’t be made to be quiet forever, can he? even with a non-disclosure type…[Read more]

@ScaryB

Clara immediately replies with “It’s not him”. Her lying is most definitely a BIG thing!

Is that the line Missy is responding to, that automatic lie?

Ooh! Ooh! Ooh!

Wildly bonkers theory:

Danny is a sleeper planted by the Doctor to foil whatever nefarious scheme Missy has for Clara, BUT Missy, knows this and possibly the Doctor knows…[Read more]

@JimboMcMaster

In reply to your 1,399 word essay…
😉

but really it’s the information the Captain’s vision of the Mummy can reveal to the other scientists (eg that the Mummy can teleport) that makes his last 66 seconds an example of the Bad rather than the Worse, as it’s that information that will save lives … A killing that does not contr…

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Got to finally watch the episode last night and just caught up on all the great posts here.

I actually loved this episode, it seemed so bizarre from the get-go I thought it would be really cheesey but, despite all the comedy, it actually managed to be really scary and unnerving. Great work by the Director I guess. Not to mention the writer and…[Read more]

No problem @ScaryB, I managed to gloss over the post when I saw Flatline mentioned.

However, on re-reading @JimboMcMaster‘s post #33916 is a lot worse for spoilers.

Hopefully a mod can sonic that one a bit too (@JimtheFish, @Phaseshift, @FatManinaBox )

@ScaryB, @JimboMcMaster, Would you mind not referring to ‘future’ episodes in the previous episode posts. It’s kinda like crossing your own timeline!

I haven’t had a chance to see Flatline yet, so trying to avoid any mentions of it! 🙂

@capriella   It is interesting that you wanted more information about the Doctor and his past, while some fans are absolutely incensed that Moffat dared to add anything about the Doctor’s past at all!  🙂  One of the many challenges of writing DW.

@lisa    I have a hunch that Missy is a previous companion of the Doctors- maybe from 1 of the audi…[Read more]

Missy may be in more than one place at a time, ie she may have a projection or pscyhic link or a hard light hologram. Throughout this series there have also been many references to duplications, in Into the Dalek they mention “duplicates”, we have had references to cloning and then in Mummy hard light holograms and at the start of the series,…[Read more]

@ScaryB

@Blenkinsopthebrave Clara as the Doctor’s daughter – not really convinced, but I love it anyway.

Ah ha! A challenge! OK, I will try and find all the evidence from Clara’s first appearance onwards.

Of course, this may take a little time.

@ScaryB – thanks for the link to mathieson’s blogs. lots of cool, behind-the-scenes info in there…

one thing in particular i noticed, in the ‘tiny tardis of terror’ blog, he says, “I was two drafts into Flatline, which up until this point had been a conventional Doctor Who episode in many ways; the Doctor and Clara running around together and…[Read more]