@ScaryB I have to agree with @geoffers that it is an old plot postulated by @Seyhall

@Seyhall is referring to the wikipedia entry for “Time and the Rani”, but it is an interesting point given the events of this episode.

I’ll allow it as bonkers theorising, although they could have been clearer… And they may be on to something.

@ScaryB – i think seyhall’s post is a summary of an old peter davison episode, featuring the rani? out of place, yes, but not a spoiler, per se…

(unless you’ve not seen any of davison’s run!)

🙂

@ScaryB And another misunderstood monster this week – well, the mummy was still a monster but was only acting on (defective) programming. Gus however…

I really enjoyed this monster – its appearances were initially mysterious, but its motivation and the mechanism by which it operated were both explained satisfactorily to me. The science was agai…[Read more]

@ScaryB  Lol re the Doctor’s telephone number 🙂

@Bluesqueakpip I’d have to agree with @BadWulf that the Kill the Moon choice was presented to Clara and Courtney as between potentially mass deaths on earth due to flooding (hello climate change reference) and killing an innocent baby creature – no good choice there (from their perspective)…[Read more]

@ScaryB <waves> It was the Marcus Aurelius quote I was thinking of – his full name was Marcus Aurelius Antoninus Augustus.

I think a theme of the Time Lords as the Roman Empire of the galaxy is developing.

Perhaps “Gus” and Missy are rogue Time Lords. I like that idea @Devilishrobby

@ScaryB He turned up as soon as the button was pressed. He was monitoring. Or waiting till the end of the countdown. (Quick trip round the moon, kill some time  , head back )

Makes me think that it was intended to be a suicide mission. No way they could expect set the bombs, launch the shuttle and get clear in time.  (There again there there wer…

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@Pedant Lol 🙂

@ScaryB Yes I also love the lesbian lizards. And speaking of which – I hope we get another Jenny and Vastra adventure this season. I love those two actresses – they have mischievous chemistry.

Woo and hoo to the solar storms. It’s also a lunar eclipse tomorrow morning.

I think @Phaseshift is right – because this season has been…[Read more]

@ScaryB It was always the Doctor’s intention to come back for the humans as soon as they’d made the decision.

How would he have known that the decision to nuke had been taken unless there was the lunar equivalent of a mushroom cloud?

@ScaryB

I was beginning to think nobody appreciated the Moon Sperm. You’ll never look at the Leonids in the same way, will you?

The Doctor’s disregard for his duty of care towards Courtney, a child in his care that he abandoned to die in a nuclear explosion that she would not have been exposed to had he not brought her there

@ScaryB No he didn’t. He very deliberately sent her to the TARDIS so she’d be safe*.

 

Hmm. I’m pretty sure that at the 29 minute mark in the show…[Read more]

@ScaryB – awwww the Soup Dragon!

@pedant et al on the subject of the egg – behold the whip-tailed lizard (a cousin methinks of Madame Vastra) http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p006v48r

@ScaryB – She’s also annoyed with the Doctor for making her work out the dilemma for herself (tho he clearly signposted it before nipping off), for being right, and for not prioritising humans (and Clara) over the moon dragon.

to add to this, i think that clara, in her “official” capacity as the one who cares (for the doctor, so he doesn’t have t…[Read more]

@ScaryB

Egypt was SO last year!!

Don’t speak too soon on that one, sweetie. 😉 Are you my mummy?

@ScaryB

The Doctor lies

But does he, as the 12th?

Damn, now I will have to watch all the episodes again, to answer my question.

It’s true that 11 used to lie through his teeth, as we all commented on. But does 12? It might be just a Blenkinsop senior moment, but I am not sure he does.

@ScaryB <waves> Yes I’m not bothered by the accuracy of moon gravitational science etc. either.

@Whisht So there are three candidates for Missy’s “Heaven”

1. The Time Lord Matrix

2. The Library (in which River is entombed)

3. The Papal Mainframe

I think Moffat, who is a bit of a sarcastic bugger, is messing with those of his critics who…[Read more]

@ScaryB I am sympathetic to those for whom the science side of the show, especially this story, is falling short.  But I found the character interplay and the central dilemma engrossing; for some reason it’s one of those stories that resonates with me and it’s been hanging around my head (in a good way!) since I watched it.  For example I found r…

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@phaseshift, @scaryb, @barnable, @juniperfish — thanks for the welcomes back. What can I say? I just couldn’t stay away, although I will be flitting in and out for the next few weeks as I’m once again the throes of moving house on top of other stuff….

@barnable — feel free to argue away. That’s what we’re all here for. I’d also urge you to…[Read more]

@JimtheFish  Hello fellow fish-friend – I like your idea that Clara is a future version of Missy

Moff does like his mystery female antagonists – Mme Kovarian and now Missy.

I’m still banking on Clara being a relative of the Doctor’s (grand-daughter as top fave).

<throws some glitter just for @ScaryB>

@TheBrainOfMoffat – 7. The Doctor says something about the Moon being, what, 100 million years old? The Moon is actually thought to be billions of years old, yet no one said anything about the age he said it was?!

He says the Moon’s been tagging along with our planet for 100 million years. So it can still be billions of years old, but it only…[Read more]

@ScaryB

Quite – it is alien biology and we do not have enough information, nor is it germane to the theme of the show. If it ever become important I imagine Moff or a future showrunner will make something up.