@ScaryB    I hadn’t seen your latest when I posted the above. I absolutely agree with what you are saying here about Clara. And it’s a good point about Courtney, I noted that at the time when he sent Clara off to “get herself and Courtney safe”, and remember thinking, “See? Not so bad!” I had forgotten it.

@ScaryB   I confess I was more caught up by the Doctor’s joyous expression when we learned about the egg, to be thinking rationally about whether it was believable as an egg. I loved how thrilled he was.

The lights going out was a shockingly depressing moment.   You’re right. And maybe that was the point of including the “vote”.

waves at @scaryb

@Juniperfish    Moffat bingo???  Is that a thing? I can imagine the cards…  🙂

@BadWulf     Our subway/skytrain has had several big outages recently where whole lines have been shut down for hours. Today the spokesperson suggested that next time, people should take the opportunity to go have a coffee! You can imagine how that advice went over.…[Read more]

Waves at @ScaryB  x

There’s a lot of bait and switch going on. The narrative wants to sow some suspicion concerning all the characters – did the Doctor kill the automaton? Is he a good man? Is Clara two-faced (all the mirror images)? Is Danny not who he seems? Classic detective fiction device to keep us all guessing before Professor Plum in the…[Read more]

Thanks to @Whisht @Arbutus and @ScaryB for the good health wishes – I really need them – so very much appreciated x

@Phaseshift How right you are x I love Halloween / Sahmain and think it’s fascinating that the dead are commemorated in so many cultures at this time of year. In Haiti the Days of the Dead are Nov 1 and 2 and the people take…[Read more]

@Devilshrobby

I think the ” it’s a start” comment was exactly the same as “I thought that went well” which is an acceptance that Dan did well but I’ll admit that in a real geezer way, in my work this is exactly how we communicate ( usually with more post watershed language) Both Clara and the Doctor having worked together for so long will…[Read more]

@ScaryB

She then flew away towards the stars and has not been seen since, although it is strongly hinted that the character of Madame Xing of the planet Espero in Halflife by Mark Michalowski was Compassion in disguise. At the conclusion of The Gallifrey Chronicles by Lance Parkin, the Doctor sent K-9 on a secret mission to Espero, possibly…

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@ScaryB – yeah, Floyd do seem to be getting the connections for this thread! (and no bad thing).

Barnable – quite earwormy indeed! Will now wash my ears out!

Hats (including fezzes) off to @Phaseshift for metaMusicMagic (no Rita linking from me).

Though surprised no one was silly enough* to go for…[Read more]

@ScaryB thanks for the Alice clip – I remember watching that on TotP!

@arbutus totally agree that the Doc should not fit in too well.  I adored Tennant, but with hindsight and without the distraction of his considerable charms, I think he was too human, and Smith set things back on track from that point of view.

Whew. Only half the day to catch up up all the comments. By the time we had rewatched last night I was too tired to comment. I would give this episode and 8/10 but then, I am a harsh marker. I really enjoyed it as did the family who demanded an immediate rewatch. I have lots of comments but I think most of what I wanted to say has been covered. (I…[Read more]

@ScaryB

(tho I think there will be a more “real world” explanation).

But, if you remember, there is a more “real world” explanation in “A Matter of Life and Death” as well. The film is not actually set in “heaven” as all those sequences take place in the mind and imagination of David Niven’s character, who is suffering a neurological disorder. The…[Read more]

he he @ScaryB – yep Heroes was the other one!

Though we should link to another brick in the wall if that was what the Doctor was whistelling (I didn’t recognise it, but before I got tediumed by the Guardian blog, someone mentioned that that was what was what he was whistling).

I did have this for…[Read more]

wow – so much caching up to do!
Apologies for being missing in inaction!

@ScaryB – wow – great version of Sly andthefamileestone
funkeefunkeeeunkeeeeeeee! yeeahAhha-aahh-hh
(and that would be one helluva look for the next Doctor!)
(and never even heard of Delbert McClinton before!)

@wolfweed – Bankrobbery?? yah? blimey!

@Craig – yep. Just…[Read more]

@ScaryB I checked again with my son who is (a) a fount of knowledge on a great many topics, including (but not restricted to) football, American history and politics, the Spanish civil war, Marvel superheroes, AG Who, and otters.  He is very certain about the otters, so otters it is.

The Guardian blog comments this week appear to have been taken…[Read more]

@ScaryB did you also pick up on the man interviewing the PC response to him saying “oh god” and the responds she’s a bit busy and it then cuts to a view of Missy looking on disapprovingly, and I am paraphrasing the exact wording. So does this intimate that Missy is some kind of “deity” maybe even one of the pre timelord old gods.

Arrgh my brain…[Read more]

@juniperfish

Get well soon x. ENT infections can be the worst. I once had an inflamed ear for six months, and the infection made me lose my voice during the period. I sounded like Kermit the Frog on helium, which is pretty embarrassing for someone who sports a virtual goatee.

I was interested in the wordplay that @ScaryB made on this one – The…[Read more]

@ScaryB

Hope all the small furry animals cope without you – or are they big furry animals now?!

I understand they will be well catered for, although I think it was for the best that they swapped personnel a week early. Apparently my fixed (and entirely fake) grin at the sight was becoming noticeably strained, as I missed yet another a…[Read more]

@purofilion  @mudlark   After a second viewing, I had some further thoughts on the music. The one place that I was aware of not liking the music was during Saibra’s “death scene”, where it felt overbearing and loud, and negated the poignancy of an otherwise great scene. It didn’t seem quite as out of place to me in Psi’s case, because his death…[Read more]

@scaryb

….. he’s also dealing with the mega overload of information from the universe, that he needs to be able to select the relevant bits from to make the right pattern. (Much like dealing with the internet being wired straight into your head I’d imagine!)

I should really have made reference to this in my musings on the nature and size of the…[Read more]