@scaryB

When did the TARDIS become infected? Let’s assume it was in Wild Blue Yonder,

That seems to me very much the most likely occasion – see my earlier post in response to @markkelly. It’s just about possible the Meep brought it earlier, depending on the identity of the ‘boss’ referred to. It might be worth re-watching that episode to check if…[Read more]

@thane16 @scaryb

Psychic manifestation, I’d say absolutely. In the trailer for this ep STriad was all “they’re using my face”,  which must be a line in part 2 seeing as it wasn’t in The Legend.

All part of the AI theme: face hacking, deepfakery, identity theft.

Which leads me into more Doctor musing!

Interested in the orange connection…[Read more]

@scaryB you mentioned “psychic manifestation”…. & I think you’re onto something there… I was remembering how Ruby’s playing the keys; a goblin causes feedback (nice pun RTD) & S Triad yells out “oi” & asks for Gaudete. Mmm. She’s 2 people in 2023/4.

I join @blenkinsopthebrave  and @scaryB in thanking you, @craig  for opening this thread. It has prompted me to go to iPlayer and start a re-watch – so far just the first two episodes. It must be more than a decade since I last saw it, on some obscure TV channel, and it’s good to be reminded of the details.

If I was being judgemental I would s…[Read more]

@scaryb

Ruby and Carla have already scanned that VHS tape VERY closely – but they never saw a police box materialise and the Dr come out, or the woman turn and point etc…

Maybe I’m mistaken, but I thought that the raw CCTV footage didn’t show the Tardis because the camera was facing in the wrong direction. What they did was to use the the VCR rec…[Read more]

Yes, the cloaked figure may well be Old Ruby in a timey whimey way @scaryB !

interesting that in Rogue, Ruby was very nearly trapped & I wonder if this is signalling at least one possible future out of all the time streams or multiverses. Is time collapsing in certain timestreams? Are tiny decisions, the ones we regularly make every day, leading…[Read more]

@Whisht and @ScaryB as our resident musos – what is the tune Susan Twist dances to on stage? It’s bugging me as it’s really familiar…

@bunface @Blenkinsopthebrave @thane16

I wonder if Gatwa Doctor’s frequent tears are because, on some deep level, he recognises that there is a Red Doctor/ Sutekh-possessed Red TARDIS out there in the crossed…[Read more]

@scaryb @juniperfish @mudlark et. al.

Yes, this is juicy! ScaryB, yes, something is very odd about Ruby -Maestro says “she has music hidden in her soul…. This creature is VERY wrong. And HE can’t have been there that night!”
@unitpicker “she could of course be the real Susan.” Oh yes! That’s most intriguing.

Juniper -yes, me too. How can the f…[Read more]

Sutekhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh Lord of Death…

@bunface @thane16

Just rewatching… What about Kate testing DNA and saying ‘Just because Susan Triad is nice, doesn’t mean she can’t change. A chrysalis doesn’t know it’s a butterfly. A phoenix is just a bird until it burns.’

Is that a hint… As you said, baaaad Doctor?

I re-watched The Pyramids of Mars…[Read more]

Oh, @scaryB , did you really have to remind me?!  That earworm plagued me for more than a week after the episode aired, and it was driving me up the wall.

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Thought I’d do a recap ahead of the two-part finale.

What needs clearing up:

1. Who is Ruby’s mother / mysterious woman wh…

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@ScaryB

“queering” of the Doctor. (Not delved into the nether regions of Twitter tho, or BTL comments). But this old school DW veteran is very happy.

Me too – I’m delighted. I may have let out an undignified squeal once Gatwa Doc starting getting his flirt on with Rogue.

@Miapatrick I feel the need for a rainbow TARDIS mug with Gatwa-Doc lea…[Read more]

@ps1l0v3y0u

It was actually the Moff who originally came up with the idea for the episode and suggested it to RTD a good many years ago, but they decided at the time that the budget wouldn’t stretch to realising the necessary FX. Maybe Asimov’s stories were an influence*, but I agree with @scaryB, that what they probably had in mind was a certain…[Read more]

@scaryb @mudlark @janetteb

Hugging… I refer you again to Azimov’s ‘Elijah Bailey’ stories… especially the first two: ‘Caves of Steel’ and ‘The Naked Sun’. Both are relevant but especially ‘Sun’: the Spacer society has very very different ethics and expectations. Especially Solaria, the Idaho Panhandle of Space: no physical interaction except fo…[Read more]

@scaryB Thank you for sharing that news. Very sad. I am glad he made one last appearance but I feel that he deserved a better episode for that.  Yes I agree with @blenkinsopthebrave He would have been a lovely teacher. It must have thrilled him though to see Dr Who still going strong after all these years and he certainly played his part in…[Read more]

@scaryb That is really sad news. He was wonderful in the early Hartnell episodes, and a wonderful companion in the context of the early 1960s. When I first started watching the show at the age of 12 when the show began I always felt he was the type of school teacher I wish I had.

RIP

@scaryb

(Interesting that a number of comments in t’other place (tho there’s a lot of positive reaction too) say that they don’t have a problem with Ncuti being black but they don’t like the scripts/don’t think he’s playing it right/doesn’t feel like the Doctor for them etc etc – micro-aggressions in action).

I only read this forum as it’s r…[Read more]

@jimthefish

The moon and the president’s wife. As @juniperfish noted above, this references something that Missy said in The Magicians Apprentice, when she was telling Clara how long she had known the Doctor, ‘… since he stole the moon and the President’s wife …’  I seem to remember that the Doctor later disputed this, saying that he didn’t…[Read more]

oh and cheers, @scaryb for the link to that Moffat/RTD interview. That was really interesting. Could listen to that two rabbit on about Who for hours….