@Purofilion  very true. The rest of the ship design is not very cost cutting for one man in space!

@ScaryB  Good point…although you build an experimental machine, actually would expect to lose it (its a huge risk), so you build it for 1…if it does come back then  you build a machine for 2.

Hmmm…ok, so thinking about it more then I have ju…[Read more]

@geoffers     Hee hee. I guess the problem is there are many different kinds of triangle! In this case, it wasn’t really a sharing of information that we didn’t have, which I realized as soon as I watched. It just removed doubt about an issue that they clearly hadn’t expected us to question. And it only confirmed what I had already believed…[Read more]

@Bluesqueakpip, @scaryB @pedant –

why did the Doctor have him enter the restaurant sealed inside a spacesuit?

Don’t forget, the Doctor hasn’t met Danny yet.

Neither Orson or the Doctor knew that Clara was in the restaurant with Danny, so the intention wasn’t to stop Orson and Danny meeting, more likely to look unearthly enough to make Clara…[Read more]

@ScaryB – (Just a thought – Gallifrey is no longer timelocked, but just (very well) hidden (another hidden thing?) after the Doctors zapped it away from the Dalek assault in Day of the Doctor. Maybe that’s why they were able to land on it, in its past. Its present whereabouts may not be accessible but its previous where((and when)-abouts are acc…[Read more]

@ScaryB – at first I just thought Courtney was a nice nod in the direction of the late Nicholas Courtney. But all things considered: Courtney, an ex-soldier who became a maths teacher after leaving the army, I’m beginning to wonder.

Another nod to the Brigadier/Nick Courtney – this episode features the actor for the ex-soldier who became a maths…[Read more]

@JimTheFish

No, I sorry Jim – that’s disgraceful. If you call a man a liar for saying that the question was not answered when it wasn’t – and also whip up a mob to boot! –  it should be trivial to find him answering the question when it was asked.

@ScaryB described the answer as detailed and reasoned – it was neither of those, and nor was it an…[Read more]

I am really interested to hear all your views on this, as I have been following this story pretty closely (I come from a part-Scot background, but have no current connections). As @ScaryB and @Bluesqueakpip have pointed out, it is like the divorce in which one partner says “I’m done” and walks out, while the other sits in shock. Anger often follo…[Read more]

@ScaryB

Apologies to the rest of the UK, but if 1 partner decides they want to talk about leaving a partnership then they shouldn’t be forced to stay by the other 3 partners.

But you’re not talking about it to the other 3 partners. You’re talking about it to yourselves. It’s like some kind of rewatch of the dungeon scene in Day of the Doctor. […[Read more]

@ScaryB   I like your thoughts about Clara’s relationships with the two new men in her life.  ☺  Definitely no more turkey cooking for this Doctor! And I too can completely understand her reluctance to be more open with either of them just yet.

@Apopheniac    I agree that the really scary moments in this didn’t lead to the same kind of climactic…[Read more]

Right just caught up as of the time I started to write this all the comments, though I am sure more may be added whilst I write.

@scaryB and @Brewski and others I agree orson does not necessarily have to be directly related to Clara though this may be an option I think it more probable he is a direct descendent to Danny who has been a companion…[Read more]

@ScaryB

He was asked why people should trust him rather than economic players.

He launched a string of ad homs at the BBC, the Treasury and Nick Robinson in a truly scattergun manner (it is defensive variant of the Gish Gallop). Speaking for 7 mins is not the same as answering, and was, in fact, classic politician’s bluster and a credit to hi…[Read more]

@ScaryB @pufferfish

Ha! – A little synchronicity.  now that seems appropriate to Moffat’s Who! (I don’t really have time to look beyond episode threads and maybe Spoilers, so I’m not even sure which of us got there first.)

@ScaryB and @Arbutus thank you for the warm welcome.

Is there any major plot point in the hartnell episodes that shows the dr who he really is?

I think with regards to the regen cycle could it be possible that the personalities are similar each cycle?

Eg capdoc is similar in personality to hartdoc, I think they tested having 2 doctors with a…[Read more]

Well I am seriously late to the party – so many good posts, some much needed swift modding and here I swim in at the twelfth hour.

Thanks for your kind wishes @Phaseshift x. I’m not well yet – just finished a second course of antibiotics and still don’t think it’s sorted – freaking AWFUL sinus infection – so I’m writing with a swimmy head from…[Read more]

@ScaryB    I hadn’t heard that before, but it sounds just like my childhood (musically speaking!). Lovely. @purofilion, I think there were conflicting stories as to how seriously Merle Haggard intended that song, a bit of a satire according to some. Referencing Eve of Destruction, I remember loving that song as a teenager listening to oldies ra…[Read more]

@purofilion  @ScaryB

@ScaryB

not to mention hitting on Clara, would be very different!

Didn’t strike me as ‘hitting on’ at all, just treating her the same was as anyone else might treat a neighbour’s cat, compared to her own.

@ScaryB   These are really good points (and isn’t it fun to use the word “slapgate”?). However, I also agree with @Nick that I didn’t see Clara as being upset about the danger they were in, more angry about the conclusion the Doctor had drawn. “Is this what we’ve learned?”

@midnyt  I think that in the previous episode it was deliberately est…[Read more]

@Bluesqueakpip

Thanks for that brilliant fact – I had never come across the idea that some Victorian marriages were so class divided that they had to pretend they weren’t married. I wonder how common they were.

@Pedant

Thanks for that as well. Gay relationships were much more common than we appreciate today in the past. It might have been…[Read more]

@JanetteB @ScaryB

I think there is unreal violence (see most westerns, most war movies from the 60’s/70’s, Leela’s Janis thorn, cartoons, silent era slap stick comedy etc), which doesn’t feel reel to adults or children and (I think mostly) doesn’t really affect them developmentally. Then there is the rest which seems realistic, which is…[Read more]