@ScaryB. I agree Re Vastra. I don’t think that someone who eats wrongdoers for dinner is supposed to be a role model. Vastra is a deeply flawed character but with moments of brilliance not unlike River Song. We don’t expect either character to abide by the same rules as us “common mortals”. Both have the instinct to be good, (despite R.S. claiming…[Read more]

Ok.  Just did MY second watching and am ready to fire! 🙂

Missy reappearing definitely creeped me out! More on her later. (But don’t expect me to be very serious.)

Question: When did they get cleaned up after the protein bath?!  The climbed in the “bolt” hole, and one commercial break later they were nice and dry.
Danny Pink: is there some sin…[Read more]

Oh, @ScaryB, very nice indeed. My choice is less deep! Because of the title, I’ve had this one in my head this weekend. @purofilion, maybe this will “chill you out” a little!

Had my rewatch. Here are a few things I noticed the second time around.

I really like the pacing of this episode. There’s just the right amount of story and action for the running time, it never feels slow, nor too frantic.

I love how the Doctor is so soft spoken, almost gentle in his whole interaction with the military in the opening scenes: “…[Read more]

@ScaryB I noticed too how Journey being picked up by the TARDIS, was similar to Gretchan’s appearance in front of Missy. The only thing that makes me doubt Missy is in a TARDIS is you actually saw Gretchan and even half-face the previous week die (skewered on top of a building in half-faces experience).

I wonder if the similarity between the two…[Read more]

Hello everybody.

I seem to be one of the few in his forum who thought this episode was just ‘meh’. Not terribly bad but not really outstanding either.

I can’t put my finger on why. I don’t think PC is another league as an actor than 9, 10&11 (as someone said in this thread). To me this episode is a bit of what people complained about in “…[Read more]

Wow. Was slack-jawed while reading Mr Fonsini’s diatribe, and – considering I should be working – was steeling myself for having to write back and correct some incredibly warped and paranoid ramblings – so thanks to @cathannabel and @bluesqueakpip for dealing with it so much better than I ever could.

@bluesqueakpip @scaryb @whoisthedoctor and…[Read more]

@ScaryB – agreed. Time Lords, basically, seem to be trained in utilitarian ethics. What seems to be happening post Day of The Doctor is that the Doctor’s much more aware that the system of ethics he’s been taught isn’t necessarily the best one.

Bonkers theory alert: the Doctor’s not Clara’s boyfriend. He’s her student. Hence his references to…[Read more]

Hi @Wolfweed @Bluesqueakpip @Arbutus @Barnable @tennantlove9090 @VashtaNerada @PhaseShift @FatManInABox @Rob @JanetteB @Whisht @ScaryB

Well, we did it and survived, mostly. That climb that takes up the first minute of the video is probably the most difficult, and at times scary. My friend almost bottled out 50 metres up the cliff face because she…[Read more]

@scaryB one day it’ll be fine for people to love whoever they love, all around the world, even if it takes a long time to get there.

@ScaryB  I think that whoever put the add in the paper was trusting the Doctor and Clara to sort out what was wrong in the restaurant and deal with it which makes it in which case it is someone who knows the Doctor well and has absolute faith in him. You may well be right though as I am usually wrong. 🙂

I will have to go back and rewatch TNofD…[Read more]

Only two episodes in and I think Capaldi’s Doctor is – to borrow 9’s word-of-choice ‘fantastic’. I know we haven’t seen much of him – and I have nothing against Matt Smith’s portrayal – but I thought the whole episode was thoroughly entertaining from start to finish. I like this new, grumpier, colder Doctor – as many have said I’m not used to the…[Read more]

@ScaryB – it’s at 0:33 – Gretchen gives her full name as Gretchen Alison Carlisle.

Quite a few people over at the Graun speculating that Journey’s dead brother is Danny Pink. They certainly did blur and shadow his face as much as they could, but if it’s not Samuel Anderson playing the brother, they’ve picked an actor who looks very like him.

@ScaryB

Why couldn’t/didn’t the TARDIS save Journey’s brother?

1. Because he was already dead? (The obvious)

2. Because Clara is really the Tardis and is in urgent need of a shag? (The bonkers)

3. Because Stephen Moffat is a sexist pig and only women need saving? (the Twitter hypothesis)

4. Because Missy is Up To Something? (The convo…[Read more]

Sorry @ScaryB

That looks like I was questioning you but I hadn’t read your post!

So does Missy only take martyrs or just Doctor-made-martyrs?

Maybe we can clarify next week…

@ScaryB

That Dalek Muriel is really cool.

Anyone of a Scottish persuasion? (!) 🙂

@purofilion @barnable @bluesqueakpip

All good points and theories about explaining the dinosaur’s presence in ‘our’ shared history. Three days after watching the episode, and as many have pointed out, I think I’m probably best to wait and see how Moffat ties it all up. If he does explain the size and the fact that loads of Victorians witnessed a…[Read more]

@Serahni Excellent, spirited defence of Clara and thank you for the raising the cracker scene. At Christmas we saw Clara at her best. Now she is not so much “a long way from home” but far worse, “a long time from home” and her only chance of ever returning to her own time is The Doctor and she no longer knows what to expect of him. That would be…[Read more]

@Steve-Thorp @ScaryB – re the Doc’s scribbled equations, wouldn’t you know it, someone has analysed them all:

http://www.tychosnose.com/the-science-at-the-end-of-the-whoniverse/

Doesn’t sound as though they will contribute very much to our bonkerising, but just in case anyone is interested!

On another point – the dinosaur.  Do we know for sure…[Read more]

One very small thing before I head off to work for the first time in two days.  Bronchitis for the lose.

@ScaryB  Are we really sure that Clara’s experience with the Doctor only extends up to number 11?  It seems to me, and I could be wrong, that when you jump into someone’s timestream, you jump into ALL of him.  If there’s one constant in Who…[Read more]