After two watches and reflecting on the series, which I think was been spectacular and brave, what’s most striking to me at this point is the directness. In S8 and S9,  Clara became increasingly like the Doctor, until at the end of Hell Bent she’s off exploring all of time and space with her companion/fellow traveller (?) with a Type 40 Tardis s…[Read more]

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“Capaldi you sodding genius.”

Yep.

Accurate post is accurate.

@juniperfish  #48303  thanks for the link to the artist’s page on tumblr; a beautiful piece, IMO, so thanks for that too, @serahni.

@puroandson  #48296 (I’m trying to catch up here, using post numbers) Both of you — “fixity of purpose”, yes.  Perfect.

@mudlark  #38304  This is a great summary of the situation.  The Dial could be of the Doctor…[Read more]

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Glad I could help! Google has a reverse image search function which is really handy so you can put images into it and it will search for the origin:

https://support.google.com/websearch/answer/1325808?hl=en

@ozitenor Welcome back and good luck with the tour!

I think the reason the Doctor interprets the word “home” as meaning the…[Read more]

@Serahni  I love the pic, and I’m a fan of fan art, but (unless you are the artist yourself of course) I think we should attribute fan art, in the same way we attribute other art, so the author’s hard work is not lost in the maw of the internet.

The piece you’ve posted is by http://mmmmmppppfffff.tumblr.com/

@serahni  Post 47463 — I’ve read that Dollard say there *was* a short scene between Clara’s collapse on the stones and the Doctor closing the outer door in which he demanded that Ashildr leave Rigsy his memory so that upon return to normal London, Rigsy can have Clara’s body looked after and her family and the school be informed about her death.…[Read more]

Theories
@juniperfish
Speaking of roses, Clara in series 7 is heavily connected with the imagery of roses. There is always red in her apparel; Oswin has a rose on her ear; Victorian Clara work at the rose and crown.  I always think that Rose/ Bad Wolf has arrange the meeting of Clara and the Doctor.  I think there are still something mysterious a…[Read more]

I just rewatched parts of the episode.  We saw two deaths caused by the raven. They were rather different.

Before we watch one of the street people die, another character says “He should stay with her.” But he runs and the character asks “Why do they always run?”

When Clara died, she did not run. Also when the raven entered Clara’s body, there…[Read more]

Over on the Raven thread @serahni just said something which made me think back to this and the 2nd Zygon episode. (obviously don’t go investigate unless you’ve see Face The Raven) From The Zygon Inversion:

Clara: So you must have thought I was dead for a while?
<i>Doctor: Yeah.
Clara: How was that?
Doctor: Longest<b> month</b> of my life.
Clara:…[Read more]

@jphamlore great analysis re. the human ignorance toward ET life followed by some great replies. i forget, how is it that the whole RTD era of humanity becoming aware of alien life has been somewhat expunged? was it Smitty’s crack or bang maybe? i realise Amy’s memory was affected due to the crack in her bedroom but was the whole planet…[Read more]

@serahni Ooohhh, I like your theory. Clara and the Doctor are one and the same?

@serahni  I have been feeling a lot of what your saying, but I didn’t think back to it’s only me here  in his timeline.  And yes I caught the once she gets in your head line as well, and it felt important.  This is my first season watching it as it’s aired, I watched all the rest on netflix and some I recorded on dvr.  I gotta say this wait…[Read more]

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I am reminded of a comment by Spock towards the end of the Wrath of Kahn (not verbatim, but close enough): “Khan is very intelligent. But inexperienced: his tactics indicate two dimensional thinking.” Just about the only time Trek explicitly acknowledged that space is a very different battlefield to a …well,…[Read more]

@Serahni I think we will getting some details in the later episodes of this series. Very exiting!

@Purofilion I think of the Claricles simply as parallels of Clara. Basically the same person.

@Serahni That’s basically where my thoughts are now too about Clara. Plus the idea
that she was born on a leaf implies River and under a clock tower implies the Doctor. I have
felt that Clara channels both the Doctor and River on many occasions. In Name of the Doctor
we learn that River is definitely connected to Clara. She makes this…[Read more]

@drben  Wow!  What a handsome line-up of tarot and S9!  That’s a teensy work of art all by itself.  Now let’s see what happens — S9 is delightful so far, IMO.

@jphamlore  Kate Stewart could be the victim of office politics at some point. That would give her time to have an adventure or two as the Doctor’s temporary companion.

I would so like t…[Read more]

Yet another episode to savour, and I enjoyed the shift in style and pacing.  In some respects it was like a more highly polished and streamlined version of a really good BG episode, although I am sure that the ARSE brigade will find something to complain about (I cannot bring myself to read BTL on Dan Martin’s blog).

What grabbed me initially,…[Read more]

How wonderfully thrilling this was! A scary, standalone ghost story … except that it wasn’t standalone, LOL! We have to wait till next week to see how it finishes. Argh! I agree with @Serahni that the hearing-impaired character will be create some sort of resolution for this dilemma. It’s practically telegraphed to us. But, even knowing that,…[Read more]

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Purely from a logistical point of view, they’ve not only cast Sophie Stone, they’ve also had to cast another actor, Zaqi Ismail, specifically to play the role of her translator. And yes, Toby Whithouse has woven Lunn in beautifully – but that’s still two actors to pay.

Then they had to explain why the Doctor, who speaks all languages,…[Read more]

@Mudlark @Serahni

I see that you both have beaten me to it. Sorry, I should have read all the replies before posting!