@nick1235    The slow-mo of when they’re getting in to the bank is VERY VERY SEXY.     I completely agree, I loved this bit, it was pretty stylish!

@BadWulf    The guy who got “souped” was a bystander, but clearly not innocent (except of trying to break into the bank!).

@Bluesqueakpip    Interesting point about Clara’s guilt. I wonder if i…[Read more]

@serahni Really glad you didn’t want to meet on the battlefield at dawn! I get what you mean by the show “being in constant motion and undergoing constant change and reinvention”, but I feel confident enough in DT’s acting to say he still could have contributed a lot more to the show had he remained the Doctor. He could have kept being “The…[Read more]

Oh I like the idea of Blue/Pink mirroring the two different time streams. So perhaps the one where he did destroy Gallifrey is Blue (Journey Blue was a soldier) and the one where he doesn’t is Pink (Danny Pink is an ex-soldier)? @Juniperfish, I think I too shall go back and watch all the eps again for more Blue/Pink clues!

Anyone else think of t…[Read more]

Aggghhh, was working late tonight so just watched the ep and the Extra.  I will definitely watch again tomorrow.

This was fantastic.  I liked it so much better than Listen.

Hello @bluesqueakpip

So, now we know how Gretchen ended up in ‘Heaven’. That teleport, with scream, is exactly the same effect. She didn’t die; she was telepor…

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@TheBrainOfMoffat     That is an interesting idea, and opens up area for further speculation about what regeneration energy actually is.  Is it like a blood transfusion? And what might it do if you get the wrong kind?

@Serahni    Wow, that’s a workload! Hope the performances went well. Yes, it’s true that some fans have a harder time letting…[Read more]

@purofilion       I have to stay off the DWF from late Saturday morning (my time) until I can get to watching the episode, usually not until Sunday morning, and occasionally later than that. It’s particularly hard if I’m having a quiet Saturday afternoon or evening, to avoid spoilers! When my son used to follow the Formula One, we could get up at…[Read more]

Posting a whack of thoughts now even though I may well have to contradict or backtrack shortly, as I haven’t yet read all your thoughts. But I can’t read three whole pages of comments and still keep track of my own!

@Juniperfish   Yes, definitely “dad skills”, and believe me, as the mother of a boy who never did fall asleep easily, I was insta…[Read more]

@Serahni

I am Sorry I broke your brain x.x

But, I pick Clara’s ”quote” eventough we heard the Doctor say it first because it’s more important that Clara said it to him than him saying it to Rupert. You know what I mean? Clara changed the Doctor in a way we’re not sure yet.  Because, timey-wimey, u know, she didn’t changed him, she made him…[Read more]

@chickenelly Moffat got his budget cut? Reason?

@Juniperfish Hello you! Still not well? It’s about time you kick that thing in the b***.  Yeah, I’d also say it’s been ‘Dad skills’ -we also know what he did. He did it to himself in Deep Breath, remember?

@JimboMcMaster We will have to wait and see if he is still bothered by those questions. He…[Read more]

@Serahni

we don’t know the little boy in the barn was The Doctor.

No, we don’t. There’s already some speculation on the Graun that it could be a small Master. However:

• the little boy is a lonely little boy. We know the Doctor was a lonely little boy.
• the little boy is described as ‘not going to get into the Academy’ and ‘he’ll never be a Time L…

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@Serahni

So I suppose I should clarify that it’s not everyone with a heart full of wishful thinking that I was talking about; nostalgia gets us all! It’s a very specific sub-section of the fandom that seem to have missed the point.

Ah! Yes I get you now. Well look at it this way: some people just go right for the banana pudding. The rest of us are…[Read more]

@Serahni – re: post 31376…

beautifully said! and i agree with everything therein. might i add, to your final point, that the doctor and robin hood are co-heroes in this episode. so, how else would robin hood defeat a spaceship flying up into the air… than by shooting an arrow at it?! sure, the doctor might have come up with something…[Read more]

Thoughts after second viewing.

I loved the humour in this. I think a lot of the dislike is down to people simply wanting a “serious” episode and this was not that. You could see the direction things were heading from Robin’s first appearance, with the little wink he gave the doctor just before the opening theme. Unlike some viewers, I never felt…[Read more]

@Serahni

Whilst I don’t begrudge them their version of fandom and I do realise that the show is lucky to have attracted the huge numbers it has, we do seem to have a new generation of fans who are expecting things of the show that they would find in others.

Sure. It is like you said, they’re still new-2-Who and haven’t gotten into the spirit of a…[Read more]

doh!

@Serahni – I knew I’d be no help at all!
ah well….

I guess one observation (to make this comment rather more than “doh” 🙂 ) is that I’ve never seen the Doctor being ‘wrong’ so much (Dalek never being ‘good’ and especially in Robot of Sherwood in that lovely scene talking about how the radiation and the Robots ‘obviously’ created Robin…[Read more]

Hi @Serahni – I haven’t read it, and like @Phaseshift have reservations as to whether the plotline actually helps anything, but I think the book you’re trying to remember reading is Lungbarrow by Marc Platt.

It was part (or became part) of the Cartmel Masterplan.

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@Serahni In Invasion of Time there are timelords living out on the Galifreyan wilds but they have left the Citadel and rejected the life of the TimeLord. I don’t think it is know if all Gallifreyans regenerate or if it is a specific gift.

Cheers

Janette

@Serahni   I meant to add that, leaving aside my own likes and dislikes regarding previous companions and enemies, I agree that it would just be nice to bring in a new element this series. I wasn’t always nuts about the 6th series arc, but at least the threat wasn’t the same old same old. That’s the hazard of Moffat’s hanging threads, I guess: in…[Read more]

The woman in the shop is Susan. I know this was suggested long ago but after a few wines and lots of gardening I am (for the moment anyway) convinced. Susan has an interest in connecting Clara to the Doctor, not sure why initially but it is also Susan who manipulated the education system to get Clara the job at Coal Hill. It has to be Susan…[Read more]

ScaryB

love the QE I as Missy theory – you nearly have me convinced

Lol, thanks! 🙂 When it comes to findings parallels, I love going for the absurd. I almost went with “Missy is Adric” again, but decided calling her Miss A was too much. 😉

Something else occurred to me: Now that there are leaked scripts floating around out there, the awful thing…[Read more]