I think my avatar answers your question @Serahni Yes I would love to have Romana return as she was one of my favourite BG companions and because she is one of those who is part of the ongoing “Who” universe if there is such a thing. Moffat has given indications that there is continuity in the series, something that really did not exist until AG…[Read more]

@Serahni I think that a lot of fans would like to have her back. I certainly would.

Yes I agree @Serahni Looking forward to Sunday too. After the intensity of the last two weeks a “fun” episode will be most welcome and it’s Robin Hood!!

I’m certain that Missy isn’t River Song and hoping that she is an entirely new “villianess”. I suspect if “Claricles” make an appearance it won’t be as the major plot device. In fact as has been…[Read more]

@bluesqueakpip @Brewski re: everyone getting de-glooped after ending up in the Dalek’s “Organic refuse disposal” I didn’t even notice them all get cleaned up, I was too busy looking for links to Rome! On my re-watch you actually hear the Doctor say

DOCTOR: Watch it, decontamination tubes are hot.

I guess it makes sense that anything leading to a…[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]

As others, e.g. @Bluesqueakpip and @Serahni have said, that line ‘you would make a good Dalek’ contains so much scope for debate. I think there are (at least) three ways of taking it:

a) As has been noted with the Aristotle reference, this might mean good as in an excellent example of the type. So, a ‘good man’ is the man who excels in the proper…[Read more]

@purofilion – no worries, and definitely no offence taken! I was just confused as I was sure I hadn’t mentioned anything about ‘excuses’. Sadly, I even resorted to highlighting the word ‘excuses’ on screen to double-check I hadn’t missed something in one of my comments!

@serahni @arbutus @midnyt and many, many others…

Great theorising on…[Read more]

@Serahni I think that is a bit late. The (as yet essentially unplanned) trip to the Grampians will be early October when Vic and S.A. school holiday’s coincide. I do really like the idea of having our own Oz meet up at some time though.

@purofilian I fear you may be right, re’ the Claricles story being complete in Moffat’s eyes but it certainly…[Read more]

My last sounds too much like River.  I’ll take some time to think this through.

I didn’t think Missy was connected to Clara till reading theories here.

@Serahni After speaking with my cousin tonight, it’s almost a foregone conclusion that I will be attending with a 9-year-old K9 and a 5-year-old Dalek.

Sounds awesome 🙂

@Serahni, it’s beginning to look as if there is nothing that Moffat can come up with that someone on here won’t have twigged before it happens.

@midnyt   But since when can the Daleks bring someone back to life whom they’ve killed? Have I missed something? Probably.

@janetteB, yes indeed, that teenager sleeping thing. My son has been outdoing h…[Read more]

@Serahni I still subscribe to the theory that Tasha was a personification of River.

We see Clara as a baby not we do not know how she came into being. I do imagine her, (despite my previously stated absurd theory that she is her own mother) as being found swaddled up on the doorstep. We don’t know that the woman seen nursing her in Victorian LOndon is her natural mother. IT is suggested though that her parents in modern london…[Read more]

@Serahni    Love this! All the Claricles rejoin and become, not Clara, but Missy. Very cool. In fact, a powerful challenger to @bivium6’s “Gods of Ragnarok” theory. I think that if that one isn’t true, Moffat should just bring the Gods of Ragnarok back anyway. I think they’d make great opponents for Twelve.  🙂

BTW @Serahni I either never realised or have forgotten that you are “across the border”. I should have realised given that you are also on “the day shift”.

Cheers

Janette

@Serahni  Well. If my theory were true, then that “vision” that we had of the baby and the young girl would presumably be a manifestation of the Claricle’s memories. Here’s a question. Who is telling the story? “I was born to save the Doctor,” and so on. Is it a Claricle? All of the Claricles, in a collective narrative?

I certainly agree that i…[Read more]

hmmm @serahni (and others) – imo I always assumed that Clara aged 27(?) jumped into the Timestream and split at that moment into ‘thousands’ of 27 year old Claricles who appeared in specific moments in the Doctor’s timestream when he needed help. (oh don’t ask me how she knew how – erm, she just kinda knew!).

So she never was a baby Claricle -…[Read more]

@Silverman

the Doctor said it was dangerous to be in his own timeline. Then, at other times, and definitely with Tennant it’s all about ‘I can’t go back on my own timeline’.

The one that bothered me was Journey to the Center of the Tardis.  He went back on his own time stream to save himself.  If he could do that, there would never be any tensi…[Read more]

@purofilion @serahni @arbutus and many others…

Clara has been the subject of much debate on here recently, and I thought I’d throw my two-pence-worth in about her coping with the regeneration.

Clara’s been ok as a companion, but I haven’treally warmed to her backstory, or been convinced of her as a realistic character. However, Jenna-Louise…[Read more]

@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 – lovely defense of clara! i would add that she clearly stated to HFM that she was afraid for her life, after the doctor left her on the other side of the door. she knows he makes mistakes, sometimes (big burning dinosaur included), so her confidence in him was at an all-time low…

@ everyone else – has anyone worked up a theory as to…[Read more]