@Pufferfish   I hadn’t connected the characters who have been “hung up on various Romans” (hee hee); I guess as @Rob says, the Doctor is one of them now.

@Barnable    Where are those paradoxes?   There were no ducks in the duck pond. 😳

@Serahni  She could have found a cloud to sulk on for a while to recover from the loss of a beloved frien…[Read more]

@Barnable @Serahni

Yes, that was basically what I was suggesting with the Roswell comparison, that you would end up with something that most dismiss as urban myth. And good point Serahni, I hadn’t though of the eye guy in that connection. But now that I think of it, Moffat was probably establishing just that idea with the line about the d…[Read more]

@Serahni  @purofilion (Get well soon, both of you!) Very eloquently stated. What I think is being forgotten is that the Doctor doesn’t just change his face, he changes his entire persona as well. We’ve talked before about what that might mean, and wondered what has to remain unchanged for the Doctor to really be the Doctor. The broom metaphor migh…[Read more]

@serahni :O what generator doesn’t come up with Cyberman! Also, I’m sure Mr Moffat’s got something up his sleeve waiting to kill is all with D:

I’ve found ‘redeemer’ in there, but ‘bacon’ is too :s

@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]

@serahni Inspired by your idea of anagramming the letters of Clara’s famous phrase, but with none of your magnificent determination, I put the phrase into an online anagram solver thing. I’m now going to trawl through the words in search of clues ^_^

Also, ‘cyberman murder everyone’? I’m scared! O_o

@Serahni Great post (#30456)

And I love your suggestion the dinosaur could have been a purple Barney – now that would have been really scary 😆

Hope you feel better soon

@Serahni

Very good point: the Doctor has aged 800 years on Trenzalore, accepted he was going to die there, and been given a new set of regenerations by the Timelords. He hasn’t been to Earth for nearly a millennium. From Clara’s POV, these events played out over the course of a disastrous Christmas lunch (and she still hasn’t been returned to…[Read more]

I agree with you @Serahni  I hope there is more to the impossible girl story.  I’m still in the Rose is connected to Clara camp. Clara’s mom died on the same day Rose “disappeared.”

I loved the way Twelve said Clara didn’t see him, when it was the opposite that Eleven didn’t see Clara when they met, just the other two verisons he knew of her.…[Read more]

The site that never sleeps!   🙂   I love watching how this site makes its way across the time zones. If I log on before bed, there are all kinds of great conversations going on with our Pacific area members, and when I wake up in the morning, the UK members have been busy speculating for hours!

@Serahni    I really enjoyed your assess…[Read more]

@Serahni – holy crap! your clara theory fits, especially if we consider that she‘s been chameleon arched, to protect her identity (by her mother and/or father)! perhaps someone else has thought of that, too, i don’t remember? but, gallifrey coming back through the clock tower on trenzalore, or clara learning of her timelord heritage via big ben……[Read more]

@Geoffers and @Serahni

I like your thoughts on Clara. See also my earlier post re her having seen all his pre 11 faces, but not post 11.

It also strikes me that for once (second?)  the situation is reversed (I think I mentioned this in the Time of the Dr thread) – the Doctor is the one who has aged, his companions and friends haven’t.

Love the…[Read more]

btw – really enjoying your bonkerising @Serahni ! TL’s (actually anything) exploding from the clock face would be a visual treat!

and yes, it does seem that clocks are a motif (is that right? or theme? hmm)

Now, I kinda have a new hat to throw in the ring…

[takes a not-so-ironic-Deep-Breath]

Missy is the SS Madame de Pompadour.

@FiveFaces…[Read more]

@Serahni – on the contrary, gallifrey (or just one timelord) popping out from virtually any old clock tower (whether on earth, or elsewhere) is a brilliant idea, one that could be easily realized in our favourite timey-wimey show! it was i who assumed you meant the one on trenzalore, because that’s where the “gallifrey crack” was…

also, if the…[Read more]

@Serahni – i really like your idea of gallifrey being hidden behind the clock tower! you seem to be thinking it’s on earth, though? the town of christmas is/was on trenzalore, not earth, so there’s no reason that gallifrey coming back to displace it would harm the earth. indeed, i remember some thought that trenzalore was a future (“dead”)…[Read more]

Missy????? I really don’t know what I think. When she is talking about the Doctor, I can believe that she is somehow a personification of the TARDIS. But right at the end the tone changes, and she definitely feels like a baddy at that point. Then, I can buy her as the Master. But would the Master have said that the Doctor is never cruel to h…[Read more]

Ok, having said yesterday that I think Missy is a completely original character, I have just read through all the recent comments and starting to believe she has got to be something more than that. I forgot- this is the Moffat era, and nothing is that simple! 🙂
@FatManInABox – I like your theory about Missy being connected to the Cybermen in…[Read more]

Okay, the mother-in-law is off to the botanical garden, so I have a little time to read and enjoy all your comments! Here are some back. I have been jotting down thoughts as I read yours, so I may end up repeating things that others have said, but oh well.

@Miapatrick    quibble: if thought eleven though he wouldn’t regenerate. I know the doct…[Read more]

@Serahni @ScaryB    Yes, knowing the Doctor and his lifestyle, I’m pretty sure those boots will be broken in in no time at all!  🙂

@FatManInABox

It’s taken me 2 days to recover from the Peters and Lee exposure!! (but I thanks you all the same 😉 )  (And you come back with El Condor Pasa – beloved of Peruvian street buskers everywhere!)  But I looooove you for the Muppets (doo doooby doo doo. De dodoo)

@Whisht some great posts as usual (and from @Purofilion and @Arbutus a…[Read more]