The Doctor Who Forum | Silverman | Mentions https://www.thedoctorwhoforum.com/members/silverman/activity/mentions/ Activity feed mentioning Silverman. Tue, 11 Aug 2026 06:56:27 +0000 https://buddypress.org/?v=2.9.1 en-US 30 hourly 2 93ae3a9d04b2c57e99cefeba12369283 Serahni replied to the topic Into the Dalek in the forum The Twelfth Doctor http://www.thedoctorwhoforum.com/forums/topic/into-the-dalek/page/6/#post-31070 Thu, 04 Sep 2014 11:42:12 +0000 @Silverman Added more to my comment.  >.>  I had to watch the damn episode again to get the quote. LOL.

@purofilion  I have always felt that there is something about The Doctor that is…hrm…predetermined?  It seems to me that the reason he has such limited control over his regeneration, (as opposed to, say, Romana, who we saw trying on bod…[Read more]

]]> 549628d220173cd861fcc82c97ecde24 Serahni replied to the topic Into the Dalek in the forum The Twelfth Doctor http://www.thedoctorwhoforum.com/forums/topic/into-the-dalek/page/6/#post-31067 Thu, 04 Sep 2014 11:17:29 +0000 @Silverman  I was using snippets from both Capaldi’s episodes when I referenced that, sorry!  And admittedly, there is more evidence of it in “Deep Breath”, with his “”Well I’m cold too, there’s no point in us both being cold, give me your coat!” and “there’s no point in him catching us both.”  I understand that these seem to be intentionally am…[Read more]

]]> fb9db0b369b97751596ef22806b7cb33 Serahni replied to the topic Into the Dalek in the forum The Twelfth Doctor http://www.thedoctorwhoforum.com/forums/topic/into-the-dalek/page/5/#post-31043 Wed, 03 Sep 2014 21:27:18 +0000 @Silverman  Whilst I can agree that The Doctor’s choices regarding Ross are not the only questionably-moral thing he’s ever done, his absolute acceptance that it was the correct course of action did seem a significant change in his recent personality, at least.  If we’re taking it purely from Clara’s perspective, which is the context I put it i…[Read more]

]]> 6c5ec1e5073e17766c86ddf48efc6c4a Arbutus replied to the topic Into the Dalek in the forum The Twelfth Doctor http://www.thedoctorwhoforum.com/forums/topic/into-the-dalek/page/5/#post-31028 Wed, 03 Sep 2014 16:18:31 +0000 @Silverman   the Doctor’s remark was revealing just how irrelevant the concept of age is to him – even if this incarnation looks older – but of more relevance to humans.     This makes a lot of sense to me. The Doctor is trying to think in what he sees as human terms (“You aren’t getting any younger, great you’re still making an effort” kind of c…[Read more]

]]> 538806c60b4620b82dabf9fd5b064199 midnyt replied to the topic Into the Dalek in the forum The Twelfth Doctor http://www.thedoctorwhoforum.com/forums/topic/into-the-dalek/page/5/#post-31014 Wed, 03 Sep 2014 11:07:17 +0000 @silverman – I thought the slap helped portray Clara as a real person, which quite frankly, has been lacking up until now for me. We’ve seen the perfect, impossible girl. Now, I’m starting to see a real person instead. That’s also what I mean about her saving him. (I’ve never really though about Eleven and his companions saving him.) Right…[Read more]

]]> db060eb67d5fdb78db904b09e3e007a0 Bluesqueakpip replied to the topic Into the Dalek in the forum The Twelfth Doctor http://www.thedoctorwhoforum.com/forums/topic/into-the-dalek/page/5/#post-30969 Tue, 02 Sep 2014 18:58:58 +0000 @Silverman and @Phaseshift

The relevant lines are in Day of the Doctor when Clara meets all three Doctors:

Clara: So they’re both you then, yeah?
The Doctor: Yes. You’ve met them before. Don’t you remember?
Clara: A bit. Nice suit.

So, yeah, she kind of remembers. Which may well explain the Capaldi Doctor’s digs about Clara’s age this week.…[Read more]

]]> b2e2c3a4582d9971c4adac317194c614 IAmNotAFishIAmAFreeMan replied to the topic Into the Dalek in the forum The Twelfth Doctor http://www.thedoctorwhoforum.com/forums/topic/into-the-dalek/page/5/#post-30962 Tue, 02 Sep 2014 14:11:41 +0000 @Silverman

Am I alone in thinking that it almost contradicts Clara’s character as a modern, intelligent woman if she’s going to start going all ‘Nora Batty’ about differences of opinion.

I think there is a world of difference between a “difference of opinion” and “an affront”. Clar, for me, was cleaelry offended not just disappointed. She’s been th…[Read more]

]]> a2c7fcda21e401bfa0a51daff7689a64 janetteB replied to the topic Into the Dalek in the forum The Twelfth Doctor http://www.thedoctorwhoforum.com/forums/topic/into-the-dalek/page/3/#post-30885 Mon, 01 Sep 2014 06:50:38 +0000 @craig, Well handled. @purofilion @Arbutus, @Silverman, Well said. If such a person was ever a Dr Who fan then  I think they have been “missing the point”. But enough has been said already, and I have a meeting tonight with a bunch of “lefty, pacifist, rebel type friends” to get ready for, nearly all of whom are also Dr Who fans. (Or “lefty” by…[Read more]

]]> 13054c89cb0791a4091b3f4a65c1d981 Arbutus replied to the topic Into the Dalek in the forum The Twelfth Doctor http://www.thedoctorwhoforum.com/forums/topic/into-the-dalek/page/3/#post-30883 Mon, 01 Sep 2014 06:33:36 +0000 @Silverman   Good question. No, I think that like you, I definitely see Twelve as having his own unique character. It’s just that that character seems to contain a lot more of the qualities that we’ve seen in earlier Doctors, unlike the other recent incarnations which have had a more unique feel to them (at least, to me). People have written a lot…[Read more]

]]> 2bd30eb7a2f9f409385fdc9aeec224dc Vastrax replied to the topic Into the Dalek in the forum The Twelfth Doctor http://www.thedoctorwhoforum.com/forums/topic/into-the-dalek/page/3/#post-30873 Mon, 01 Sep 2014 03:25:39 +0000 @Arbutus

Thank you for the compliment!

With Ross, I knew that he injured the Dalek, but I thought that was the Doctor gave him caused the antibodies to kill him, though I’m not entirely sure how.

Also, you asked me to cite an episode where the Daleks ran away. When I wrote that comment, I was thinking of one in particular: “Victory of the…[Read more]

]]> 13c40e995fecec976000426e1fc35214 Arbutus replied to the topic Into the Dalek in the forum The Twelfth Doctor http://www.thedoctorwhoforum.com/forums/topic/into-the-dalek/page/3/#post-30867 Sun, 31 Aug 2014 23:51:40 +0000 @Silverman

You have been bringing up a lot of interesting points, and this is another one. I once hypothesized a connection between new incarnations and events that preceded them. I think it’s really possible to make a case for that connection. As just one example, after Three is stranded on Earth for so long, working with the military and all t…[Read more]

]]> 8ef63ff5ea031daf6a4a4b5beb847d94 Bluesqueakpip replied to the topic Into the Dalek in the forum The Twelfth Doctor http://www.thedoctorwhoforum.com/forums/topic/into-the-dalek/page/3/#post-30864 Sun, 31 Aug 2014 23:12:30 +0000 @Silverman – if I had to guess, I’d say that the Capaldi Doctor is reacting to finding out that he was willing to kill the Time Lords when there was another way, BUT, he didn’t kill them.

So he’s moving on from the Smith Doctor’s unconscious identification of himself as a ‘monster’ constrained by rules.

Good men don’t need rules. Today is not…

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]]> c88b874b0b2f877efa0058abb4fc8849 Arbutus replied to the topic Into the Dalek in the forum The Twelfth Doctor http://www.thedoctorwhoforum.com/forums/topic/into-the-dalek/page/2/#post-30800 Sun, 31 Aug 2014 18:43:38 +0000 Thanks for the Resurrection reference, @PhaseShift, I thought I had heard the “duplicate” thing mentioned before; but I thought it might have been in audio, which I usually try to keep away from in these discussions.

@ABXY (and others as well) I think that war/the military is going to be a theme in this series. I wonder if it will tie in with the…[Read more]

]]> 7b76b3b14361eba597704be2ce31a39e Arbutus replied to the topic Into the Dalek in the forum The Twelfth Doctor http://www.thedoctorwhoforum.com/forums/topic/into-the-dalek/page/2/#post-30795 Sun, 31 Aug 2014 18:01:33 +0000 @JimTheFish   Good point about the similarity to the Seventh Doctor, who was moving in this direction in his later TV stories  as well. The Doctor’s treatment of Clara in Deep Breath was not unlike Seven’s manipulation of Ace in Curse of Fenric. But this Doctor doesn’t hide behind the mask that Seven wore.

@cpgolfer  As others have said, I d…[Read more]

]]> 0bd5bd096faf4f6c1af0c2d2134e830d Bluesqueakpip replied to the topic Deep Breath in the forum The Twelfth Doctor http://www.thedoctorwhoforum.com/forums/topic/deep-breath/page/12/#post-30665 Sat, 30 Aug 2014 17:28:43 +0000 @Silverman – the difference between BG Companions and AG Companions makes perfect sense in-story. Because the Before Gap Companions are basically Before Time War Companions and the After Gap Companions are the After Time War Companions.

And while the Before Time War Doctor is happy enough travelling with any pretty young woman who happens to…[Read more]

]]> 3f7e0b9ebd3de4ff1673f06318a88c16 midnyt replied to the topic Deep Breath in the forum The Twelfth Doctor http://www.thedoctorwhoforum.com/forums/topic/deep-breath/page/11/#post-30588 Sat, 30 Aug 2014 00:33:55 +0000 @Silverman, I though that excuses line was just puro calling me out. (ie both you and puro gave arguments for Clara’s actions, and I called them excuses) 🙂

The only excuse I have for the creatures in Father’s Day vs the Doctor jumping back in later on is: Fixed point? Maybe? Kind of like all of history happening at once in The Wedding of…[Read more]

]]> 837e2859e8531872fff99d9f2ff4e7b4 bivium6 replied to the topic Deep Breath in the forum The Twelfth Doctor http://www.thedoctorwhoforum.com/forums/topic/deep-breath/page/10/#post-30569 Fri, 29 Aug 2014 11:57:38 +0000 @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]

]]> 212acba5b34251db0fd55a79c4c31add IAmNotAFishIAmAFreeMan replied to the topic Deep Breath in the forum The Twelfth Doctor http://www.thedoctorwhoforum.com/forums/topic/deep-breath/page/10/#post-30541 Fri, 29 Aug 2014 00:26:06 +0000 @Silverman

We then had Matt Smith’s Doctor zipping all over his timeline to free himself from the Pandorica

And that ended up with the universe needing to be rebooted…

]]> b8e2f9cc9e555a691abbc39c62c65cd6 Bluesqueakpip replied to the topic Deep Breath in the forum The Twelfth Doctor http://www.thedoctorwhoforum.com/forums/topic/deep-breath/page/10/#post-30519 Thu, 28 Aug 2014 17:14:59 +0000 @silverman – why isn’t the giant dinosaur in the history books? Because it’s only Episode 1.

I really doubt that, having provided an explanation for the Giant Stompy Robot, we’re not going to get some kind of explanation about Giant Lonely Dinosaur. But Moffat has the whole of S8 and S9 before he’s got to explain it.

]]> e6e1c4b1244bcd8c1bcaf1296aa3cbb2 Arbutus replied to the topic Deep Breath in the forum The Twelfth Doctor http://www.thedoctorwhoforum.com/forums/topic/deep-breath/page/8/#post-30446 Thu, 28 Aug 2014 05:12:40 +0000 @Silverman   I completely agree with this. From a dramatic point of view, I liked what the dinosaur brought to the Doctor’s post-regen recovery. But I wish they could have come up with a way of presenting it such that it didn’t leave such an obvious gaping hole in the history books. It’s more clever to have sci-fi events that tie in with real on…[Read more]

]]> 22b074d1d23bcccce4acb59762237509 thommck replied to the topic Deep Breath in the forum The Twelfth Doctor http://www.thedoctorwhoforum.com/forums/topic/deep-breath/page/8/#post-30400 Wed, 27 Aug 2014 15:29:13 +0000 Who’d have thought 5 mins of a Dinosaur could lead to so much bonkers theorising (well I suppose we would!).

@silverman @purofillion Regarding the Dino’s size, do we know it was an earth dinosaur (@Cath Annabel)? For all we know, Dinosaurs could’ve been able to time travel or there is some Planet of the Dinosaurs we are yet to visit. It was…[Read more]

]]> b3c9f7c60f27d39d5a7d9f572d72c3b9 geoffers replied to the topic Deep Breath in the forum The Twelfth Doctor http://www.thedoctorwhoforum.com/forums/topic/deep-breath/page/7/#post-30373 Wed, 27 Aug 2014 03:51:56 +0000 @Silverman – “I probably shouldn’t over-exam a sci-fi programme, but the dinosaur irked me for a couple of reasons, and mainly that it presented Vastra as ‘knowing the truth’ that dinosaurs used to be that size…when they weren’t.”

have you considered, and accepted, that the doctor has two functioning hearts? if the sci-fi aspect of the show asks…[Read more]

]]> 67ba841080e58c8ec694d8167de865aa janetteB replied to the topic Deep Breath in the forum The Twelfth Doctor http://www.thedoctorwhoforum.com/forums/topic/deep-breath/page/7/#post-30372 Wed, 27 Aug 2014 03:31:10 +0000 Whew so much to catch up on. The “night” shift have been hard at work. (It is after all, a question of perspective.)

I am wavering towards Missy being an entirely new character partly from a writing perspective. I think post 50th Moffat wants to refresh the show and so is unlikely to rest the story arc upon the resurgence of an overworked villian…[Read more]

]]> 03e37498ed0fcd1814ccff78b2c866f9 Arbutus replied to the topic Deep Breath in the forum The Twelfth Doctor http://www.thedoctorwhoforum.com/forums/topic/deep-breath/page/7/#post-30369 Wed, 27 Aug 2014 01:36:08 +0000 @bivium6    I’m not convinced that the “my boyfriend” bit is something to be taken literally. I’m also pretty sure that Moffat is not trying to make this easy for us!

@purofilion    Yes, Deva Loka was from the serial “Kinda”. They were telepathic. There was an evil snake being, called the Mara, that possessed Tegan. So maybe Missy is the Mar…[Read more]

]]> 952886596f2ea4d24900918cfd29d1a3 IAmNotAFishIAmAFreeMan replied to the topic Deep Breath in the forum The Twelfth Doctor http://www.thedoctorwhoforum.com/forums/topic/deep-breath/page/7/#post-30363 Wed, 27 Aug 2014 00:33:11 +0000 @Silverman

I probably shouldn’t over-exam a sci-fi programme, but the dinosaur irked me for a couple of reasons, and mainly that it presented Vastra as ‘knowing the truth’ that dinosaurs used to be that size…when they weren’t.

That was – to me fairly clearly – a joke, partly on the “squabbling couple” them that ran through the episode, but also a…[Read more]

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