Ooooh! That was exciting, very movie-like.  Before I go any further, ‘hello’ to past friends here.  I’ve been feverishly playing catch-up, having watched all the season’s episodes so far in the last ten days, so it was a treat to watch this week live.  I’ve also been reading as many forum posts as I have time for to catch up on your wonderful th…[Read more]

I watched the 2 episodes in the last few days.  It was personally upsetting and hard to watch as a close family member passed away just before the first epipsode, with the burial just before the second.  If I’d known in advance, I probably would not have watched these ones just yet.  I’m glad to have read through the forum though, as your th…[Read more]

I absolutely loved it!  I’m surprised by the amount of  negative comment.  ‘Rewilding’ is quite a theme just now in ecology, so it was wonderful visually to see that concept of London taken over by giant forest (and a shame, IMHO, so see it disappear just as quickly – I’d like to see the forest stay, and people learn to live with the forest and th…[Read more]

@scaryB Thanks for the link to Mathieson’s blog.  I thought the way they referenced Holbein’s skull in the episode was great, and scary.  Also thanks for noticing the Abbott estate – that had passed me by, I tend to look out for the details on a rewatch, which I’m due this evening hopefully.  Regaining health is a long-term plan –  ’nuff sai…[Read more]

Hello everyone
Hi @purofilion, as you know I have been rather unwell for a long time, so big commiserations to you on your recent hospitalisation and hope you’re feeling better now.  Are you up for a <small> glass of red wine, perhaps?  A large one?

I love your writing (purofilion) on the closeness or otherwise of the Dr.  I think we are se…[Read more]

@lisa thank you for the link, thats interesting.  I’d been thinking very Joseph Campbell too.

It could be as suggested earlier up-thread that this season’s episodes are taking place within a virtual-reality type environment as a series of tests; maybe Missy is interviewing people after they are ‘Doctored’ out of the game?  She still doesn’t c…[Read more]

A final aside from me on the nature of reality, fantasy, and moon-dragons – I’ve been re-reading my Lem, and found this wee passage:

“Everyone knows that dragons don’t exist. But while this simplistic formulation may satisfy the layman, it does not suffice for the scientific mind. The School of Higher Neantical Nillity is in fact wholly u…[Read more]

@Spider
Apologies! You are totally correct.  No theft intended – just too tired…
So, good news – you win the informal competition.  Your prize details are just downloading now into my system – hang on – ah, here we go: Free tickets for 2 on the Journey of a Lifetime, it says here, See the Wonders of the Known Universe on the Orient Express, in S…[Read more]

I’ve enjoyed the discussion on drama, and now on science in the Whoniverse.  I grew up reading the Scandiwegian myths, then Celtic and Greek stories, then Tolkien + Douglas Adams, with some Vedic stories thrown into the mix too.

For me, Who works far better at a mythical level than a scientific-rational one (and I’m an engineer, but also a…[Read more]

Regarding the question of Clara lying (or not) to Danny and the Dr, there’s this wee snippet in the conversation between Clara and Maisie when they are trapped in the storage carriage – Maisie says:

“Life would be so much simpler if you lied to the right people, people you were supposed to like.  But then I guess there would be no fairy…[Read more]

@thommck
You were going to win, until I thought of Gallifreyans Using Stealth…  I suspect though its more a case of ‘Gatiss Using Subterfuge’ or would be of he’d had a hand in writing it!

Perkins is suspicious.  He has a set of documents at hand very quickly, and he says ‘Yes Sir, I must be the mummy… or, perhaps, I was already looking into t…[Read more]

I absolutely loved the episode.

I continue to have extreme reservations re Danny – his character just doesn’t seem to fit, to me.  Whenever Danny and Clara are together, something inside is going ‘noooooooo!’

@GothamCelt (and others) Is Missy perhaps attempting to reverse-engineer Time Lord abilities? Perhaps too the idea of being in-phase is…[Read more]

With the (rather more limited than some of you) classical listening I have done, I agree re the light dynamic nuanced touch compared to the German school.  The only music I had growing up was classical, in fact mainly Medieval and Renaissance, my father was a big David Munro fan, with many LPs and listening to his breathless enthusiasm on Radio 3…[Read more]

Yes, but at Psi also before his farewell

@Rob

I am a time traveller is literally the phone number as phone are alphanumeric

I just had my second viewing – he writes something (presumably the tel no) on the paper, folds it over, then writes ‘I am a time traveller’ on top of the folded over bit.

I’m sure Psi has the number too since Dr was doing the ‘phone me’ gesture, but I’d tend to…[Read more]

@handles I think the Big Bang is one ‘odd’ paradox though generally many people would say that, ironically, whilst not necessarily proven, The Big Bang is ‘fact’

@purofilion I believe that rather than being a paradox as such, the Big Bang is a singularity, a point where everything known breaks down and nothing can be known.  Perhaps a point wh…[Read more]

Hello everyone,

Well, I’ve had fun catching up on all episodes of this series in the last week 🙂  I’ve enjoyed them all, they are all very different, and the depth of layers and possible meanings seems to be multiplying faster than – well, I’m stuck for a metaphor.  Mirrors, reflections, possible virtual worlds, blue/pink shift…

Even Robot o…[Read more]

Well, I’m a little bit late to the party – its been a tough few months, and I have only just watched ToTD (twice now!).

I’ve very much enjoyed catching up on this thread and reading everybody’s thoughts.  The first viewing I was so sad seeing the Dr ageing, alone, and I really did not want to see the end of Matt smith’s Doctor.  On second v…[Read more]

@RTDFan Isn’t it marvelous how different aspects of Who appeal to different people?  I think thats the beauty of the format, that all manner of different genres and styles can be brought into play.   Sometimes where I have thought an episode was weak, on rewatching, I’ve ‘got it’.  The 50th anniversary episode meta could be seen as  ‘the day it…[Read more]