@MartyB :: shakes fist at sky :: Why can’t I think of these theories in time?

I know!  You lot are all so inventive with madcap speculation and erudite knowledge, as he-who-lurked for many months it was hard to take the plunge, especially as a new recruit to the Dr (Tennant onwards).  The challenge now is to keep swimming.  Work/life/etc can ma…[Read more]

Oh, just posted and its completely disappeared.  Ok, here goes again.

@Timeloop I was expecting something to do with the red/blue shift references from various episodes.  (and, noting that ‘shift’ is an archaic word meaning ‘dress’ hence Clara’s red/blue dress?  )  I hope we may still see something on this in the Christamd episode, along with an…[Read more]

@Timeloop My own conviction was that we would see something to do with the red/blue shift (and one, archaic, meaning of shift being a loose dress thus clara’s red/blue dress symbolism?) Maybe this was all superfluous detail, maybe we will have some explanation in the Christmas episode.  I’m also thinking of the ideas re there being two doctors…[Read more]

@Arbutus The whole regeneration thing is an interesting question, relating to the rest of Gallifreyan society.  My apologies if my lack of knowledge of older-Who means these things are already established – I’m not sure that the answers to  these questions have been established?

Are all Gallifreyan children capable of becoming Time Lords, or do j…[Read more]

Thanks @Timeloop  that was good – especially as I am a nu-Who person, in fact I’ve only seen it since David Tennant (although I’m only 5 years younger than the show, I grew up without TV in an isolated place with hardly any cultural references, and generally have an extremely low TV threshold – I devoured books instead – but Who just speaks volumes to me).

@Timeloop Simple ideas are often the best – and it works.

@TardisBlue  This ‘Who-nose’ will sniff out the answer…

I’ve just rewatched the special, and it is just so amazingly well put together, so much more to pick up on in the second viewing (I know, I took my time to get around to it).  So much to watch out for having read through this thread since it was broadcast.  I just loves it 🙂

@Arbutus (a…[Read more]

Foundit!  Off-topic but relevant (I hope)

http://www.goodreads.com/quotes/369785-one-of-the-major-problems-encountered-in-time-travel-is

By the way, I don’t believe that we are still stuck in the time stream.  I think the next episode may show us how they escape from the timestream, which will possibly be very easy as it is all collapsing already, now that the Dr had found Clara at the end of TNOTD.  The timestream has been changed bcause of Clara’s intervention so Trenzalore is n…[Read more]

@curvedspace

Yes, Heinlein did user that idea a lot (I was an avid reader in my teens), but I don’t like the result!  You could view all the various possibilities as just that, possibilities in the quantum foam with each having a probability, until one version ‘collapses’ into becoming reality.  Clara of course is zipping about through the b…[Read more]

I watched on TV as there isn’t a cinema for 60 miles where I live, but it was just amazing.  Visually, the scenes with the paintings worked so well in that it looked 3D and you could see the depth in the painting even on a flatscreen.  I shall be watching again later when time permits!

I’m with @Timeloop and @Juniperfish – really like your a…[Read more]

Hello! I simply had to join up – I’ve been an occasional visitor over the last series, but having just watched all of Matt Smith’s episodes back to back in the last fortnight (OK, not quite all – I just watched ‘Hide’), I really wanted to give a big thanks to you all for the bonkers theorising that has kept me entertained and intrigued.  Its…[Read more]