Can I second your post above #60800 – good words.

I don’t think I have seen her in anything – I’ve not seen Broadchurch.  So, I’m going to look forwards immensely to what she brings to the role. Whilst missing Peter Capaldi greatly – after all, he is THE Doctor…

I too loved the opening section, the witty sharpness of the too-and-forth between the TLs. Missy loving hamming it up – because that’s WHO she is. I love how she expresses that very Scottish haughty-disdainful-coquettishness.  It was very well constructed with the flashbacks – clearly showing that Bill wasn’t…[Read more]

All very unexpected for me, as I stay clear of spoilers.

I don’t know what to think – I had thought in the last few weeks, what if the Dr regens into Missy… I don’t know think that is likely – it may well b…[Read more]

Here’s the guy who does the archao-acoustic research ‘This project explores the role of sound in the experience of Neolithic sites and landscapes’

http://www.aaronwatson.co.uk/acoustics-intro/

@ichabod It happens! Its just hard to predict when it will happen… September is usually the best most wonderful month. …[Read more]

As a Scottish person, I loved the jokes ‘Death by Scotland’ especially.  Actually, we’ve just had two whole days of lovely warm sun 🙂 it only rained for a short while each d…[Read more]

Excellent!

No, I really like the way Gomez delivers lines – she seems to find words delicious if that makes sense.

… and that is the sense of delicious which I meant – her entire delivery, I certainly didn’t mean to imply anything else ( I could have stopped to think before posting, of course) 🙂

The Doctor himself has come to a  point, a point where he has been re-visiting the last 4 years:

what is my doctor?

All of the words we hear, the scenes we see mixed in with our  personal likes of either Pertwee, Tom Baker, Tennant or Mat Smith, the Doctor himself is asking that same question.

In other words “Who (haha) am I?” The s…[Read more]

Thank you all so much for the discussion above, with such insight and far better ways of expressing it than I could ever hope to achieve – one reason why I’m so quiet on the forum!

Regarding the 4.5 billion years in The Castle (and yes, I tend to agree the time period was overplayed), looking at it purely…[Read more]

There was a Time-Lady so delicious,
Wild and fey, and totally capricious.
Missy! I’m in love with you…
Even tho’ you’re you-know-Who…
And your motives are totally suspicious!

Is that bad enough to get me banned for life? 😉

Instead of going bad for the sake of a good person, he does the right things for the sake of a bad one

Very good.

@scaryb

Indeed, very well put.  Which layer is ‘truth’ and who (Who?) is willing to make the effort to dig away the lies and distortions to find it, and themselves.

Missy? Nice? You noticed in my construction here that the two words don’t belong together in a sentence!  Hell freezing over is more likely (and, come to think of it – quite possible in Who – hmmm).

I really liked the ideas up-thread that Missy might be a regen of the Doctor, although I don’t think that is likely.  The Doctor has a…[Read more]

Everybody has come up with such great, insightful (and bonkers) ideas that I don’t have much to add, although it just occurred to me that the Munks (© @thane15) have done the world a great service -…[Read more]

Yes, he lost his seat. (Hurrah). I agree with whisht, the Conservative campaign was relentlessly empty, and I do hope this results in a softer more collaborative approach, but then we now have the DUP propping up the Cons in government, which is not encouraging to my mind.  I agree with @nick that the general lack of in…[Read more]

I’ve been lurking the previous threads of this series, playing endless catch-up (I seem to be experiencing some issues with <ahem> time just now).

That was fabulous. I have to admit that in the first few minutes I was thinking ‘Zombies? Really? ‘ As it turns out, the…[Read more]

Kind of Blue is most definitely Miles Davis. But Cohen has plenty to offer this discussion (‘<i>Everybody knows that the dice are loaded</i>’).  Goodness, the internet has so changed music! In my mid 20s I started listening to a weekly jazz programme here, the presenter played lots of world music and world-jazz too which I just…[Read more]

during heightened emotion and pain, everything is jangly and colourful; one’s eyes hurt either from crying or trying not to. Events either speed up or slow down; they catapult into one another until you either hide or face what’s in front of you.

Spot on, and thats the place I’ve been in and am finally moving out of, having spent seve…[Read more]

I totally agree, Heaven Sent was just phenomenal, and I’ve watched it several times as – well, its just so good. Just excellent drama and a terrific concept.

Its not a problem to prefer the darker moments – thats where humanity and the Dr shine the best!  Having been through some very d…[Read more]

I enjoyed that it was less christmassy and tinselly than many…[Read more]

If you’re into that kind of vibe, I absolutely love this CD from Nigel Kennedy & his Polish Kroke  band –

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ipjt_2As0Ac (how do you embed?)

Best Wishes to you for a happy Christmas.   I’m looking forwards to collapsing into incoherence – it doesn’t take much these days.

I went to a fab gig as part of Gl…[Read more]

I simply don’t have time or patience for that kind of analysis (and I mean firstly in a very practical sense). I’m an engineer – I’ve got problems to solve and solutions to create.  [Next project: a sonic screwdriver – can’t be that hard…]

Part of my skill is in being very good at simplifying and seeing a bigger picture.  The a…[Read more]

I think thats one of the reasons we love Who so much – the ability to take concepts and ideas from anywhere and r…[Read more]

Except, Rassilon and the High Council have been exiled, near the end of time, where there’s ‘only one or two star systems left’.  In these ‘end times’ where is there left to actually exile them to?

There won’t be many races left to raise armies from, either.  I presume (uh-oh!) they’ve been exiled without access t0 time-machines (…[Read more]

I agree wih your call on the Doctor being most likely candidate for the hybrid.  Also, he says at the end of Heaven Sent after breaking out of the dial ‘I am the hybrid’  (he can of course be lying).

Which would mean that he created the fulfillment of the prophecy himself  during his castle ordeal.  Another bootstrap?

– And, maybe he…[Read more]

Re the simulation hypothesis.  You may notice that I’ve referred to Lem several times now on this board – as I feel his writing is so ‘Doctorish’ and tackles many of these issues, esp the question ‘what is reality?’

You may enjoy a read of his short stories in ‘Memoirs of a Space Traveller‘ especially the story of…[Read more]

@pedant Perhaps a little Glasnost on Gallifrey will make it a more interesting place, with fewer daft costumes. It can only be a matter of time before they enter the Eurovision Song Contest…

Thats given me a great mental image – ha!
No wonder the Doctor left rather than hang around that lot.  In the words of King Arthur on Camelot ‘It is a si…[Read more]

I’m a bit late to the party and don’t think I can add anything new to what all of you have so eloquently expressed.

I was a day late watching, by which time you were up to page 4, time has been very limited so a rewatch late last night – and now you’re on page 7!!

Its great to rewatch bearing in mind all the wonderful comments, theories…[Read more]

I’m thinking that, since it took place inside a timey-wimey confession dial of TimeLordTech, the 2 billion years could easily have taken place inside … a mere second (of Eternity).

I suspect there is a wider bootstrap loop in operation, or the order-of-episodes theory is co…[Read more]

Many things (apart from Clara’s amazing bravery) that stood out.  It really was quite stu…[Read more]

I guess that although I love him in the role, especially the Donna series, I’m going to raise my head above the parapet here and say that in general I much prefer the Moffat style…[Read more]

How is Rasmussen still alive at the end after being shot?  Or was he…[Read more]

@blenkinsopthebrave  I strongly feel that Gatiss has consciously written a meta fiction here. I don’t believe it is supposed to fit into a narrative where A must mean B and therefore C in terms of canonical Who. I think the fact that the Doctor realises it is all a “story” is key here. That’s just what it is. A story. And Gatiss is reminding…

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I take it that since they never saw the end, they haven’t been exposed to the signal burst on the video, so Clara isn’t actually in the process of becoming a Sa…[Read more]