@soundworld  At first I was stunned and maybe disappointed that her death came about through something so seemingly random, but, it really works. Just another day with the Doctor – but it could happen on any day.

Exactly; this is what she’s basically agreed to by traveling in the Tardis; it could happen to the Doctor that way too (except then th…[Read more]

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For you:

http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x2d19z3_star-trek-the-next-generation-season-6-episode-12-ship-in-a-bottle_tv

@purofilion @arbutus @soundworld @janetteb

Beautifully written about the Doctors and the music, all of you!  What a lovely way to start my morning.  🙂

Okay proof I’ve been working on Nutcracker too long.  I’ve always seen Drosselmeyer as Doctor Who, so much so that in our Nutcracker he dresses as the Doctor and leaves in what could be a blue…[Read more]

@purofilion  @catladymeow  @lisa  @soundworld

Because Puro went off topic and I am resolutely staying there, I have moved this to the sofa, so as not to be modded!

Puro said:    He still remains my favourite Doctor although I’m beginning to think the word favourite just doesn’t work with this show at all.    You’re absolutely right. Back be…[Read more]

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There is a very strange component to all the signals/plugging in thru this
series. It feels like Clara is being prepared to be submitted/recruited
like an undercover agent to some purpose which might happen soon. So did Missy
chose to give Clara to the Doctor on purpose as his apprentice/trainee?

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Think you…[Read more]

@DrBen    I’d rather they take risks and occasionally fail than never take risks at all.   This, absolutely.  @Bluesqueakpip says it perfectly: the risky episodes, even when they fail all or in part, are what lead us to the unexpectedly wonderful ones!

@Starla   Rasmussen might have been better off just embedding the eye dust inducing signal in…[Read more]

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I just re-watched.  I think the episode is bloomin’ brilliant.

Totally agree. Just watched it again myself. Just love the whole meta element (which can be done in a really clunky way, but this is done with a lightness of touch). I think, on second viewing, this is what I would emphasis–the whimsical way in which this story, within a…[Read more]

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We also can add Clara hooked up to the Dalek casing and the Mire Helmet had
special tech hooking into their heads. That makes every episode with variations
on this concept.

@jimmyp

indeed this could survive in isolation as almost a ‘concept’ story, rather than an episode in a series.

Yes, that is precisely what I was trying to say, but you captured it far more elegantly.

@soundworld Thanks for that. And you are not the only one struggling for the right analysis-words. I face that struggle every day!

@soundworld   Yes, I too thought that scene was very well done, not least in the way it illustrated that certain truth.  Killing at a distance, however it is done, tends to be dehumanising because it divorces the bomber crew, those who launch the missiles or the drone operator from the end result, and the human cost can then be obscured behin…[Read more]

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Darn it, Firefox keeps trying to Americanise (with a ‘z’) my English.

There is a “British” English dictionary available for FF, but as it happens “z” is perfectly acceptable usage – just not at all fashionable.

@soundworld  Knowing ourselves better is of course the Fool’s journey, as we have been discussing this series. That it has provoked these reactions shows just how bang-on the series is, not shying away from awkward and painful topics.

Your comment is bang-on as well.  And thanks, @pedant, for the good Vonnegut material.

@purofilion  I can trul…[Read more]

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Knowing ourselves better is of course the Fool’s journey, as we have been discussing this series

As the Gentleman from Tralfamadore put it: “Anybody who has traveled this far on a fool’s errand … has no choice but to uphold the honor of fools…”

And – somewhat on point here – Kurt, rather more directly in one of the great works o…[Read more]

Wow. Just got through two pages of comments, and so much to think about and talk about!

@PhaseShift   Yes, you called it didn’t you, in the pub?  🙂  And good point about the Big Finish Zygon stories, I had forgotten that!

@Bluesqueakpip    Well, I can’t say that I spotted the switch, but I did think that conversation about middle age and th…[Read more]

@soundworld  life on earth was seeded, and continues to be, by genetic material carried through space, virii and so on. What manner of hybrids might we already be, unknowingly?

I think that’s an excellent question!  And it raises one of my ingrained objections to concepts of “purity”, in the name of which so many great crimes have been c…[Read more]

Really enjoyed reading the posts; lots of interesting stuff!

The current state of my bonkers theorizing for what it’s worth, which is likely in the long run to be very little…

1) @ichabod    Yes, 127 missed calls is a lot! And this from Clara who is now desperate to go on adventures in the Tardis. Even taking the Year 7s to Tae Kwon Do su…[Read more]

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Back to hybrids.  The question could be, are they a good or a bad thing ?

On the subject of hybrids, I see them as the consequences of the Doctor’s decision.  Up-till this episode,  there is a hybrid in every single story in series 9 due to the Doctor’s choice.  In Magician’s & Witch’s, a dalek/timelord hybrids were created due to the…[Read more]

Greetings @soundworld, I too had been expecting another Snake to appear but alas not. Some time over the last to weeks I mentioned Oroboros on here, but I can’t remember which thread or what I said, I’ll go find it now now and then post it again on this thread for you to see.

@lisa and @RobertDaller brought up the idea that Missy was the Woman in the Shop, and after this latest glimpse of Missy and her ‘My Clara …I have chosen well‘, I agree that it looks as if we are being pointed in that direction!  Certainly Missy or someone acting as her agent would fit the part, according to what we know so far.  In fact I …[Read more]

@purofilion    @soundworld   Well said, regarding the Doctor’s character and what this episode displayed of it.

@ScaryB   Yes, I have also said before that I would certainly prefer Clara to sort out her issues on her own, rather than having the Doctor or Danny doing it for her!

@BadWulf    Oh, thanks. I am pretty fond of Pyramids of Mars, but t…[Read more]