@countscarlioni   if he gives her the chip, Clara too has the potential to become another destructive tidal wave. The Doctor, as he shouts at the end of The Girl Who Died, can do anything, but here he grasps, after Ashildr has hugely sharpened his understanding of this, he shouldn’t save Clara. No wonder the Doctor has to go off by hi…[Read more]

@Spider That’s a beautiful story! There’s magic in it just like in Doctor Who.
Thanks for sharing! 🙂

@spider  And oh MY doesn’t Capaldi look very, VERY spooky as a ‘ghost’. I’ve got chills just thinking about that look.

Gawd, yes!  Creepy and a half.

The line that didn’t fit at all for me (and didn’t in the trailer either) was ‘I want to kiss it to death’.

It made sense at the time, but now I’m thinking — kiss *what* to death, exactly?  …[Read more]

@nerys  No worries!  It’s always nice to have backup. lol

@spider  I think it also warrants a mention that a lot of the Clara that people seem to reference is Smith’s Clara.  Last series, we saw her thrust into a lot of situations, often entirely intentional on the part of the Doctor, and at one point she actually loses it with him entirely for…[Read more]

Hello fellow theorizers,

Thank you for the warm welcome @ScaryB @Spider @Arbutus, I’m happy to be back too. Sorry I couldn’t answer sooner – I also felt like nothing I could say would bring anything new to the discussion.

In retrospect and on a second watching – especially with this new episode the 3 week long party for himself was fun.

@Spider…[Read more]

The night shift have been busy… Lots of lovely bonkers theorising to catch up on over coffee this morning.

@spider Your theory was suitably bonkers indeed. I agree that Missy and Clara are most likely dead as is the Tardis. In order to save them the Doctor must go back, undo his mistake, abandoning Davros and thus teaching Davros that…[Read more]

@Spider

Re your post http://www.thedoctorwhoforum.com/forums/topic/the-magicians-apprentice/page/4/#post-43154

and using the tank – I love it!

Also liking the idea (also suggested by @Bluesqueakpip) that as a result of this that the Daleks will be subtly changed to at least have the capacity for other than blind hatred. Maybe the Doctor picked…[Read more]

@ichabod

Hmm; but he could be lying about “recent”.

A Timelord’s idea of ‘recent’ might not be ours, but the Doctor who deserted the child Davros was the current incarnation, and I am pretty sure that once he had had time to recover his wits and think things through, he would immediately have started to feel guilty about his failure to live up to…[Read more]

@denvaldron

the Doctor makes reference to ‘saving his friends’

@spider

(now does he say friend or friends here? – need to go rewatch)

Actually, in the final scene boy Davros says: “Are you going to save me?” and the Doctor replies: “I’m going to save my friend”.

Friend-in the singular.

Now that opens up a whole heap of possibilities. Which frien…[Read more]

@spider   For me the great change in tone was the kind of dumbing down of Clara here. Don’t get me wrong, I too loved her being the stand in for the Doctor with UNIT, that was fab! But with Missy I think it was a much needed slap to the chops of us the audience. We have got so used to seeing the Doctor though human eyes, through the companion and…[Read more]

@blenkinsopthebrave

Missy’s rather cruel jibe to Clara about Danny: “still dead is he?”. Why put this in? Blenkinsop’s (probably wrong) prediction: He either isn’t, or even if he is, he will return in some capacity. Missy’s line was preparing us.

Pretty sure we would have heard casting spoilers if he was. She was just being cruel, in about the m…[Read more]

Have finally caught up with the episode and read through all the posts with the voices of Davros, the Doctor and Sarah Jane in the background. The boys are watching Genesis of the Daleks in the other room.

Lots of comments on other posts so here goes,

@spider. I was also saddened by the dalekisation of Bors. As pointed out above  I suspect this…[Read more]

@spider

H U G.

@Spider

Passed on from Strax:

Sir: I have discovered a strange alien life form. They appear to have the shape of a giant worm. Would you like me to eviscerate them?

😉

@JimTheFish and @Ichabod I think the Time Lords were based upon a certain breed of old school European politician. They are clearly a ruling elite who live too long. I think there is a lot of interesting potential backstory that has never been tapped and just because the 70s depiction of the T.Ls was absurd does not mean that any AG depiction…[Read more]

@Spider —  Well, you (and our eternal sidekick, Autocorrect) have definitely made my evening with a “Laser bean” scanning the area . . . Ah, the image . . . When not filled with rage and dread for various and sundry excellent reasons, I do love living in the modern era!  Who knew that new tech would be the source of so much verbal slapstick?  …[Read more]

@Spider  @cubefox

I too felt during Series 7b that I had preferred the “Claricles” (particularly Victorian Clara) to the real Clara. I didn’t mind her, but at the same time I only really warmed up to her in Day of the Doctor (post-Impossible Girl, I guess). Although I haven’t always liked her behaviour in Series 8, I actually found her arc more…[Read more]

@spider

hey,

thanks for actually taking your time to reply to me.

One of the things about doctor who that i love and hate is the change of the characters. There are some series out there, that are really awesome but that get boring after you watched them for a few years because the actions just start to repeat themselves. With the change of the…[Read more]

@spider

I have no idea how I respond to you directly just wanted to let u know that you made my day with that. Seeing my comment later with my brain not beeing blinded by stupidity I am really ashamed for what i wrote T_T.  I was just kind of mad that some of his friends feeled like they stayed far shorter at his site than others (what they…[Read more]

@spider     Regarding the trailer, I don’t remember seeing those visuals, but the spoken lines come from Into the Dalek.

@ichabod   Spending time on this forum will definitely change your day. Witness the following:

@Barnable   Mostly Santa dreams he is as cool as the Doctor.  and    I can understand not wanting to think about Santa being i…[Read more]