I’m not sure about the fact that Graham has cancer.

OK. Sorry, why?

I look a million dollars and I’m half dead. No kidding. I have a paramedic watching this as I type and he’s performing a truly hideous job/procedure (these doods get paid far too little).  Yesterday I was in the garden for 4 hours. Last night I had some peeps over fo…[Read more]

@the-war-doctor I thought the Doctor was playing a riff of Clara’s theme on his guitar. Wasn’t that what it was in reference to? That he remembers her story and song.

Hmm… maybe the Doctor was the president’s father? Or father-in-law?

Haha- as the president was Rassilon in the time of the 1st Doctor (which seems to be the time period referenced) that would be a big call if he were Rassilon’s father (since he’s as old as the time lord civilisation). Father-in-law would make for some interesting pos…[Read more]

By dying, is Clara “practically immortal”? In theory, as long as she returns to her moment of death, there will be no cataclysmic paradox that will tear apart time and space. However, she plans to take some adventures in her TARDIS before that happens. Isn’t she taking a big risk by delaying her return? If she “dies” before re…

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Orson Pink problem solved. Clara still time traveling. Potential there?

Indeed, and what’s to say she doesn’t bump into a certain lovable villain on her adventures?

@puroandson
Nice catch of Don’t Stop Me Now cover in the dinner.  I think there are a lot of little references to the adventures of the Doctor and Clara in this episode or in this series, for instance, the barn to the Day of the Doctor and Listen (soldier with no gun too), Cold War r…[Read more]

Yes- it would have to be Missy. She had access to the confession dial and could have managed to take a peek, discovered the Doctor’s secret (as the first Doctor he recognised the ongoing army as his future self somehow and fled Gallifrey hoping to avoid it happening) and concocted a plan to wreak revenge on the time lords for the drum…[Read more]

@pedant  That a few don’t get picked up on (most notable, I guess, Jenn…[Read more]

Ooh, Missy’s daughter… hmm, I like where you went with that. I also like your theory that if Ashildr was exposed to the time vortex and untempered schism she could potentially be part TL.

If she were already part-TL somehow, then it might actually take exposure to the Untempered Schism for her TL side to be expressed (her expanded mem…[Read more]

Little girl… okay, Ashildr isn’t exactly little, but she’s a young girl. No idea at all how she could be part time lord (she’s certainly not!)

“Little girl” is a stretch, although it is Missy speaking, with her low opinion of humans, so rating her above “puppy” might be a compliment. If Ashildr’s been on Gallifrey for some time, exposed…[Read more]

So, do we think that there could be versions of Doctors 1-11 + War “sliding” about as wraiths?

I very much doubt it.  The minds stored in the Matrix are, if my memory is correct, supposed to be those of dead Time Lords – i.e, those who had run out of their allotted number of regenerations and were no longer incarnate – not earlie…[Read more]

This episode is just so well constructed: visually, musically, the script… it is simply spot on!

Agreed completely. Much as we’ve been picking apart story points and theorising, the episode is not just interesting from where the story is going, but it’s also beautifully constructed from an aesthetic standpoint and well acted in what is vi…[Read more]

@Starla

I still wonder why Me was dressed very much like the 80’s/90’s version of Clara’s mother in the selfie Clara took. There’s been no resolution to that yet .

Me stated very clearly that she did it to get the Doctor’s attention.

@starla Remember how there was talk (please forgive me if this is a spoiler!!) a while ago about the importance of what pants the Doctor is wearing… 

Oh, your theory is pants!

Quote P.C – “There are some specific trouser things that happen for specific reasons”…[Read more]

Quote P.C – “There are some specific trouser things that happen for specific reasons”…

Let’s give this a go then. Below are screenshots, promo shots and behind the scenes photos from episodes 1-10 of series 9, as well as its prologue, arranged in the order they’ve been shown.

Prologue

The Doctor is dressed in his dark, possibly navy-blu…[Read more]

;¬)

Seriously though, Frobisher I agree completely!

@Juniperfish – why the Lovers? Though Clara and Danny spring to mind, that could be a bit sentimental. Quickly flicking through the cards, might we get Judgement and The Star at the end?
I think the Star is meant to represent hope (light after darkness).

Not…[Read more]

Hmmm, yes, those lamps. They were very carefully highlighted (no pun intended) and explained, weren’t they…

Now, it could be that this is a key plot point regarding Clara’s death. Maybe she didn’t actually die as we think we saw her do. Maybe she is merely in stasis, or has regenerated (having been imbued with a bit of CapDoc’s…[Read more]

I’ve been thinking about the white light also being significant. I want
to think it has something to do with all the alien stuff Clara picked up thru
her time with the Doctor. I wouldn’t be surprised to see something about this
turn up in the future. It really seems like SM wanted to differentiate the
way Clara was taken and the way…[Read more]

@fatmaninabox Thanks for that link also. I really want to buy those Big Finish stories. Would be great to listen to in the car while doing the long drive to the city.

Cheers

Janette

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

This shot was indeed in colour, so I don’t think it was a dust speck p.o.v. as those were all in black and white.

The signal was embedded at the end. The professor asks if you saw it, and doesn’t it make you tickle, before his collapse begins. The Doctor and the others leave before he can appreciate the plan because they leave without seeing the end of the footage.

It’s kind of the perfect Penny dreadful/Amicus ending you’d expect from Gatiss.

I found it odd & out of character that he didn’t say anything about those on board the plane after the explosion

for what it’s worth, the pilots and the few others on the plane may have been zygon infiltrators, prepared to die for their cause. i glean this from the captured zygon’s comments about the plane never landing, as my first t…[Read more]

(because it wasn’t -this wasn’t about apartheid, for example, as these were great big aliens with suckers)

Am guessing you haven’t seen District 9… 😉

@starla @jphamlore @supernumerary

There is real world precedent for ‘peace without punishment’, from South Africa to Northern Ireland. Not evertything has to be Nuremberg, esp…[Read more]

like this, in osgood’s conversation with the doctor aboard the presidential plane: “my sister and i were the living embodiment of the peace we made. i would give all the lives i have to protect it.” i initially thought she said “all the LIES,” as in, i would lie to the ends of the world to keep the peace. but now i keep hearing “…[Read more]

I agree, Clara was switched when she went into the little boys flat. However, I suspect her place was taken by the boy & it’s Clara ‘s body that’s being carried off, not the childs.

Well, not exactly — but our last shot of Kate — isn’t she holding up and looking at what sure looks like a zygon finger or something?  I thought, if she’s a zygon copy but a *good* one, she’s taken out a *ba…[Read more]

Potentially using a lucid dreaming aide, from Dark Water. You know the one that induced the very real dream state where Clara believed she was destroying TARDIS keys?

The argument against the lucid dreaming aid is that – unlike the real dreams in Last Christmas – the only people in that induced dream were the people really present.…[Read more]

Every death causes a tiny fracture in reality

a fracture. . .  like a ripple.

Now how many Claricles have died throughout history saving the doctor?

Enough to create a tidal wave?

@starla

yes I thought it strange that ashildr would be so dismissive…[Read more]

Welcome @Starla

Not sure what to add (perhaps could point out that the Normans were Norsemen so we are still living with the…[Read more]

I made notes, rather a lot of notes so here goes;

@lisa I agree re’ Ashildr and Arya from GoT being very similar, something that irritated me a little as the time though I also agree with @Ichabod…[Read more]

* ie I agree 🙂

I keep wondering about that phrase as well. Three stories now with serpents in, two with aliens taking the name of gods associated with ravens/crows. Apart from the associations with death there are also associations with knowledge and memory.

And sorry if this has already been said (I’m in wor…[Read more]

Oh, v…[Read more]