The Doctor Who Forum | Steffstaff | Activity https://www.thedoctorwhoforum.com/members/steffstaff/activity/ Activity feed for Steffstaff. Sun, 26 Jul 2026 14:22:49 +0000 https://buddypress.org/?v=2.9.1 en-US 30 hourly 2 e60fc125df43a411cf9fc39ed298ce22 Steffstaff replied to the topic The Pyramid at the End of the World in the forum The Twelfth Doctor https://www.thedoctorwhoforum.com/forums/topic/the-pyramid-at-the-end-of-the-world/page/4/#post-58354 Thu, 01 Jun 2017 07:52:27 +0000 @thane15 the “double-lock” thing does sound like it was inserted to cover fans whinging about plot holes… ie “Why did they remove the windows off the office, take the tardis out and put it on a plane, before speaking to the Doctor? Even if Bill doesn’t have a key we know full well Nardole has one.”

]]> 485fdd1e1e9ce32a86997b29e1e17648 Steffstaff replied to the topic The Pyramid at the End of the World in the forum The Twelfth Doctor https://www.thedoctorwhoforum.com/forums/topic/the-pyramid-at-the-end-of-the-world/page/4/#post-58353 Thu, 01 Jun 2017 07:48:19 +0000 @cathannabel that IS what she said! Probaly what I would have said in her shoes too… Well, I’d have said taxi because I’m not young and hip like her, but you get the point! It was a funny line, it’s a shame people missed it.

]]> 7fed08094302dc392fbf42d6754e3ef4 Steffstaff replied to the topic The Pyramid at the End of the World in the forum The Twelfth Doctor https://www.thedoctorwhoforum.com/forums/topic/the-pyramid-at-the-end-of-the-world/page/3/#post-58267 Tue, 30 May 2017 11:25:24 +0000 oooh I don’t know @tardigrade – I feel as an audience member and fan that I’ve entered into an unspoken agreed contract  with the makers of Doctor that I will never assume a regeneration is possible when a scene of jeopardy is introduced!

]]> f4c52244dabb307f2c43f7bd749e58e5 Steffstaff replied to the topic The Pyramid at the End of the World in the forum The Twelfth Doctor https://www.thedoctorwhoforum.com/forums/topic/the-pyramid-at-the-end-of-the-world/page/3/#post-58256 Tue, 30 May 2017 07:24:59 +0000 @tardigrade the established lore on time-lord’s and their ability to regenerate is somewhat iffy when it comes to continuity – but we have over time learned that if their injuries are too severe, or if their hearts are damaged, or if they die instantly before the process has a chance to begin then they can’t regenerate… So I suspect exploding…[Read more]

]]> 8fbdeaab49423621c2550a362fc74cc1 Steffstaff replied to the topic The Pyramid at the End of the World in the forum The Twelfth Doctor https://www.thedoctorwhoforum.com/forums/topic/the-pyramid-at-the-end-of-the-world/page/2/#post-58213 Mon, 29 May 2017 11:38:27 +0000 Oh don’t get me wrong @blenkinsopthebrave  my commentary was written and delivered with tongue firmly in cheek and with a true sense of love for every silly plot-hole going!

Wouldn’t watch Doctor Who if I didn’t love it. Wouldn’t have posted a commentary on any forum other that this one.

 

]]> c91d489be1cf2dd1e43d4572d81b22fc Steffstaff replied to the topic The Pyramid at the End of the World in the forum The Twelfth Doctor https://www.thedoctorwhoforum.com/forums/topic/the-pyramid-at-the-end-of-the-world/#post-58145 Sun, 28 May 2017 11:12:33 +0000 Re-watched it again this morning… And thought I’d do a running commentary whilst I did!

00:00 – Bill’s on a date with Penny and is busy telling her that her tutor is a space alien! I wonder why she’s doing that? And whether this is a first date or whether we’ve skipped forward a few weeks?

00:37 – Now Bill’s telling Penny about the computer si…[Read more]

]]> d31b052708bdf7a6117fb439dbe80c32 Steffstaff replied to the topic The Pyramid at the End of the World in the forum The Twelfth Doctor https://www.thedoctorwhoforum.com/forums/topic/the-pyramid-at-the-end-of-the-world/#post-58139 Sun, 28 May 2017 07:45:40 +0000 When we were with the two scientists, they showed a flashback of the broken wine bottle and broken glasses three times… Did I miss the relevenace this episode, or do we think it’s going to play into next weeks somehow… timey-wimey butterfly-effecty stuff?

]]> 0d28b8c9b94dbd77b8a3aada053e15da Steffstaff replied to the topic The Pyramid at the End of the World in the forum The Twelfth Doctor https://www.thedoctorwhoforum.com/forums/topic/the-pyramid-at-the-end-of-the-world/#post-58118 Sat, 27 May 2017 21:48:53 +0000 @craig I’ve done that. Unfortunately I don’t have control over what is classed as spam, it’s an anti-spam plug-in for the website. I hope that now I’ve “unspammed” you, you shouldn’t have any more problems. But if you do, please let me know.

Ohhhhh… I know what it is then! It’s because i edited the post like 3 times in a minute because I kept…[Read more]

]]> ef438a83239e4081a743ccbf91169875 Steffstaff replied to the topic The Pyramid at the End of the World in the forum The Twelfth Doctor https://www.thedoctorwhoforum.com/forums/topic/the-pyramid-at-the-end-of-the-world/#post-58112 Sat, 27 May 2017 21:23:37 +0000 @craig  I thought I was pressing a wrong button or something! Oh yes please, do delete 58097 and 58098 so I don’t sound insanely pushy! – thanks! X

 

]]> 09acd6e6378c83551ec567629db7faa1 Steffstaff replied to the topic The Pyramid at the End of the World in the forum The Twelfth Doctor https://www.thedoctorwhoforum.com/forums/topic/the-pyramid-at-the-end-of-the-world/#post-58101 Sat, 27 May 2017 20:56:14 +0000 …something else has just occured to me… Everything that happened last week was actually kind of pointless wasn’t it? I mean, if the Sim-Doctor hadn’t emailed over all that information to the real Doctor then… Then what? Everything this week would have just happened anyway.

]]> 0c65c10840cc997a27a11b75d82676b6 Steffstaff replied to the topic The Pyramid at the End of the World in the forum The Twelfth Doctor https://www.thedoctorwhoforum.com/forums/topic/the-pyramid-at-the-end-of-the-world/#post-58099 Sat, 27 May 2017 20:50:02 +0000 @miapatrick still, one thing the monks don’t know is how people would fight them in real life. Everyone who read the book killed their selves. No one tried to fight them- because that would give them information and because, what’s the point?

Well, nobody tried to fight them because nobody knew they were then – none of those people in the sim…[Read more]

]]> bf7ca53623d74e52bb9a6e1c1e359d65 Steffstaff replied to the topic The Pyramid at the End of the World in the forum The Twelfth Doctor https://www.thedoctorwhoforum.com/forums/topic/the-pyramid-at-the-end-of-the-world/#post-58092 Sat, 27 May 2017 20:07:28 +0000 @miapatrick I do see a flaw in their plan though. Last week the doctor observed that they wanted to see, specifically, what people clever enough to work out they were in a simulation would do.

Yeah, the Doctor *did* say that… But it never really tallied with what we were seeing, so I took it as just throwing a notion out there. After all,…[Read more]

]]> 223e0f8bc8ae719983f4082f8d5786be Steffstaff replied to the topic The Pyramid at the End of the World in the forum The Twelfth Doctor https://www.thedoctorwhoforum.com/forums/topic/the-pyramid-at-the-end-of-the-world/#post-58088 Sat, 27 May 2017 19:49:17 +0000 Oh those tricksy monks! *shakes fist at monks*

Trump reference was a bit weird wasn’t it? Having chosen to deliberately avoid it last week. I guess that was him we saw dead all along… overdose must have changed his barnet.

 

]]> c0b8b7819afcbdfd6d580ca317b5f428 Steffstaff replied to the topic Extremis in the forum The Twelfth Doctor https://www.thedoctorwhoforum.com/forums/topic/extremis/page/4/#post-57945 Tue, 23 May 2017 18:19:21 +0000 @pedant Okay, I shall allow for that! He’s a cheeky wee scamp is our Moffat! …I might even miss him…

]]> d47021b8cb3d990700879498c9ebef09 Steffstaff replied to the topic Extremis in the forum The Twelfth Doctor https://www.thedoctorwhoforum.com/forums/topic/extremis/page/4/#post-57942 Tue, 23 May 2017 15:40:51 +0000 @pedant you think they were referencing her? I know she’s a fabled female pope, but they seemed pretty clear on reffering to this one as Benedict IX, who as I say is a non-fabled real pope from history… So outside of sharing a gender with Pope Joan, there doesn’t seem to be a connection.

]]> b940241f8a6fde0df15f587a26020d68 Steffstaff replied to the topic Extremis in the forum The Twelfth Doctor https://www.thedoctorwhoforum.com/forums/topic/extremis/page/4/#post-57915 Tue, 23 May 2017 08:20:21 +0000 @morpho Pope-bashing in the matrix!

…ah, so that’s what you kids are calling it these days! You’ll go as blind as the Doctor you know?

Question: In real life Pope Benedict IX was a man, right? An actual historical figure. Doctor Who doesn’t usually ret-con real history to such an extent does it? Soooooo…. Was the female Pope only something t…[Read more]

]]> 1f2b6e17389c3816df2dc1a7f72765e3 Steffstaff replied to the topic Extremis in the forum The Twelfth Doctor https://www.thedoctorwhoforum.com/forums/topic/extremis/page/3/#post-57843 Mon, 22 May 2017 09:06:21 +0000 @tardigrade

I’m fine with him wanting to know what’s in the message. It’s just a perverse way he goes about trying to read it. At the end of the episode he “emails” a message to himself that is shown to him via his glasses. Earlier he’s actually trying to read an email– surely it’s much more obvious then to forward it to the device that wil…[Read more]

]]> 23a5e2e9a310258cb74ea9261f4b86c4 Steffstaff replied to the topic Extremis in the forum The Twelfth Doctor https://www.thedoctorwhoforum.com/forums/topic/extremis/page/3/#post-57839 Mon, 22 May 2017 08:53:46 +0000 @tardigrade

If the Vatican priests really did believe they were simulated, then they would probably not think they had an eternal soul, so would not be in fear of damnation. And if it were an accurate simulation, then there is presumably another version of themselves in the real world acting as custodian of their soul.

Exactly! But of course that…[Read more]

]]> bafc2311219116f25ae79e0b4bc8b4e2 Steffstaff replied to the topic Extremis in the forum The Twelfth Doctor https://www.thedoctorwhoforum.com/forums/topic/extremis/page/3/#post-57834 Mon, 22 May 2017 08:26:25 +0000 Oh… Actually by using the back-button I can re-find it! And indeed correct the @ whilst I’m at it! Ooooh I feel like one of the Mum-Ra Monks, simulating posts and then re-doing them over and over till I get them right!

@tardigrade

Firstly to clarify something- some commenters are describing the episode as playing out in a VR world

Actually I…[Read more]

]]> bf3b4c980ce6d5c4193767242469040a Steffstaff replied to the topic Extremis in the forum The Twelfth Doctor https://www.thedoctorwhoforum.com/forums/topic/extremis/page/3/#post-57832 Mon, 22 May 2017 08:24:07 +0000 @thane15 I know, it WAS there. Why did it vanish? Oh well. I’m not typing it again.

]]> 5668c42d85dc50c0b07c215055e252b6 Steffstaff replied to the topic Extremis in the forum The Twelfth Doctor https://www.thedoctorwhoforum.com/forums/topic/extremis/page/3/#post-57830 Mon, 22 May 2017 08:17:46 +0000 Sorry @thane15 I did indeed mean t’other poster.

I’m still new. I’m learning. x

]]> f3ad2aa5a436040f526f0a7995439d6a Steffstaff replied to the topic Extremis in the forum The Twelfth Doctor https://www.thedoctorwhoforum.com/forums/topic/extremis/page/3/#post-57827 Mon, 22 May 2017 07:58:40 +0000 @thane15

Firstly to clarify something- some commenters are describing the episode as playing out in a VR world

Actually I think it was just me who did that! Sorry! x

It seems that the scope of the simulation was quite limited. Why include CERN in that simulation? Their relevance in an alien invasion is hard to imagine. 

As far as I understood…[Read more]

]]> b3776a291013ff134f4509dedfacf446 Steffstaff replied to the topic Extremis in the forum The Twelfth Doctor https://www.thedoctorwhoforum.com/forums/topic/extremis/page/2/#post-57804 Sun, 21 May 2017 20:52:06 +0000 @doktorvem When it is a “long time ago” in the time line how can it still be the latest docotor? For example during the flashback of “killing” Missy.

It wasn’t a long time ago in the doctors time-line (it occured not long after River had died) – it just means it was a long time ago in history – for all we know it all took place billions of years…[Read more]

]]> 28ca6d1dede211770fbff771ab56a608 Steffstaff replied to the topic Extremis in the forum The Twelfth Doctor https://www.thedoctorwhoforum.com/forums/topic/extremis/page/2/#post-57780 Sun, 21 May 2017 15:25:16 +0000 Hi @Whisht – thank you! Do you know who I thought the portrait looked like? Sophie Winkleman. Big Suze from Peep Show.

]]> c4f225af6162e1e2667ac918e893f516 Steffstaff replied to the topic Extremis in the forum The Twelfth Doctor https://www.thedoctorwhoforum.com/forums/topic/extremis/page/2/#post-57775 Sun, 21 May 2017 12:26:47 +0000 @thane15 Like the Doctor in a tessalecta?

Aye! But on a much bigger, wheels-within-wheels level!!

It won’t be that though, obviously. It’ll probably just be that our Doctor will simply have to do something he knows no Doctor would have done in any possible simulation, because its just too unthinkable…

…like, I don’t know… break an oath…[Read more]

]]> 6f3b3898963ab23d429f3b721b39812c Steffstaff replied to the topic Extremis in the forum The Twelfth Doctor https://www.thedoctorwhoforum.com/forums/topic/extremis/page/2/#post-57770 Sun, 21 May 2017 11:53:35 +0000 Thanks for the nice welcomes!

Yes, agreed that the purpose of the simulations is to find (and then test-run) the ideal time to invade.

This is going to lead to a couple of very interesting episodes I think! The *real* Doctor now knows that at some point they are coming – and when they do, they’ll have already ‘test invaded’ hundreds of different…[Read more]

]]> 8ad2d4f064c876e727e5a9c1a45b6021 Steffstaff replied to the topic Extremis in the forum The Twelfth Doctor https://www.thedoctorwhoforum.com/forums/topic/extremis/#post-57759 Sun, 21 May 2017 07:35:47 +0000 “Why and how did the Veritas come into being? It seems rather illogical for a villain to create a shadow universe to test taking over the world, only to leave a way to tip the simulations off about the storm coming.” @bendubz11

They couldn’t not though. It was very briefly covered by the VR Doctor during a quick exchange with the VR Bill towards…[Read more]

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