@steffstaff thanks for the satisfying explanation

Need to watch this one again to formulate a better theory about where this is going.

When I read the episode synopsis, I was expecting a Name of the Rose type mystery. We got something that references The Matrix and from what people are saying, The Android Invasion (need to watch that one).

I just hope the Doctor doesn’t bust out any Matrix…[Read more]

@mudlark Your comparison to Plato’s cave allegory is brilliant.

@steffstaff Wow, great first comment, welcome!

This episode helps to clarify a lot of things I’ve been thinking since ‘Silence in the Library’ and several other episodes where Moffat keeps bringing us back to this theme.  It’s all very thrilling and tantalizing.   It’s tying in my h…[Read more]

@Whisht

(Grasping at straws) Penelope was the wife of Odysseus…

There must be Bowie somewhere…..

@pedant

I wonder if the Papal role was before or after Brad Pitt in her timestream?

@steffstaff

I didn’t know Sophie Winkleman or what she looked like. Here’s a pic:

We learnt that the Doctor’s killed shedloads of beings but he w…[Read more]

Hi @steffstaff – fantastic first post and your follow up is actually plausible!
(You may have been going for ‘bonkers’ rather than plausible, but no fear, my judgement is hardly a useful barometer!) 🙂

After giving the episode a bit of thought this morning I had an itch to scratch but I’ve now scratched it!
Basically, the concept that we might be…[Read more]

@Thane15

Just to be clear I was using “sprite” in the computer animation sense. Anything that moves and does stuff is a sprite, be is Mario, Messi in FIFA17, Zombies in Half Life 2, spaceships in Elite or orcs, elves and wotnot in World of Warcraft. “Those things you shoot in video games”.

@bendubz11 @steffstaff (welcome back and welcome…[Read more]

Welcome @steffstaff ! Great first post.