@magslscott

Also why hasn’t anyone said something about Ashildr calling herself “me”? Strangely Doctor 12 doesn’t say “I am the hybrid” he says “the hybrid is ME” …..

It’s been noted more than once, but in a thread this size, I can see how you could miss it. Capaldi certainly seemed to play the line as “me” rather than “Me”, sliding his sungl…[Read more]

@lisa

Also, maybe she [Ashildr] was the woman holding her head in her hands to Rassilon’s side in the “End of Time”

Rassilon’s wife maybe? Given his age, that would mean her DNA could be in basically the entire TL population, and they’re all “hybrids”. Would help explain why the first Doctor went to Earth upon leaving Gallifrey, if he knew that.

It occurred to me that the Doctor’s time in the confession dial could be seen as a possible fulfilment of the hybrid prophecy. He’s destroyed a billion hearts (actually more like a trillion), it’s just that instead of it being a genocide, it was suicide – he’s been knocking them off two at a time and they were all his own. And, as widely…[Read more]

@mudlark

I’m not so sure about the idea of it as a mini Tardis, bigger on the inside and able to contain the Doctor physically. @tardigrade agrees with this idea, but it seems to me to have a major flaw. As @ichabod says, if that is the case, how does the Doctor enter it? When the external dimensions of the Tardis shrank in Flatline, the Doctor c…

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@ichabod

This is crucial, I think: it’s obviously *not* objectively real (how would they have shrunk the Doctor down to a size at which he’d fit inside the thing?  Lots of skulls but no other bones from the dead Doctors’ skeleton? etc.), and the mechanical faults that some fans are all in a tizzy over (I mean about timing, some rooms re-set…

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@teddybear

Another inconsistency: He throws the stool into the water each time, but though there are billions of skulls, there are not billions of rotting stools in the water.

I’d think the stools would rot away to effectively nothing in hundreds of years if they aren’t reset as part of the room. So I wouldn’t expect to see billions, but there wo…[Read more]

@thetardiscoatrack

Maybe “me” and “Me” are both right (in a sense).

I was just thinking the same thing. Perhaps it is both of them that form the “hybrid” in some sense – two warrior races together, either figuratively or even literally in some way, with the hybrid yet to be realised.

@mersey

I didn’t understand how’s that possible that the stars changed their positions. No one can move the stars except the expansion of the universe which of course is recognisible only with time.

The stars within a galaxy move relative to one another as the galaxy rotates, so over tens of thousands of years the constellations do change. Ove…[Read more]

@puroandson

Son of Puro here. I don’t think it was a copy in the traditional sense. I also don’t think the ‘soul’ idea works here. The Doctor does not, thankfully, speak of souls. And he shouldn’t. He is not that kind of person.

It is the Doctor himself who compared the process to a 3D printer “Just like a 3D printer really…. There’s a copy of m…[Read more]

I had one negative I wanted to raise from this episode- I’m really uncomfortable with teleportation being treated as remote copying for a few reasons (quite apart from the fact that means the original is killed):

1. The Doctor says that he didn’t feel any time travel during the teleport. If he doesn’t actually exist in any conscious sense durin…[Read more]

Seriously thought-provoking episode and I can’t wait for the conclusion. A few thoughts:

I’m thinking that the Gallifrey the Doctor has arrived on is the time-war era Gallifrey- you can’t time travel to get there because of the time lock, but if you go the long way around- i.e. arrive billions of years in advance and wait it out, then that might…[Read more]