@kharis

Any other suggestions for Romana? It would be wonderful to have her back.

In terms of actors, is Lalla Ward herself not a possibility? Bring her back as an older and wiser Time Lady. I don’t think it’s been established in canon that’s she regenerated post her appearances in the TV series, and even if she had, she might have chosen to…[Read more]

@toinfinityandbepond

River asks how did he get another regeneration, and The Doctor says “a thing happened”
Question, does he remember?

I didn’t think there was a suggestion he’d forgotten- only that it would be complex to explain (and of no benefit in moving the story forward for him to do so).

@missy– no mentions of Clara- and it’s otherwise safe from a spoiler point of view if you missed other episodes in this series.

@pedant

24 years. Just enough time to raise a perky young control freak, fabricate a history and plonk her in Missy’s path.

I don’t know if there’s an incentive for the Doctor & River to want to do that or a suggestion that Clara could have been part TL, but even if not, you may well be onto something… 24 years is just about right to a…[Read more]

@cpgolfer

Killing off River would be a huge mistake she’s one of the most unique characters of the franchise with the right actress playing her. They left her mind trapped in a planet sized library I think someone as clever as she is would use all that knowledge and a teleporter that converts matter to energy and vise versa talk about the ult…

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Just watched the episode and really enjoyed it as a mostly light-hearted romp, but also with a proper swan song for River for me – I was happy to see her show up one last time.

Matt Lucas’s character was great, I’ve always like Alex Kingston as River (I know that’s not the case for everyone) and I loved the autonomous mechanised suit (shad…[Read more]

@puroandson

Good thing I brought up the Big Bang then too! I really loved that 2 parter. I remember people complaining when they heard there would be daleks and cybermen and sontarans and there were only a few of each species underground near the pandorica.

I thought the concept of the Pandorica was a strong one, and the visual design of the…[Read more]

@puroandson (son)

Hallo there. I am 14 so I don’t know what you were talking about with labels? As we seem to argue or repeat ourselves I really tried to talk about autons or other things to get a different conversation going? Mentioning Amy wasn’t about that you see. Anyway, that didn’t work so I won’t be doing that anymore. I apologise for say…

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@bluesqueakpip

It may be metaphorical – before Big Bang 2 we have RTD’s Whoniverse, post Big Bang 2 we are definitely in Moffat’s Whoniverse.

Love the idea that the reboot was as much metaphorical as anything. The show itself didn’t get a reboot, but by rebooting the universe, continuity before Big Bang 2 can be adjusted as desired.

For examp…

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@bluesqueakpip

Having an active SF afterlife is not ‘cheating death’.

For most people, I think an afterlife is the ultimate form of cheating death, as it’s a form of immortality for the consciousness. Those who look forward to “the singularity” certainly seem to view it as a form of immortality, not death.

If you go back to BG Who, the only dead…

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@jphamlore

Not that Doctor Who can get Cumberbatch…

Cumberbatch as Rassilon- now there’s a great prospect- the role could certainly do with that sort of boost when it returns. But if he is available (in this fantasy world), then why not as the Doctor? Much as I like Capaldi in the role, if Cumberbatch was available, regenerate away :-)…

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@puroandson

I think River is dead? -just because we see her doesn’t mean she isn’t dead. It’s time travel man!

Yes- she can still crop up- will be interesting where in her timeline the Xmas special has her placed. But regardless, within her own timeline, she dies and is uploaded to the Library computer, cheating death. She “faded out” last we sa…[Read more]

@bluesqueakpip

You may not like it, but that’s what that type of teleport does. If it works by information transfer, it can clone you. Or reconstruct you after death. Letting an information transfer teleport into your fictional universe (rather than dissassembly and reassembly after a short and possibly rather exciting trip through a wormhole) i…

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@puroandson (son)

Hmm, quite a few people have died -all the people in the Under the Lake episode or several anyway died. Danny died, the zygons eps had ‘real’ people killed. Then last year in Into the Dalek and also Deep Breath? Cass died with Dr 8 in the minisode so I think lots have died and not all ‘red shirts’.
On principal we know River i…

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@puroandson

I didn’t mean to suggest that the extraction chamber itself had been overused- more that the number of ways to cheat death was mounting up over the last two seasons, and as a theme that had been used more than I’m comfortable with. I wouldn’t want to see a descent into comic book logic, where anyone regardless of how thoroughly dead…[Read more]

@thebrainofmoffat

The extraction chamber is an overpowered plot device unless it has limits, and we’re given no indication that there are any.

Agreed. I also had much the same issue with the teleporter spitting out an infinite sequence of Doctors in Heaven Sent. The explanation given there likened it to a copy being 3D-printed from a template o…[Read more]

@janetteB

When the Doctor says he ran away with the President’s daughter I assumed he meant as in “eloped with” not abducted and took gallivanting through time and space with, (ie Susan because that has dubious connotations). Missy we know had a daughter. Maybe at some time he/she was President of Gallifrey and it was her daughter the Docto…

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@soundworld

Would the neural block have worked on Clara without a pulse?  In her time-looped state she might have just reset, or it may not have had time to work – it seemed to take several seconds for the Doctor to succumb to it.  It depends on how much of Clara’s system is reset in her timeloop (she is her own personal traveling Ourob…

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@ichabod

On the other hand — he demanded a neural block “compatible with humans” back in the extraction room, didn’t he? What for, if he didn’t have *some* plan to use it — on a human? And Clara is the only human at hand except for Ashildr (does Ashildr count as fully human any more?), and he doesn’t seem to have any cause to use it on Ashildr.[Read more]