@whohar no, I totally get that. Certainly there’s a feel that the series is a tad ….thin, for me, at times? I’m reminded of characters who pirouetted on screen during 2011-2017 in chewy, but digestible stories in 11-14 eps a season including Christmas -certainly RTD had all sorts of specials after the success of season 2.

Whilst I like Ruby I do…[Read more]

@whohar I don’t agree that it is the writer’s, necessarily. We all have some form of post-grad here so we can think, obviously, but could it not be a situation where we are not accounting for the concise writing RTD might have shown here?

We want MORE emphasis on why Ruby felt/saw snow or why the carol’s so dynamic & I believe that this was answe…[Read more]

@juniperfish and @bunface you both referenced the Spoon.

@krathoon because she’s remembering only her previous memory of the Time Window & her previous memories of looking at the VHS. We’ve learned, in the last 10+ years, that when we think we recall a fact or a memory that really we’re remembering HOW we remembered it last. But recall now how the Doctor LET wishes into the universe. This is signi…[Read more]

@krathoon I’m not sure the episodes hinged on Ruby remembering anything as a baby. She has the VHS tape. She went to the time window where they could see who else was there & to closely see if she could describe who her mother was -as in clearly describe or draw. UNIT would have sufficient information to be able to create a composite of this p…[Read more]

@bunface & @juniperfish yes, I’m thinking which is it?
If it’s collective wishes emerging from Wild Blue Yonder then why did the Doctor narrate a completely different reason for the return of life itself? That  “ memory is life ?”

@classicsrule1

A pedantic friend said that RTD “has the gift of conciseness.”  In rewatching  Before Gap or classic…[Read more]

Brilliant posts people!

With the wishes at the end of the universe as @juniperfish elucidated, is it possible this applies to “death to death = life” @bunface you wrote of “2 wrongs don’t make a right.” And @blenkinsopthebrave yes, it seems “stupid” unless it IS connected to the wishes?
But if that’s so, then wouldn’t the Doctor need to wor…[Read more]

Now why did we think the episodes were part of a virtual reality? I remember how Rose was able to phone her mum on her first trip into space. The same scene and photography with Ruby -who also phoned her mum, Clara… We had Rogue, much like Capt Jack…. There’s probably something there which could still be relevant to our ideas about VR… & the sim…[Read more]

@classicsrule1 welcome to the forum!
I do think that the entire season WAS about the significance of Ruby’s mother. Pretty much from Christmas.

Many orphans, like the Doctor, and those who don’t know their parents, have taken this story to heart (Still, I understand you registered just to complain  😀). The series is strong and has been this way…[Read more]

@miapatrick I think you won @mudlark some cash… “Mrs Flood chameleon arced til Christmas.”

Niiice.

I really, really would’ve liked the carol to have been used a little more. But overall, I can see why RTD has gone down this particular path. We’ve had reality bombs, the most important woman in the universe, the end of the world. And the death of…[Read more]

The Doctor says, though, @blenkinsopthebrave that “we invest things with significance.”

you did good work @craig 🙏

@bunface yes indeed you did!!

@magdiragdag welcome to the forum!

wow, the time is incorrect on Mrs Flood’s clock? Well spotted! I wondered too -why is the clock used? Is it JUST to show the storm (because we already see the storm) or is it something else entirely? I like it! People have suggested she’s chameleon arched.

Puro

@bunface ever notice ears ringing? As you listen to streams or cars passing  -you might have access to a keyboard, guitar, tuning fork -or heck, whistle over a bottle, & you can match the ear ringing to “A” 440 hz. Fun trick. ‘Course, like a lot of tricks, it doesn’t always work 😬

@bunface -aw, shucks, thank you – back with my own username. classic radio is fantastic. How you interpret & why it makes sense to you is in keeping with Kramer’s The Hum of the World.
I liked nine too -the Moffat ep where he beamed? “everybody lives”  & you’re right he said “fantastic.”  He was swaggery doctor. Gatwa has that.

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Yes, I said this. Had a massive post and it’s ….gone. Never mind!

That was also for @whohar who commented on Jemma Redgrave & physics & maths. Also @blenkinsopthebrave  who inspired many thoughts on the importance of the Carol of the Bells & The Devil’s Chord.

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@cathannabel Wasn’t Stranger Things wonderful? The sheer power of music in the most recent season to transform & invigorate characters and to create a channel to more effectively beat the Big Bad was impressive, demonstrating how music is natural: endowed with a necessity and power to act as transformative, cosmically, across culture and  time, in…[Read more]

@scaryB you mentioned “psychic manifestation”…. & I think you’re onto something there… I was remembering how Ruby’s playing the keys; a goblin causes feedback (nice pun RTD) & S Triad yells out “oi” & asks for Gaudete. Mmm. She’s 2 people in 2023/4.