@thane16

Sorry I forgot to tag you in my post.

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@blenkinsopthebrave  I don’t think the online craziness represents the thinking of most Australians. Thousands turned out to protest against the Government on Friday in every capital city at very short notice and there was a sense of strong community sympathy at least here in Adelaide.

I also suspect that the “dark web” is obsessed with driving…[Read more]

@thane16 Thank you for clarifying your thoughts. I do agree with you. That kind of mob mentality is frightening. I’ve been reading and watching documentaries on McCarthyism, and the parallels between then and now are eerie. I knew it never really went away, but I believed it would never rise back up to the level it has. How could we, as a society,…[Read more]

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Syzygy the elder,

Have  been reading about the appalling conspiracy theories regarding the fires emanating from the Murdoch press and the dark corners of the web. Frankly, it takes my breath away. You mentioned, on another thread, the example of someone who was hounded and pilloried because of the false accusation of being an…[Read more]

@thane16  I also feel protective of this new Doctor precisely because she is a women and so am I and my granddaughters and my mother and daughter.They are all strong feisty females ,ready and able to rule the world with strength and with kindness.So is the Doctor! Is she different? Yes and weren’t they all? Does being female change the way this…[Read more]

@thane16 Two years ago: new Doctor. Only now, we have one person ‘admitting’ “oh, actually, it’s flat. No bonkerising & it disappointed” & that’s followed by a whole lot of others suddenly writing something very similar. But these same people never stated this at the time! Too respectful of a forum? Felt like you didn’t want to be the one who a…

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@mudlark I agree with you. That was a too-quick bonkerization on my part. I should’ve given it more thought before posting. I watched Part 2 again last night and realized this likely has a much broader meaning, and has something to do specifically with the Doctor, the Master and Gallifreyans. What, we don’t know yet. But if the lie was enough to…[Read more]

@thane16

there’s a deep seated memory, hidden from successive generations, but embedded in a way…

Did I suggest that?…It’s always nice to acknowledged, but I suspect someone else deserves the credit for that one.

@winston

I have been wracking my brain searching for a reason ,a reason so bad that the Master would or could destroy Gallifrey and…

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@thane16

where are the people?

Yes, good point. Would the Doctor have gone to the devastated Gallifey (supposedly) and not noticed any dead bodies? No, I think the sleight of hand (is spellcheck working?) takes a different form.

@thane16

What if the Child is effectively physically harnessed to all Time Lords  -their very ability to be TLs contingent upon the role of the Child to exist across all dimensions & eternally?

I really like that idea, not least because it is compatible with my theory and also with the idea that the Time Lords are the result of radical genetic…[Read more]

@thane16 @Bluesqueakpip @Juniperfish and anyone else who has been speculating about the Timeless Child and whom I may have overlooked.

Given the context of the references and the hints dropped, and after mulling over the question in what passes for my mind these days, I have ended up with a strong sense that the Timeless Child is/was  some kind…[Read more]

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YES !   Lots of ‘child’ stuff and all of them weapons?   Like the Moment?

The Moment was a sort of ‘interface’ .   I supposed both the Master and Doctor are that too.

There were lots of devices created by the ancients of Galifrey to change outcomes

which is what both the Master and the Doctor do. They were also eyes to see through too…[Read more]

@blenkinsopthebrave  Actually my boyfriend and I were discussing this earlier.  Gallifrey left the pocket universe at some point and ended up at the end of the universe temporally, as established in “Hell Bent”.   But going by this episode, IIRC, the Master visited and razed the planet while it was in the pocket universe.  So perhaps there is some…[Read more]

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I may have known who Ada Lovelace and Noor Inayat Khan were but, having just consulted what I wrote yesterday evening, I note that I wrote Child of Time* when I meant Timeless Child 😳  Tiredness or senility? It could be either, although I can still do the Times cryptic crosswords** so I I’m probably not yet totally gaga.

* I did…[Read more]

@thane16 it’s fantastic on re-watch. So many clues in retrospect, which is where they belong. The Fry character says ‘o’ when he dies. Well, it’s just a sound you might make when you’ve been shot in the head. O tempts Graham with his Doctor files (loved the first time round the comment about ‘inconsistencies’). O gravely needles the Doctor a bit…[Read more]

I’m very particularly curious about all the  V O R parts.

Is V virtual and can R  be Reality?  So then what does that make O ?

Also, the Doctor reached out to O so if she already knew him then its hard

to reconcile how to work thru when O was or wasn’t this Master.  Guess he/she

stole another body recently.

I found this appealing and a goo…[Read more]

@whisht

Gosh, I go on holiday and come back to six mentions.

There is one thing on which we agree absolutely.

But within a few minutes we covered quite a lot off ground because we fusking listened to each other.

Yes. A thousand times yes. We need to f*ck*ng listen to each other. Not shut conversations down. Don’t assume one side is virtuous…[Read more]

@pedant  Sad magic is my Christmas this year. It is a little tough for us but the granddaughters  are coming in the morning for Christmas Day and they are a blessing.

@thane16  After Doctor Who, Boston Legal is my fave! I love Alan and Denny Shore. Thanks.

@thane16 and @janetteb   I liked that episode a lot but I have not watched in awhile and now I want to again! So many questions and mysteries in that episode. Like who or what if anything is under the blanket on the bed. That actually gives me the creeps and I hate not knowing.I better read the thread again in case someone had some answers. I w…[Read more]

@thane16 nooooo Don’t go there. I spent months trying to work out how the Toy Soldier  got around and came up with an entire swag of absurd theories. I even had it getting from the Doctor back to Danny through Susan or something. I don’t recall the full details now.  Listen generated so many loose narrative threads which, I suspect, S.M, did not r…[Read more]