Ok, here’s a bonkers theory that was mentioned previously by others, but which I think we have more evidence for now:

Clara is both a Time Lady and Missy.

We know that exposure to the Time Vortex can produce Time Lords. The Doctor, in A Good Man Goes to War, said that it took many years for that to happen with his own race, but all it may have…[Read more]

By the way, now we have spiders everywhere! Earth formed around a Racnoss ship, and the Moon’s bacteria are “spiders”.

I keep leaving before I find the need to edit my last comment, and then I no longer have the option….

I know what bothered me about the mass thing: Eggs contain all the matter needed to grow the developing organism. Given that this is the case, how was it that the Moon suddenly started piling on the mass, which is what led to the astronauts’…[Read more]

9. @Seventhwheel

You know that if it’s in the egg or outside it the mass is still the same right? So they go to a beach, right on the sandy shore. Where the massive tides are destroying the world and all life is threatened … and watch from the edges of the lapping waves… on the side of the planet facing the moon. Odd?

Yep. I was also think…[Read more]

8. I also had a problem with the vote. As others have mentioned, half of the Earth’s surface was made completely irrelevant in the decision. If that half (I didn’t notice while watching) included the biggest population areas, like oh, say, CHINA and AFRICA, then… whoops, Clara! But another issue, and the one that bothered me the most: shouldn’t…[Read more]

I’m not really sure what to think about this episode. The premise of Moon-as-egg was good, but there are a few things that really nag at me:

1. The bumbling, “third-rate”, astronaut. Why would anyone send him anywhere? It’s like he was actively trying to be a red-shirt.…[Read more]

Definitely enjoyed the episode, but the greater emphasis on drama over sci-fi made this probably my least favorite of Series 8 so far. That’s not to say it wasn’t necessary, though. In fact, it was a very humorous way for the Doctor and Danny to meet, and it got their relationship dynamic rolling.

I picked up on the Day of the Doctor…[Read more]

Speaking of music, did anyone else notice 11’s theme in the preview to next Saturday’s episode? It really surprised me (and pleasantly).

Probably The Empty Child, when the boy causes the typewriter in his mother’s/other children’s hiding place to operate.

Oh, btw, while I was obviously enjoying RTD’s time as showrunner (else I wouldn’t have continued into Moffat), Moffat is probably what I like most about the show right now. I love these timey wimey, season-long, stories. I just hope I continue to be a big fan of the show once someone else takes Moffat’s place.

@lisa I’m not sure why it would need to get from the Doctor to the box, though. Its origin is in the 20th century, it was kept in Rupert’s/Danny’s family into the 22nd century, then it time-traveled with Orson to the [almost] end of the universe, then it went with Clara to the young Doctor. That’s from the toy soldier’s perspective. The only thing…[Read more]

Hello, figured I’d plop down next to some of you after having already posted three non-introductory, er, posts… in the Listen thread.

I was born in ’86, but didn’t know about — or wasn’t conscious of — Doctor Who until… probably 2011 at the earliest. In August 2012 I decided to try Doctor Who and signed up for Netflix’s 30-day trial. During…[Read more]

@electrolyte That was my post you quoted, btw, not Barnable’s. 😉

Before Series 8 started, I had actually been musing about what would happen once the Doctor brought Gallifrey back. It’s not a very likely story, due to how the Doctor’s interaction with Rassilon ended in The End of Time, but hear me out on this and let me know what you think.

The…[Read more]

This one’s quite a bit more tenuous than my last idea about the Doctor’s memory, but scrutinizing characters’ words so much got me thinking about a line from Deep Breath: Strax warns Clara to watch out for fluid retention. Combined with the two (?) mentions of Clara’s mortality in as many episodes and the Doctor’s question, in Deep Breath, of how…[Read more]

Hello, Moffat’s brain here. I know I should already know everything about everything in Series 8, but there are some things even I haven’t figured out yet (so why did I write the script that way…?).

Ahem. Anyway, I didn’t find the episode all that complex. If you compare it to Matt Smith’s entire run, what with Big Bang 2.0,…[Read more]