The Doctor Who Forum | TheBrainOfMoffat | Activity https://www.thedoctorwhoforum.com/members/thebrainofmoffat/activity/ Activity feed for TheBrainOfMoffat. Mon, 27 Jul 2026 01:44:27 +0000 https://buddypress.org/?v=2.9.1 en-US 30 hourly 2 7d3f1f5dbd6b7bd6448c847e9173f468 TheBrainOfMoffat replied to the topic Hell Bent in the forum The Twelfth Doctor http://www.thedoctorwhoforum.com/forums/topic/hell-bent/page/13/#post-49450 Wed, 16 Dec 2015 00:10:53 +0000 @soundworld

I don’t get that there is a problem with the ‘immortal’ Clara.  She has to go back and face the Raven someday – and potentially has, what, 4.5 billion years to get to Gallifrey the long way round in order to be returned to face her death.  Not a bad innings!   Unless she gets tired of it before then.  I agree that she could in pri…

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]]> fc52262ac132f308d53695880cce008f TheBrainOfMoffat replied to the topic Hell Bent in the forum The Twelfth Doctor http://www.thedoctorwhoforum.com/forums/topic/hell-bent/page/13/#post-49434 Tue, 15 Dec 2015 01:12:49 +0000 @puroandson

No I don’t think anyone has said this and it’s a great idea. So she doesn’t ever have to face the raven? Awesome idea!

She’d still have to face the raven, but she’s clever enough to pull an Impossible Astronaut-type death stunt: rig the game so that you only appear to die. As Me said in Face the Raven, you can’t cheat death by the q…[Read more]

]]> 5f05b573014a5b3fd8adec8896daea02 TheBrainOfMoffat replied to the topic Hell Bent in the forum The Twelfth Doctor http://www.thedoctorwhoforum.com/forums/topic/hell-bent/page/13/#post-49423 Mon, 14 Dec 2015 15:46:42 +0000 I haven’t read anything since the page my last post was on, so I may repeat someone else’s novel ideas unknowingly. Anyway, I’ve thought of some things that make the plot better for me, as far as making sense of Me’s and Clara’s longevity.

The chip that the Doctor implanted in Me was originally installed in the armor of a Mire warrior, not in the…[Read more]

]]> 3e8a042655cd02d94ec0be7429152128 TheBrainOfMoffat replied to the topic Hell Bent in the forum The Twelfth Doctor http://www.thedoctorwhoforum.com/forums/topic/hell-bent/page/5/#post-48983 Mon, 07 Dec 2015 15:41:10 +0000 So, I still need to get through this page’s posts, but two ideas crossed my mind, and they constitute a reasonable joint resolution to the Clara-still-needs-to-die-but-has-no-reason-to problem. First, presumably, the extraction program won’t remain active forever in local Gallifreyan time (do you really think it’s still going when Me and the…[Read more]

]]> 3d0744336939575fe09c3245171de696 TheBrainOfMoffat replied to the topic Hell Bent in the forum The Twelfth Doctor http://www.thedoctorwhoforum.com/forums/topic/hell-bent/page/3/#post-48823 Sun, 06 Dec 2015 15:43:50 +0000 Hm. Mixed bag. I prefer Moffat over Davies, but his finales are never very airtight — they’re huge in scope and impact (which is the part I enjoy), but there are always plot threads that they either don’t tie up or don’t tie up satisfactorily, or there are logical… issues. As an example of the latter: I’m perfectly ok with Clara “surviving” and…[Read more]

]]> dee4fc07525a06759c182caf2e1a11e4 TheBrainOfMoffat replied to the topic Heaven Sent in the forum The Twelfth Doctor http://www.thedoctorwhoforum.com/forums/topic/heaven-sent/page/3/#post-48207 Sun, 29 Nov 2015 14:56:08 +0000 @nerys In The Day of the Doctor, the Time Lords should have seen 13 TARDIS’s seal them in the pocket universe. To my mind, Doctor 12’s participation in said event was necessary in order to convine the TL’s to give him another cycle of regenerations in the very next episode, since Doctor 10 “wasted” an entire regeneration on his own face. If 12…[Read more]

]]> 32297589e0a4f87dd4364cb520b92423 TheBrainOfMoffat replied to the topic BBC Approved Spoilers in the forum General http://www.thedoctorwhoforum.com/forums/topic/bbc-spoilers/page/5/#post-48205 Sun, 29 Nov 2015 14:44:55 +0000 From the Next Time segment, the line “she’s my friend” (or however it went) could be referring to Clara or to Missy. And since we can never predict Moffat’s moves, the regeneration could be that of Clara, Ashildr, Missy, or the Doctor.

How is the Doctor a hybrid? Or if he didn’t mean “me”, but rather “Me” (which I suspect more), then how is…[Read more]

]]> 7745a56668f7fee4bce0ce9b49a1024c TheBrainOfMoffat replied to the topic Heaven Sent in the forum The Twelfth Doctor http://www.thedoctorwhoforum.com/forums/topic/heaven-sent/page/3/#post-48202 Sun, 29 Nov 2015 14:39:29 +0000 Oh, yes, now I remember more of what I was going to say. Something else that needs to be explained is the presence of the messages about “12”. How would the TL’s, Missy, or anyone but Clara, really, know about that number’s relation to the Doctor?

]]> 77cbe11952d1cbf71884fe4fc0d659c6 TheBrainOfMoffat replied to the topic Heaven Sent in the forum The Twelfth Doctor http://www.thedoctorwhoforum.com/forums/topic/heaven-sent/page/3/#post-48201 Sun, 29 Nov 2015 14:25:14 +0000 Excellent episode and probably the best this season. Possibly the best of these two seasons, competing with Listen if nothing else.

There are some dangling threads that need explained, though. If this castle scenario was created by the Time Lords, whence the mangifier and the picture of Clara? And the grave? Surely the TL’s couldn’t know about…[Read more]

]]> 2a1c5d6b9f0bb00a55fc0cf2e97a200a TheBrainOfMoffat replied to the topic Face The Raven in the forum The Twelfth Doctor http://www.thedoctorwhoforum.com/forums/topic/face-the-raven/page/5/#post-47709 Tue, 24 Nov 2015 13:38:05 +0000 @jphamlore Hm, I thought the Ood we saw with the Cyberman was a “man” doing some repairs or modifications to him. No idea what the wife was.

@ichabod In the Series 2 episode in which Ten and Rose went to Pete’s world, as well as in Death in Heaven, we saw a Cyberman’s emotional inhibitor thing deactivated, revealing what was left of the original…[Read more]

]]> 1018b85fc4bef94a877a75d1bdb74da7 TheBrainOfMoffat replied to the topic Sleep No More in the forum The Twelfth Doctor http://www.thedoctorwhoforum.com/forums/topic/sleep-no-more/#post-46988 Sun, 15 Nov 2015 13:11:03 +0000 As far as the color sand-footage of Clara unlocking the TARDIS is concerned, I think some of the footage that the Doctor reviewed when the sand-as-camera revelation was made was also in color. I noticed it then and thought it odd. Not sure what to make of it.

When the Doctor said something about the situation being like a story, I immediately…[Read more]

]]> 95f694dd54a5379c4c2175fc8de51c34 TheBrainOfMoffat replied to the topic The Girl Who Died in the forum The Twelfth Doctor http://www.thedoctorwhoforum.com/forums/topic/the-girl-who-died/page/2/#post-45030 Sun, 18 Oct 2015 14:48:03 +0000 Good episode. Not my favorite genre, but the comedic aspects were welcome, just as in Robot of Sherwood. Like someone else here said, I think it was concealing some very important things. Also, even though I’ve now seen plenty of British TV, the accents still trick me sometimes. I thought “the Maya/Maia” were attacking the viking village, and that…[Read more]

]]> 704c347477dc6e3f14cdb81f340bc535 TheBrainOfMoffat replied to the topic Before The Flood in the forum The Twelfth Doctor http://www.thedoctorwhoforum.com/forums/topic/before-the-flood/page/4/#post-44646 Tue, 13 Oct 2015 01:43:34 +0000 @sarah-jane109
<span class=”useratname”>@bluesqueakpip</span>

I only saw two posts from sarah-jane109. Are there more? I’d like to give him/her the benefit of the doubt on not being a troll, because at least one of the allegations in his/her first post seems true from my own experience, and his/her final post doesn’t strike me as something a…[Read more]

]]> 002d42d7c8a76132b770b78d40b49044 TheBrainOfMoffat replied to the topic Before The Flood in the forum The Twelfth Doctor http://www.thedoctorwhoforum.com/forums/topic/before-the-flood/#post-44488 Sun, 11 Oct 2015 14:07:48 +0000 Under the Lake was great, and the suspense ramped up enough at the end to make me really anticipate the conclusion. It’s exactly for that reason — the suspense — that I enjoyed it more than Before the Flood, however. That said, this episode wasn’t bad at all, and its positives were different from its predecessor’s. Moffat-era Who just wouldn’t…[Read more]

]]> 17822a53a777363d7593256434e4324e TheBrainOfMoffat replied to the topic Dark Water in the forum The Twelfth Doctor http://www.thedoctorwhoforum.com/forums/topic/dark-water/page/8/#post-34906 Fri, 07 Nov 2014 05:23:57 +0000 Ok, after seeing that screencap of the hand in Day of the Doctor, I definitely think it’s Clara’s, and she’s actually turned toward the camera — a fact concealed by whatever she’s grabbing. I’m still wondering how it makes sense for 12 to turn up in that episode, though, and what he might be there for if his presence isn’t necessary to “pocket”…[Read more]

]]> 45a36a54c21da10f8270f29852c35a01 TheBrainOfMoffat replied to the topic Dark Water in the forum The Twelfth Doctor http://www.thedoctorwhoforum.com/forums/topic/dark-water/page/7/#post-34810 Wed, 05 Nov 2014 21:04:12 +0000 @geoffers

i just went back to investigate, and the hand on the picture frame is clara’s. as awkward as the angle is, it’s her right hand, and she’s pulling herself around the edge of the picture, as if she had been hiding just to the inside of it (to avoid the exploding dalek, i assume).

That’s unfortunate. I was hoping it was Missy, becau…[Read more]

]]> fd35cd982b4b9998f3672fc868a9bc18 TheBrainOfMoffat replied to the topic Dark Water in the forum The Twelfth Doctor http://www.thedoctorwhoforum.com/forums/topic/dark-water/page/5/#post-34732 Tue, 04 Nov 2014 14:42:02 +0000 Someone earlier got me to thinking about the hand in Day of the Doctor: when the Doctors emerge from the painting, Clara follows them out, but we first see a hand that, if I remember correctly, seems to be the hand of the opposite side. Who would reach across themselves to grab onto something like that? It always looked weird to me, because it…[Read more]

]]> 93d5dc4a201077ffcb4140ebfade7255 TheBrainOfMoffat replied to the topic In the Forest of the Night in the forum The Twelfth Doctor http://www.thedoctorwhoforum.com/forums/topic/in-the-forest-of-the-night/page/2/#post-34165 Sun, 26 Oct 2014 21:03:23 +0000 @arbutus I had actually been thinking of the two episodes with Craig while I was writing that post! I really did like them, although I must admit that the second could have been better (it was a “the power of love” episode).

I like either approach. But see, I only started watching DW as it came out with The Snowmen. Before that, I had breezed…[Read more]

]]> 80f4ac655d89145186d254714504aa2c TheBrainOfMoffat replied to the topic In the Forest of the Night in the forum The Twelfth Doctor http://www.thedoctorwhoforum.com/forums/topic/in-the-forest-of-the-night/page/2/#post-34157 Sun, 26 Oct 2014 17:21:59 +0000 I was also very taken aback when I saw the huge negative response to this episode, especially considering that Kill the Moon seemed to have been praised about as much as this one is being scorned (moreso, actually). As some others upthread have elaborated upon, I also felt that the bad science in this episode was excusable, unlike in Kill the…[Read more]

]]> de80294f827147f041f094bf6b89c41b TheBrainOfMoffat replied to the topic Mummy on the Orient Express in the forum The Twelfth Doctor http://www.thedoctorwhoforum.com/forums/topic/mummy-on-the-orient-express/page/2/#post-33438 Sun, 12 Oct 2014 14:35:44 +0000 Before I read anyone else’s posts on this thread, I just have to say that, whereas I had extreme disappointment for the last episode, this one was awesome! Looking forward to the next (and the “wall people” remind me of The Legend of Zelda: A Link Between Worlds, where you can merge with walls and move along them before emerging).

]]> f00a86984e4d241b3649e1894b93b53a TheBrainOfMoffat replied to the topic Kill the Moon in the forum The Twelfth Doctor http://www.thedoctorwhoforum.com/forums/topic/kill-the-moon/page/3/#post-33126 Mon, 06 Oct 2014 07:22:20 +0000 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]

]]> 9d5e71121d766e3d7e3e21ea1c6668d6 TheBrainOfMoffat replied to the topic Kill the Moon in the forum The Twelfth Doctor http://www.thedoctorwhoforum.com/forums/topic/kill-the-moon/page/3/#post-33101 Mon, 06 Oct 2014 00:01:09 +0000 By the way, now we have spiders everywhere! Earth formed around a Racnoss ship, and the Moon’s bacteria are “spiders”.

]]> 6fd40684dddfda2980c1d2afdca5a87f TheBrainOfMoffat replied to the topic Kill the Moon in the forum The Twelfth Doctor http://www.thedoctorwhoforum.com/forums/topic/kill-the-moon/page/3/#post-33096 Sun, 05 Oct 2014 23:48:25 +0000 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]

]]> 7e49adb1e54c271f7033805dd874919e TheBrainOfMoffat replied to the topic Kill the Moon in the forum The Twelfth Doctor http://www.thedoctorwhoforum.com/forums/topic/kill-the-moon/page/3/#post-33090 Sun, 05 Oct 2014 23:13:25 +0000 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]

]]> 04b7157866c0573da0a0366fceb7726f TheBrainOfMoffat replied to the topic Kill the Moon in the forum The Twelfth Doctor http://www.thedoctorwhoforum.com/forums/topic/kill-the-moon/page/3/#post-33086 Sun, 05 Oct 2014 22:47:28 +0000 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]

]]> ecdd4e5955a34db906951d052bb399ed TheBrainOfMoffat replied to the topic Kill the Moon in the forum The Twelfth Doctor http://www.thedoctorwhoforum.com/forums/topic/kill-the-moon/page/3/#post-33082 Sun, 05 Oct 2014 22:31:31 +0000 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]

]]> a31fb35a98b311a2b4d5c6976c2faadf TheBrainOfMoffat replied to the topic The Caretaker in the forum The Twelfth Doctor http://www.thedoctorwhoforum.com/forums/topic/the-caretaker/page/2/#post-32620 Sun, 28 Sep 2014 12:35:22 +0000 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]

]]> 765ee6383e5620d5ef8da25a22663e52 TheBrainOfMoffat replied to the topic Time Heist in the forum The Twelfth Doctor http://www.thedoctorwhoforum.com/forums/topic/time-heist/page/2/#post-32348 Mon, 22 Sep 2014 05:12:51 +0000 Speaking of music, did anyone else notice 11’s theme in the preview to next Saturday’s episode? It really surprised me (and pleasantly).

]]> 7a1583724d35a5427cf1abc131d4d8e2 TheBrainOfMoffat replied to the topic Listen in the forum The Twelfth Doctor http://www.thedoctorwhoforum.com/forums/topic/listen/page/7/#post-31963 Wed, 17 Sep 2014 09:44:55 +0000 Probably The Empty Child, when the boy causes the typewriter in his mother’s/other children’s hiding place to operate.

]]> edda25d367a0c8a59e91e02957f18cf3 TheBrainOfMoffat replied to the topic On The Sofa (5) in the forum General http://www.thedoctorwhoforum.com/forums/topic/on-the-sofa-5/page/12/#post-31946 Wed, 17 Sep 2014 00:40:24 +0000 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.

]]> 94e908a2cc79c7ee8d4c79b129ff6fba TheBrainOfMoffat replied to the topic Listen in the forum The Twelfth Doctor http://www.thedoctorwhoforum.com/forums/topic/listen/page/6/#post-31944 Wed, 17 Sep 2014 00:30:12 +0000 @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]

]]> 584121c3f4a688171a7233f4d77f0156 TheBrainOfMoffat replied to the topic On The Sofa (5) in the forum General http://www.thedoctorwhoforum.com/forums/topic/on-the-sofa-5/page/12/#post-31942 Wed, 17 Sep 2014 00:21:26 +0000 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]

]]> f2d1b6e2328774d480e50f44a0bcaf15 TheBrainOfMoffat replied to the topic Listen in the forum The Twelfth Doctor http://www.thedoctorwhoforum.com/forums/topic/listen/page/6/#post-31936 Tue, 16 Sep 2014 23:39:17 +0000 @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]

]]> df7d75e9afff4642197d184c1fe1d34d TheBrainOfMoffat replied to the topic Listen in the forum The Twelfth Doctor http://www.thedoctorwhoforum.com/forums/topic/listen/page/5/#post-31853 Tue, 16 Sep 2014 03:48:57 +0000 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]

]]> 215d30b4c4b84fa81f76631dac42491d TheBrainOfMoffat replied to the topic Listen in the forum The Twelfth Doctor http://www.thedoctorwhoforum.com/forums/topic/listen/page/4/#post-31753 Mon, 15 Sep 2014 05:54:34 +0000 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]

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