@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]

I have in no way caught up with all these posts – got too much going on! -, but have rewatched Heaven Sent and Hell Bent – the latter on my tv instead of my tablet, yay!

Further things that have sprung to mind in the meantime/more thoughts I’ve had…

I like the way last year had Clara betraying the Doctor over Danny’s death while this year had…[Read more]

@soundworld @thebrainofmoffat @bluesqueakpip @puroandson

It occurs to me that it is not at all clear that Clara can leave the Diner!Tardis with get the “dum” bit of her last “ba dum” (and one could reasonably infer, from The Doctor making her stay inside at the end of the universe, that she can’t).

That could cramp her style a little.

@TheBrainofMoffat

A deus ex machina.

Sends lightning bolt in your direction.

No, it’s not a deus ex machina. Clara being ever so slightly dead may be a seemingly unsolvable problem, but one and a half episodes is not a sudden and abrupt resolution. The Doctor may be concealing the resolution from the Time Lords, and therefore from the audience,…[Read more]

@thebrainofmoffat No offense taken! No worries.  I sincerely hope you make sense of all those other goings on.

@puroandson (son) Thank you for your words, I’m most happy to be equitable in outlook.  I aim to never put people down, and my nature is to always seek the best in whats happened – even if its ‘only’  a chance to grow and develop.  You’re developing great insight and a good way with words and I’m glad you (the hybrid) are on these bo…[Read more]

@thebrainofmoffat or 4th possibility, Clara’s Tardis takes her back to Gallifray at a time it decides is appropriate for her to face the Raven.

@TheBrainOfMoffat

And then there’s Gallifrey, which is, somehow, back in our universe. Frozen in time, but then not, by the machinations of the people frozen in time?!

The subject of how it returned was raised, but skated over by the Doctor. I would have to check his actual words, but I got the impression that though the Time Lords thought that th…[Read more]

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Well, that reading took awhile!  🙂  So much to comment on and think about. First of all, some wonderfully eloquent writing about the heights and depths to which we were taken with this episode. Succinctly summed up by @PhaseShift:   I wish more TV could dare to be this different.   Yes, indeed. And yes, not only arc-heavy but mytho…[Read more]

@thebrainofmoffat

You may be right – it was from memory, but I thought the idea was interesting.

@jphamlore @thebrainofmoffat

When Me says “Do you think a Cyberman fears a merciful death?” I think she may have picked just one of the species in her street to use as an example. I think we are not meant to know the actual species of the executed(?) man and his wife, and instead simply empathise with them and their situation. It is the same…[Read more]

Great points and thoughts here as always. Some replies.

@Juniperfish    Yes, it did seem as though the Doctor might have known or guessed what would happen to Ashildr, and I was waiting for Clara to call him out on it. As far as Clara wondering why he wouldn’t give her the chip (especially in light of their earlier conversation), he clearly does…[Read more]

@TheBrainofMoffat

I’d be interested to know your ideas – if you want to take a quick look, I’ve done a couple of blogs on the topic myself and so has @Nick.

The first blog (by me) is appropriately called ‘Wibbley Wobbly, Timey Wimey’.

The next one discussed Day of the Doctor – I gave my view first, and then Nick gave his view.

The idea I came…[Read more]

@TheBrainOfMoffat– I do also think they were a troll, or at least, someone looking for a place to moan and criticise. But they spent more time huffing about having apparently (before their own post) discovering their opinions were unwanted then they did expressing their opinions. This site was started as a reaction to the depressingly negative…[Read more]

@purofilion  @TheBrainOfMoffat      Here’s the thing. When someone new joins the Forum, they most often start out by saying something like, “Hi, new poster here. Looking forward to lots of cool DW discussion!” Sometimes they show up on the Sofa to tell us a little about themselves. They almost always mention how long they’ve been a fan. What they…[Read more]

@mudlark

Yes, you’re right  (re “on” rather than “in”) the tomb.

That doesn’t disrupt the narrative parallel though – the Doctor is positioned in the place of the Fisher King.

There is no reason for calling the warrior-beastie “The Fisher King” other than the (Arthurian) resonances it has a mirror/ parallel for the Doctor.

@thebrainofmoffat…[Read more]

And whilst I’m online for a bit, my two-penneth worth on the phone call at the start is that there’s nothing timey-wimey going on. I interpreted the post-it notes as Clara organising her thoughts before speaking to Danny and nothing more.  Three months (as @thebrainofmoffat suggested) would refer to the time she’s been travelling se…[Read more]

@geoffers or, the most probable thing: the tardis took clara and the doctor back in time a bit, to the mausoleum, at the very instant that danny woke up in the nethersphere…

That would seem to be the sensible theory to go with in a show about time travel, but the Doctor’s words to Clara when instructing her to use the telepathic circuits were…[Read more]

@badwulf @TheBrainOfMoffat –

If there has been enough time for a memorial to be built, why is Danny only just now being inducted into the nethersphere?

I was also wondering that…. I figure it’s just a true plot hole, and will never be referred to or resolved.

danny’s consciousness has been lifted from his brain at the instant of death, and tra…[Read more]