Whew so much to catch up on. The “night” shift have been hard at work. (It is after all, a question of perspective.)

I am wavering towards Missy being an entirely new character partly from a writing perspective. I think post 50th Moffat wants to refresh the show and so is unlikely to rest the story arc upon the resurgence of an overworked villian…[Read more]

Another quick post while I should be working lol.

@thommck

I’m pretty sure Ten gave the fob watch to Tim at the end of Family of Blood

@JimTheFish

I really agree with your examples of how the Doctor interacts with the lives of the people around him. I have the Who and Philosphy book and there are chapters on his different views of morality. H…[Read more]

@ScaryB – ah, thank you for the link. i agree with that assessment. i also believe that the trenzalore affair is now a “closed timeloop” sort of situation, in the same way that most of the events in ‘journey to the centre of the tardis’ happened, then were un-happened (i feel so sorry for any non-native english speakers who might be trying to…[Read more]

@geoffers Re my previous post about Clara  no longer having the ability to save him – this incarnation is beyond her experience  – this one here

@Arbutus – you’re re right it happens with children too (I just picked on the old age example and @geoffers picked up on the passage of time re friends). Much as you love and get excited by the young a…[Read more]

@Whisht    Missy is the SS Madame de Pompadour.   Score! This is brilliant.

@wolfweed    It started with a phone call. It ended with a phone call…   That is rather lovely.

I read your links regarding “the kiss” with interesting, particularly some of the embedded tweets. This one gave me a good laugh (not that it reflects my view of the episode…[Read more]

@thommck
In mythology, Melissa seems to relate to Diana/Artemis (Queen of the Hunt), whilst Melitta relates to ‘Hive’.

@thommck I like your idea of Missy as Claras mother. So far we know little about her family apart from the leaf and that her mum died (if I’m wrong, feel free to correct). But she is a very important character to Clara herself, she keeps babbling on about things her mother said. so it be fun to see Claras past become more clear/important

Was…[Read more]

After a busy weekend I’m a bit late to the party. I’m going to be away next weekend as well – terrible timing. Have tried to read all the comments and love all the theories so far. Great to see so many old avatars back on the Forum as well. 🙂

I was one of those who got the script for this early, and watched the version without the effects, and…[Read more]

@Thommck

One other thing I’d like to talk about was how beautiful all of the cinematography was.

For the budget, I always find a lot of Doctor Who pulls miracles out of the box. For this, I loved the Clara perspective holding breath sequences, with the spectrum on the camera changing colour as she tried to escape. What a great s…[Read more]

@Thommck, @Whisht and @Pedant – just to point out that I can hold my breath that long – I started to struggle at pretty much the same point she was seen struggling.

Speech training, singing training or she played a wind instrument. 😉

@Whisht @thommck I tried holding my breath along with Clara and couldn’t remotely keep up with her. She must have lungs the size of a tank!

The “waiter” explicitly complemented Clara on her lungs.

Okay, the mother-in-law is off to the botanical garden, so I have a little time to read and enjoy all your comments! Here are some back. I have been jotting down thoughts as I read yours, so I may end up repeating things that others have said, but oh well.

@Miapatrick    quibble: if thought eleven though he wouldn’t regenerate. I know the doct…[Read more]

@Thommck

I have always been a fan of Clara but (seemingly in contrast to other people) in this episode she confused me. Surely she should be the most comfortable with the Doctor changing faces, she has seen into his soul and watched through his whole lifespan, why was she so unable to accept his new superficial look? She seemed like a different…

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ooh @Timeloop – apologies you misunderstood me (that’ll be my convoluted writing!).

I absolutely think there can (and probably will) be a female Doctor – I’m assuming that the show-runner is waiting for the right actress to come along and ‘be’ the Doctor in the audition.
Basically (I think the term is ‘blind’ auditions) they should hire whoever…[Read more]

Thanks for that @thommck – I’ve now just wasted 2 hours on Buzzfeed!!

grrrrr buzzfeed with its amusing posts and uplifting-making-me-moist-eyed entries.

🙂

@thommck – I don’t usually say this but NO!

I even watched 0:25 seconds just to reacquaint myself and…. it hasn’t changed.

NO NO NO – thrice I say NO!

[god how do i get that choon out of me head????!!?]

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Weird and Wonderful

@Thommck –

SPOILERS for Sherlock The Sign of Three

-it did remind me rather of Dorothy L. Sayers description of her own ‘Busman’s Honeymoon’. From memory, she said that normally people expect a detective story with love-story interruptions. This time she’d found herself writing a love-story with detective interruptions. 😉

I think the bit…[Read more]