@PhaseShift   I noticed that revisiting of old eras but hadn’t thought of it in relation to the 10th anniversary. It’s nice to think we might see a bit more of that, I like little things that help us hang the whole of Who together into one world.
Especially the human infatuation with sex, which may as well be some sort of slap in the face to a c…[Read more]

@timeloop

Although I kind of see what you are getting at, I disagree. Clara is NOT happy whatsoever with having to deal with Missy – but she has to go with it, for now, if she wants to get what shes wants – that is, finding the Doctor.

I think we need to to remember that just a few episodes ago for us is not the same timescale for the…[Read more]

Before the events of this episode the Doctor didn’t know why Davros was the way he is. The fact that he now thinks he is responsible – whoah! that’s really dark.

@Bluesqueakpip deserting young Davros isn’t just cruel, it’s also cowardly.  He abandons him to a presumed certain death (by hand mine) to avoid taking responsibility. Which, it would…[Read more]

Thanks to @Blenkinsopthebrave, beautiful toast. (#36737)

To new friends, old ones, lost ones and those who are just temporarily AWOL

Special thanks to our mighty Emperor @Craig and the mods @JimtheFish, @FatmaninaBox and @Phaseshift (I’m with you on 2014, it started off OK but I’m not sorry to see the back of it! (Loved your snow pic from last…[Read more]

@Timeloop I like flashbacks as a device cause they can help interpret parts of a story or they
can manipulate how your thinking or get into motive or throw you a fun twist. As this is a
time travel show using flashbacks or even flash forwards seems very appropriate to me
Yes we could also have the extra treat of revisiting other Doctors too…[Read more]

@Timeloop It’s certainly not only British, so agree there.  It’s also very German as well, amongst others.  Yet it is a British show and we’ve seen an emphasis on that aspect of British nature in the past.

I’ve seen several people here and elsewhere speak of the missing joy.  I understand that, but that is purposeful.  So often in past adv…[Read more]

@herisson I don’t really look at Amy’s departure as a sad note.  It was sad for the Doctor, yet Amy and Rory lived a wonderful life together.  They adopted a child, grew old together, and remembered their adventures.  Clara’s departure is not known yet.  Clearly Santa is not going to leave it at that.

@Timeloop 12 doesn’t seem to have the emp…[Read more]

Kudos to everyone who called it re the Master (adds a big bowl of jelly babies to @Timeloop‘s cookies).  And also to Blenkinsopthebrave (not tagging cos of time diffs) – there’s a lot of nods to A Matter of Life and Death, re the appeal for Danny to get a new life… assuming it is Danny of course. Wonder if this is where Orson comes into it – if…[Read more]

@Timeloop

Kudos to the people who solved the Mistress/Master puzzle. *Hands out cookies*

Well, my ‘Danny is an abusive boyfriend/a fiendish plan to trap Clara’ theory looks like it’s up the creek, so it’s running 50/50 at the moment. 🙂 Mind you, I had a ‘Clara is the Doctor’ theory for Series 7b which turned out to be metaphorically true in…[Read more]

@purofilion

My antennae pricked up when you mentioned Brecht 🙂

Casting my mind back bit, I think Brecht opposed a naturalistic “copying of reality” in favour of a very weird, unnatural sort of expressionism. He didn’t want to lull his audience into suspended disbelief. He wanted them to remain alert to the fact that the play was a fiction.…[Read more]

@Timeloop     I had missed your tribute posting, I have just watched it and am now tearful and smiling! Thanks!

@Timeloop – That 11 tribute is so wonderful!  All the feels!

@Whisht

Good to see you back.

re Clara’s age – I was wondering that. She’s been mentioned this series as being 27, which is, I think, several years older than she was when we first met her (in Bells… rather than as a Claricle). Has she been travelling with this Doctor for that long? Their relationship maybe suggests that she has. Danny…[Read more]

@Timeloop @IAmNotAFishIAmAFreeMan   I believe the post-hug arm-rub is simply because this Doctor apparently doesn’t ‘do’ hugs.

Anyone else notice the Doctor give Psi a ‘call-me’ gesture just as Psi leaves the Tardis at the end? Despite the fact that Psi already offered his services robbing any more banks? What else could they have to talk about t…[Read more]

@bluesqueakpip @timeloop
Re: whether the choice of the name “Gretchen” implies ambiguity about where she goes when she (apparently) dies…

It feels a bit of a stretch to assume that Moffat knows and cares about the contrasting fates of Gretchen in Goethe’s earlier and later versions of Faust.

However, it’s not too much of a stretch to think…[Read more]

@spider when you wrote “who knows” I saw Tom Baker speaking to Matt Smith: “Who knows, eh? (taps nose) WHO knows.” What an incredible scene that was. (Also “The Trousers of Iron”? This simply has to happen)

@arbutus I know, the Mr Men reviews are brilliant aren’t they? If I’d written them, that would be my entire life’s work done… Also, is it…[Read more]

@Timeloop – Thanks, Clara’s decision makes a little more sense now. I wonder if she didn’t realise the significance of her having been on Gallifrey though – or maybe her assumption is that it can’t be Gallifrey (cos it is in the pocket universe), therefore it definitely isn’t – much like how Serahni has pointed out it needn’t actually be…[Read more]

@Serahni

I am Sorry I broke your brain x.x

But, I pick Clara’s ”quote” eventough we heard the Doctor say it first because it’s more important that Clara said it to him than him saying it to Rupert. You know what I mean? Clara changed the Doctor in a way we’re not sure yet.  Because, timey-wimey, u know, she didn’t changed him, she made him…[Read more]

Devo Max is a complete distraction (although I favour it for the English regions as well – I am a long-standing federalist).

The success, or otherwise, of a country is in its finances. Salmond and others have said, perfectly correctly, that Scotland can use the pound. It could use the Israeli Shilling if it wanted to. But without control of your…[Read more]

@Timeloop What she is suggesting is a free National Health Service for all (a cherished part of our lives) is under threat, as it is in the rest of the UK. Do you need numbers and statistics to convince you, or the word of a leading cancer surgeon who lives it every day? I could collate that sort of stuff if you want.

@Pedant The BBC has been pro…[Read more]