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]

@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]

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]

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]

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

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]

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]

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]

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]

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]

@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]

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]

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]

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

Thanks for starting this conversation

Why can’t people be allowed a free choice without scare stories and intimidation that keep all the vested interested happy?

Vested interests – you’ve answered it yourself. eg majority of the current cabinet have direct links to private health care providers and pharmaceutical companies – and are m…[Read more]

But more significantly this is the second time (at least) that Clara has very specifically stated that she does not want to know when she dies (and to a Sontaran 12 years is a good innings).’

So e…[Read more]

We already have a couple of mentions of Missy’s title on the forums, and they’ve remained because when Michelle Gomez was cast the BBC made the unusual decision to include it in the press release. So it’s allowed under Forum rules (Official BBC sources don’t count as spoilers).

It’s possibly worth…[Read more]

@Whisht @Timeloop re: the…[Read more]

If Clara does have children with Danny then his childhood becomes party of her history, or if she is related to the Doctor then Danny could be her descendant! Ooh-er missus!

There was definitely a non-human under the blanket as it…[Read more]

So glad I see that others can only saywhat I was about to say which was

wow.

I’ll need to rewatch this but wow.

And no idea if jenna is loved or loathed (or both) by people but she was amazing (imho).

but will rewatch and offer something better than wow!

I think an @all would be a bad idea I’m afraid. Although it would make things easy I think it would leave us all open to abuse. And I think if you post a question, you can be confident the regulars will read it even if you haven’t @’d them. I’ve often posted saying “This is for @ everyone…” and many have responded.

About 1500…[Read more]

On first hearing it I was (shamefully) thinking it was simply a kinda mirroring in the script:
ie The Doctor is embarrassed with his former regeneration’s desire to be liked so much he wanted to be Clara’s boyfriend, so is sarcastic towards himself “… your ‘boyfriend’ “. Clara is also…[Read more]

I am highly, highly speculating here but does it work that those that the doctor physically kills, as opposed to may be dying to protect him end up with Missy. She is in some way his appeaser of his guilt complex?

Coming back to your eureka moment, I think you are right it is too much of a coincidence. But I don’t know that it…[Read more]

1st Point. When Clara leaves the Tardis, they don’t acknowledge each other, which is what I would expect old friends to do. There is no “Good to see you again” or “How are things?”, etc. Even with a regenerating Doctor I would expect, “I see you have been having a few problems, Clara”.

2nd point. I said it was…[Read more]

@Arbutus – ah, James ‘Sit Down’.
Brings to mind a story I can’t tell in detail, but which leaves a rueful grin!
The Hacienda club in Manchester 1990(?). Me and a girl on the dancefloor. Everyone hearing this song and doing the dance which involved sitting down.

except me and said girl.

[ahem]

;¬)

I…[Read more]

Missy reappearing definitely creeped me out! More on her later. (But don’t expect me to be very serious.)

Question: When did they get cleaned up after the protein bath?!  The climbed in the “bolt” hole, and one commercial break later they were nice and dry.
Danny Pink: is there some sin…[Read more]

And that is fascinating stuff about Gretchenfrage. I really loved the…[Read more]

I think The Moment is a kind of ‘TARDIS of mass destruction’. We know it was of Gallifreyan origin (‘the final act of the ancients of Gallifrey’), and, like the TARDIS, it is a kind of object that has gained its own…[Read more]

<span style=”color: #000000;”>Dream Lord – who is this?</span>

Some have said the ‘River Song’ story finished, what happened to her in the end? In Silence in the library she said of 10 I’ve never seen you this young, then we got 11 so she couldn’t have meant him…[Read more]

I’m slightly bemused by all the comments here and elsewhere about the Doc’s Scottish accent. It’s like Sylvester’s Doc never happened.

Depressing isn’t it? It’s as if we can only accept a Scottish actor if they have a faux estuary English accent. I blame the English. Or perhaps, more accurately, trollism.

@Timeloop

I was harsh,…[Read more]

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

The 21st Century may be Clara’s home, but the Doctor’s current ‘home’ time zone is Victorian England and the Paternoster Gang. Like the poem by Robert Frost, it’s his: ‘Home is the place where, when you have to go there, / They have to take you…[Read more]

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]

@Timeloop – yes, the balloon is made of skin (yuk!)

Got the Two-Stream facility post from @MiraShareif on twitter (probably just a re-used location).

Clara wonders who Amy is when the Dr mentions her, grumbling about the sonic rolling on the floor.

‘Skin’ is a good bit because it’s not what you expect to power a spaceship…

Jenny and Strax at the screening…

Oooo! Heaven looks a bit…[Read more]

It looked unbelievable on the big screen.

Expect a cinema prequel to be uploaded sometime soon. Very funny.

As for the actual episode…

Biggest laugh there was Clara getting walloped by the newspaper.

Nice to see Brian Miller as the tramp. The scene…[Read more]

Just a flying-in visit to wish everyone a  Happy Who Day

@JimtheFish @Bluesqueakpip Thanks for missing me! And yes, been doing that cultural overdose thing in…[Read more]

In the best tradition of ‘What I did on my holidays’, I’ve added some pictures and details of Days Three, Four and Five. @Wolfweed – some of the pictures may be candidates for Crazy Captions. 😉 Feel free.