A little love for Puro everyone, she is back in the hospital and needs our warm thoughts.  Remember, she was in pain when she wrote that post.  Puro loves the show and this Forum and I’m sure it’s eating at her to be part of any disruption or hurt here.  I think she is just taking a break here because of her illness and stress.  I’m sure she wil…[Read more]

@Whisht

Well I think we should visit all the major arcana if tarot theory is go.

So far, and others may map these differently:

0= The Fool – the Doctor

1 = The Magician – also the Doctor

2 = The High Priestess – Missy

3 = The Empress – Ashildr

4 = The Emperor – Davros

5 = The Hierophant – The Fisher King

6 = The Lovers = TBD

7 = The…[Read more]

@whisht @starla

Hmmm, yes, those lamps. They were very carefully highlighted (no pun intended) and explained, weren’t they…

Now, it could be that this is a key plot point regarding Clara’s death. Maybe she didn’t actually die as we think we saw her do. Maybe she is merely in stasis, or has regenerated (having been imbued with a bit of CapDoc’s…[Read more]

@whisht “…that the lamps make you see what you think you ought to see.”

Can the lamps make one see a death that they believe they ought to be seeing? I.e. The Doctor expects to see Clara die, therefore he sees her die… she’s facing away from him, he doesn’t see the light as the raven enters her body… okay, it’s late and I’m probably making…[Read more]

@bluesqueakpip  if Sarah Dollard has seriously written a script that says ‘Don’t try to be the Doctor, girls, you’ll only get yourself hurt. Your job is to be the companion,’ then she ought to be ashamed.

Dollard has nothing to be ashamed of.  The message you see here would be, IMO, better stated this way: “Don’t try to be a powerful, quasi-imm…[Read more]

@Whisht I think you’ve hit the nail on the head by saying Clara was once again The Hanged Man. I also have an idea as to what will be gained as a result of her sacrifice. I’ll post my theory over on the spoilers thread though because it involves the last two episodes.

I think the eye booger monster (thanks @drben) objections passed me by, because once you have got past the Adipose (your fat just walks away!) and the total conversion of bodily material to fat in the shape of small cute alien blobs, you are in a mindspace to accept anything! 🙂

I do think they missed a trick here though. If it turns out this is…[Read more]

@whisht

And a very fine theory it was, too. Truth be told, I just wanted to upload that clip of Troughton.

p.s. I wonder if the correct verb for what we do should be “bonkerising”. It is just that “bonking” does leave itself open to…well…other interpretations…

Damn it.  “A smarlinb, stumbling lump” = “a snarling, stumbling lump”, post #47202.

@jphamlore  @whisht  When I was learning to read Tarot cards, The Moon was also interpreted, broadly, as “Seeing things by a False Light”.  That’s kind of what we’ve been saying here about “Sleep No More”, isn’t it.

@purofilion

could Rassy be the evolved form of the dust or sandmen? In the way the others are not -the so-called “I’ve got a man here who has not slept for 5 years” is all rubbish -he’s the same as any other eye booger (to quote @Whisht)  and lumbers about being monsteriesh and is pretty useless apart from needing to ‘add to the dust’.[Read more]

@blenkinsopthebrave  — It’s a story.  Which Rasmussen is telling us, admitting at the outset that bits are missing.  But he’s the bad guy; must we accept the ending we see — his victory, the Doctor’s failure and retreat — is the truth?

@django  Ah, you got there before me:  I loved the audacity that what we had all just watched was not only…[Read more]

@DrBen    I’d rather they take risks and occasionally fail than never take risks at all.   This, absolutely.  @Bluesqueakpip says it perfectly: the risky episodes, even when they fail all or in part, are what lead us to the unexpectedly wonderful ones!

@Starla   Rasmussen might have been better off just embedding the eye dust inducing signal in…[Read more]

@Whisht @purofilion

Bugger. My secret is out.

@whisht

Brilliant!

@arbutus (I really want to try that Pumpkin Stout) @purofilion @whisht @juniperfish @blenkinsopthebrave

Thanks all for indulging an old idealist. I made the huge mistake earlier of reading a few online reviews. ATL all is pretty complementary. BTL – oh, dear. The Daily Telegraph had comments that made me ask for the mind Bleach.

Anyway, on a…[Read more]

@ichabod

I think that’s an excellent question!  And it raises one of my ingrained objections to concepts of “purity”, in the name of which so many great crimes have been committed.  How can you tell what’s “pure” unless you’re in a chem lab?

Indeed! Thats what I was heading towards, although in my normal long-winded fashion I didn’t actually…[Read more]

@countscarlioni Brilliant, on the ‘box’ being empty.  I like it.  Also Kate as Zygon-Kate, this could work very well.

@whisht
The school called Draketown

Well-spotted! Excellent – serpent theories can continue unabated 🙂

@iusedtobethedoctor Hi there – I’m about 200 miles North of you… I disagree however that Clara’s fate is to end up as the C…[Read more]

@whisht

ah @brewski I think the idea that death releases energy (in all episodes so far) and opens up dimensions etc is definitely a way to bring back Gallifrey.

Its almost not bonkers!

Lol… well you may be right!  We’ll have to do a lot better than that if we want to be more insane that what’s really happening.

I was going more for the…[Read more]

It occurs to me that first the Doctor spies on Ashildr at the leper colony and now she
is spying on him and Clara. Dysfunctional much? She seems to have some clues about
the Doctor and my bonkers theory is she ran into Rory who was also taking the slow path
back home guarding Amy 🙂

@whisht To your point about following Clara – I think she…[Read more]

@whisht

Great idea about Clara as bootstrap. My latest thought is that the Doctor made Ashildr immortal for the precise purpose of following (guarding?) Clara through the her life/lives, and…to be there at the end. In other words to oversee Clara’s end.

There is a sci-fi precedent for this–Arthur C. Clarke’s “Childhood’s End”.

Still…[Read more]