@Whisht  In the flashback of the Claricles saving The Doctor, the second time around after she’s actually jumped into his timestream, Clara herself says, “I’m born, I live, I die.”  And you see an implication of her being a baby in a mother’s arms, then a child standing at the window.  You can see it here.

Ok where to begin…….

Bank Holiday Weekend was a little bit of time travelling to the 15th c at Herstmonceux which on Monday was the wettest place in GB especially when camping.

Tuesday was unpacking drying tentage and de-rusting armour and eventually watching Dr Who yippee.

I felt a little underwhelmed and haven’t had a chance to re-watch…[Read more]

@Whisht     Nice pick! My Twelfth Doctor Track (of the moment, at least) emerges from my expectation of a bit more of a tough line from this new Doctor. And of course, because he’s now Scottish.  🙂

Don’t worry, @purofilion, this thread will never die! Here’s a song about musi…[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]

@Serahni – holy crap! your clara theory fits, especially if we consider that she‘s been chameleon arched, to protect her identity (by her mother and/or father)! perhaps someone else has thought of that, too, i don’t remember? but, gallifrey coming back through the clock tower on trenzalore, or clara learning of her timelord heritage via big ben……[Read more]

@Whisht

I never realised you were quite so devious 😈

@Purofilion Good to see you back too. And I chuckled at your “I don’t like it” comment. (Don’t worry I will no doubt be upright again soon, avatar-wise)

@Whisht

Fist of all: thanks for the welcoming 😀

As to your questions:

Yeah, I think there probably are lots who have just picked it up recently. In my country, which is Switzerland, it’s very little known, at least it was to me until a few months back. I knew there was this thing called Dr. Who but that was it. Of course once I started w…[Read more]

Isn’t it lovely to have something new to talk about?   ☺))  Just finished my first rewatch, so much to like here. I’m going to split up my post because it is insanely long!

I really enjoyed the whole opening scene, beginning with sepia toned London as a background to Vastra’s green face. “It just laid an egg!” “Your grasp of biology troubl…[Read more]

With apologies for — as @Whisht brilliantly puts it — ‘bonking out load’, I’d like to develop the theory that Missy is the Moment.

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]

@Whisht – only once. But you have to project it, as if to the back of an auditorium, while walking about and waving your arms in approved Victorian style.

Closest I can get to ‘fleeing crazed organ-harvesting droids’. 😀

@Whisht – Clara can beat me by about a second if I start walking about, but I suspect that – if I was surrounded by insane organ-harvesting droids – I could manage the extra second with few problems. 😉

Giving you a test back: can you say

Dry clashed his harness in the icy caves
And barren chasms, and all to left and right
The bare black cliff…

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@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]

I don’t have much to add right now.

Sorry that I got it wrong @Whisht. Also echoing you in asking ‘why’ @j0hn52 . And: What was the last episode you did like?
Also @Whisht Somehow I am really intruiged by your idea:’Would other AIs also go to the Mainframe to ‘die’ (ships such as the Madame Pompadour, the Library(?) etc….).’ I mean the libra…[Read more]

I like how the discussion got started again immediately =D! And some of the replies are just so long that I am sure I will miss bits and pieces I wanted to comment on while reading your opinions.

It is really interesting to me that there is such a wide array of opinions! Usually most in this forum agree on the general tone of the episode. This is…[Read more]

@devilishrobby @whisht Of course it must be okay to discuss the episode in the thread of the episode! People who do not want to be spoiled should really stay away from this part of the forum.
@miapatrick Yes, it is good that it has not been shown. But I think we all know it happened. If it were in the episode we would have a Sherlock situation…[Read more]

@Craig @Wolfweed @Blenkinsopthebrave @Juniperfish @FatmaninaBox @Arbutus @Pufferfish @Timeloop @Chickenelly @Whisht @arkleseizure and all the forum members, veterans and newbies alike.

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]

@Whisht It’s actually a rejected theme for the Bond film Tomorrow Never Dies that was released as the b-side to Help the Aged. The original version with Jarvis Cocker singing “Tomorrow never Dies” is included a bonus track on the deluxe edition of This is Hardcore.

Anyway here’s Maybe Tomorrow by The Iveys, or as they later became known as,…[Read more]

@bluesqueakpip I would hate if they would take the easy way out. What a letdown that would be. And it is supposed to be the only thing that remained from the TARDIS exploding. Moffat can do better than this.

I AM getting positively EXCITED though! FINALLY new input in the Whoniverse. And hopefully the explanation how Capaldi could have played…[Read more]