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[.chrys.]

Everyone's afraid of something Master...even you.

Fear is what makes companions of us all!

 

[.chrys.]

Okay. Finally got to see Listen; then caught up with last night's episode.

Favorite of the two? The bank robbery. Although, I did rather enjoy the end scene in Listen. I like it when timelines interloop and intertwine with one another.

Was he really such a crybaby, do you think???

 

[The-Doctor]

I liked the bank robbery but worked it out before the reveal...it was a bit obvious really, why else would he wipe his memory?

 

[pgp_protector]

I'm not really enjoying the new doctor so far, Listen wasn't too bad, the Bank Robbery was so obvious it wasn't funny.

 

[abysmul]

My daughter has picked Capaldi as her favorite Doctor, our family is loving this season. As an old timer who's been a Whovian for over 30 years, I love seeing hints of other Doctors in Capaldi, and I'm really starting to enjoy the development (finally) of Clara's personality.

 

[MN John]

Who's under the blanket? Baby Doc?

 

[.chrys.]

I think we are led to believe that Baby Who is under the blanket. But, I just don't know that he'd be such a crybaby. Maybe it's Baby Master?

 

[The-Doctor]

If you mean in the kids bedroom I think that's the " it" that is good at hiding...or one of his mates messing about. If you mean in the barn that's the young Doctor...before he became the Doctor ...lighten up....I was a kid too once you know.

 

[RDKirk]

Is there a message in the Doctor now having a Scottish accent instead of the usual North accent?

 

[.chrys.]

If you mean in the kids bedroom I think that's the " it" that is good at hiding...or one of his mates messing about. If you mean in the barn that's the young Doctor...before he became the Doctor ...lighten up....I was a kid too once you know.

So...the Doctor lived in an orphanage?

 

[MN John]

New nicknames ...
The Architect
The Caretaker

 

[The-Doctor]

So...the Doctor lived in an orphanage?

No he probably lived near to the barn but would go there. He definitely had parents as his previous selves mention them. The eighth revealed he was half human on his mothers side.

 

[Davidnic]

Come comments from current show running seems to indicate they have be acting as if the half human thing never was. And who knows, they sometimes play fast and loose with the mythology.

My own thought on the home in listen is that it is after they show him the untempered schism and he is frightened by it. So they think he will not be a timelord. Maybe he is at a place where they took the kids to test for the academy. Obviously it is not on Gallifrey since the War Doctor goes there to use the moment to destroy the planet (so it would not be on it) and Clara can get there even with the planet gone. So maybe they take them for testing to a place and that is where those lodgings are so there would the the whole class getting tested. And the Doctor mentions his father's estates to the master once so maybe the place is somehow connected to the Doctors family so that is why it is important to him.

 

[A New Dawn]

But if it was the Doctor as a child, it would be well before the time war when the planet was time-locked, so Clara could easily have gotten there. At least, that is my impression, that the planet is not missing till the moment in time that it is taken out of time.

 

[Davidnic]

That's true, but it would be odd that in that case the TARDIS crosses his own timeline. Unless something later in the season explains how that happened. And if very well may, we don't know what forces are at work this season. But it still could not be on the planet since it was the spot he was at as the war doctor to destroy it. And he could not destroy it and be on it. So my guess is that barn is somewhere in the Kasterborous constellation nearby. There is also the whole question about can you even travel into the past and future of Gallifery. There are indications in the old series you can not. But that does not mean much for Moffat.

Also it could have gotten across his timeline because he was out cold and it followed Claras link. She exists at every point in his timeline. That could be how.

 

[The-Doctor]

Not liking this new series...seems to be turning into the Clara Oswald show. Writing is below par especially in the last few episodes. hoping the next episode will be an improvement without Clara. The only episodes I like so far is the Robin Hood one and the Dalek one.

 

[Davidnic]

I agree. The acting is amazing from the two primaries but the writing is stale and repetitive and it is only being saved by the acting. Moffat has even said he is writing Clara as the main character and that is, in my opinion, just stupid.

The Robin Hood and Dalek episodes are the only ones following a Doctor central view. I think the storyline is doing a great disservice to two excellent actors in Capaldi and Coleman.

 

[Davidnic]

Even if the Orient Express episode is an improvement the one after that is a Doctor Lite episode. And instead of using the Doctor Lite like Blink and Love and Monsters where it is also Companion lite...this one is all Clara. So Moffat seem infatuated with characters he created and is putting them up front with the Doctor as background. At this point he is essentially producing his own fan fiction.

 

[A New Dawn]

There was Turn Left that was Doctor-lite but starred Donna (my favorite) and Rose (not my favorite, but better than Clara). I really liked that episode. I heard Clara is leaving around Christmas, so I am biding my time. The only time I really liked Clara was when she was being the Impossible Girl.

 

[The-Doctor]

Folks due to the poor service I have received from Christian forums I will be leaving CF so I bid you adieu.