I’m a LEGO and More

Lego Dimensions

Way too much fun!

Frustrating at times (I’m currently stuck on a conundrum on the Hacking Terminal).

But it is a lot of fun.

You have to complete the main level to get to the other doctors and world but it will take hours and hours and hours.

My friend Jeff has entirely too much fun with the Doctor on top of K9, used a blaster. He blows up EVERYTHING in site.

The game is a puzzle and it takes some logic (and other characters) to get anywhere and sometimes its too simple.

Some times its too hard (where I am now).

I am an old style gamer, so a lot of this new generation style takes getting used to.

But if you have the disposable income, go for it. Listening to Capaldi complain and talking about the “attack eyebrows are taking over” is hilarious.

“I don’t do hugs!” 🙂

John Leeson is doing K-9.

Wonder Woman (yes I know…) flys with the 70’s TV Theme music playing).

Hilarious.

Well, this should keep me in WHO for many hours while we wait for out lone Xmas Special in 11 months (YIKES!).

Main cast Edit

Troy Baker – Batman
Elizabeth Banks – Wyldstyle
Tom Kane – Gandalf

Doctor Who cast Edit

Peter Capaldi – The Twelfth Doctor
Michelle Gomez – Missy
Nicholas Briggs – Cybermen, Daleks, Judoon
Julian Bleach – Davros
Neve McIntosh – Vastra
Dan Starkey – Strax
John Barrowman – Jack Harkness
Jenna Coleman – Clara Oswald

Archive sound Edit

William Hartnell – The First Doctor
Patrick Troughton – The Second Doctor
Jon Pertwee – The Third Doctor
Tom Baker – The Fourth Doctor
Peter Davison – The Fifth Doctor
Colin Baker – The Sixth Doctor
Sylvester McCoy – The Seventh Doctor
Paul McGann – The Eighth Doctor
John Hurt – The War Doctor
Christopher Eccleston – The Ninth Doctor
David Tennant – The Tenth Doctor
Matt Smith – The Eleventh Doctor
John Leeson – K-9

 

Changing of The Guard

But not until 2018.

And, by the way, it will be an extra long Doctor Who Winter.

Only a Doctor Who Christmas special will air in 2016. Moffat’s final series to be broadcast next year in order to create a “huge event” for fans. Chibnall will begin his tenure in 2018.

All the Moffat haters just let a collective SQUEE!!!

I was never a hater, but I did think it was time. But he did produce one of the best season in a long time this past 2015 so I am sorry to see him go, but everything has its time.

Steven Moffat has decided that his “timey wimey” as showrunner of Doctor Who has come to an end and he will step down as the show’s lead writer and executive producer after six series at the helm, RadioTimes.com can reveal.

Moffatt will hand over the keys to the TARDIS at the end of the next series in 2017 to Broadchurch writer and Doctor Who fan Chris Chibnall.

BBC1 has decided to air Moffat’s final 12-part series – the 10th of the modern era – in spring 2017. Chibnall’s debut series as head writer and executive producer will launch in 2018.

A Christmas special WILL air this year overseen by Moffat, though it is unclear whether Peter Capaldi’s new companion will feature. The companion, who will replace Jenna Coleman’s Clara Oswald, will definitely be in place for the spring 2017 series, say BBC sources.

No word on Chibnall I being Spring 2018.

Explaining the decision to hold Moffat’s last series until next year, BBC1 controller Charlotte Moore said: “I have decided to schedule Steven’s big finale series in Spring 2017 to bring the nation together for what will be a huge event on the channel.   2016 is spoilt with national moments including the Euros and Olympics and I want to hold something big back for 2017 – I promise it will be worth the wait!”

It is unclear if the plan is now to make Doctor Who a series which regularly begins its runs in the spring when Chibnall becomes showrunner. “That is all to be decided,” said a BBC source, who pointed out that it began airing in the spring when it was relaunched by Russell T Davies in 2005.

Moffat said of his decision to quit: “Feels odd to be talking about leaving when I’m just starting work on the scripts for season 10, but the fact is my timey-wimey is running out. While Chris is doing his last run of Broadchurch, I’ll be finishing up on the best job in the universe and keeping the TARDIS warm for him. It took a lot of gin and tonic to talk him into this, but I am beyond delighted that one of the true stars of British Television drama will be taking the Time Lord even further into the future. At the start of season 11, Chris Chibnall will become the new showrunner of Doctor Who. And I will be thrown in a skip.”

Moore, who next month takes over a super controller’s job at the BBC, paid tribute to Moffat and welcomed Chibnall into the Doctor Who fold. 

“I want to thank Steven Moffat for everything he has given Doctor Who – I’ve loved working with him, he is an absolute genius and has brought fans all over the world such joy,” she added. “I will be very sad to see him leave the show but I can’t wait to see what he will deliver in his last ever series next year with a brand new companion.

“I would also like to take this opportunity to welcome Chris Chibnall, a wonderfully talented writer who I know will bring something very special to the hit series.”

 

Like Moffat, Chibnall is also a lifelong Doctor Who fan and a multi-award winning writer and executive producer. He has most recently achieved success with the triple BAFTA winning hit ITV series Broadchurch. His other credits include BAFTA nominated The Great Train Robbery, United, Law & Order: UK, Life on Mars and Torchwood.

He said: “Doctor Who is the ultimate BBC programme: bold, unique, vastly entertaining, and adored all around the world.  So it’s a privilege and a joy to be the next curator of this funny, scary and emotional family drama. I’ve loved Doctor Who since I was four years old, and I’m relishing the thought of working with the exceptional team at BBC Wales to create new characters, creatures and worlds for the Doctor to explore.  Steven’s achieved the impossible by continually expanding Doctor Who’s creative ambition, while growing its global popularity. He’s been a dazzling and daring showrunner, and hearing his plans and stories for 2017, it’s clear he’ll be going out with a bang. Just to make my life difficult.”

Polly Hill, BBC controller of drama commissioning, added: “Like Charlotte I would like to thank Steven for his brilliance, which has made Doctor Who a global hit under his tenure.  Chris Chibnall is the perfect successor to take over the reins of this incredible show, so I am delighted that his love for Doctor Who has made it impossible for him to resist!  Chris is an incredible writer and his vision and passion for Doctor Who gives it an exciting future and promises to be a real treat for Doctor Who fans across the world.”

 

So buckle down, it’s going to be a Long Winter’s Nap for the good Doctor.

But we have some new Presents coming in 2018.

What do you want to bet the debut of The 13th Doctor as well…

 

Ribald Xmas

“I had sort of thought we were done with River,” says Moffat. “But Russell [T Davies] and I had been emailing about River. He was always saying, ‘You can’t not bring her back because she’s got to be together with [Peter] Capaldi [who plays the Doctor] – it will be a sex storm!’ ”

Kingston, speaking in a break during filming, reiterates the theme: “There have been moments on set where we’ve started to call it ‘Doctor Blue’. Say no more.”

Quite how this “sex storm” will fit in with the Christmas episode’s 5.15pm time slot remains to be seen. But the other elements that make up “classic” Who are all present and correct. River and the Doctor form a likeable couple with a different dynamic to the usual master/companion pairing.

“They’re equals,” says Kingston, who is wearing a leather jacket and some kind of gadget on her wrist. “River is never somebody who is asking him questions in the way that companions might. The interaction between the two is something like Spencer Tracy and Katharine Hepburn – there’s a fast-paced screwball quality to it.”

The pair find themselves being chased across space and time in the established manner by a very big, very nasty robot, played by Greg Davies. The BBC have taken two entire casts of his head in order to create a character called King Hydroflax whose body and brain are detachable.

When I meet Davies he is wearing a large smile and an even larger prosthetic scar on his left cheek. “He’s a petrifying – yet deluded – nine-foot cyborg,” says Davies, who is himself 6ft 8in. Davies is best known as a comedy performer – the addition of both him and Matt Lucas to the cast in guest roles suggests that the Christmas special is intended not only to be fun but to be funny too, a welcome shift in tone following a series that was criticised for being too dark and on too late (post 8pm on Saturdays).

One of the running gags is that, for a large part of the episode, River Song doesn’t recognise the Doctor – a pardonable error given that the last Doctor, to whom she was married, was Matt Smith, an actor nearly 25 years Capaldi’s junior.

In the story it’s played for laughs but it’s also recognition that Capaldi, 57, is a very different Doctor to the two young bucks who preceded him. When I meet him a few weeks later he is walking with a stick and looks tired. He is recovering from a knee operation caused, he says, by all that running down corridors he has had to do. A sign, perhaps, that these days the Doctor is a role for a younger man?

Peter Capaldi and Alex Kingston in the Doctor Who Christmas Special

“It’s the same operation Matt Smith had!” he counters. “I took him for lunch the first time I met him and he was on crutches. I said, ‘What’s happened to you?’ He said, ‘This f—— show, mate!’ I never believed him – and now I’ve got exactly the same injury. You tend to twist your knee when you’re being chased by a monster and then you swivel around to present yourself to camera. It’s the curse of the Doctor…”

Capaldi says that he doesn’t read reviews but he admits that comments about his appointment and performance over the last two years have filtered back.

“Some feel good and some feel bad. I always think that if you’re Doctor Who, somebody somewhere’s going to love you. That’s comfort. But if people don’t like me there’ll be another one along in a minute. It’s only Doctor Who – and I say that with the greatest of respect and affection. It’s not a life-threatening illness.”

Does he mind the criticisms about his age? “No, because every Doctor should be different from the last one. If you want exclusively young, sexy guys, to me that’s not Doctor Who. You want occasional ones like that – but then some other eccentrics.”

Capaldi has already committed to a third year in the role, but nothing is set in stone after that.

“This could be my final year – it’s terrifying. I love Doctor Who but it can be quite an insular world and I do want to do other things. There will come a time when this is over. But I knew that when I started. I was thinking about my regeneration scene from the outset. That’s my terrible melancholic nature. When you accept the job you know there’ll come a day, inevitably, when you’ll be saying goodbye.”

For now, though, he is delighted to see the show back in the schedules where it belongs: the tea‑time slot.

“It’s a very festive, light‑hearted Christmas afternoon show,” he says. “Although a lot of adults really like it, at its heart Doctor Who is designed to entertain children as well. I like the idea of families watching together. That’s what I did when I was a child.” (UK Telegraph)

Wife, Mistress, and Sonic

The Doctor has a lot of strong women in his life. One has just left his life, while another is returning in this year’s Christmas special. He is utterly committed to both Clara Oswald and River Song, but who does he love more? 

The Wife or the Mistress? 🙂

Q to Peter: Who do you prefer, Clara or River? Peter: Clara is a very special friend… But my wife is my wife!— Doctor Who Official (@bbcdoctorwho) December 16, 2015

Awww. Nicely sidestepped, Doc. (Radio Times) 🙂

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Rubbertoe Replicas produce some of the finest props in the Whoniverse, with their popular replica range including Captain Jack Harkness’ Vortex Manipulator, Flatline‘s Siege Mode TARDIS, and the cubes from The Power of Three (2013). But they’re perhaps best-known for their stunning sonic screwdrivers.

And Hell Bent gave us a brand new one. It’s all flashy and bright, and we don’t get a proper look at it until Christmas Day when it’ll appear (opposite River’s sonic trowel) in The Husbands of River Song. Fortunately, we don’t have to wait another week (and a bit) to see it in all its glory because Rubbertoe has treated us to a special glimpse.

We’ve seen it in blue, but is that… green we can see too?

The new sonic screwdriver is expected to be available from Rubbertoe early 2016.

Expect extreme Expense though.

Review: Hell Bent…

Naturally, there are spoilers ahead…

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Before I get into my more reasoned reaction to the Season Finale, lets talk visceral.

This is what I wrote right after watching the episode yesterday:

AARGHH!
Clara Lives…Moffat’s is the one who’s cruel and cowardly.
He ruined “Face The Raven”. Made it cheap, taudry and manipulative.
Series 9. A magnificent marathon destined to win the Triple Crown of Season Arc Storied Horse racing only to come up lame in the last 10 yards. Such a pity.
I am very angry with you Steven. Very angry indeed!
Another fake Clara Death.
F*ck The Raven….

I have calmed down quite a bit since then (about 12 hours later) and I have a much better opinion of this episode in the end once the emotions have calmed down.

It is actually a good episode. Series 9/35 is one of the best seasons in many years. It is a classic of its own.

But,it was a bit like watch the “Planet of The Apes” Tim Burton remake and you get to that idiotic last 5 minutes that ruined the movie. That was the visceral reaction I had to Time-Locked Undead Clara and Ashildr/Me running off into the universe together.

Fortunately, upon reflection I have a better consideration for this episode, and the last 5 minutes of “Planet of The Apes” STILL sucks. 🙂

The Doctor Clara and her companion, the immortal Me. Off to see the universe.

Is this what the Doctor and The Master would have been like if things had turned out differently? Hmmm…

That’s where the rumors of Me being a companion in The TARDIS obviously come from.

Doctor Clara gets the Hartnell TARDIS.

The visceral reaction is gone. I went too far… 🙂

But do the Time Lords REALLY want to risk having the Hybrid, aka Clara & The Doctor rekindle at some point in the future?

And what happens when Clara and Me meet Jenny?

The mind boggeleth.

Overall, the episode is very good. The Doctor literally broke all the rules and went literally to the end of time to save Clara.

But I still think it cheapened “Face The Raven” and gave us YET ANOTHER Fake Clara Death. I’m so sick of that. That visceral reaction hasn’t gone away. 🙂

The Doctor did break every rule he ever believed in. He was cruel. He was cowardly and he wasn’t The Doctor.

And Moffat got another Gender Change thrown in for sledgehammer effect. Sigh…Unnecessary.

The opening in the diner made me want to scream “MOFFAT!” but I kept it together because the story was actually very good- I just hated that one part- viscerally. 🙂

The Doctor drawing a line in the sand (Wish our President had that much resolution) at his childhood home, Lungbarrow.

The escalation of fear from Time Lords where you get one Chancellery Guard, to the Head of the Guard and several, to The High Council and finally Rassilon himself was very interesting to watch as the fear of the unknown was ratcheted up.

Too bad Rassilon forgot to take his own advice about “immortality is a curse not a blessing” and has gone mad himself and lead Gallifrey and The Universe to the brink of extinction in The Time War.

A Time Lord Victorious.

Now, he wants The Doctor. He “was a good man once” also but fear and death have overtaken him as well.

“Get off his Planet”. So does this mean The Doctor’s The President yet again, and he ran off in a TARDIS instead?

The Doctor is a “War Hero” He won the Time War. Yeah, he committed genocide of both sides and then undid it. 🙂

Rassilon fought it. The Doctor Won it.

Maybe they aren’t so dissimilar.

The Doctor was the one that beat The Death Zone, a playground for the Time Lords to torture other beings in.

They just tortured him for 4.5 billion years because they feared his incite into The Hybrid that would destroy Gallifrey, which the Time Lords naturally consider it to be a melding of the two great races of the universe- The Time Lords and The Daleks because they are the most powerful and most feared.

But it’s the deadly combo of a Time Lord, and a lowly Human who wants to be  a Time Lord.

The Doctor & Clara, brought together by that ultimate lover of all things chaos, The Master/Missy. Also, he’s best friend. The Light and Dark in all of us.

Clara and Ashildr.

What does this say about the Cartmel MasterPlan that never finished because of the shows cancellation? The one where Ace was going to become a Time Lord on Gallifrey? 🙂

What does that say about the potentially deadly cocktail of Doctor and Companion for the future?

Peter Capaldi, over these last few episodes, has shown why he is magnificent actor and deserves to be one of the greatest. He oozes resolute menace like no Doctor ever has.

The episode itself is full of visceral reactions and elicits them also.

He “goes too far” and there is Clara, and Ashildr to stomp him back into being a Doctor.

The Time Lord Victorious, indeed. A wounded animal, acting on raw emotions and grief more like.

He’s willing to do literally anything to save her. He literally risks the fabric of time & space itself.

And The Time Lords let him because they are giving into their own fears.What could Clara actually tell them about the Hybrid? I mean really, what could she?

“Why would you even do that?” she asks him, crying, when she learns just how long it’s been since they last met, a heartbeat ago. “I was dead and gone. Why would you even do that to yourself?”

“I had a duty of care,” he says, repeating a phrase he’s uttered before.

It’s sweet and alarming. How far and how bad can things get if you “care” too much? Actually, given his knowledge of time, fixed points and the fallout of violations, it’s mostly alarming how far he’s gone and seems willing to go.

He has literally risked the Universe for her.

But she can talk him off his Time Lord Victorious Ledge and tell him to “Be a Doctor” before he effectively wipes his own memory.

It’s the reverse Donna. He forgets her, instead of her forgetting him OR DYING for real.

When did we become immune to seeing people die, for real?

But I did a fangasm when He steals a TARDIS and runs! Only this time, he takes Clara with him. And it’s an overlit (as it was back in the day) mockup of the First Doctor’s TARDIS with the original Hartnell console from An Adventure in Space & Time standing in for the original.

The Doctor has come full circle.

He’s running away from Gallifrey, afraid and scared, in a TARDIS but it’s not his grand daughter this time.

And via the Mind Clara in the Diner he become the Doctor Reborn with a new Sonic Screwdriver.

And the adventure continues. A new Companion. A New Direction.

Run you Clever Girl, and Remember.

She is now more Impossible that ever. She was born to save The Doctor, after all, even from himself.

Run you clever Doctor, and forget.

He doesn’t like endings, after all.

“stories are where memories go when they’re forgotten.”

A Man is the sum of his memories, you know, a Time Lord Even more so…:)

TEGAN: It’ll soon be goodbye, then.
DOCTOR 5: Will it?
TURLOUGH: Well, you’re off to Gallifrey to be President. I suppose your Time Lord subjects will find a Tardis that really works and get us both home?
DOCTOR 5: Who said anything about Gallifrey?
TURLOUGH: You told Chancellor Flavia
DOCTOR 5: I told her she had full deputy powers until I returned.
TEGAN: You’re not going back?
DOCTOR 5: You know, sometimes, Tegan, you take my breath away.
TURLOUGH: Er, won’t the Time Lords be very angry?
DOCTOR 5: Furious.
TEGAN: You mean you’re deliberately choosing to go on the run from your own people in a rackety old Tardis?
DOCTOR 5: Why not? After all, that’s how it all started.

But first, he has to meet his wife again…

19 Days Until Christmas. Then we are in for a long winters nap.

 

 

The Return of Me

She certainly made an impression after her debut in series 9.

But Game of Thrones actress Maisie Williams, 18, will make her return to Doctor Who as the immortal Ashildr for the show’s season finale this weekend.

Starring alongside the Doctor – played by Peter Capaldi, 57 – it will be the first time she’s seen in the show since the Face The Raven episode, which aired November 21.

“You don’t see surprised to see me?”

Speaking of her return, Maisie said: ‘I didn’t know that I’d be back again but I’m glad I am because after the end of the previous episode that I’m in, it was nice to have something that would round off my character nicely.’

The show’s writer Steven Moffat, 54, added that her immortal character has lived many years since her most recent appearance.

He said: ‘She’s now impossibly ancient and quite serene. She’s far older than the doctor.

Behind the Scenes Video with Maisie:

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-3344641/Maisie-Williams-discusses-return-immortal-Ashildr-Doctor-series-9-finale.html#v-7393828302108707097

‘She’s certainly not alarmed by him anymore as she’s not merely his equal, she’s outgrown him. 

‘They are no longer equals. She’s way ahead. She’s seen more. She’s done more.’

Peter said: ‘We’re both creatures who look into eternity. That’s how Doctor Who should be. It’s good, it’s quite haunting.’

Maisie added: ‘Every episode that I’ve been back, my character’s made such a big change in the time that she’s been missing. It’s nice to be able to portray all of that.’  

In the preview clip, Ashildr is seen sitting on a throne, as she says to the Doctor: ‘You don’t seem surprised to see me.’

The Doctor replies: ‘I know I went too far.’

In what appears to be quite the dramatic scene, Ashildr says: ‘I’ve had 800 years of adventure. Enough to fill a library if you write it all down. I think it’s time to tell the truth.’

Reflecting on her experience on the BBC1 show, Maisie admitted: ‘This is every fan boy’s dream and I get to do this as my job. I’m really grateful for that.’

Peter dropped a hint that Maisie would be an accomplished new companion in a recent interview.

He said: ‘I can’t answer questions like that but Maisie is fantastic, She’s been in Game of Thrones since she was 12 and is very assured.

‘I was doing a shot with her and when they called “action” she slightly pulled me back. When I asked her what she was doing she said, “You were in my light.” But she is lovely.’

Companions of Us All

But in the Classic Series, I think the companion really wasn’t the “co-lead” or the equal status.  The Doctor was the star. Period.

The fact that some companions like Jamie, Sarah, and ACE rose above that to be virtual co-leads is more a testament to the actor than the part.

Which leads to today’s episode where we not only go companion-less for the first time since 1976’s “Deadly Assassin” (No, I don’t think the 2009 episodes were companion-less, just a series of 1-off companions), but apparently only 2 characters — The Doctor and the monster called The Veil.

So, it’s an interesting experiment for WHO. But I know Peter Capaldi is an actor who can pull it off.

The companion has become much more essential, and many thought Clara too much so, including me but that was the arc of the character.

What happens if a human becomes “The Doctor” psychologically.

It’s not pretty. And it’s fatal.

Humans were not meant to be Time Lords. 🙂

So the Season Finale begins today. Then we’ll have the Christmas Special 3 weeks later.

Then the long dark 8-9 month winter sets in where our only companion is our DVD player, comics,books, and audios.

We are the Doctor’s companions. But we are on the slow road of linear existence.

Gallifrey awaits us all. 🙂

The Script for “Face the Raven” is available from the BBC for free at:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/writersroom/scripts/doctor-who-series-9-ep-10

 

 

Review: Face The Raven

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She’s Dead, Jim!  (sorry wrong franchise)

Dead as a can of spam.

‘E’s not pinin’! ‘E’s passed on! This parrot is no more! He has ceased to be! ‘E’s expired and gone to meet ‘is maker! ‘E’s a stiff! Bereft of life, ‘e rests in peace! If you hadn’t nailed ‘im to the perch ‘e’d be pushing up the daisies! ‘Is metabolic processes are now ‘istory! ‘E’s off the twig! ‘E’s kicked the bucket, ‘e’s shuffled off ‘is mortal coil, run down the curtain and joined the bleedin’ choir invisibile!!He’s f*ckin’ snuffed it!….. THIS IS AN EX-PARROT!!

Sorry, companion… 🙂  Wrong franchise again…

The first companion to die (for real, “Kenny” Rory, Oswin Oswald, Governess included) since Adric, and no one was really sorry about that. 🙂

And the Doctor was not happy with Ashildr/Me who set a trap for him and Clara paid the price for it.

“You can and you will  <save her> or this street will be over,” he tells Me in full fury. “I’ll show you and all your funny little friends to the whole laughing world. I’ll bring UNIT and the Zygons. Give me a minute and I’ll bring the Daleks and the Cybermen. You will save Clara and you will do it now, or I will rain hell on you for the rest of time!”

Clara did exactly what I said in my blog yesterday. She played “Doctor” and ended up sacrificing her life for her companion Rigsy.

Clara was bound to make an all too human mistake. Getting impatient and missing a crucial detail that will get her killed.

Unlike many I am not a Clara hater. But I do wonder if the amount of hatred and hot air being vented on Ms Coleman isn’t causing Global Warming. 🙂

I didn’t like the character when she was the “Impossible Girl” plot device. A living Deus Ex Machina.

Hated That.

But once they got past that, I liked her character a lot. Yeah, she’s a little too “important” in the Doctor’s life and timeline but I don’t hold that against her.

I will miss Clara Oswald and Jenna Coleman. I can’t say the same about Adric.

So the episode opens with “Doctor” Clara getting a phone call from her companion Rigsy who is in trouble and it’s the Doctor who has to save him. Only, the real Doctor, the wiser one, the one that can cheat death, is there too.

And Capaldi is magnificent. He does the “angry” “No Rules-Time Lord Victorious” much better than Tenant. He oozes menace and makes Ashildr/Me genuinely frightened of him. I would be.

Which is why I have a hard time believing Me to be the next Companion. Not to mention the whole Game of Thrones thing.

Then they find the “trap street” and the episode suddenly goes all Harry Potter!

Ashildr/Me is back as the Mayor of this little refugee camp (no politics tonight, promise) and she’s ever more ruthless,unfeeling, and largely just numb to life and death in general.

She believes she is doing the right thing, but she does it in a callous way. She has lived too long and seen too much and forgotten far more than that.

Quite why she made the deal to protect the Trap Street with what is likely to turn out to be The Time Lords is unknown at this point. The misdirection filters kept it from being noticed for over 100 years so the humans aren’t that big a threat.

More likely, it was a mafia style extortion. That is what we will find out over the next two weeks as the Season Finale kicks into high gear next week.

But dear, reckless, two cleaver-by-half,thought-she-was-a-Doctor Clara won’t be around to protect him from his darker impulses and to soften his inhumanity.

Now, that that is potentially unleashed and Capaldi’s Doctor is way scarier being dark than any Doctor before the gloves are off.

The Raven by Edgar Alan Poe (1845)

Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered, weak and weary,

Over many a quaint and curious volume of forgotten lore—

    While I nodded, nearly napping, suddenly there came a tapping,

As of some one gently rapping, rapping at my chamber door.

“’Tis some visitor,” I muttered, “tapping at my chamber door—

            Only this and nothing more.”

    Ah, distinctly I remember it was in the bleak December;

And each separate dying ember wrought its ghost upon the floor.

    Eagerly I wished the morrow;—vainly I had sought to borrow

    From my books surcease of sorrow—sorrow for the lost Lenore—

For the rare and radiant maiden whom the angels name Lenore—

            Nameless here for evermore.

    And the silken, sad, uncertain rustling of each purple curtain

Thrilled me—filled me with fantastic terrors never felt before;

    So that now, to still the beating of my heart, I stood repeating

    “’Tis some visitor entreating entrance at my chamber door—

Some late visitor entreating entrance at my chamber door;—

            This it is and nothing more.”

    Presently my soul grew stronger; hesitating then no longer,

“Sir,” said I, “or Madam, truly your forgiveness I implore;

    But the fact is I was napping, and so gently you came rapping,

    And so faintly you came tapping, tapping at my chamber door,

That I scarce was sure I heard you”—here I opened wide the door;—

            Darkness there and nothing more.

    Deep into that darkness peering, long I stood there wondering, fearing,

Doubting, dreaming dreams no mortal ever dared to dream before;

    But the silence was unbroken, and the stillness gave no token,

    And the only word there spoken was the whispered word, “Lenore?”

This I whispered, and an echo murmured back the word, “Lenore!”—

            Merely this and nothing more.

    Back into the chamber turning, all my soul within me burning,

Soon again I heard a tapping somewhat louder than before.

    “Surely,” said I, “surely that is something at my window lattice;

      Let me see, then, what thereat is, and this mystery explore—

Let my heart be still a moment and this mystery explore;—

            ’Tis the wind and nothing more!”

    Open here I flung the shutter, when, with many a flirt and flutter,

In there stepped a stately Raven of the saintly days of yore;

    Not the least obeisance made he; not a minute stopped or stayed he;

    But, with mien of lord or lady, perched above my chamber door—

Perched upon a bust of Pallas just above my chamber door—

            Perched, and sat, and nothing more.

Then this ebony bird beguiling my sad fancy into smiling,

By the grave and stern decorum of the countenance it wore,

“Though thy crest be shorn and shaven, thou,” I said, “art sure no craven,

Ghastly grim and ancient Raven wandering from the Nightly shore—

Tell me what thy lordly name is on the Night’s Plutonian shore!”

            Quoth the Raven “Nevermore.”

    Much I marvelled this ungainly fowl to hear discourse so plainly,

Though its answer little meaning—little relevancy bore;

    For we cannot help agreeing that no living human being

    Ever yet was blessed with seeing bird above his chamber door—

Bird or beast upon the sculptured bust above his chamber door,

            With such name as “Nevermore.”

    But the Raven, sitting lonely on the placid bust, spoke only

That one word, as if his soul in that one word he did outpour.

    Nothing farther then he uttered—not a feather then he fluttered—

    Till I scarcely more than muttered “Other friends have flown before—

On the morrow he will leave me, as my Hopes have flown before.”

            Then the bird said “Nevermore.”

    Startled at the stillness broken by reply so aptly spoken,

“Doubtless,” said I, “what it utters is its only stock and store

    Caught from some unhappy master whom unmerciful Disaster

    Followed fast and followed faster till his songs one burden bore—

Till the dirges of his Hope that melancholy burden bore

            Of ‘Never—nevermore’.”

    But the Raven still beguiling all my fancy into smiling,

Straight I wheeled a cushioned seat in front of bird, and bust and door;

    Then, upon the velvet sinking, I betook myself to linking

    Fancy unto fancy, thinking what this ominous bird of yore—

What this grim, ungainly, ghastly, gaunt, and ominous bird of yore

            Meant in croaking “Nevermore.”

    This I sat engaged in guessing, but no syllable expressing

To the fowl whose fiery eyes now burned into my bosom’s core;

    This and more I sat divining, with my head at ease reclining

    On the cushion’s velvet lining that the lamp-light gloated o’er,

But whose velvet-violet lining with the lamp-light gloating o’er,

            She shall press, ah, nevermore!

    Then, methought, the air grew denser, perfumed from an unseen censer

Swung by Seraphim whose foot-falls tinkled on the tufted floor.

    “Wretch,” I cried, “thy God hath lent thee—by these angels he hath sent thee

    Respite—respite and nepenthe from thy memories of Lenore;

Quaff, oh quaff this kind nepenthe and forget this lost Lenore!”

            Quoth the Raven “Nevermore.”

    “Prophet!” said I, “thing of evil!—prophet still, if bird or devil!—

Whether Tempter sent, or whether tempest tossed thee here ashore,

    Desolate yet all undaunted, on this desert land enchanted—

    On this home by Horror haunted—tell me truly, I implore—

Is there—is there balm in Gilead?—tell me—tell me, I implore!”

            Quoth the Raven “Nevermore.”

    “Prophet!” said I, “thing of evil!—prophet still, if bird or devil!

By that Heaven that bends above us—by that God we both adore—

    Tell this soul with sorrow laden if, within the distant Aidenn,

    It shall clasp a sainted maiden whom the angels name Lenore—

Clasp a rare and radiant maiden whom the angels name Lenore.”

            Quoth the Raven “Nevermore.”

    “Be that word our sign of parting, bird or fiend!” I shrieked, upstarting—

“Get thee back into the tempest and the Night’s Plutonian shore!

    Leave no black plume as a token of that lie thy soul hath spoken!

    Leave my loneliness unbroken!—quit the bust above my door!

Take thy beak from out my heart, and take thy form from off my door!”

            Quoth the Raven “Nevermore.”

    And the Raven, never flitting, still is sitting, still is sitting

On the pallid bust of Pallas just above my chamber door;

    And his eyes have all the seeming of a demon’s that is dreaming,

    And the lamp-light o’er him streaming throws his shadow on the floor;

And my soul from out that shadow that lies floating on the floor

            Shall be lifted—nevermore!

 

Clara Gone?

Is Clara’s number up today?

Think about it.

The next episode is the 2-Part season finale, which starts with an episode starring ONLY Peter Capaldi.

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Go ‘ne further if you don’t want to know (or speculate)…

Official Sypnosis:

“Heaven Sent” – “Trapped in a world unlike any other he has seen, the Doctor faces the greatest challenge of his many lives. One final test. And he must face it alone. Pursued by the fearsome creature known only as the Veil, he must attempt the impossible. If he makes it through, Gallifrey is waiting…”

“Hell Bent” – “If you took everything from him, betrayed him, trapped him, and broke both his hearts…how far might the Doctor go? Returning to Gallifrey, the Doctor faces the Time Lords in a struggle that will take him to the end of time itself. Who is the Hybrid? And what is the Doctor’s confession?”

Then  add…

But actor Peter Capaldi appeared to silence reports on Friday night’s The Graham Norton Show when he said Saturday night’s Face The Raven would be ‘the end of the line’ for Clara Oswald.

Peter, 57, has been assisted by the 29-year-old companion for two years, and as he admitted that her exit would be sad and strange. (Daily Mail)

“It’s a sad one, gripping and very strange. And it’s the end of the line for Clara Oswald played by Jenna Coleman who’s been my companion for the last two years. It’s the end of her story. I don’t want to go into the details of it, but it’s sad.”

On whether Clara can return, Capaldi said: “Sometimes people can’t come back. Sometimes things happen that they can’t come back from.”

It makes since and I kind of thought that when I heard about the finale’s structure.

Will “Doctor” Clara lay down her life for her Companion Rigsy? (only she doesn’t regenerate).

Find out tonight. 🙂