#binglesnort

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binglesnort replied to your post: “even amanda abbington said on twitter that mary is a fucking...”:

Wells she is. Acording to the latest meta I hate read every shot of her she is smirking or scowling. Not like that only happens when you take screenshots at the right time. No. She's evil. Always. Rubbing it in at her wedding. Ugh.

No there are no shots of her being genuinely happy or sad or scared. She only feels asshole emotions.

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So just curious out of the ten Sylvestor McCoy Big Finish Main Range releases that have now been put on special for the weekend (because why wouldn't BF have a sale every weekend and destroy my wallet inside and out): Which ones would you recommend?

I’m honestly not too big a fan of any of those. I particularly recommend staying away from the last three. Of the lot, I think The House of Blue Fire (actually that one’s pretty clever) and Robophobia are most worth a look as they introduce companions.

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binglesnort replied to your post:Am I the only one slightly worried by the fact...

Well I mean….writers have to start somewhere yes? And I mean surely Big Finish wouldn’t have hired him if they didn’t think he couldn’t produce a somewhat decent script.

Oh, for sure. I’m just surprised and a bit worried that the new writer is being given the finale slot of a high profile release of all things. I do like that they’re taking a risk, though.

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*loses scriptscribbles in the crowd* "This calls for drastic measures" *cups hands and yells loudly* "STEVEN MOFFAT IS SPELT M-O-F-E-T-T!" *Scripts comes running* "You little shit" or something to that regard.

*throws a dictionary at your head* SPELLING COUNTS

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I just saw a theory saying that Missy isn't actually the master but an opposite sex clone OF the Master (like Jenny is a clone of the Doctor). The amount of lengths people will hypothesise theories that defy logic (in Doctor Freaking Who) to justify why Missy can't possibly be a female Master is starting to get ridiculous and gah. Argh. Stupid fandom. Anyway....how 100% true is this theory? I think its 100% true. It makes sense.

Ugh, yeah, there’s loads of ridiculous theories like that. Another one I see a lot is that the Master just possessed the body of a woman rather than regenerated into one. The one you’ve come across strikes me as particularly preposterous. Jenny was a distinct entity from the Doctor. She had her own name, personality, memories, and overall identity entirely distinct from him. Missy, meanwhile, is the Master through and through. She remembers their childhood, maintains her name (merely modified slightly to fit her new gender), and overall acts much like the Master we’ve always had. The theory just doesn’t fit at all.

Death in Heaven is the culmination of Moffat’s long-term movement towards gender-change regeneration and a female Doctor (I tried submitting an article on that to DWTV, but it doesn’t seem to have gone through. If nothing happens in a week or so, I’ll try submitting it again). It’s got Clara, characterized as a female Doctor and even taking his place in the titles. It’s got UNIT, re-written as a female-lead organization (with Kate and Osgood essentially gender-changed classic Who UNIT characters). There’s been years of references to such regeneration, since Matt Smith’s first moments. And when Osgood correctly guesses Missy’s identity, she specifically uses the word “regenerated”. I know there’s death of the author and all that, but I think it’s hard to deny the authorial intent is that Missy is a female regeneration of the Master, and that it’s part of a steady move towards making a female Doctor possible.

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Also if I can just interrupt the post briefly: The Fourth Doctor stories have never been so cheap so I'd say one should get it while they have the chance before it skyrockets again.

That’s true… which reminds me I still haven’t gotten the Hinchcliffe box set.

cc: polly-wright-right

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binglesnort replied to your post:Steven Moffat and Jamie Mathieson have co-written...

And let’s not forget Catherine Tregenna has been 100% confirmed now and she was one of the best writers on Torchwood.

Yep. Also, it’s rather interesting how the two episodes’ titles, The Girl Who Died and The Woman Who Lived seem to play off each other. Thematically or narratively linked, perhaps?

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Just curious do you have any theories or ideas on Tasha Lem (from Time of the Doctor) and how she knows the Doctor so well, to the point she can fly the TARDIS?

I expect she and Eleven just went on a few adventures at some point in the many unseen years of Eleven’s the Doctor’s (not Eleven, as has since been pointed out to me) life. Something for the EU to tackle, I suppose.