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Old 28-12-2014, 00:00
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After watching the Christmas special it has pretty much proved that Series 8 was a dream and none of the events happened.
That idea had to have come from the Dallas dream series but the real question is why did Moffat do it?

Dallas did it because they regretted killing Bobby Ewing so could Moffat have done it because he regretted making The Master a female or killing Danny Pink or maybe because he made the Moon an egg.

I shall look forward to series 9 and maybe The Doctor and Clara will have REAL adventures.
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Old 28-12-2014, 00:30
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After watching the Christmas special it has pretty much proved that Series 8 was a dream and none of the events happened.
That idea had to have come from the Dallas dream series but the real question is why did Moffat do it?

Dallas did it because they regretted killing Bobby Ewing so could Moffat have done it because he regretted making The Master a female or killing Danny Pink or maybe because he made the Moon an egg.

I shall look forward to series 9 and maybe The Doctor and Clara will have REAL adventures.
Well, no it doesn't but don't let that alter your view.
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Old 28-12-2014, 07:47
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I think moffat could learn from the recent series of Dallas in how to produce a TV drama. I thought it was quality.
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Old 28-12-2014, 08:23
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After watching the Christmas special it has pretty much proved that Series 8 was a dream
No, not at all.

Which seems to make the rest of your post pretty much redundant.
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Old 28-12-2014, 09:09
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Series 8 was not a dream. I have no idea why anyone would think this. The dream state happened after he said goodbye to Clara at the end of the season.
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Old 28-12-2014, 09:49
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Series 8 was not a dream. I have no idea why anyone would think this. The dream state happened after he said goodbye to Clara at the end of the season.
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Old 28-12-2014, 10:02
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After watching the Christmas special it has pretty much proved that Series 8 was a dream and none of the events happened.
That idea had to have come from the Dallas dream series but the real question is why did Moffat do it?

Dallas did it because they regretted killing Bobby Ewing so could Moffat have done it because he regretted making The Master a female or killing Danny Pink or maybe because he made the Moon an egg.

I shall look forward to series 9 and maybe The Doctor and Clara will have REAL adventures.
Er. Nope. Did you dream your theory?
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Old 28-12-2014, 11:57
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Perhaps every episode since 1963 has been a dream.
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Old 28-12-2014, 12:09
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Perhaps every episode since 1963 has been a dream.
You mean it's all in the mind of that policeman who appeared right at the start of An Unearthly Child? Are we figments of his imagination too?
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Old 28-12-2014, 12:12
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Perhaps every episode since 1963 has been a dream.
"We're all stories in the end."

Hmmm....existential crisis alert!
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Old 28-12-2014, 13:50
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Hopefully everything from when clara died in the snowmem turns out to be a dream in her final minutes similar to the pam ewing dream. We can then look forward to seeing matt Smith back as the doctot in the next serie
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Old 28-12-2014, 14:11
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Perhaps every episode since 1963 has been a dream.
You mean it's all in the mind of that policeman who appeared right at the start of An Unearthly Child? Are we figments of his imagination too?
Perhaps every story up until The Mind Robber was real but then the Doctor, Jamie and Zoe never really escaped from the Land Of Fiction
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Old 28-12-2014, 15:05
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You mean it's all in the mind of that policeman who appeared right at the start of An Unearthly Child? Are we figments of his imagination too?
# "Its a god awful small affair,
to the girl with the mousy hair,
But her mummy is yelling "No"
And her daddy has told her to go,
But her friend is nowhere to be seen,
Now she walks through her sunken dream..."#

You don't...you don't think?...
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Old 28-12-2014, 16:55
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After watching the Christmas special it has pretty much proved that Series 8 was a dream and none of the events happened.
This comment is so idiotic it couldn't possibly be anything other than blatant trolling...
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Old 28-12-2014, 16:56
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I think moffat could learn from the recent series of Dallas in how to produce a TV drama. I thought it was quality.
Shame the Americans dont seem to agree.

Thanks for not watching guys & getting it cancelled!
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Old 28-12-2014, 21:30
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So who (ahem) would you like to see coming out of the shower?
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Old 28-12-2014, 21:46
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So who (ahem) would you like to see coming out of the shower?
Clara.
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Old 28-12-2014, 21:58
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Yes. Yes he is. Soon as I saw the "Stetsons are cool" scene in The Impossible Astronaut I thought, aye aye, here come the Dallas references. This can only end in a rip off of the ludicrous shower scene from that programme. The only detail in the scene that we all know is coming....will Capaldi be wearing a shower cap as another homage to Jon Pertwee?
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Old 29-12-2014, 19:55
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Yes it would be great if the Doctor could go back and get Pam Ewing from the 80's she was a real hottie in her prime
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Old 29-12-2014, 21:16
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Perhaps every episode since 1963 has been a dream.
Actually, every episode since 1958 has been a dream.

It's a long story.

Last edited by Vopiscus : 29-12-2014 at 21:22. Reason: Faffing about with punctuation.
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Old 29-12-2014, 21:20
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After watching the Christmas special it has pretty much proved that Series 8 was a dream and none of the events happened.
That idea had to have come from the Dallas dream series but the real question is why did Moffat do it?

Dallas did it because they regretted killing Bobby Ewing so could Moffat have done it because he regretted making The Master a female or killing Danny Pink or maybe because he made the Moon an egg.

I shall look forward to series 9 and maybe The Doctor and Clara will have REAL adventures.
Perhaps this thread is a nightmare?
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Old 29-12-2014, 22:00
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I wish the McCoy era was a dream that never actually happened.
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Old 29-12-2014, 22:58
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I actually made a joke about how the xmas special wasn't like "Bobby walking out of the shower," in the main episode thread. The reason I made it was because the notion of "it was all just a meaningless dream," was ludicrously inaccurate compared to what the episode actually portrayed.

The idea that it suggests the whole of series 8 was a dream is just...I actually don't have the words to describe it. Oh wait...yes, I do.

Obvious troll is obvious.
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Old 30-12-2014, 04:33
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# "Its a god awful small affair,
to the girl with the mousy hair,
But her mummy is yelling "No"
And her daddy has told her to go,
But her friend is nowhere to be seen,
Now she walks through her sunken dream..."#

You don't...you don't think?...
Yaaay! David Bowie, Is There Life on Mars, I think.


Edit: Oh, and don't forget about the amazingly appropriate line: "Look at those cavemen go."
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Old 30-12-2014, 06:17
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I think moffat could learn from the recent series of Dallas in how to produce a TV drama. I thought it was quality.
Wasn't it cancelled?
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