Are you mad, in a coma, or back in time?

I wish you could 'like' posts on here like you can on Facebook

Spent the last 5 minutes reading through the comments on this thread and howling laughing!

Mods? How about it? Give us a like button?

But which companion of the last 50 years is meant to be Gene?...

What are you talking about? Why do you think the events of Last Xmas have anything to do with series 8 except for the final seconds when Santa appeared? Honestly some of you guys seem to be watching a different show to me (and I wish you would...)

Wouldn't the first Doctor be Gene Hunt being slightly grumpy and all that. I do find this thread slightly amusing.

-haha -good idea

I'd like possibly a whole series devoted to the Doctor waking up and realising he's in in a mental institution, they tell him his name is actually John Smith, he is in fact a human and he has been living an all consuming fantasy life with multiple personalities for the past 50 years (since he was 6 years old). Yes, kind of like "The Prisoner" I know. It could be pretty dark, span across several episodes, involve twists & variations of parts by the regulars (a bit like Inferno too).

The series would end with a shower scene back in the Doctor's Tardis between him & Clara (of course).

STTNG's episode Frame of Mind springs to, errr, mind.

A fairly commonly used trope. I think DW's own Human Nature and Family of Blood touched on it a bit, with John Smith's drawings in his note book.

Like a bit of weirdness in Who and adore The Prisoner so like the idea, although as stated above Human Nature/Family of Blood does go into that area. Not sure about you're last sentence, mind!

(I know....it's the head it goes into, not the mouth it comes out of. )

On reflection I don't think the concept would work for the Doctor himself. Timelord psychic abilities and the Doctor's mental fortitude suggest to me such a strategy wouldn't work on him.

It would make a good one-off or two parter if it centred on the companion instead.

Was series eight a dream, you ask. I see many, many people on here making derogatory remarks, but I have seen quite convincing evidence elsewhere that suggests that series eight was exactly that.

Now people are going to laugh, then try and pull your theories apart. However, what the naysayers want to remember, is that this is Moffat we are talking about.
The very same Moffat that made River Song Amy's daughter. And we had all the same naysayers saying that wouldn't happen, and that Moffat is far too clever to be that obvious.
Or what about the teselecta rubbish. Again we had people laughing, calling others idiots, saying that Moffat wouldn't go down that road.

All I am saying is, don't dismiss the idea entirely because with Moffat, absolutely nothing surprises me anymore.

"It's all a dream" or similar isn't even a new thought:

http://forums.digitalspy.co.uk/showp...6&postcount=20

And more recently:

http://forums.digitalspy.co.uk/showp...0&postcount=41

Yes, fair point -this being an idea I had before I saw Human Nature/Family of Blood.

I'd never seen this 2 parter until it was recently repeated here in NZ in early December last year. It was a great story & I can see why a lot of people rate them in their top 10. For me it easily slots in to my top 5 from new Who.
But yeah, you are probably right though- my idea is a little too close to this 2 parter.

What could have separated it a bit, & the other good point around it not being something the Doctor would fall for with him being too clever, could have been the reintroduction of the Master (aka as Missy) in charge of the Institution. She would have been great and quite sinister in the role, and as it would be a fellow Time Lord, it would be someone with the intellect to be able to set out and destroy the Doctor's mind. So the twist near the end would be, after the audience starting to believe possibly the whole premise of "Doctor Who" been one big fantasy all along, we find out the warden of the institution is really the Master/ Missy, and of course John Smith is still actually a Time Lord and not just another nutter. Of course that ship has now sailed as we already know who Missy is!

In terms of the shower scene -that was a throw a way comment in light of Dallas when Pam Ewing walked in on Bobby in the shower to realise the whole season was simply one big dream.
Of course we are yet to see a shower in the Tardis. Or a washing machine for that matter. Add to this the fact the Doctor rarely seems to change his attire until he reincarnates would seem to indicate he can only attract traveling companions with a very poor sense of smell!

I'm all for it, but only on the condition that Clara asks the Doctor which slut he's time-travelling with tonight, only for him to reply, "whoever she is, she's got to be better than the slut I'm looking at right now".

And then The Doctor leaves the Tardis (which has transformed into a replica of Southfork Ranch from a police box!)

If SM did try and copy Dallas, it could look something like this:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9EUqwkoPsV0

I've seen that clip a few times, and still love it!