Almost immediately after the Christmas special, I stated that this season made it seem like The Doctor was dreaming. There are weird combinations of images, references, characters, and villains from The Doctor’s past. As many people have noticed, there are a great deal of Rose references, for starters. Of course, if he were dreaming, there would be a lot of holes in the story, but there is more than one way to dream, however.
Anonymous asked: What are your Clara theories?
Here are some hints:
1. I’ve said it before, basically.
2. There is a reason she is the perfect companion-a combination of all the other companions, with a lot in common with Rose. And there is a reason she does things The Doctor has always wanted, like how she doesn’t wander off.
3. And the reason is because that is what The Doctor wants.
Clara Oswin Oswald is the harbinger of doom.
The canary-in-the-coal-mine of the universe and time collapsing.
Of the void collapsing.
That’s why Rose and Ten and (presumably) other Doctors can appear.
That’s why Clara can exist in multiple spots in time, in multiple timelines, at the same point in her life. And die every time, only to re-appear.
And why the Doctor ends up on the fields to Trenzalor revealing who he truly is.
This is my theory about Oswin and the upcoming series of Doctor Who. If you haven’t seen The Snowmen, don’t read unless you love spoilers and want to marry them.
“Is The Doctor dreaming?” is something I thought repeatedly during the Christmas special. There are so many oddly placed references to past episodes and reincarnations that it seemed like they were fragmented aspects of the Doctor’s subconscious.
Let’s start with the characters. Obviously, Vastra, Jenny, Strax, and Oswin are all characters that have occurred before. Oswin is magically alive again, despite (presumably) dying in her previous appearance AND having been Dalekified. Not only is she not dead, but she is sans a metal shell. This is the first hint something is weird.
The second is the fact that Strax is also not dead. The only explanation we get is that a friend of the Doctor’s revived him. You know when you’re having a dream and you’re all like riding a unicorn to the Stop & Go by your house and the clerk is all like, “Where did you get the unicorn,” and your dream logic is like, “Oh, my friend beat a leprechaun in a fight and won it.” That’s what the Doctor’s explanation for Strax being alive felt like. In dream logic, it makes perfect sense. When you wake up, it makes none. Like, no one stopped him and was like, “Holy shit, you have a friend who can control life and death? Are you estranged with him because you have a lot of people die around you and you never told us that you knew a guy who could do that stuff.”
When’s The Doctor?
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I forgot to write this, but this is an idea I’ve been sitting on since Angels Take Manhattan.
As most of you know, something was off about the paper Amy was reading at the start of Angels.
As you can see, it says “Detroit Lions Win Super Bowl.”
I forgot to write this, but this is an idea I’ve been sitting on since Angels Take Manhattan.
As most of you know, something was off about the paper Amy was reading at the start of Angels.
As you can see, it says “Detroit Lions Win Super Bowl.”
It just so happens that the next episode in the series I was set to review was one featuring Charles Dickens. It also just so happens to be Charles Dickens’ birthday. Coincidence? Definitely (Note: this gives you a rough idea how long it takes me to finish these things). In case you are new to this, I write semi-reviews of shows, but with a more positive twist, focusing on why you should have enjoyed it, instead of nit-picking it to death. You can find the previous “Why You Should Have Liked It” here.
So here is why you should have liked The Unquiet Dead, you unappeasable ass:
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It just so happens that the next episode in the series I was set to review was one featuring Charles Dickens. It also just so happens to be Charles Dickens’ birthday. Coincidence? Definitely (Note: this gives you a rough idea how long it takes me to finish these things). In case you are new to this, I write semi-reviews of shows, but with a more positive twist, focusing on why you should have enjoyed it, instead of nit-picking it to death. You can find the previous “Why You Should Have Liked It” here.
So here is why you should have liked The Unquiet Dead, you unappeasable ass:
It just so happens that the next episode in the series I was set to review was one featuring Charles Dickens. It also just so happens to be Charles Dickens’ birthday. Coincidence? Definitely (Note: this gives you a rough idea how long it takes me to finish these things). In case you are new to this, I write semi-reviews of shows, but with a more positive twist, focusing on why you should have enjoyed it, instead of nit-picking it to death. You can find the previous “Why You Should Have Liked It” here.
So here is why you should have liked The Unquiet Dead, you unappeasable ass:
Just in case you missed the first one of these, you can find it here. Again, this is sort of a quasi-review, focusing on the positive of an episode, rather than what is wrong with it. As such, how an episode plays into the series as a whole is essential to appreciating the individual episode. This is a long-winded way of saying there are a lot of spoilers in this. So, here is why you should have liked The End of the World, you unappeasable ass.
Just in case you missed the first one of these, you can find it here. Again, this is sort of a quasi-review, focusing on the positive of an episode, rather than what is wrong with it. As such, how an episode plays into the series as a whole is essential to appreciating the individual episode. This is a long-winded way of saying there are a lot of spoilers in this. So, here is why you should have liked The End of the World, you unappeasable ass.
Most of the time, the Doctor Who Christmas specials are self-contained. They are generally different in tone and directed at a more casual Doctor Who fan. If Doctor Who were football (the one played with hands, without the flopping), the Christmas Special is the Canadian Football League- the same game, but there are some slight variations that just make it feel different. Much of the time, The Doctor is not even the focus of the Christmas special and, instead, it focuses on someone else and them saving the day. That said, despite is being completely self-contained, there are usually homages to the previous series and little things here or there that connect to the next series. For example, Abigail’s Song comes to mind from A Christmas Carol. Of course, it didn’t clarify anything, or help us figure things out in any way, but it was a nice Easter egg for those paying attention.
So is there something like that in The Doctor, The Widow, and the Wardrobe? Maybe. Particularly the exchange where the forest “king and queen” tell The Doctor that he was always coming there, and they waited for him. In particular, they say three things:
“Your coming was foretold”
“We had faith. Your coming was foretold.”
“We waited, and you came.”
It is never explained who foretold The Doctor’s coming or why. It seems there is a religious connotation, which means it could have been The Silence, but that doesn’t really make sense in the grand scheme of things. Of course, if we know anything about religion in the universe, it’s that if one religion believes one thing, there is bound to be one that believes the opposite. Or, it could be someone who knows the intricacies of The Doctor’s travels, say River.
It would be cool if there was a connection to series 5 and, say, that the voice we hear in the TARDIS saying, “Silence will fall,” is still at work, moving The Doctor like a pawn on a chess board.
Or, it could be nothing, like it often is.
Nothing seems to have united the Doctor Who fandom quite like the thought of a Doctor Who movie that has no relation to the actual Doctor Who TV series. The vitriol directed toward David Yates (the would-be director of the project) is only the kind normally reserved for Steven Moffat. At first, I did not like the idea, but, after my initial emotional reaction, the idea has grown on me, and here is why:
For those that missed it yesterday.
Nothing seems to have united the Doctor Who fandom quite like the thought of a Doctor Who movie that has no relation to the actual Doctor Who TV series. The vitriol directed toward David Yates (the would-be director of the project) is only the kind normally reserved for Steven Moffat. At first, I did not like the idea, but, after my initial emotional reaction, the idea has grown on me, and here is why:
Born in a hospital that looks like an octopus, I spend way too much time imagining what the life of Mr. Rourke from Fantasy Island was like.
After graduating from college, I moved away from my hometown, vowing never to return.
I have now returned to my hometown, and now I vow to never trip over a giant pile of money, just in case.
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