@ardaraith

I’m replying to your post in JttCotT here because it was about this episode…

Honestly I don’t know why the Doc is so frisky with Clara one minute and so grandpaternal with her the next. I […]

@MiaPatrick and @ardaraith and I have been discussing the references to Jane Eyre and Wide Sargasso Sea on The Graun. Ada and the Doctor as Bertha Mason and Mr. Rochester, but which is which?

More evidence that […]

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@ardaraith – you’ve pointed out a couple of times the poignancy of Clara taking the docs hand as he grieves for the tardis.

@bluesqeakpip, you made me remember, the only other time I can think that happened […]

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I misspelled you @ardaraith! Just wanted to give you props (as they say in my adopted homeland) for your TARDIS theory.

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@ardaraith – I didn’t realise Matt Smith had played that theatre role  – incestous with his mother!

This brought to mind the film ‘Womb’/’Clone’.

Perhaps Clara is the Dr’s mum in ‘human’ form, & a version of […]

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@ardaraith     The thing is, ardaraith, we know next to nothing about Susan. She is the Doctor’s grand-daughter and she is telepathic – but that’s about it.

We don’t know why she is with the Doctor in Unearthly […]

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Matt in drag – thanks for the link – Aww, how young he looks! DM says of the part – “Smith plays the confused and damaged 18-year-old Henry, who has an incestuous relationship with his drug-abusing […]

@ardaraith Aww sweet – I don’t think white is his colour tho’

@HTPBDET and @Blenkinsopthebrave

On a dark Doctor to come, I refer you to the words of Dorium Maldovar (whom @Bobbingbird once famously thought […]

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my imagination is running away with me

So why else would you be hanging about in here!!

(This is the place to be in case Moff’s resolution proves to be less imaginative than our bonkers theories hehe)

@Bluesqueakpip @ardaraith @timeloop – agreed!

Gallifrey is in, in Nu Who, in a “bubble universe” if you like, ahem rather like the one helpfully and probably not coincidentally recently illustrated in […]

how exactly does the timelock interfere with River going there?

@timeloop (welcome! And a very appropriate handle) – my understanding is like @ardaraith‘s – it’s generally presumed that the timelock has frozen […]

@ardaraith how exactly does the timelock interfere with River going there? The war still happened, am I right(it is not a no longer needed timeline)? so everything before the war happened…. Just at that certain […]

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Yes I too like Lindalee’s theory that the TARDIS is protecting Clara. The Doctor keeps assuming the TARDIS is jealous (ego much!) but perhaps he can’t see how […]

@Bluesqueakpip, @ardaraith… we’ve also noticed there’s been lots of parent/child themes in Moffat’s reign.  As well as the examples you mention above, children either without parents or with substitute parental […]

@ardaraith – thinking about the ‘children’ reference in that encyclopaedia (and I’m pretty sure one of the other indistinct words was ‘child’) – is that the key to the Doctor’s situation?

The ice in his heart, […]

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