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I think if Clara twists her ankle, the internet will explode!

Bah! Humbug! I called that ages ago. “Watch out for the missing shoe” I said. Did anyone listen? Ha! Harrumph! 😉

@juniperfish Narrative […]

@Juniperfish.  Well, I agree that the song and the apparent connection with Skaldak are there for a reason – but I think the reason may be to distract. From what Clara does when she sings the song – which is […]

@Juniperfish – I think it’s a case of is David Warner playing an actual Time Lord? Or is he playing the person the Doctor should be, but manifestly isn’t?

That is, is he symbolically filling the Doctor shaped […]

@juniperfish – I have to agree with @htpbdet (it had to happen eventually!) the doc is just praying to himself, willing Skaldak to do the right thing. I think Clara is simply singing to herself to cope with the […]

@Juniperfish

Sorry – but your reading does not accord with what we see.

Skaldak has gone, with his suit and his communicator. The Doctor is not talking to him but speaking rhetorically, out loud – vocalising […]

@Juniperfish.     But that is not what happens. She sings after he has gone to the Martian ship. Her singing could not be heard by Skaldak. 

@Juniperfish – Clara wasn’t in the ep of course, but the Doctor also said he was hands 3 and 4 on the duet that was playing when he first met Solomon in Dinosaurs on a Spaceship (sorry, have forgotten the […]

@Juniperfish.     But did she? We may think that, but nothing Skaldak says or does actually suggests it. He asks the Doctor who will blink first and Clara steps in. Before he decides anything, the Martian ship […]

@Juniperfish – the “power of a name” idea has also already cropped up in the Shakespeare episode with 10, where the Doctor was able to defeat the Carrionite in Bedlam because he knew her true name – “that’s old magic”.

Going on from ‘pass-word’ protected, I wonder if (if there is a password) it’s the Doctor’s name?

Looking at your Egyptology references, @Juniperfish, I note that the name is one of the parts of a person’s […]

@juniperfish – exactly @ardaraith, although I love the idea of river playing a long game on trust – and she certainly is manipulating the doc in a playful way – that gambit wouldn’t really engender trust, right […]

@juniperfish (and everyone!) – Cheers <hic> 😉

Song refs in Asylum – Carmen… and the Dr said he was on the recording that was blasting out, presumably from Clara’s psyche

@HaveYouFedTheFish @juniperfish – however, learning that someone tricked you into revealing “the name,” would not engendered trust.

In Classic Who, the Time Lords seemed able to exercise significant control […]

@juniperfish … Much as I’m rooting for you on the Egyptology front, that someone tried to unify pyramids of mars with the ice warriors canon is kind of inevitable, so maybe that does quite count … 😀

If the […]

@lula @juniperfish – that vortex rose creates Clara; I don’t think it stands up when you look at what rose actually says. She specifically says she scatters words, a message to herself (not life). She says she can […]

One more thing–who’s going to speculate about that Barbie ?  @Juniperfish, any theories?  I’m hoping this means he has a Barbie Dream House somewhere in the Tardis.  It’s bigger on the inside.

@Juniperfish Salve! Couldn’t resist joining in.

Could Sindy be a hint towards The Celestial Toymaker? It would fit with the notion of ‘fictional’ realities to challenge the Doctor, and in turn fit with some of […]

Welcome back @Juniperfish!

Will probably have to post more detailed thoughts tomorrow. I was a bit to excited to really note much other than “THIS IS FANTASTIC!” on my first watch.

I really want to watch […]

@Juniperfish – I’m not all that well up on mythology, but we’ve had a Minotaur already, and didn’t someone escape from the Minotaur’s labyrinth using a ball of string? <clutches desperately at straw>!

@Juniperfish – good theory! The clues in support of your two Doctors theory certainly do seem to be mounting up.