Dear Puro/Melissa,

I just cried when I read your letter.  It’s too terrible to fully digest.  ):

This Forum will not be the same without you; all your wonderful posts, intellectual insights, musical notices and kindness.

Another horribly sad day for the Doctor Who world.

Much love to you,

J. Smith

<span class=”useratname”>@avaris</span> I had similar thoughts (look on last week’s episode ‘Sleep No More’ thread) about Bad Wolf giving Clara as his guardian angel.

@ichabod Agree about the companion limitations, humans and alien, because at least two alien companions have died in sacrifice.

@juniperfish Awesome tarot summary!

@drben I have wondered, since the Doctor knew it was a trap, if the key was actually to the Tardis.  Darling Rigsby had time to paint his tribute…guess the plotters haven’t found the box….or they have the wrong key.

A little love for Puro everyone, she is back in the hospital and needs our warm thoughts.  Remember, she was in pain when she wrote that post.  Puro loves the show and this Forum and I’m sure it’s eating at her to be part of any disruption or hurt here.  I think she is just taking a break here because of her illness and stress.  I’m sure she wil…[Read more]

@tommo Oh yes!  I think River is still linked to Clara.

If you go with the angel theory Rasmussen is like Angel Bob.  If you go with what we’ve seen, it’s just part of the story.

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@spacedmunkee Dang!  Just looked up your link!  Good one!  Like The Great Intelligence and Clara wrapping around his timeline intersecting and the Raven casting it’s shadow and protecting at the same time.

@lisa Agree, just not ready for another Amy and Rory or Rose moment.  Too sad.

Along the Tarot theory.  We have not seen the ‘Star’ yet, which could mean Clara’s ending has a positive side.  The Star traditionally proceeds Judgement and World cards, and follows the Tower.  Unless tomorrow is the Tower, and if that is true, it’s going to be a devastating episode.

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@bendubz11 Thank you!  Had fun with it.  The River quote seems important.  Possibly they are so deteriorated that they are blind, so they don’t need to cover their eyes.  What happened to Nagata?  Did we ever see anyone get killed?

“What if we had ideas that could think for themselves? What if one day our dreams no longer needed us? When these things occur and are held to be true, the time will be upon us. The Time of Angels.”

“Bob: You’re not talking to me sir. The Angel has no voice. They stripped my cerebral cortex from my body and reanimated a version of my consc…[Read more]

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The video footage, like CAL, the dream man in Amy’s Choice, or the dream crabs, took information, and used it to create a world that felt real, this time in the form of movies, from the dream centre of their minds.  So much of the “scary” parts could have been twisted versions, like in a nightmare, of Clara’s journey to the centre of the Tardis.…[Read more]

Look above him in the meat closet.  Looks like a dream crab, then a glitch, then it’s gone.

@purofilion “…how the Doctor sees Clara -or is trying to and possibly failing – and we also saw the camera slide away from the Doctor and return, quickly and sneakily as if we’re not sure exactly what he’s thinking.”   Good point!  The bug on Donna’s back doesn’t seem that Dalek Caan would send, he was in favor of the Doctor.  Maybe the Great In…[Read more]

….and “Why did CAL know what face to SHOW Donna before HER upload, and who sent the bug on Donna’s back?”  was another major typo.  Will try and slow down and proof before I push send next time.  :-

Sorry, lots of typos, since it was a fast stream of thought.  This is how the sentence should read: “‘Sleep no More’ may have been a clever way to get the universe thinking about a quantum locked being through a televised production.  “The image of an angel” if you remember with AMY Pond was enough.”

@catladymeow Good criticism.   Yes, some of us, like you, understood the episode just fine.  I was also never confused by it, just didn’t really move me in any kind of way.  Appreciated the brave attempt, and always like a good layering of ‘Matrix’ like themes, it just never pulled me in.

@jphamlore & @ichabod I agree about the Moon tarot ca…[Read more]

@purofilion @arbutus @soundworld @janetteb

Beautifully written about the Doctors and the music, all of you!  What a lovely way to start my morning.  🙂

Okay proof I’ve been working on Nutcracker too long.  I’ve always seen Drosselmeyer as Doctor Who, so much so that in our Nutcracker he dresses as the Doctor and leaves in what could be a blue…[Read more]