@Blenkinsopthebrave Well if you are an appallingly rank sentimentalist then I think
that holds for most of the rest of us as well! Who doesn’t wish Clara an ending
in which everything works out ( and also everything that we have been bonkerizing
also adds up 😉 )

@Bluesqueakpip @Mudlark @jphamlore

I’m totally expecting a block buster twist about Clara’s last days. I expect nothing less!
It seems to me that when Clara says ‘you don’t leave me’ that hit a nerve in the Doctor
because he nearly keeled over. Why? Because he knows he needs to be with her to help with
what ever it is will be…[Read more]

@Bluesqueakpip and @GothamCelt Sorry! – I got @ compromised again 🙁
and the previous posts were @ both of you

@Bluequeakpip Yes! That’s where the regeneration energy that she recently absorbed
may come into play. But it might possibly go wrong because of the Dalek influence?

@GothamCell Interesting that a group of Ravens is known as a conspiracy. I love
factoids like that.

@RorySmith So you think that Clara is Missy’s granddaughter and that
Missy wouldn’t care about sacrificing her. But I don’t understand how that
will win any points for Missy with the Doctor. I thought she wanted to make
amends with him not destroy him. She could have been compromised by some
regeneration/Dalek energy. That is something I’d…[Read more]

@purofilion the ‘bootstrap’ comes from a sci fi story.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/By_His_Bootstraps

@Ozitenor Yeah Blink and also @jphamlore Genesis of the Daleks too!
But the Doctor didn’t purposefully design those paradoxes as a means
to personal ends in his own story yet.

@Ichabod I’m not ruling out that it could be Missy that sets into motion whatever
it is that happens to get to the end of Clara as companion. But she isn’t really Missy’s
creature.
Unless its for maybe 5 minutes as a possible cliffhanger…. that could work

@Ichabod Missy has been back and forth on Clara’s timeline and has figured out
the Clara connections. By hybrid I think she means that she already knows that Clara
isn’t totally what she appears. It was established that as the impossible girl Clara is
something new. Who better to weaponize for maximum impact then someone that is so close
and…[Read more]

The ‘Impossible Astronaut’ and “Day of the Moon” made a great loop involving River. That was
when I realized that the Doctor could skillfully manipulate loops. Then there was the “Big Bang”
which was when the Tardis went into a time loop to save River. This was an important part of loop
education for River too. She’s the original “loopy’ girl.…[Read more]

@cumquat Bassett hounds are cool 🙂

@Arbutus I must humbly disagree. I think that since series 8 SM has been
diligently mining myths, fairy tales, tarot etc. for effect. It all reinforces
all his messaging towards the over all story arc. Furthermore, he seems to
have extensive knowledge about all of this stuff and I bet he has been having
lots of fun incorporating all of it…[Read more]

I’ve been thinking about these Tarot associations.
In the Arthur legend when the Fisher king gets wounded the life force is
drained out of him. This alien drained the life force out of people.
Also, in the Tarot this card is associated with water and the alien
died in a watery grave.

Loving all these mythology interpretations in the series lots!

@Mudlark Yes just saying the costumes are extremely similar on 2 characters
so it was probably an opportunity to re use a good costume.
picture of…[Read more]

@Mudlark Why was the Tivoli dressed as a Victorian undertaker? I thought in Deep
Breath the half-faced man was dressed in a similar fashion. Your right it seemed a
peculiar choice on the Tivoli. I guessed they were trying to paint a point about
death in both cases.

The Doctor said his regeneration was a bit of a clerical error. Then he also said he was
changing history to save Clara. So again in those instances I thought of what that implies.
It’s foreshadowing something and there’s definitely a point there.

Then that conversation that they had where Clara says ‘you do not leave me’ felt like she
was…[Read more]

The phone conversation between Clara and the Doctor sounded like River
and reminiscent of the scene when River was about to die and made the speech
to the TenDoc about her future having already happened. Later Clara also told
the scientist that he has to keep going which were also words River used.

The Doctor seemed like he was curiously frantic…[Read more]

Found the first 2 parter more satisfying. My feeling is that we are getting set up
towards a very big paradox to come later. It could be about Clara and
how they might end her story? They brought up ‘love’ is this episode. @Juniperfish
River is going to be involved. The leaf the raven and rebirth.

@Craig Love having your previews! Thank!

One more thing about the leaf possibly coming from a Sycamore tree. The Egyptian goddess Hathor
is 1 of the 3 goddesses we have been previously been discussing. She is represented by the Sycamore
and also mirrors and has strong connections with lots of celestial bodies. She is the sky goddess and
is covered in stars. She is also supposed to be a…[Read more]

@Mudlark Yes, my money is on the Sycamore which I know well because I have one.
Thought that it was probably that but also thought I’d surf around to see if there
was anything else. Sycamores are not native to the UK however the Egyptians
also thought about them as portal trees between worlds. So maybe its that.
Or maybe not? What I am sure…[Read more]