Yes! I asked your questions 1 and 2! If you find any answers, please let me know!
As for #3: I thought there wasn't even a molecule of Timelord-there was just his entire timestream that anyone could walk into. And that drove me kind of nuts. I was going to do a post after the episode, but I saw that people enjoyed it, and my enjoyment really was hampered by my constant chorus of "What? WHAT?", so I didn't get around to it. My biggest "WHAT?" involved what we saw of the Doctor inside. Because if the Great Intelligence* could jump into the Doctor's time stream, anyone can!
Except for the Doctor himself. He should be the one person unable to jump inside, because then the whole thing unravels or collapses like a star into a black hole. I wanted to bang my head against the coffee table at the end of the episode when he jumped in anyway and found Clara . . . where? Oy.
I'm bothered by the grave and the open time stream and a whole bunch of things. I have no answers.
I can't tell you how glad I was that Jenny didn't die permanently.
I was kind of wondering if it was caught up with the TARDIS's general time vortex. It was in the same spot and when the dude in the Center of TARDIS opened it, we were hearing things from the Doctor's timeline, not entirely, but yeah... Considering Rose and Donna went bonkers trying to deal with glimpses of it, not sure that flies either as an explanation.
I think that was really Clara and I don't think she was specifically in a where or in a when. I think it was just a construct of the Doctor's consciousness/memories--like the place Vastra set up that used to be the Taj Mahal and she remembered tea (and River remembered Champagne). But the Doctor's was amped up on steroids.
1. the Doctor and Clara were going through the depths of the TARDIS via River's gravestone. So...why were they doing that? The next thing we saw was them showing up back OUTSIDE the TARDIS in...well, basically the middle of the trap. How did they get there?!
Well, I can answer this one: The TARDIS interior has gotten so large, the control room is still inside, but so is all of the bits of where Vastra, Jenny, Strax and then the Doctor and Clara were. When Vastra first wakes up and looks up, you see where she is; you see the windows of the huge TARDIS and the words "POLICE" but backward, from the inside. So they are all still inside the TARDIS in those scenes, and so is the door to the tomb.
ETA: at 20:00 if you are watching. They are high up inside the giant TARDIS, nearly at the windows. The top is open to the sky because it's falling apart.
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3. Hmm. A grave doesn't necessarily mean that there's anything left intact. It could just be the final marker of remembrance.
2. I assume that the psychic connection that enabled it somehow. Timey-wimey...er...magnets!
1. Physical space and time becomes even more flexible in proximity to a dying Tardis?
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2. Magnets as explanation--not just for Stargate anymore.
1. Actually, your #1 explanation kinda works for #2. Hmmm...
(Also, *hugs* hope you're doing okay. Haven't seen you in a while).
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As for #3: I thought there wasn't even a molecule of Timelord-there was just his entire timestream that anyone could walk into. And that drove me kind of nuts. I was going to do a post after the episode, but I saw that people enjoyed it, and my enjoyment really was hampered by my constant chorus of "What? WHAT?", so I didn't get around to it. My biggest "WHAT?" involved what we saw of the Doctor inside. Because if the Great Intelligence* could jump into the Doctor's time stream, anyone can!
Except for the Doctor himself. He should be the one person unable to jump inside, because then the whole thing unravels or collapses like a star into a black hole. I wanted to bang my head against the coffee table at the end of the episode when he jumped in anyway and found Clara . . . where? Oy.
I'm bothered by the grave and the open time stream and a whole bunch of things. I have no answers.
I can't tell you how glad I was that Jenny didn't die permanently.
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I was kind of wondering if it was caught up with the TARDIS's general time vortex. It was in the same spot and when the dude in the Center of TARDIS opened it, we were hearing things from the Doctor's timeline, not entirely, but yeah... Considering Rose and Donna went bonkers trying to deal with glimpses of it, not sure that flies either as an explanation.
I think that was really Clara and I don't think she was specifically in a where or in a when. I think it was just a construct of the Doctor's consciousness/memories--like the place Vastra set up that used to be the Taj Mahal and she remembered tea (and River remembered Champagne). But the Doctor's was amped up on steroids.
Yay Jenny!
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Well, I can answer this one: The TARDIS interior has gotten so large, the control room is still inside, but so is all of the bits of where Vastra, Jenny, Strax and then the Doctor and Clara were. When Vastra first wakes up and looks up, you see where she is; you see the windows of the huge TARDIS and the words "POLICE" but backward, from the inside. So they are all still inside the TARDIS in those scenes, and so is the door to the tomb.
ETA: at 20:00 if you are watching. They are high up inside the giant TARDIS, nearly at the windows. The top is open to the sky because it's falling apart.
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I didn't realize the tomb was INSIDE the TARDIS. That makes a helluva lot of sense.
I'll have to look at those scenes again.
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