Doctor Who - Listen

[djm4]

Yes, I'm a week behind in write-ups; I'll try to get to Time Heist soon.

Comments

[purplerabbits]

I loved the episode too. My only explanation for the thing under the cover and the other physical clues that *isn't* another child, the wind etc is that it's the power of the Doctor's mind making them see what they expect to see. Either that or his mind has rigged the telephathic circuits to seek out places in time with just such coincidences...

I never had that dream as a child, possibly cos I had a bunk bed and the only thing under it was my sister :-)

[djm4]

Don't think I ever had that dream, although the sense of something suddenly appearing where I'd convinced my dreaming self that there was nothing was familiar.

Possibly I also never had Clara under my bed, either, which might explain it.

just wittering really

[booklectic]

When Clara originally says to Rupert: "could this be one of your friends?" I was aware that I expected his answer to be "I don't have any friends," because that would fit the trope of alienated-child-in-care-home. I was pleased when he didn't say that, both because I prefer it when the obvious thing doesn't get said, and because it suggested that he did have friends there.

Of course, from a narrative POV, the reason he didn't say that was probably because they wanted to leave the question open of whether it is indeed a friend under the blanket. But I'd like to think that it could have been a non-malicious prank*, and that he did have friends there.

*which isn't to say I think it definitely was that - I'm prepared to believe it was a monster of some kind, but I'm happy for it to be left as an open question. Agree it couldn't have been a perfect-hiding monster - but then, the Doctor should have known that too?

[djm4]

Good point about Rupert not saying that he didn't have any friends.

The Doctor ... was not thinking clearly at that point. He Had A Theory, and was falsely seeing confirmation of that in everything he encountered.