Holographic Wallpaper

[janie_aire]

Spoilers for The Girl Who Waited

This is meta.

And sciencey stuffs, not exactly character stuffs, but it's applicable.  Really!

It helps make sense of the whole underlying concept, all the mirroring and duplicates and what have you.

So.

You're warned.

In The Girl Who Waited, Rory is left waiting amidst the statues and a Gate while The Doctor and Amy (the

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[owlsie]

Meta and physics. OOohhh. <3

[promethia_tenk]

That is super cool, and a really tidy way of unifying the show's themes of images and perception, space and time (physics), the mind, information recording . . . Love it.

Can I ask what you think the significance of both Amy and Rory being anesthetized right after looking at a hologram is?

[janie_aire]

Being anesthetized is a kind metaphor for dying.

Why tie this into holography? Because, in a sense, the Universe is a hologram. It has two sides, an inside (which we see subjectively when we're alive) and an outside (which we see objectively when we're dead and hence disembodied.)

The outside is a reflection of the inside, and vice-versa.