She Said, He Said: Prequel Meta

[janie_aire]

Doctor Who Meta

She Said, He Said: Name of the Doctor Prequel

Spoilers *only* *for* *the* *prequel*

No other spoilers!   Promise!  Not even the trailers.

Wherein Janie makes wild speculation on the upcoming episode based on the structural mirroring of the prequel... and importantly, where that mirroring breaks down...Who are you

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[verdande_mi]

Hi, new around these parts :) Hope you don’t mind me friending you.

This is so very nifty! Thank you for such a great break down of the prequel. Made it all the more interesting to watch again.

[janie_aire]

I'm glad to be of service!

[spaciireth]

Followed a friend's link here and damn, I'm going to have to go home and watch these side-by-side now. I am filled with equal parts excitement and foreboding for this episode, not because the title concerns me at all (remember how everyone freaked out about The Doctor's Wife?) but because I'm sure nothing is going to be the same after it.

[janie_aire]

The one thing that gives me hope is Clara's expression at the end. She's seen the future... and she kinda likes it!

[flowsoffire]

Wow! Such detailed, in-depth analysis, I was truly floored. It's amazing :D Thank you for sharing, I was fascinated throughout this whole post!
The parallel to Midnight just chilled me, and yet it's woooonderful! Loving the love/deaths themes as well, and the little breaks in synchronization, the waiting for the other to catch up. That symbolism is just… wow.

[janie_aire]

Thank *you* for reading!

[boji]

Have linked to this from the Doctor Who dreamwidth comm btw.

Also, talking of doubles and mirroring and symbolism, it's pertinent (somehow I'm sure) that we see waxworks/dolls of Clara and the Doctor here and that the Doctor has been successfully gangered while Clara was successfully saved/frozen placed under bell-jar-glass by Mrs. Gillyflower. To what end, I can not fathom.

[janie_aire]

It's kind of depersonalizing, all these freaky twins. The Tesselector in Hitler had the same effect.

And then there's all the "standard" mirroring -- Webley looking like a Doctor character all by himself, for example.