For me this was just a totally fantastic Christmas special. I don't have an awful lot to say about the actual plot involving the Great Intelligence, but there's a whole heap of stuff going on around the concepts of mirroring, memory, above/below, who Clara is and there's some links into the Pond era.
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Run you clever boy...and remember. )
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Don't have anything to add, but my main thought now is that Clara is a Gallifreyan egg, seeded throughout time and space.
OK, one other thing:
Walter Simeon is a mirror of the Doctor.
Richard E. Grant also played the 10th Doctor in The Curse of Fatal Death, and voiced the Ninth Doctor in an animated adventure (long before the show returned). So he's a mirror several times over. :)
(I have been exceptionally lazy this Christmas. Might just point people over here for meta as you seem to have written down most of what's in my head, plus more.)
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Didn't know that about Richard E Grant!
Glad you enjoyed sweetie :)
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Just getting started on my meta, running late with all the family activities going on, just skimmed your stuff, like what I squee!
A few points...
"Now the dream outlives the dreamer..." = "What if we had ideas that could think for themselves? What if one day our dreams no longer needed us? When these things occur and are held to be true, the time will be upon us."
re: Winter is coming... zombies crossing the snow, versus the snowbound zombies of Asylum?
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That was the other thing I meant to comment on - I was going to hunt down that quote, and forgot! Time of Angels. I very, very much hope this will be a feature. (Ooooh, thought. If Clara Oswin Oswald is indeed a Gallifreyan egg, could she be a 'dream' that has become self-aware/sentient? Clara Who?)
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Exactly where my thoughts are converging. I'd say definitely something Time Lord/Gallifreyan. Partly because of her intelligence (see Oswin specifically, although even Clara kept up with the Doctor's mind quite easily), and partly because she cried when she saw the TARDIS...
RORY: Right. Er... You're crying.
AMY: So I am. Why am I doing that?
Hidden memories and multiple lives... And past/present/future all rolled into one person/thing (like a TARDIS, although I don't think she's directly linked). I liked the granddaughter idea, but I think Clara Oswin Oswald will go far beyond something so simple...
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Yeah, it's an interesting idea you suggest, and i wonder if we'll see it play out in the latter half of the series. The use of hands as a motif came up over and over in series 6 too.
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