Comments | lonewytch: meta: Not Everything Ends. Not Love. Not Always.

lonewytch

meta: Not Everything Ends. Not Love. Not Always. - Hide.

Apr 25, 2013 15:37

In which we travel along the World Tree, the Forest is the Afterlife, there is both Love and Death, we are on the Road of Trials stage, the Doctor is Alec Palmer and River Song is everywhere.

( This isn't a ghost story, it's a love story )

myth and metaphor, meta, doctor who

Comments 26

a_phoenixdragon April 25 2013, 15:50:42 UTC

Whoa...this is...this is mind-blowing!! As always, you just cut right to the center and spiral out, showing secrets that knock at our hearts, but we can never quite see.

The title 'Hide' was perfect for this episode. On so very many levels!

*HUGS*

lonewytch April 26 2013, 09:44:09 UTC

Aw, thank you my love, such lovely words <3 Glad you enjoyed it. ~hugs you hard~

promethia_tenk April 25 2013, 17:06:39 UTC

TEMPEEESSSST<3 <3 <3

Yes.

Have to run, but this is glorious. Will try to be back with proper thoughts.

lonewytch April 26 2013, 09:44:58 UTC

Hee! Glad you enjoyed. I wanted to unpack the whole Tempest thing, but i've got a bit of meta fatigue and saving myself for this next ep which i predict will be STELLAR and full of masses of meta!

promethia_tenk April 26 2013, 11:29:08 UTC

I made this juxtaposition for Elisi back . . . I think it was after A Christmas Carol aired:

( ... )

lonewytch April 26 2013, 12:39:55 UTC

Ah, those images...fantastic fire and water, rebirth and baptism. And, that scene with Amy on the beach where she says "what are you thinking" and he says "Time can be rewritten" as they are looking out over the sea always struck me as so incredibly important....he's just had the convo with River at that point - and everything can be reborn in the womb of the sea, it's where life came from and it's the arhcetypal womb - what better element to rewrite time and birth thing anew. But, I'm rambling now ( ... )

janie_aire April 26 2013, 04:28:15 UTC

Lovely as always ( ... )

lonewytch April 26 2013, 09:48:22 UTC

Thank you sweetie.

Gods, yes, of course, the Cloister Bell. Heard it and didn't make the link - also hadn't noticed she's under a bell jar in the poster for the Crimson Horror. It links with the whole power of sound thing too, of course, the resonance of the bell.

~nods~ Yup, that's totally what I was expecting from the Tardis ep, since she is the Goddess on so many levels. Having seen the trailer too, there's this fracturing with the Docotr and Clara going on so i wonder also if we are going to approach the Atonement with the Father stage as well - wonder if things will be healed a little between them by the end of this ep....hmmm.

Mirrors all over ~dances~

So looking forward to this next ep.

So, so scared for River in the finale.

hawkmoth April 26 2013, 12:22:48 UTC

Wonderful meta, as always!

Just some thoughts...

From Wikipedia:

The Special Operations Executive (SOE), tasked by Winston Churchill to "set Europe ablaze" during World War II, had their headquarters at 64 Baker Street and were often called "the Baker Street Irregulars"[1] after Sherlock Holmes's fictional group of boys employed "to go everywhere, see everything and overhear everyone," as they spied about London.

The beginning of Alec's wartime career?

Also:

The Baker Street Irregulars is also the name of an organization of Sherlock Holmes enthusiasts founded in 1934 by Doubleday Editor Christopher Morley. Formal members are known as "investitures" and bear club titles derived from the Holmes stories.

Primarily an American group. Very intellectual, but also on the very basic level, fans.

"Caliburn" is another name for Excalibur, the "great sword," the "hard cleft," which will breach through battle.

And that's all I've got.

lonewytch April 26 2013, 12:50:47 UTC

oooh, great catch there with the link to Excalibur! I love it when Arthurian myth shows up in Who, it gives me happy feelings!

I love Moff's meta references to fandom and Sherlock, just awesome. He's great at getting those cheeky little nods in.

Thank you for reading and commenting, it's always appreciated x

bloodpara April 26 2013, 13:38:47 UTC

I love reading these, it definitely puts it all together before the next episode. I would like to know your thoughts on the doctor's screwdriver. In the past several episodes we see it being on the fritz, not working half the time. The last few seasons that happened only when the doctor was dying. Is the screwdriver not associating itself with him? Is the sliver of ice the reason? Is it killing him? Which heart is the ice in or is it in both? Is it just coincidence?

lonewytch May 3 2013, 13:02:33 UTC

Thank you for the comment ( ... )