meta: The Fate of All is Always Dust - The Name of the Doctor (part 1 of 2)

[lonewytch]

In which the use of words, and names are very important; there is a big difference between knowledge/information/wisdom/myth; the Akashic Records, the Astral Plane and the Golden Ratio make a mystical appearance; there is a lot to say about form/emptiness, what the soul is made of and how things are more than the sum of their parts; the Doctor can

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[hawkmoth]

Yea! Been waiting for this--perfect excuse to take a break from clearing out the Storage Closet of Doom. Talk more later. (Also have story links to share.)

[hawkmoth]

Wow. Wonderful as always--looking forward to more

[lonewytch]

Thank you so much!!! It's gonna be a couple of weeks before the rest is up, as i'm off on vacation in a couple of days and i've not got part 2 finished.

Hmm, yeah, on whether Clara has lived many full lives. I think she must have lived a proper life each time until she met him , then dies every time at 23/24. But then, actually, that doesn't make sense....If the GI made his every victory a failure, and made sure he died every time he only just survived....then she must have saved each Doctor multiple times...or maybe not. It's confusing - but i like you idea of a quantum ghost - in that way she is a mirror of River.

Oooh, off to read your ficlets now!!!!

[leiascully]

Absolutely lovely! Exquisitely constructed.

My shipper heart would like to remind us all that the only water in the Forest is the River, so clearly River and the Doctor will be together at some point in whatever their version of the afterlife is ;)

[lonewytch]

Thank you, glad you enjoyed!!! The River thing had the emotional tine of a goodbye, but write into canon that if she can establish a menatl lnk she can get out of the Library and he can see her. Moff seems to be keeping his options open!!

But yeah, totally agree with you, if the forest is the afterlife, and the water is the River,then him and her will be together, my little shipper heart says how could they not be?

xx

[janie_aire]

I know what you mean about there being so much here, it takes so many damned words to unpack it all!

Big "yes" on the Doctor's life as the World Tree, and all the Briar Rose stuff. (Hmm, all those Rose references this season!) I'm especially impressed with drawing all the Castle stuff into this episode, making it much more clear how Nightmare in Silver helps to inform our interpretation here. And the Forest! A forest growing in the TARDIS. Great, great job.

I can't believe you found the actual damn Chairs. Birds! Of course, Clara's a Bird, she has been since the Doctor called her one back in the Snowmen. And here I was thinking the Chairs had Eyes for headboards. Well, I suppose they could be Eyes, with Birds in them. Love the damn chairs.

Most of all, I appreciate the insight of how the Doctor has failed in his Mentoring work, and how Clara actually ends up being the one to lead him into confronting his own death. Which is really neat, actually, since so much of the Doctor/Companion dynamic has been turned on its head

[lonewytch]

It just took soooo long to do! My second meta will be tardy as well, as i'm going away for 10 days soon and it isn't done yet. Seriously though, hasn't this series been an absolute dream to analyse? It just gets more and more layered. I still need to catch up on some of your meta!! I'm so happy Moff is on board for series 8

[jaelle_n_gilla]

Wow - you do an amazing job at finding all those symbols and links. Thank you for sharing!!!

[lonewytch]

Thank you sweetie, I'm glad you enjoyed and thanks for taking the time to comment!