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Warning: This post may be even less coherent than normal due to SHEER AWESOMENESS!
Gallfrey! Rassilon! The Sisterhood! The barn! "Never cruel or cowardly"! Weeping Angels! The Matrix! Classic TARDIS interior! A dislike of pears! "Run, you clever boy"! Probably more stuff that I missed because I was geeking out about the last stuff!
Clara-in-the-diner kept me guessing: at first I thought she was another temporal dupilicate like Oswin and Victorian Clara, and then I thought she was mindwiped Clara once that became a possibility, and then I kind of decided that was a double-bluff and she was a temporal duplicate after all.
I loved the line about the Doctor - again - stealing a TARDIS and running away, and the slight nod to one of Susan's many Expanded Universe backstories with the line about the Lord President's daughter. And the General changing gender and skin tone when regenerating, just because. (And very nicely done, the reveal that the General was "usually" a Time Lady, and it was her male form that was the unusual one - a cool subversion of the Male is Default trope.)
The final reveal of the Hybrid was ... well, it worked, I guess, but I wasn't totally sold on it as a payoff, especially since it was really just another theory. Although speaking of theories, a nice non-commital nod to the half-human bit, Moffatt, you troll.
I was really unhappy about the idea of Clara being Donna'd; I thought the Doctor was about to learn - again - that you can't always save everyone, which would have been an improvement, but still a bit of a Doctor Who cliche. Instead he learns that sometimes you can save someone, at least for now, but it has to be on their terms, not yours. And it turns out that the net result of becoming more like the Doctor isn't that you die - I mean, you have to eventually, but don't we all? No, the result of being like the Doctor is that you and your companion get to run around in a TARDIS with a broken chameleon circuit having fun. Of course it is.
Three weeks to Christmas? Too long!
Gallfrey! Rassilon! The Sisterhood! The barn! "Never cruel or cowardly"! Weeping Angels! The Matrix! Classic TARDIS interior! A dislike of pears! "Run, you clever boy"! Probably more stuff that I missed because I was geeking out about the last stuff!
Clara-in-the-diner kept me guessing: at first I thought she was another temporal dupilicate like Oswin and Victorian Clara, and then I thought she was mindwiped Clara once that became a possibility, and then I kind of decided that was a double-bluff and she was a temporal duplicate after all.
I loved the line about the Doctor - again - stealing a TARDIS and running away, and the slight nod to one of Susan's many Expanded Universe backstories with the line about the Lord President's daughter. And the General changing gender and skin tone when regenerating, just because. (And very nicely done, the reveal that the General was "usually" a Time Lady, and it was her male form that was the unusual one - a cool subversion of the Male is Default trope.)
The final reveal of the Hybrid was ... well, it worked, I guess, but I wasn't totally sold on it as a payoff, especially since it was really just another theory. Although speaking of theories, a nice non-commital nod to the half-human bit, Moffatt, you troll.
I was really unhappy about the idea of Clara being Donna'd; I thought the Doctor was about to learn - again - that you can't always save everyone, which would have been an improvement, but still a bit of a Doctor Who cliche. Instead he learns that sometimes you can save someone, at least for now, but it has to be on their terms, not yours. And it turns out that the net result of becoming more like the Doctor isn't that you die - I mean, you have to eventually, but don't we all? No, the result of being like the Doctor is that you and your companion get to run around in a TARDIS with a broken chameleon circuit having fun. Of course it is.
Three weeks to Christmas? Too long!
