I had thought that the Cloister Bell when the first key hit the lava was the Doctor controlling the illusion and trying to impress on Clara the seriousness of the situation, but I had forgotten the key glowing after the TARDIS “regenerated” in Eleventh Hour, so could well be more, too.
And even though throwing the keys away is a dream, that might be quite enough for the TARDIS to dislike Clara. And for the TARDIS visual interface in Hide, showing up as Clara as a person she esteemed, to say “Of several billion such images in my databanks, this is the one that best meets the criterion.” As Clara would later say: “One last chance. And I don't care about the rules, I don't give a damn about paradoxes...” Of course neither did River, but the TARDIS was probably more okay with River's temporal recklessness because River's priority was to keep the Doctor safe. Just rewatched the scene from Dark Water – Capaldi's series of expressions before he takes back control of the situation and tells Clara to look at her hand! Sheer poetry.
And Clara mirroring both the Doctor and (as we now know) the Mistress/Master, and both of them saying “Clara my Clara”... Someone on Philip Sandifer's post commented that the Mistress was perhaps training up Clara to be *her* companion, using the darker Doctor as an introductory training / gateway drug for the more difficult stuff. (And if the Mistress influenced the regeneration energy out of Gallifrey, perhaps she frowned him that face.) Could totally see it working after the season so far. “You were an excellent Doctor. Goodness had nothing to do with it.”
Looking forward to tomorrow and your subsequent reactions and meta!
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I had thought that the Cloister Bell when the first key hit the lava was the Doctor controlling the illusion and trying to impress on Clara the seriousness of the situation, but I had forgotten the key glowing after the TARDIS “regenerated” in Eleventh Hour, so could well be more, too.
And even though throwing the keys away is a dream, that might be quite enough for the TARDIS to dislike Clara. And for the TARDIS visual interface in Hide, showing up as Clara as a person she esteemed, to say “Of several billion such images in my databanks, this is the one that best meets the criterion.” As Clara would later say: “One last chance. And I don't care about the rules, I don't give a damn about paradoxes...” Of course neither did River, but the TARDIS was probably more okay with River's temporal recklessness because River's priority was to keep the Doctor safe. Just rewatched the scene from Dark Water – Capaldi's series of expressions before he takes back control of the situation and tells Clara to look at her hand! Sheer poetry.
And Clara mirroring both the Doctor and (as we now know) the Mistress/Master, and both of them saying “Clara my Clara”... Someone on Philip Sandifer's post commented that the Mistress was perhaps training up Clara to be *her* companion, using the darker Doctor as an introductory training / gateway drug for the more difficult stuff. (And if the Mistress influenced the regeneration energy out of Gallifrey, perhaps she frowned him that face.) Could totally see it working after the season so far. “You were an excellent Doctor. Goodness had nothing to do with it.”
Looking forward to tomorrow and your subsequent reactions and meta!