All the meta! All the parallels! All the Master feels! ♥♥♥
OMFG, so many mirrors. RIVER/DANNY MIRROR, YES! I had that feeling when we saw Danny really take shape that they would get along ever so well because they really had things in common, but the end of the season really takes that above and beyond.
3D Clara, I couldn't help picturing the paintings from Gallifrey… given your theories, that is ever so fitting.
And the Clara/Missy mirror, yes! All the good points—the Doctor's two friends, mutually exclusive. Claiming and being claimed, push and pull. I love that.
“Love is not affectionate feeling, but a steady wish for the loved person’s ultimate good as far as it can be obtained” (x)
“The promise, made when I am in love and because I am in love, to be true to the beloved as long as I live, commits me to being true even if I cease to be in love. A promise must be about things that I can do, about actions: no one can promise to go on feeling in a certain way. He might as well promise to never have a headache or always to feel hungry.” (x)
Beautiful, beautiful quotes, and so true.
But Missy's just turns it all around, being the opposite side of the coin, the death to the life. I love the fact that she embodies Clara's refusal to let Danny go, but through that, shows her what is, in a way, deeply wrong about such a refusal, human though it is. And that this is where she gets it wrong—that the temptation she embodies cannot touch the Doctor, but touches Clara, who was supposed to be only a means to an end in her game… Oh, this is clever.
Re: the Doctor taking responsibility for the Master after the Time War, when there were no Time Lords around to do that (loved the contrast with Three's lines, hee :D): oh ABSOLUTELY, he wanted to keep him in the TARDIS for god's sake! There are times when people need more of a reality check, surely, but I can't think of any off the top of my head. Ten. And the Jesus parallel has never been more SPOT-ON. We have an elaborate reasoning behind the dramatic posture!
Parallels to Town Called Mercy: I'll be flailing in the corner at the cleverness of everything.
And Clara gets to make the choice…
Not that the Doctor isn’t always the centre of her world, but the Master’s MO has usually been to ‘take over the world’ and for the Doctor to stop him. That is their a game. But this time Missy tries a different approach - she wants them to play the game together, as fellow players rather than opponents. Ohhhh, I was wondering/thinking about that a lot and it was just perfect seeing your take on it. The End of Time parallel, of course! And they've both been changing their game, but not in the same direction—oh star-crossed lovers XD
And omfg, that new change of the game is making me even more excited for future Missy appearances now… ♥♥♥
Thank you for this! Spot-on, clever and very well argued, as always. You just see. It's a delight. :)
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OMFG, so many mirrors. RIVER/DANNY MIRROR, YES! I had that feeling when we saw Danny really take shape that they would get along ever so well because they really had things in common, but the end of the season really takes that above and beyond.
3D Clara, I couldn't help picturing the paintings from Gallifrey… given your theories, that is ever so fitting.
And the Clara/Missy mirror, yes! All the good points—the Doctor's two friends, mutually exclusive. Claiming and being claimed, push and pull. I love that.
“Love is not affectionate feeling, but a steady wish for the loved person’s ultimate good as far as it can be obtained”
(x)
“The promise, made when I am in love and because I am in love, to be true to the beloved as long as I live, commits me to being true even if I cease to be in love. A promise must be about things that I can do, about actions: no one can promise to go on feeling in a certain way. He might as well promise to never have a headache or always to feel hungry.”
(x)
Beautiful, beautiful quotes, and so true.
But Missy's just turns it all around, being the opposite side of the coin, the death to the life. I love the fact that she embodies Clara's refusal to let Danny go, but through that, shows her what is, in a way, deeply wrong about such a refusal, human though it is. And that this is where she gets it wrong—that the temptation she embodies cannot touch the Doctor, but touches Clara, who was supposed to be only a means to an end in her game… Oh, this is clever.
Re: the Doctor taking responsibility for the Master after the Time War, when there were no Time Lords around to do that (loved the contrast with Three's lines, hee :D): oh ABSOLUTELY, he wanted to keep him in the TARDIS for god's sake! There are times when people need more of a reality check, surely, but I can't think of any off the top of my head. Ten. And the Jesus parallel has never been more SPOT-ON. We have an elaborate reasoning behind the dramatic posture!
Parallels to Town Called Mercy: I'll be flailing in the corner at the cleverness of everything.
And Clara gets to make the choice…
Not that the Doctor isn’t always the centre of her world, but the Master’s MO has usually been to ‘take over the world’ and for the Doctor to stop him. That is their a game. But this time Missy tries a different approach - she wants them to play the game together, as fellow players rather than opponents.
Ohhhh, I was wondering/thinking about that a lot and it was just perfect seeing your take on it. The End of Time parallel, of course! And they've both been changing their game, but not in the same direction—oh star-crossed lovers XD
And omfg, that new change of the game is making me even more excited for future Missy appearances now… ♥♥♥
Thank you for this! Spot-on, clever and very well argued, as always. You just see. It's a delight. :)