And didn't we say from very early on in the Nethersphere thing that it seemed like it should be a continuation of the Library/Great Intelligence computer thing? YES, YES WE DID. Which makes me feel even more stupid... :-P I kind of predicted the 'overcoming his programming' part - in my meta I wrote about him potentially going on a journey 'from unintentional-killer to saviour', just like River, but kind of forgot about River's ultimate ending...oops.
So the original is still there, does that make sense? It does make sense, I'm just wondering how they will flip that switch back. I guess Christmas is always a good time for that.
I almost feel like it makes it more likely *headdesk* Moffat has a talent for doing what he shouldn't. Mmmm. You have a very good point. And I'm so conflicted about it, almost entirely because they've already DONE a pregnancy storyline in S6. My objections have absolutely nothing to do with Clara and her storyline and the Watsonian understanding of everything (because from that angle it makes so much SENSE for her to be pregnant, imo). It's literally the Doyalist fact that there's already been a pregnancy storyline in Moffat's run that would make me uneasy. If that hadn't happened, I would ABSOLUTELY be rooting for Clara to be pregnant! Because it would fit so well with her storyline on a literal and a meta/symbolic level and because it would be a really nice way for her to stop travelling with the Doctor for a POSITIVE reason. As opposed to 'I'm trapped in another universe' / 'I literally can't take being with you and feeling like second best any more' / 'I've had all my memories of you ripped out' / 'I'm trapped in the past and can't see you without tearing the world apart' / 'I'm dead and stuck in a library computer'. 'I'm pregnant and I want to live life to the full on Earth and look after my child, as I've always loved children' is a great reason to stop travelling, for a while. "Come back when my kid is a bit older and we'll go off on an adventure together'. It would be great. BUT the knowledge that it would then be 2/2 Moffat full-time companions who've had pregnancy stories makes me uncomfortable.
Re. Orson Pink, there is, of course, also option 4 - he's from a timeline that no longer exists. That is also possible....
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YES, YES WE DID. Which makes me feel even more stupid... :-P I kind of predicted the 'overcoming his programming' part - in my meta I wrote about him potentially going on a journey 'from unintentional-killer to saviour', just like River, but kind of forgot about River's ultimate ending...oops.
So the original is still there, does that make sense?
It does make sense, I'm just wondering how they will flip that switch back. I guess Christmas is always a good time for that.
I almost feel like it makes it more likely *headdesk* Moffat has a talent for doing what he shouldn't.
Mmmm. You have a very good point. And I'm so conflicted about it, almost entirely because they've already DONE a pregnancy storyline in S6. My objections have absolutely nothing to do with Clara and her storyline and the Watsonian understanding of everything (because from that angle it makes so much SENSE for her to be pregnant, imo). It's literally the Doyalist fact that there's already been a pregnancy storyline in Moffat's run that would make me uneasy. If that hadn't happened, I would ABSOLUTELY be rooting for Clara to be pregnant! Because it would fit so well with her storyline on a literal and a meta/symbolic level and because it would be a really nice way for her to stop travelling with the Doctor for a POSITIVE reason. As opposed to 'I'm trapped in another universe' / 'I literally can't take being with you and feeling like second best any more' / 'I've had all my memories of you ripped out' / 'I'm trapped in the past and can't see you without tearing the world apart' / 'I'm dead and stuck in a library computer'. 'I'm pregnant and I want to live life to the full on Earth and look after my child, as I've always loved children' is a great reason to stop travelling, for a while. "Come back when my kid is a bit older and we'll go off on an adventure together'. It would be great. BUT the knowledge that it would then be 2/2 Moffat full-time companions who've had pregnancy stories makes me uncomfortable.
Re. Orson Pink, there is, of course, also option 4 - he's from a timeline that no longer exists. That is also possible....