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. There's just so much *stuff* anymore. My brain can hardly move under it. And I am looking forward to reading your meta (got it open in a tab). Thanks for pointing it out, because I totally missed it.
River and Danny also both end up looking out for a child in a way that addresses past trauma.
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. Hugs and sparkles and people claiming each other as family?
It's literally the Doyalist fact that there's already been a pregnancy storyline in Moffat's run that would make me uneasy. I hear you. And it wasn't exactly well-handled the first time around. The positive spin on this is that Moffat *does* repeat himself, deliberately. It's how he writes, in all these iterative passes. If he went back and did it again, I'd take it as an understanding that we would be refining and building from the first pass.
'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. *nods* Though I feel like Clara is destined for a 'soft' send-off in any case. They've established over and over that she *can* leave.
Re. Orson Pink, there is, of course, also option 4 - he's from a timeline that no longer exists. That is also possible.... Also true, in which case I am 100% on board for the trippy, multi-timeline storytelling arc. Bring. It. On.
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There's just so much *stuff* anymore. My brain can hardly move under it. And I am looking forward to reading your meta (got it open in a tab). Thanks for pointing it out, because I totally missed it.
River and Danny also both end up looking out for a child in a way that addresses past trauma.
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.
Hugs and sparkles and people claiming each other as family?
It's literally the Doyalist fact that there's already been a pregnancy storyline in Moffat's run that would make me uneasy.
I hear you. And it wasn't exactly well-handled the first time around. The positive spin on this is that Moffat *does* repeat himself, deliberately. It's how he writes, in all these iterative passes. If he went back and did it again, I'd take it as an understanding that we would be refining and building from the first pass.
'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.
*nods* Though I feel like Clara is destined for a 'soft' send-off in any case. They've established over and over that she *can* leave.
Re. Orson Pink, there is, of course, also option 4 - he's from a timeline that no longer exists. That is also possible....
Also true, in which case I am 100% on board for the trippy, multi-timeline storytelling arc. Bring. It. On.