meta: The Memory of Snow: The Snowmen.
For me this was just a totally fantastic Christmas special. I don't have an awful lot to say about the actual plot involving the Great Intelligence, but there's a whole heap of stuff going on around the concepts of mirroring, memory, above/below, who Clara is and there's some links into the Pond era.
( Run you clever boy...and remember. )
( Run you clever boy...and remember. )
Two references to S5 that confused me:
-"The Eleventh Hour the duckpond was key in ultimately understanding the nature of the the cracks." Because the cracks were taking pieces out of reality (like Amy's parents) and ruining reality's continuity/logic ("why do you call it a duckpond if there aren't any ducks")?
-"...vast amount of foreshadowing of River's arc that we saw in A Christmas Carol." Say what? I must've missed that completely...
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I wrote down the basics once. lonewytch has more indepth stuff delving into over- and underworld etc.
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Yeah ,that's what i wonder about Clara too, whether it will be different versions of the same girl all through series 7b.
Yeah, the duckpond was one of our first signs in series 5 that all was not well. It was a tell of sorts. Here the fact that the pond never thaws is a tell too.
Elisi tracks it perfectly in her meta. My Christmas Carol meta is posted on another site, and needs to be gathered and posted here (eventually) but basically the whole thing with the Woman kept on ice (effectively frozen in time) the way that River is to the Doctor and that every time he visits her more of her time is gone, counting down to her death - just like with Abigail. There's also a heck of a lot on links back to the Library episodes with both eps full of Upper/Middle/Underworld imagery.
I've got a couple of Christmas meta posted offsite...maybe this is my cue to overhaul it and post it here during the season!
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