The Frozen Mirror

[janie_aire]

Happy New Year's Eve!

This is a massively long post, filled with meta for The Snowmen.z

Grab a cup of coffee, a bag of jammie dodgers, and put on your favorite album.

This could take a while, peering into...

Comments

[lonewytch]

This is totally fantastic. You should post it to some of the comms here on LJ, it deserves to be read by many

[effiel_22]

Oh god, oh this is glorious. And a special thank you for the One Word Game breakdown, now its ten times as amazing.

I wonder if you'd let me translate this into Russian. It's that you not only analyse the episode, but also look at the show at large, and I really think there are people who need to see this. I'll credit you, of course, and post a link here, or to metatardis, and reupload the pictures onto another hosting, and whatever you want, basically.

[janie_aire]

Thank you, and go for it! Knock yourself out, and whatever help you need, just ask.

:)

[effiel_22]

Thank you!)))) Well, it did require quite a bit of research, but seems to be oaky :)

And the whole thing is here (http://doctorwho-daily.diary.ru/p184370493.htm), although the community is closed for unregistered users... there's always a catch, isn't there? *turns red*

[mr_squiddle]

(snip) Since Vastra was saying the story always begins with the same two words, which just happens to be the Question at the beginning of the Universe, this is most definitely the most meta of the four instances we get this episode. Well, except that the first two words of the credits aren't "Doctor Who," they're "Matt Smith." (/snip)

Strictly speaking, a mattsmith is "a maker of white metal".
"White metal" is Fine Art speak for silver not bearing British Assay Office marks -- or, alternatively, "Christian metal".

Christian silver? Argentum vivum. Ha-haa...gotcha!

[janie_aire]

I am *squee* with your wordplay, and the delightful alchemical entailments of such!

[mr_squiddle]

:sneaks back to old thread: :points out that "Cap al di Pietra" apparently means "Cap to the Stone": :runs away: