FIRSTLY: this is amazing and beautiful <3 I read it as soon as elisi recced it, but as I have just been telling her, my brain has felt full of cotton wool for ages now and it won't let me think properly. So this will mostly be incoherent flailing, but:
-I love your eloquent, succinct analysis of the symbolism Amy, Clara, River and Missy brought with them! It's v pleasing to see it all laid out like that.
-the show has spun off-center the farther we’ve gotten from that essential balance, culminating in Twelve and Clara’s mirrored spiral: unmoored, unearthed, undead. This is a beautiful piece of analysis. I'd forgotten about all of the earth/alchemy/world tree symbolism of S5 and 6...well, not forgotten, but as you say it's faded. This is a lovely way of putting it.
-The Doctor does not, when he can possibly avoid it, tangle with earth in this way. It is not naturally his element. It represents, generally, everything he runs from. Again, this is something I've thought about before but never put so coherently into words. Thank you!
-This is also Bill’s first time dying I love our show, that we can just say something like that so casually :-P
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Date: 2 Jun 2017 02:00 pm (UTC)-I love your eloquent, succinct analysis of the symbolism Amy, Clara, River and Missy brought with them! It's v pleasing to see it all laid out like that.
-the show has spun off-center the farther we’ve gotten from that essential balance, culminating in Twelve and Clara’s mirrored spiral: unmoored, unearthed, undead.
This is a beautiful piece of analysis. I'd forgotten about all of the earth/alchemy/world tree symbolism of S5 and 6...well, not forgotten, but as you say it's faded. This is a lovely way of putting it.
-The Doctor does not, when he can possibly avoid it, tangle with earth in this way. It is not naturally his element. It represents, generally, everything he runs from.
Again, this is something I've thought about before but never put so coherently into words. Thank you!
-This is also Bill’s first time dying
I love our show, that we can just say something like that so casually :-P