Doctor Who

We got an entire episode about it! Go watch "Name of the Doctor".

Did you, like, miss the whole thing on Trenzalore? Where Clara jumped into the Doctor's timestream?

She's not impossible, she's a normal person.

Or possibly she's such a bossy control freak she can boss around the Doctor.

Or perhaps, she's the daughter/clone of Rose Tyler created when Rose was being subsumed by the Bad Wolf.

but probably one of the first two

I remember seeing Name of Doctor, but I recall it being more of a cock tease about not finding about his name than anything else.

Was that the one with the leaf?

edited 23rd Nov '14 7:46:39 PM by Mattonymy

It had the leaf, although I'd say that The One With the Leaf is more Rings of Akhatan.

So you completely missed the bit where the Great Intelligence used the Doctor's time-tunnel-corpse-thing to edit himself into old footage scatte himself across the Doctor's timestream in order to "undo his every victory", and then Clara did likewise to defeat him all those times?

It was kinda the big setpiece of the episode.

edited 23rd Nov '14 7:44:39 PM by Wackd

OK, I seem to recall that story line although I might have glossed over it then.

If so, I guess I didn't put it in my mind that that action was the cause of that backstory for Clara. I thought the doctor was still confused about why Clara was the impossible person by the end of the season though.

So lemme get this straight, you saw Clara fling herself into the Doctor's timestream, followed by a montage of her interacting with other Doctors, and that just didn't click for you?

Real name isn't the point.

Names we choose are like promises we make.

It's less a "cocktease" (clittease?) and more an ideological statement.

One Clara reiterates in Time.

But yeah, the "Impossible Girl" arc was resolved last year. In Name Of The Doctor.

edited 23rd Nov '14 8:41:04 PM by unnoun

Prostatetease? Relaxingbackrubafteralongdayofworktease? Sittingdowntowatchyourfavoriteshowbuttheyranarerununannouncedtease?

edited 23rd Nov '14 8:41:31 PM by Bocaj

A name is a promise. Love is a promise. Fear is a superpower.

Someone should make a Doctor Who Grand Philosophical Statement generator.

Hunger is an ideal. An address is an oath. Loneliness is an achievement.

How many times would the word "indomitable" show up?

Indomitability is a superpromise.

"Imagine a banana... indomitable"

Time is an illusion. Lunchtime doubly so.

As Steven Hawking once said, time is an allusion.

I read his book and concluded that time was a confusion.

War-time propaganda.

Its only a delusion?

There's a surprising number of people who have trouble recognising what happened in Name. They think The Impossible Girl is backstory, and miss that it's playing out in front of their eyes.

I wouldn't necessarily call it surprising given how many folks watching the show now and commenting on the Internet seem to lack even basic visual literacy.

Prologue to the explanation of The Impossible Girl mystery:

The actual, entire explanation of the Impossible Girl mystery:

Forever grateful that C Lara's the one who solved her own mystery.

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edited 23rd Nov '14 11:11:23 PM by Mattonymy