I was curious about the Valeyard after reading the online chatter, so I watched about an hour and a half of Trial of a Time Lord today. Still confused, I probably need to watch the final serial in the series (it is a multi-serial arc, I take it? There were 20 vid parts on Daily Motion). I did not watch Who in the '80s, other than seeing 4 regen in to 5.
I wondered about the prisoner at the beginning. With the date and Madam Vastra telling him he murdered 14 women, I took him to be Jack the Ripper. With the little "research" I did today on Valeyard I see I may not be far off the mark, although the Ripper is only credited with 5, perhaps as many as 11, murders, no exact count has been given.
I read the Valeyard has been described as a "continuity nightmare." Amusing given how many people find Moffat himself a continuity nightmare it would seem. Does not surprise me that Moffat may try to resurrect this character. Continuity be damned.
I did enjoy Name of the Doctor if only for the fact that it at least acknowledged previous doctors and solved Clara's mystery, although now that she's become a paradox, I am uncomfortable with her as a companion. The sooner the Doctor is rid of her the better. She was created to save the Doctor? By whom? Tell me that and she might have more depth for me.
Paradoxes make me squirm because they are thrown about in sci-fi like jelly babies. I have even been known to write one or two. I wrote one where the Doctor agreed to show Rose his name, show, not tell because his name is not a name in the normal sense, but ended up showing her too much and she discovered that he met her when he was a baby, so that's why he fell in love with her (yeah, I know) but he could never know that. Gee, almost like Clara, Rose had been in the back of his mind all his life. If that's where Moffat is going with her, he's more romantic than anyone gives him credit for.
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I wondered about the prisoner at the beginning. With the date and Madam Vastra telling him he murdered 14 women, I took him to be Jack the Ripper. With the little "research" I did today on Valeyard I see I may not be far off the mark, although the Ripper is only credited with 5, perhaps as many as 11, murders, no exact count has been given.
I read the Valeyard has been described as a "continuity nightmare." Amusing given how many people find Moffat himself a continuity nightmare it would seem. Does not surprise me that Moffat may try to resurrect this character. Continuity be damned.
I did enjoy Name of the Doctor if only for the fact that it at least acknowledged previous doctors and solved Clara's mystery, although now that she's become a paradox, I am uncomfortable with her as a companion. The sooner the Doctor is rid of her the better. She was created to save the Doctor? By whom? Tell me that and she might have more depth for me.
Paradoxes make me squirm because they are thrown about in sci-fi like jelly babies. I have even been known to write one or two. I wrote one where the Doctor agreed to show Rose his name, show, not tell because his name is not a name in the normal sense, but ended up showing her too much and she discovered that he met her when he was a baby, so that's why he fell in love with her (yeah, I know) but he could never know that. Gee, almost like Clara, Rose had been in the back of his mind all his life. If that's where Moffat is going with her, he's more romantic than anyone gives him credit for.