{"id":123949,"date":"2015-12-07T13:21:07","date_gmt":"2015-12-07T13:21:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/2015\/12\/07\/deepdownthings-merindab-were-on\/"},"modified":"2018-09-04T11:13:32","modified_gmt":"2018-09-04T11:13:32","slug":"deepdownthings-merindab-were-on","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/2015\/12\/07\/deepdownthings-merindab-were-on\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<div id='gallery-1' class='gallery galleryid-123949 gallery-columns-3 gallery-size-thumbnail'><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/2015\/12\/07\/deepdownthings-merindab-were-on\/attachment\/123950\/'><img width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/tumblr_nyx8unhRxf1rftii4o7_400-150x150.gif\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" 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Death is Time Lord for man flu!<\/p>\n<p><\/i><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>This is the first of three (or four?) times in this episode that Moffat basically jumps up and down saying YES THE DOCTOR CAN BE A WOMAN, and the only one that also says YES THE DOCTOR DOESN\u2019T HAVE TO BE WHITE.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The second is Me, the last immortal with the Doctor at the end of time (\u201dWho\u2019s out there?\u201d\u00a0\u201cMe.\u201d) That\u2019s right, WHO is out there.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The third (kind of) is Missy, mentioned as a possible part of the hybrid; she was the first on-screen Time Lord\/Lady to change sexes when regenerating.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>And finally, there\u2019s Clara.\u00a0\u201cClara WHO,\u201d the Doctor asks in the diner, and yes she is: with her own quirky TARDIS and Ashildr as her companion, in her last breath between two heartbeats, Deathless, she flies off into the universe.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>And then, oh ho, in the trailer for the Christmas special we get River, the Doctor\u2019s first and great parallel in the Moffat era. It\u2019s been said before (and I\u2019d add a link here if only I could remember where) that Moffat took RDJ\u2019s\u00a0\u201cLonely God\u201d and began to construct a new pantheon around him. The general, looking at her new form, says\u00a0\u201cBack to normal, am I?\u201d In Moffat\u2019s universe, it is indeed normal for his gods to be female.\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>deepdownthings: merindab: We\u2019re on Gallifrey. Death is Time Lord for man flu! This is the first of three (or four?) times in this episode that Moffat basically jumps up and down saying YES THE DOCTOR CAN BE A WOMAN, and the only one that also says YES THE DOCTOR DOESN\u2019T HAVE TO BE WHITE.\u00a0 The &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/2015\/12\/07\/deepdownthings-merindab-were-on\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"gallery","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[13,14517,674,3942,4],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/123949"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=123949"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/123949\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":123960,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/123949\/revisions\/123960"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=123949"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=123949"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=123949"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}