rabid1st

I completely agree with your post. My husband watched this episode first and it was also the first episode of Series 7 that he saw, unfortunately....his exact words were "it was a reset, another crack and extra story lines that were crammed in with no explanation or closure". I think that's what made me watch it in reverse...to see the good episodes before the one that would really make me roll my eyes. It was predictable, like you said and I hate the idea that THIS Doctor can do ANYTHING he wants with time...wasn't that the lesson that we were supposed to learn from Waters of Mars...that you can't mess with time..etc? Also I still thing NG took your idea about the planes of time with in the TARDIS from Disheveled..I expected to see the First doctor walking around the corner somewhere...which would have been awesome.

My hubby showed me another theory on Clara that I found interesting... she is actually a recreation of the Emperor Dalek from Series 1. Odd...I thought, but they broke it down saying Clara was Oswin..Oswin was a Dalek...what if Oswin went insane, became the Dalek Emperor. Then when Rose took in the vortex, seeing all time and space in her fiery brain, she knew Oswin was by nature good and had helped Eleven..so because Rose couldn't be with the Doctor forever when she "bad wolfed the Emperor's ass" (not my wording..theirs..and I think I want it on a Tshirt) she scattered the Emperor/Oswin across the galaxy to help the Doctor when he was in need (aka her different personas). So the reason why we are seeing so many "Rose" references is because Rose isn't her mother...but her creator and why the Tardis is shunning her, because she is "impossible" (per the Doctor) like Jack was.

Probably not true..but interesting all the same...