Saturdays with Space: April 6

 

In  Doctor Who we followed Clara on her first adventure with the Doctor to the rings of Akhaten.  She met what we took to be a six-year old girl named Mary who was known as "The Queen of Years complete with her people's myths and legends.  Mary's role was to sing a song that would put a God back to sleep- instead it ended up awakening the God.   She was transported to the temple, and kept there.  Cue the rescue: "We do not walk away," the Doctor told Clara.  They managed to get to the Temple, and rescue the girl from having her soul eaten.  The Doctor had Clara back home in time for dinner.

The mystery behind Clara's identity continues unfolding.  "You can't be real," The Doctor said in the opening moments of the episode.  At this point my theory is that she's The Doctor and River Song's daughter.  What other person could die twice in two different times and still live? The way she looked at the world so full of awe, and curiosity very similar to Matt Smith's version of the Doctor.  Or maybe she could in some alternate universe be The Doctor in some sense?; Maybe at some point she absorbs bits of the Doctor's essence? What's your theory? 

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Orphan Black slowed down a lot over last week's episode.  I guess the sense was 'we've established the characters, and premise now let's play it out a little bit.  It started just moments after the shooting that ended the previous week's episode.  Sarah/Beth desperately called someone wanting to know what to do with the body. Why she didn't burn it/ drown it; get rid of it in some way that would erase any sign she'd touched it? Anyway.  This episode centred around a suitcase at the dead woman's hotel; Sarah had to get the case and take it to suburban soccer mom clone.




I get the sense Sarah hates soccer moms.  She was desperate to know more about how this was even possible that three (including Katia) other women looked like her that existed. "I just want some answers," she said at least once during the episode  Sarah also was desperate for her daughter to know she was still alive, a fact that didn't seem to surprise the mysterious Mrs. S very much.  Could she be involved as someone who was in on the cloning operation? At this point I don't think she's a "bad guy," but I could be proven wrong.