“I didn’t even know you’d be right here,” says Claire, and with her subsequent words, a realisation dawns across her face, “I was simply taking the long way house… as it’s Halloween.” In that moment, we later perceive, Claire seems to have understood one thing grave: this shall be the day it occurs. After the Doctor and Yaz have bounded off looking for the Lupari, she’s left alone in the street and steels herself saying “You’ve were given to move house now, Claire.” The sense is that Claire is aware of what’s waiting for her at house – a Weeping Angel, and the finish of her lifestyles as she is aware of it. Annabel Scholey’s efficiency is quietly intense and makes this transient collection and one in every of the episode’s most stirring moments.
What follows is a horror sequence by which Claire attempts to escape the Angel by means of following instructions. “Mustn’t blink. If you blink, they’ll transfer. Don’t blink.” The directions are there for any beginners to Doctor Who’s Weeping Angels – a quantum-locked species that may best transfer when unobserved, and who zap their victims into the previous and feed off the time energy of the existence they now received’t get to are living – but in addition to let us know that somebody has already offered Claire to the concept of these creatures. Was it the Doctor?
Knowing the principle is one thing, however putting it into observe is another, and the Angel gets what it came for. Claire disappears, despatched backwards in time, and her front door is left swinging on its hinges. So… what used to be all that about?
It seems likely that the Doctor and Yaz will meet Claire in the past where she’s been trapped via the Weeping Angel. Perhaps that previous will likely be the Sixties, as the generation and outfit of the below image from a long run episode, would possibly counsel. But who instructed Claire that used to be going to occur to her and the way was once she ready to recognise the Doctor and Yaz ‘earlier than’ assembly them in the previous? It seems as although Claire was once told a prophecy of varieties, that in all probability concerned the words ‘Halloween’ and ‘take the good distance home’, as they appeared to be her cause for realising what she was about to stand.
On that final level, a couple of enthusiasts have spotted a similarity in Claire’s “take the long way house” and the word “take the great distance around” related with the Twelfth Doctor and Clara. That’s what Clara mentioned she was once planning on doing on her technique to Gallifrey in the stolen TARDIS with Ashildr prior to returning to take her final breath in Series Nine’s ‘Hell Bent‘. Claire and Clara both being versions of the same title (meaning ‘clear’ or ‘bright) and actors Jenna Coleman and Annabel Scholey sharing a undeniable look has led some to wonder whether Claire could be certainly one of the splintered selves Clara scattered via the Doctor’s time line when she stored him in Series Seven finale ‘The Name of the Doctor’, just with a special appearance. It’s a concept.
Another similarity may well be famous to the Doctor’s first assembly with River Song, through which she recognised him however he most effective noticed her as only a pushy archaeologist in a in particular well-fitted spacesuit (in Series Four’s ‘Silence in the Library‘). Could a long term/previous of time-hopping meetings along the Doctor’s timeline be on the cards for Claire too?
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