Yeah! I did/didn’t want Gareth to be the one playing that guy. I mean, on one hand, IANTO! But on the other, what the hell is this place and I’d hate for even a fragment of Ianto’s consciousness to be trapped somewhere interminably.
I keep wondering if it’s a branch of The Library, and all of these people are saved information. But what for?
Part of me keeps trying to make the enthusiastically curious part (the one chewing on this question) sit the fuck down. Because I don’t expect a satisfying payoff for the work of trying to figure it out.
Right? That’s kind of what I’ve been thinking about when it comes to this. I just… don’t see a decent execution anymore.
It’s probably going to wind up being some kind of strange time-snatcher, coming from a fraction of the Doctor’s personality (Right now, I’d contend that ‘Twelve’ isn’t actually ‘Twelve’ either. 11 was actually the twelfth incarnation of that time lord, which means between 11 and whoever the ‘Doctor’ becomes next is the timeframe where that Time Lord’s personality is supposed to split. In which case, Capaldi’s not playing the Twelfth Doctor, he’s playing the fragment of the personality that is enough of the Doctor to still think he is the Doctor. I’ve been saying that this new woman in charge of ‘Paradise’ is another part of the personality split—though I am seriously doubting that moffat and co is so clever anymore.)
*cough* Anyway, it’s probably just a transmat beam happening right at the instance of death that teleports them to a trans-time space. What the purpose of kidnapping these individuals is for, I’m not sure. But, making them consider themselves dead would prevent them from rioting/causing fuss and presenting them with a bit of space and calling it ‘Paradise’ would be enough to placate them.
Question becomes: What the hell do you want with a bunch of should-be dead people? Knowing Doctor Who? They’ll probably write it off as some weird quantum phenomena that they barely understand or make up.
Creatively though, that idea gets some juices going, doesn’t it? What do you do with a bunch of people or souls or whatevers that ought to be dead and aren’t? Where’s the profit, the bonus, the need, or the desire to snatch people in that last second? Why do it?
I really really like your theory. The whole paradise thing (“and death in heaven” ) is the thing that worries me the most about the season that I’ve enjoyed the most in a long time.
I guess I still don’t entirely trust Moffat. But at least they finally gave Clara a personality.