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I feel like the Doctor's thoughts on others' mortality are very complicated. Yes, he sees everyone as ghosts, but he also sees everyone as alive as well, given that he could just pop round to any persons house for a cup of tea whenever he likes. He occasionally gets caught off guard by mortality, as we saw when he tried to call the Brigadier and discovered he'd passed away.

Man, having the Crooked Man be an unsolved mystery would've paralleled the Impossible Girl arc so well. Could've even had the Doctor admit that sometimes even he can't come up with all the answers.

Clara was a normal person, but simultaneously she WAS special due to her future self jumping into the Doctors timeline on Trenzalore and becoming split throughout every instance the doctor faced mortal peril to guide him to live long enough to find her echoes, find her, and set the loop into motion.

She’s normal, but also special bc she’s the centre of the giant time loop of sorts where her echoes cause the doctor to find her, setting her echoes out again. Like how Madoka was normal until Homura went back to save her repeatedly, thus causing her to become a focal point of Karmic Destiny when no interference would have left things as they originally were. Her echoes made him meddle, causing the echoes to be born both for the first time and yet again, and so the cycle goes.

I absolutely loved Hide, and would argue it's as scary as some of the best, alongside ones like Listen and The Empty Child -- and like The Empty Child, the actual revelation is legitimately quite a clever one from a sci-fi standpoint.  Glad to know you really liked it as well.

I loved the part in The Brain of Morbius where Jared Leto showed up

Oh yeah, that shot with the lightning and the ghost behind them always freaked me out. It reminds me of a similar shot in 'Woman in Black' where we just see the protagonists looking out a window from the outside and then the ghost's pale face appears from the darkness over his shoulder. It's one of the more subtle jumps ares in the movie but it's the worst one for me. It's when you can see something horrifying the characters don't notice that makes you think 'Well what could be creeping up behind me in the dark?' I don't get that feeling with loud jumps scares because at least you know you'd notice if it ever happens in real life.

Another good, and underated, episode from this series. Clara's line about how the Doctor must see all humans that he's ever dealt with, especially his friends and companions: "...we're all ghosts to you", which is spot on true. His tragedy is his outliving everyone, basically being immortal in a way. That's why I never thought it right that the Doctor could ever have a romantic relationship with a companion, he couldn't stand seeing them grow old and die before his eyes... again, and again, and again. It's not something he could ever do. I know the show has often highlighted the flirtations between the Doctor and some of the companions, and it's understandable from their point of view (they see him as being young when in fact he's not, being thousands of years old), but for the Doctor, that can never be.

I also like how you point out the flaw in the Impossible Girl story arc shouldn't be focused so much on Clara but the Doctor himself. It's he who can't accept that she's just an ordinary woman and not some special puzzle that needs to be understood and found out what meaning she has for seemingly reoccuring over and over at various points in time. Fans want to unfairly point the finger at Clara and give her the blame but it's the Doctor who they should be focusing on. I think most don't like the arc because they think it gives to much importance to Clara at the end and how she has to go back through his timestream to save his past selves, if it were any other companion in her place, Rose, Donna or Amy say, would they still be so upset by it? Probably not.

At any rate, I like that arc, and this episode too and how it starts to lead up to it in the finale. Great analysis once again! 👍😀

It’s like Luigi’s Mansion. And then next week journey to the center of the tardis.

9:23 The idea that there is a species out there with their nature being that they are timeless immortals has been done so many times in sci-fi but never quite as well as the timelords. they actually made the show about the timeless immortal and his point of view. Instead of just being some great mystery you hear about how immortals are born and where they come from (galifrey)
This is what makes "the timeless child" so offensive. Instead of being a race of immortals who just have this divine right, they are recast as murderers and thieves and then they are all killed off by the master somehow. It's insulting to 50 years worth of viewers.

I dunno if it is this writer specifically but in both the episodes he wrote there are obscure references to fiction/pop culture and I really like them and I dunno why. Rings of Akhaten references the poem The Carpenter And the Walrus by Lewis Carroll  and this episode references the song Lets Do It, Lets Fall In Love by Cole Porter. I love that they are integrated into some of 11s manic dialogue that we get when he is talking at like 100 mile an hour. I dunno why I like these references I just do.

The relationship between Clara and the TARDIS evokes that of Big Finish companion Charlotte Pollard, who kept finding herself in sticky situations with the Web of Time. The story Zagreus has a scene where the TARDIS, manifesting through a projection of the Brigadier, makes some very bitter points about Charley to her face. Later on in her travels she ends up separated from the Eighth Doctor but her rescue is conducted by the Sixth, her arrival in his TARDIS being where another character notes the time and space ship doesn’t like Charley (partway through this arc a time sensitive likens the timeline to a cat spitting and hissing at her).

As a fan growing up with the classic series, I love Hide for the 70's feel they give it. "Toggles!" The two ghost hunters are a great pair, mirroring the Doctor/Companion relationship. Would have been nice to see a spinoff series.

If there wasn't the stupid and hamfisted "lovestory" ending, it would have been one of the best DW stories ever. Now I think it's a missed opportunity.

the only reason i like the crooked man twist is because it gave us the great line "it's not a ghost story it's a love story"

At the time, you know, I didn't enjoy this episode as much as I felt I should have.
But your insightful recap and thoughts have made me re-evaluate my opinion. Thanks, Harbo 👍

I love this episode. It's just brilliant. No further notes. My ranking is 9 out of 10.

Regarding the ending, the monster was seen in both timeframes. Which not even Omega could have done. Thus there had to have been two of them, or the plot hole would have been gigantic.

I loved this episode because it captured to atmosphere of 1970's horror flicks , in a classic Doctor Who manner .

"the single defying noise declaring hopelessness and doom"
*Dalek theme during series 4 finale*:🧂