1. Time After Time
In Time of Angels (series 5) and The Wedding of River song (series 6) the Doctor declares, Time is not the boss of me! How interesting that in this episode he calls Clara the boss. Could Clara somehow be the physical embodiment of time? Or at least connected somehow throughout the Doctors own time space (I hesitate to use line as time is not necessarily linear)? Clara is woven into his web in a sense. Is this why the TARDIS is wary of her? Perhaps that is not what Clara is now but what she may become. What if Clara brought something else back with her, besides computer skills, when she was downloaded from the Great Intelligences data cloud? Could the GI be using Clara to infiltrate the Doctors time space somehow? If you truly wanted to destroy the Doctor, wouldnt you have to destroy every version of him? Otherwise there would always be some representation of him out there wandering around. Doctor Who fans spend a lot of time arguing about the idea of paradox. Lets speculate that paradox is a given. It is quite possible, for example, in the case of Adas feelings for her mother, to love and hate at the same time. We may not see a paradox because our observations are dependent upon where our perception is focused but just because we dont see something doesnt mean its not there. So lets say that what weve been thinking of as paradox is actually potential. If time is not linear, then all potential may exist across all of space and time. Paradox doesnt actually exist or rather exists everywhere always because for every time space within every universe there is a contradictory time space within a contradictory universe that satisfies a different potential. What separates the Doctor from the rest of the universe(s) is simply awareness. He is not limited by linear thinking. He is more similar to the TARDIS, infinitely conscious of every potential time space. So what does this mean? That the Doctor himself exists across all potential all space all time all universes. He is so interconnected interwoven into the very fabric of being that to remove him would mean the unraveling of everything. Is this what he is so afraid of? That because he has chosen to travel to insert himself into so many different realities the revealing of his true nature could lead to not only his destruction but to the end of time itself? Is this why the Silence are so afraid? Crimson Horror may seem like simple farce but peel back the layer of artifice and you glimpse its larger implications. Gatiss story is really about group and relationship dynamics and how the pulling of a single thread affects the entire fabric. Either the weave becomes tighter or it completely falls apart.