8. Time Is Always In Flux
There were a lot of parallels between this episode and The Pandorica Opens/The Big Bang series five finale. When the TARDIS is grabbed by the salvage ships tractor beam the monitor cracks. It was very similar to the way the monitor cracked when River flew the TARDIS back to Amys house in The Pandorica Opens. We also had a reappearance of a crack in time. The recurrent time loops of Journey, especially where Clara keeps returning to the control room are reminiscent of how the TARDIS placed River Song into a time loop to save her as the TARDIS exploded in The Big Bang. The Doctor resets time at the end of this episode just like he did at the end of The Big Bang. The Doctors manipulated and reset time quite a bit throughout Steven Moffats stewardship. Might we finally be tying up some loose ends left hanging since series five? We never did find out exactly why the TARDIS exploded in the series five finale. What about the movement known as the Silence? Are we heading for Trenzalore and the fall of the eleventh?