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[eve11]

Do you guys think that the whole "hybrid" thing is this season's "Bad Wolf"? It's been coming up a lot. Davros mentioned it in the opener, I don't remember if it was in the Under the Lake show or not, but it was mentioned with Ishilda too, and now with the Osgoods. So what do we suppose the meaning of all of that might turn out to be?

Fair warning, I have no idea about the upcoming episodes at all; have not been reading spoilers or hints or anything. I don't even know the episode names. All I've seen are some of the trailers they put out before the season started.

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[a-phoenixdragon.livejournal.com]

Well, I don't know what it means....but seeing all the hybrids that Who has brought to us over the years (the last few being the most signifigant in my mind), makes me wonder what will reach out from the past seasons to say 'Hello'!

*HUGS*

[profrobert.livejournal.com]

I think "hybrid" on one of this season's things. As you said, Davros referred to a Dalek-Time Lord hybrid (and this is perhaps what led the Doctor to steal the TARDIS and leave Gallifrey). The Doctor refers to Aschildr as a hybrid after he puts the immortality chip in her. At least one Osgood is a hybrid (and they'd both argue they were), and I think it was Clara getting into Bonnie's head that helped make Bonnie choose peace, so that was a kind of hybrid, too.

Before I say anything else on the subject, are you aware of public BBC announcements about casting and characters for the rest of the season? If you're avoiding public pronoucements, then I'll shut up, but I have another example that is upcoming (and it's not, as I joked with Nonelvis, that we learn Danny was run over by a Prius).

Another theme of the season is the friend inside the enemy and the enemy inside the friend. In The Witch's Familiar, Missy makes an explicit point of this. Both she and Clara (when she's in the Dalek) are examples. Same thing with Clara and Bonnie. Remember also that it's Missy who engineered Clara calling the Doctor's phone in The Bells of St. John, and Missy suggests that has something to do with this concept. The Doctor and Me also talk about this enemy/friend relationship at the end of The Woman Who Lived. Heck, we even learned that sweet, dumb Bors actually harbored a Dalek inside of him.