Not to put words in the other users mouth, but magic and Doctor Who don’t typically mix, maybe that’s their beef? The closest things we’ve seen to conventional capital “G” Gods previously were the white and black guardians.
But I’m still waiting to see how Mrs. Flood fits in to all this and to see if there’s a connection to River Song and Amy Pond, or The Rani perhaps?
I’m counting on the pantheon to be “gods” in the Lovecraftian cosmic horror sense, very real beings that are just so far outside of anything we can comprehend that they might as well be “gods”. The Doctor has said things to that effect (most recently in Lux, I think). They only look “magic” to us (see Arthur C Clarke). There have been “magic” beings before who turn out to just use a kind of science we don’t understand yet.
Do we think the Barber is part of that pantheon? Because he was revealed to not be Anansi (Saga/Loki/etc) after all so he’d be someone/thing else, no? Coming back to Lovecraft, since he pretended to be a trickster god, he might be a kind of parallel to Nyarlathotep, maybe. That would still make him a kind of “deity”, for lack of a better word, but not one of the “big ones”.
Mrs Flood is either (and I owe this insight to tumblr user being-of-rain) a Time Lord called the Neighbour who bends time and space to be everybody’s neighbour and her ultimate goal is to solve the housing crisis by bringing about the apocalypse OR (fingers crossed) River.
Not to put words in the other users mouth, but magic and Doctor Who don’t typically mix, maybe that’s their beef? The closest things we’ve seen to conventional capital “G” Gods previously were the white and black guardians.
But I’m still waiting to see how Mrs. Flood fits in to all this and to see if there’s a connection to River Song and Amy Pond, or The Rani perhaps?
I’m counting on the pantheon to be “gods” in the Lovecraftian cosmic horror sense, very real beings that are just so far outside of anything we can comprehend that they might as well be “gods”. The Doctor has said things to that effect (most recently in Lux, I think). They only look “magic” to us (see Arthur C Clarke). There have been “magic” beings before who turn out to just use a kind of science we don’t understand yet.
Do we think the Barber is part of that pantheon? Because he was revealed to not be Anansi (Saga/Loki/etc) after all so he’d be someone/thing else, no? Coming back to Lovecraft, since he pretended to be a trickster god, he might be a kind of parallel to Nyarlathotep, maybe. That would still make him a kind of “deity”, for lack of a better word, but not one of the “big ones”.
Mrs Flood is either (and I owe this insight to tumblr user being-of-rain) a Time Lord called the Neighbour who bends time and space to be everybody’s neighbour and her ultimate goal is to solve the housing crisis by bringing about the apocalypse OR (fingers crossed) River.
River would be good, but maybe too obvious. They brought back Sutekh, why not Romana? That would be a mind blower…
True but there’s a connection between “flood” and “river”. We haven’t seen any Romans since Rory, have we? ;)