#hellofabird

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It was very tough narrowing it down, there was SO much interesting stuff, looking forward to going back over all of it!

Favourite quotes (both from Steven Moffat)...

"Weird thing - the best scene in Heaven Sent is in Hell Bent (Dr and Clara in the cloisters.) "

The next Doctor Who watch-along is... HEAVEN SENT.

On Peter Capaldi's birthday, join Steven Moffat (Writer), Rachel Talalay (Director) and Jami Reid-Quarrell (The Veil) who'll be live-tweeting the episode.

Thanks to @chipsandcoffee‘s post here, those of us where were unable to follow the Heaven Sent tweet-a-long got to see some of the highlights. Apparently, Steven Moffat didn’t give the same volume of commentary as he did with his previous event, but director Rachel Talalay gave some great comments. As someone who has lived and breathed the episode (most recently writing a fan fic prequel to it), there were several things that caught my attention and filled in some knowledge gaps (be sure to read the whole post for all of the best ones, I’m just picking a few highlights):

* Although Rachel didn’t provide a name, we now have someone to credit for the Clara portrait: designer Michael Pickwoad’s daughter. A new fan art folk hero is born!

* So Rachel thought “I am in 12″ might have referred to Clara. Interestingly, as we all know, Moffat originally planned to have “I am in 12″ written on the back of Clara’s portrait too. So maybe that was the original idea (and, since breaking through the wall and getting back to Gallifrey to pull Clara out of time was the Doctor’s game plan, I don’t think Rachel’s interpretation is wrong).

* Possibly the biggest surprise - if I understand Rachel correctly - is that some of the images of StormRoom!Clara were not of a body double but were manipulated images of Jenna herself. There are still a couple of moments where Clara had to be have been a double, but still - interesting!

* Maybe someday we’ll see the alternate take where we see Jenna perform Clara’s complete “encouragement” speech on camera. Having read the script as posted to the BBC Writer’s Room website, I know there was one or two extra lines too, so maybe they were filmed too.