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nyarnamaitar · 5 years
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About that NYT article...
Emilia’s latest NYT article has pissed me off for a number of reasons, but I really don’t think it means that we should be anxious about Dany’s S8 arc. Or, in other words: dark!Dany won’t be a thing, FFS. I love the Dany/Jonerys fandom, but some of you really need to stop letting Dany antis’/J*nsa shippers’ rhetoric get to you.
I’ll try to break down my reasoning:
1. Apparently, Maureen Dowd, the author of the article, is quite infamous for her stance on real-life women. She poses as a feminist, yet she made quite the career out of bashing, amongst others, Hillary Clinton. This doesn’t mean that she hates Daenerys, but every piece of writing -- and certainly an opinion piece, which is what the NYT article is -- directly or indirectly reflects the author’s views and well, let’s just say that I’m... Wary of Dowd. I’ve seen Dany fans complain that this press tour has been overwhelmingly negative for Dany and while I agree that the Northern lords and their stans are wankers with shriveled up penises who need to get their priorities straight, I wouldn’t say S8′s promo has been that bad for Dany fans at all. Dany heavily figures in S8′s advertising, photoshoots, and trailers and most of this material consists out Dany and Jon as a couple.
2. The NYT article content that pisses me off the most are the comments on House Targaryen and how the Targaryens are equated with madness, which implies that Dany’s questionable leadership choices are a consequence of her parentage, which is... Problematic to say the least. One does not have to be mentally ill or have a mentally ill father to make bad choices. As not to stray off-topic too much, I’m just going to say that I really dislike the way this fandom talks about mental illness or how mental illness is capitalised upon to discredit a character one doesn’t like. However, going back to the NYT article, these anti Targaryen comments are almost exclusively the author’s and based on Dowd’s track record, I’m inclined to dismiss them. Having read Fire and Blood, ASoIaF fans -- or at least those with basic reader comprehension skills -- know that most of the Targaryens weren’t mad and that a lot of Targaryen kings have done good things for Westeros. 
3. As for Emilia’s comments, there are a number of things I want to address. 
(A) First of all, it seems like the Tarlys’ execution will be a big deal in S8 (*sigh*), which is why I think that when Emilia talks about Dany’s ‘Targaryen impulses’ (my words), she’s mostly talking about the loot train battle and the subsequent burning of the Tarlys. Although (and strangely enough) Dave Hill has come out and stated that Dany made the right call in executing Randyll and Dickon, the show is obviously using this scene to manufacture drama by teasing mad queen!Dany. I really wish this weren’t the case, but alas, it is. That being said, I still agree with Dave Hill. In-universe, the Tarlys’ execution wasn’t exceptional at all and it pisses me off that Dany gets shit for doing something lots of other characters have done, too. 
(B) I don’t think Emilia’s comments are entirely off the bat. Dany does have darker impulses and in the books, Dany herself is very much aware of them. She continuously questions her own judgement and sanity, which convinces me that she won’t ever become truly mad. Fuck that noise. 
(C) I find it... Unfortunate that Emilia’s buying into the House Targaryen = madness crap, but we should keep in mind that we don’t know the context of the interview, the amount of time Emilia received to adequately answer Dowd’s questions, etc. Plus, I’m quite fond of Emilia and I don’t want to bash her at all, BUT a lot of the GoT actors don’t have a particularly good grasp on their characters. Maisie’s interpretation of Arya is atrocious. Sophie’s comments on Sansa’s character arc are laughably bad (The warrior of Winterfell? Really?). And while Emilia loves Dany, she’s not an exception. She doesn’t know the lore as well as we, the fans, do. It’s sad, but it’s true.
So, in short: I don’t think the NYT article “proves” that dark!Dany/mad queen!Dany will be a thing in S8. I think it attemps to emphasise that Dany has darker impulses and that she’s made mistakes that will haunt her in S8, i.e. the execution of the Tarlys and its effect on Sam. I agree with the article in the sense that, yes, Dany is flawed — just like pretty much all of the ASoIaF/GoT characters are. However, I vehemently disagree with how the execution of the Tarlys is treated by both D&D and the anti Dany section of the GoT fandom.
Based on everything we've received so far, including BoatSexBaby’s and Friki’s spoilers, nothing indicates that Dany will become dark/darker in S8. The NYT article just serves to foment the GoT hype AND highlight the darker aspects of Dany’s character that the audience should already be familiar with. It doesn’t tell us anything particularly new about Dany’s arc and character in S8.
Plus, I don’t think we pay enough attention to the good things the NYT article has to say about Dany. It recognises the double standard female rulers have to face in Westeros; it praises Dany’s character arc and iconic status in the show; it ends on the note that if Donald Trump lived in Westeros, Dany would be the one to overthrow him, etc. These arguments are hardly negative and don’t point to dark!Dany/mad queen!Dany at all. 
So, while some parts of the NYT article are dumb (and even upsetting), I don’t think we should be very alarmed by them. My opinions on Dany’s character and storyline in S8 haven’t changed since the article’s publication and I truly believe we should all calm down a bit.
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Why do you think d&d hate Daenerys so much?I've seen an article about brienne not liking Daenerys.. looks like all the ladies from wf will be against her and i don't get it
I don’t think D&D hate her. I think 1. They are not great at writing interpersonal conflict that isn’t on a grand political scale (see: Arya v Sansa and Dany v Tyrion last season) and 2. They received massive backlash after writing Sansa’s season 5 rape and have never adequately addressed that choice and diversion from the book narrative. Instead of addressing it, they overcompensate in Sansa’s plotlines by situating her at odds with others, people she has no reason to be at odds with? (see: Arya last season and apparently both Dany and Jon in s8) just so that she can come out on top in these conflicts and have all these #yas queen moments so that D&D can point to them and be like, “See?!?! We did what we did in s5 to make Sansa this badass shrewd politician and mastermind.” That’s my theory. Sansa is a good politician (and has been for years tbh–she survived both Joffrey and life at the Eyrie) and complex character but I also believe a lot of their writing for her post-Ramsay has been an attempt to salvage their fuckup. And since Brienne is sworn to Sansa and greatly admires her I imagine she will follow her lead in opposing Dany.
But that’s not to say that all the ladies of WF will oppose Dany. Remember that Friki’s leaks specifically mention that Jon approaches Arya about enlisting her help to get Sansa to go easier on Dany. So we can assume that at least Arya likes her, which would fit with what little promo we’ve gotten so far showing Arya admiring the dragons, and the show!only scene of her telling Tywin Lannister how much she admires Targaryen warrior women. So there’s that.
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Which 4 Republicans Voted Yes Today
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Which 4 Republicans Voted Yes Today
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I Do Solemnly Swear That I Will Support And Defend The Constitution Of The United States Against All Enemies Foreign And Domestic; That I Will Bear True Faith And Allegiance To The Same; That I Take This Obligation Freely Without Any Mental Reservation Or Purpose Of Evasion; And That I Will Well And Faithfully Discharge The Duties Of The Office On Which I Am About To Enter So Help Me God
Mortality.
It’s something that you don’t really consider when you’re young.  You can do anything.  You’re invincible.
But as we grow older, we start considering that mortality. 
It’s time we start considering the mortality of America.
I spend a substantial amount of time working in two different arenas – the world of law enforcement and the business world.
That travel that I referenced – both in the business world and supporting the LE world – has afforded me countless opportunities to work side by side with some of the greatest patriots in America. 
My closest friends are either in law enforcement or either active or retired members of some of the most elite military forces in America.  And from our greatest warriors to our everyday citizens… I can tell you the underlying fear that so many are thinking about – and that’s the seemingly inevitable collapse of society if we don’t make some monumental changes.
As a Christian, I believe we are in the middle of some serious spiritual warfare.  But you don’t have to be a Christian to understand that the very soul of America is under attack right now.  And the rapid erosion of the Thin Blue Line has us sitting on a powder keg.
Historically, if you look at the collapse of some of the greatest empires in the world, it happened from within.  Simply put, it raises the distinct danger that America won’t be conquered by foreign enemies … but rather from domestic ones.
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Mcconnell Among 19 Republicans To Vote For Infrastructure Bill Here Are The Republicans Who Helped It Over The Finish Line
A group of 19 Senate Republicans, led by Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, joined the entire Democratic caucus in passing a $1.2 trillion infrastructure package on Tuesday.
The bill passed with a vote of 69-30, more than two weeks after President Joe Biden declared “we have a deal” with a bipartisan group of negotiators.
But the final bill included some noteworthy dissent.
Republican Sens. Jerry Moran of Kansas and Todd Young of Indiana were part of the bipartisan coalition backing the deal in July, but both voted against the bill on Tuesday, citing concerns about the national debt and Democrats’ plan to take up a $3.5 trillion budget reconciliation package after the infrastructure vote.
Sen. Mike Rounds, R-S.D., was not present for the vote but said he would not support the bill even though he also was part of the initial bipartisan group.
What’s in the infrastructure bill? Roads, broadband and bridges: Here’s what’s in the infrastructure agreement
In the split Senate, the bill still drew support from enough Republicans to pass the chamber, even as they faced pressure from former President Donald Trump to not give Biden a legislative win.
Biden said after the vote on Tuesday that he called most of the 19 Republican senators who voted for the infrastructure bill to praise them.
Here is how the Senate’s 50 Republicans voted:
The Tree Of Liberty Must Be Refreshed From Time To Time With The Blood Of Patriots And Tyrants It Is Its Natural Manure
We are seeing groups here in America demanding open borders.  Demanding the decriminalization of crossing into our country illegally.
At the same time, across our great country, we are seeing the CRIMINALIZATION of law enforcement.  It’s gotten so bad in states like the People’s Republic of California and Connecticut that we’re seeing the crash and burn of morale in law enforcement. 
We’re seeing agencies desperate for officers, because as more and more retire , we see a deficit in the number of incoming recruits.  After all, why would you want to live a life of service when you’re just going to be attacked for that service?
We see political activists masquerading as police chiefs.  We see them working hand in hand with liberal politicians to not only attack the rights of law-abiding citizens, but also to destroy the morale of their own departments. We watch as they flat out disrespect the oath of office they took and put officers in no-win situations.
If I were to design a road map for how to collapse America, starting with law enforcement, here’s what it would look like.
Capitol Police Chief Apologizes For Security Failures During The Assault Including A Delay In Calling For Guard Troops
The acting chief of the Capitol Police apologized to Congress on Tuesday for the agency’s extensive security failures on Jan. 6, acknowledging during a closed-door briefing that the department knew there was a “strong potential for violence” but failed to take adequate steps to prevent what she described as a “terrorist attack.”
Yogananda D. Pittman, the acting chief of police, also confirmed that the Capitol Police Board, an obscure panel made up of three voting members, had initially declined a request two days earlier for National Guard troops and then delayed for more than an hour as the violence unfolded on Jan. 6 before finally agreeing to a plea from the Capitol Police for National Guard troops, according to prepared testimony obtained by The New York Times.
In an extraordinary admission, Chief Pittman, who was not the acting chief at the time of the siege, told members of the House Appropriations Committee, which oversees funding for the agency, that the Capitol Police “failed to meet its own high standards as well as yours.” She added, “I am here to offer my sincerest apologies on behalf of the department.” Chief Pittman’s predecessor, Steven Sund, resigned after the riot.
Chief Pittman’s comments offered the fullest detailed account to date about police preparations for Jan. 6, when thousands of angry protesters, believing false claims that the election had been stolen, marched on the Capitol at the behest of former President Donald J. Trump.
List Of 17 Cowardly Republicans Who Voted To Break Filibuster And Allow Massive Infrastructure Bill To Come To Floor
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The so-called “infrastructure” bill is expected to be around $1.2 trillion over eight years with roughly $550 billion in new spending, but details on key components were still being worked out. Some procedural steps still lie ahead before the final passage.
CNN correspondent Manu Raju tweeted about the 17 cowardly Republicans who voted this afternoon to advance Biden’s climate change infrastructure bill to the Senate floor:
67-32, 17 Senate Republicans voted to break a filibuster and proceeed to the bipartisan infrastructure plan. All Democrats voted yes. Measure expected to be on the floor for at least a week and bipartisan coalition will have to deal with amendment process
— Manu Raju July 28, 2021
“Clearing the Fog” clarified why this bill is not a done deal:
Just to be clear, the infrastructure bill has not been passed. 17Republicans agreed to break the filibuster, and allow it to come to the floor. It isn’t nearly over.
Just to be clear, the infrastructure bill has not been passed.
17 Republicans agreed to break the filibuster, and allow it to come to the floor.
It isn’t nearly over. https://t.co/7LcB7mw17d
— ClearingTheFog July 28, 2021
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Conservative Fox News host Laura Ingraham also tweeted about the vote by the feckless Republicans who continue to sell the future of our children down the river:
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Despite Partisan Rhetoric At The Colorado Capitol Just 44% Of Bills This Year Passed Along Purely Party Lines
The analysis, the second such study conducted by The Colorado Sun in three years, once again indicates more bipartisanship in the Colorado General Assembly than might be expected
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A record 504 bills introduced in the Colorado legislature became law this year, and 94% of them had at least one Republican vote.
And half of the 39 Republicans in the state House and Senate voted for 58% of those bills, according to a Colorado Sun analysis. 
That’s despite a third year of Democratic rule at the Colorado Capitol and GOP complaints that the majority party and Democratic Gov. Jared Polis are enacting policies that are too liberal and unfair to businesses and taxpayers.
The Sun analyzed final third-reading votes on the 504 bills that became law, omitting the four bills vetoed by Polis and the 114 measures that died in committees or never received a final vote on one of the chamber floors.
Janet Yellen The First Woman To Be Treasury Secretary Is Sworn In By The First Woman To Be Vice President
Janet L. Yellen was sworn in as the secretary of the Treasury Department on Tuesday by Vice President Kamala Harris, a history-making moment as both are the first women to hold two of the most powerful jobs in the United States government.
Ms. Yellen is the nation’s 78th Treasury secretary and the first woman to head the institution in its 232-year history. She is also the first woman to have held all three top economic jobs in the government, having served as chair of the Federal Reserve and the Council of Economic Advisers.
She is taking the job at a time of economic crisis, with millions still out of work and the recovery slowing as the coronavirus persists. Ms. Yellen will quickly be thrust into fraught negotiations over how to design and pass a robust stimulus package to help revive an economy that has been hammered by the pandemic.
Standing outside the White House, Ms. Yellen took the oath of office with her husband, the economist George Akerlof, and her son by her side. At the conclusion of the ceremony, Ms. Harris said, “Congratulations, Madam Secretary,” to which Ms. Yellen replied, “Thank you, Madam Vice President.”
Ms. Yellen said on Twitter that she was proud to be joining the Treasury Department and described the field of economics, and the agency’s mission, as one that can “right past wrongs and improve people’s lives.”
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Senate Republicans Block Landmark Voting Rights Bill In Significant Setback For Democrats As It Happened
All 50 Republicans voted against advancing the legislation
Manchin tells Chuck Schumer he will vote to advance legislation
Senate Democrats to fall short of 60 votes needed to begin debate
New Yorkers vote in Democratic primary for New York mayoral pick
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Capitol Riot Investigation Will Slow As Officials Work To Build More Complicated Cases Justice Dept Says
Justice Department officials said on Tuesday that the fast-moving federal investigation into the assault on the Capitol is expected to slow as investigators turn their attention to more complex matters such as conspiracy and sedition cases, the investigation into the death of Officer Brian D. Sicknick of the Capitol Police and violent attacks on members of the press.
In the 20 days since rioters stormed the Capitol, the F.B.I. has received over 200,000 digital media tips and identified more than 400 suspects. Federal prosecutors quickly charged 150 criminal cases, many of which have now been elevated to felonies.
But the manhunt and investigation is expected to “reach a period of a plateau,” said Michael R. Sherwin, the U.S. attorney in Washington, as investigators shift from identifying and rounding up individuals to putting together more complicated conspiracy cases related to possible coordination among militia groups and individuals from different states who had planned to travel to the Capitol and engage in criminal conduct before the attack.
“We have to have the proper evidence to charge these, and we’re going to get it,” said Steven M. D’Antuono, the F.B.I. assistant deputy in charge of the Washington field office. “All these cases are not based upon social media and Twitter and Instagram posts. We also have traditional law enforcement tools we need to use — grand jury subpoenas search warrants — and you don’t get that overnight.”
Republicans Defy Kevin Mccarthy And Gop Leadership To Vote With All Democrats In Favor Of Forming A 9/11
The House passed a bill that would create a commission to investigate the January 6 MAGA riot, with a vote of 252-175
Thirty-five Republicans defected from leadership and voted in favor of the bill that would create a bipartisan commission with subpoena power
House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy came out against the bill Tuesday, followed by Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell on Wednesday 
‘I beg you to pass this bill,’ said Republican Rep. John Katko, who had negotiated with Democrats to get the bill finished 
Katko received applause on the House floor for saying the legislation was dedicated to members of the Capitol Police and their families 
Earlier, an un-official letter from some members of the Capitol Police circulated shaming Republicans for not wanting to investigate January 6  
Senator Patrick Leahy 80 Is Briefly Hospitalized As A Precaution After He Reported Feeling Unwell
Senator Patrick J. Leahy of Vermont, the longest-serving senator and the president pro tempore, was briefly taken to a hospital in Washington for observation early Tuesday evening after he reported not feeling well, his spokesman said. He returned home a few hours later after an evaluation.
Mr. Leahy, whose position in the Senate puts him third in line for the presidency, oversaw the start of the impeachment proceedings against former President Donald J. Trump earlier on Tuesday. At 80, Mr. Leahy is one of the oldest senators and has served in the Senate since 1975.
After he reported not feeling well in his office, Mr. Leahy “was examined in the Capitol by the attending physician,” said David Carle, the spokesman. “Out of an abundance of caution, the attending physician recommended that he be taken to a local hospital for observation, where he is now, and where he is being evaluated.”
Mr. Leahy was taken to George Washington University Hospital, where he received tests and “a thorough examination” before being released, Mr. Carle said.
The senator “looks forward to getting back to work,” Mr. Carle said.
Mr. Leahy has received both vaccine shots for the coronavirus, and it was unclear what his symptoms were.
Senator Charles E. Grassley, Republican of Iowa and Mr. Leahy’s predecessor as president pro tempore, was among those who wished Mr. Leahy well in a tweet Tuesday evening.
Here Are The 17 Republican Senators Who Voted To Advance The $1 Trillion Infrastructure Bill
Washington When the Senate voted Wednesday to open debate on a roughly $1 trillion infrastructure package, more than a dozen Republicans sided with Democrats to advance the legislation.
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Roy Blunt of Missouri
Richard Burr of North Carolina
Shelley Moore Capito of West Virginia
Bill Cassidy of Louisiana
Kevin Cramer of North Dakota
Mike Crapo of Idaho
Lindsey Graham of South Carolina
Chuck Grassley of Iowa
John Hoeven of North Dakota
Mitch McConnell of Kentucky
Thom Tillis of North Carolina
Todd Young of Indiana
Biden Calls Putin To Discuss Navalny Government Hack Ukraine And Malign Actions By Russia
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President Biden called President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia on Tuesday to address a long list of grievances — from the hacking of U.S. federal agencies, to the poisoning and detention of the Russian dissident Aleksei A. Navalny as well as a host of other “malign actions by Russia,” Jen Psaki, the White House press secretary, said.
Mr. Biden struck a more confrontational tone — a sharp break from former President Donald J. Trump’s chummy approach to Mr. Putin — committing to the protection of Ukraine’s “sovereignty,” and pressing for the extension of the New Start treaty for five years, which would limit both countries to 1,550 deployed strategic nuclear weapons.
“President Biden made clear that the United States will act firmly in defense of its national interests in response to actions by Russia that harm us or our allies,” according to a White House readout of the conversation. “The two presidents agreed to maintain transparent and consistent communication going forward.”
When Mr. Biden was asked at an event at the White House on Tuesday what Mr. Putin had to say, the president joked, “He sends his best!”
Mr. Biden attacked Mr. Trump and Mr. Putin with abandon during the 2020 campaign. But although he was able to mock Mr. Trump’s relationship with the Russian leader when he was a candidate, as president he must keep the peace between uneasy nuclear rivals.
But he quickly pivoted to the need for cooperation in “mutual self-interest,” and the treaty.
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Lloyd Austin The New Defense Secretary Prepares To Address Sexual Assault In The Military
After years of failure to curb the scourge of sexual assault in the military, Lloyd J. Austin III, the new secretary of defense, is open to to how those crimes are prosecuted, a potential sea change that generations of commanders have resisted.
Overhauling the way the military handles sexual assault cases — by taking them outside the chain of command and assigning them to prosecutors with no connection to the accused — would need approval by Congress, where some legislators have long pushed for such a system.
President Biden has been a vocal proponent of these changes, even as general after general has gone to Capitol Hill to argue against them over the past decade. “I had a real run-in with one of the members of the Joint Chiefs in the cabinet room on the issue,” Mr. Biden said last year at a fund-raiser.
Mr. Austin’s first act as secretary was to order a review of how the Pentagon has been handling sexual assault cases. He is also being pushed by Congress. Senators repeatedly asked him how he planned to handle the problems of sexual harassment and assault in the military during his confirmation hearing this month.
If Mr. Austin, a retired four-star army general, were to embrace these changes, he would be the first secretary to do so, a major shift in position for the Pentagon.
The Capitol Attack Wasnt A False Flag Gop Officials Continue To Spread The Theory Anyway
In the hours after supporters of President Donald J. Trump engaged in a violent assault on the U.S. Capitol, some Republicans began advancing a fantastical alternative theory: that the attack was actually led by far-left activists trying to frame Republicans.
The outlandish claims have been widely discredited by the authorities, and some of the faces in the Capitol crowd were recognizable right-wing figures. The numerous arrests since the assault have overwhelmingly involved devoted Trump supporters and far-right adherents. But despite the clear evidence, the so-called false flag theory continues to persist in Republican circles.
Last week, the Oregon Republican Party passed a resolution falsely claiming that there was “growing evidence that the violence at the Capitol was a ‘false flag’ operation designed to discredit President Trump, his supporters and all conservative Republicans.” Bill Currier, the chairman of the Oregon Republican Party, said in a video discussion that state party officials were working with counterparts across the country to “coordinate our messaging” around the Capitol attack, the response to it and the continuing efforts to impeach the president.
Mr. Currier said other states would be adopting similar resolutions. “There will be many states doing this,” Mr. Currier said. “We’re not the only ones.”
Gop Leader Mccarthy: Trump ‘bears Responsibility’ For Violence Won’t Vote To Impeach
Some ambitious Republican senators have never been as on board the Trump train as the more feverish GOP members in the House, and the former might be open to convicting Trump. But their ambition cuts two ways — on the one hand, voting to ban Trump opens a lane to carry the Republican mantle in 2024 and be the party’s new standard-bearer, but, on the other, it has the potential to alienate many of the 74 million who voted for Trump, and whose votes they need.
It’s a long shot that Trump would ultimately be convicted, because 17 Republicans would need to join Democrats to get the two-thirds majority needed for a conviction. But it’s growing clearer that a majority of the Senate will vote to convict him, reflecting the number of Americans who are in favor of impeachment, disapproved of the job Trump has done and voted for his opponent in the 2020 presidential election.
Correction Jan. 14, 2021
A previous version of this story incorrectly said Rep. Peter Meijer is a West Point graduate. Meijer attended West Point, but he is a graduate of Columbia University.
Party Leaders Including Mcconnell And Trump Had Urged Colleagues To Reject Proposal
WASHINGTON—Senate Republicans blocked the creation of a bipartisan, independent commission to investigate the Jan. 6 assault on the U.S. Capitol by a pro-Trump mob, after GOP leaders urged colleagues to reject it.
The bill needed 60 votes to advance in the evenly divided Senate, thanks to the chamber’s longstanding filibuster rule. That means 10 Republicans would have had to vote with all 50 members of the Democratic caucus to allow the bill to proceed. Only six did, and the legislation fell short, with 54 votes in favor, 35 against and 11 senators not voting.
The six Republicans who voted in favor of proceeding with the legislation were Sens. Bill Cassidy of Louisiana, Susan Collins of Maine, Lisa Murkowski of Alaska, Rob Portman of Ohio, Mitt Romney of Utah and Ben Sasse of Nebraska. All but Mr. Portman had voted to convict former President Donald Trump in February at his impeachment trial on charges of inciting insurrection on Jan. 6. Mr. Trump was acquitted.
Two Democrats weren’t present for the vote: Sens. Patty Murray of Washington state and Kyrsten Sinema of Arizona. Nine Republicans also didn’t vote, including Sens. Pat Toomey of Pennsylvania and Richard Burr of North Carolina, both of whom were among the seven GOP senators who voted to convict Mr. Trump earlier this year.
House Votes To Impeach Trump But Senate Trial Unlikely Before Biden’s Inauguration
9. Rep. John Katko, New York’s 24th: Katko is a moderate from an evenly divided moderate district. A former federal prosecutor, he said of Trump: “It cannot be ignored that President Trump encouraged this insurrection.” He also noted that as the riot was happening, Trump “refused to call it off, putting countless lives in danger.”
10. Rep. David Valadao, California’s 21st: The Southern California congressman represents a majority-Latino district Biden won 54% to 44%. Valadao won election to this seat in 2012 before losing it in 2018 and winning it back in the fall. He’s the rare case of a member of Congress who touts his willingness to work with the other party. Of his vote for impeachment, he said: “President Trump was, without question, a driving force in the catastrophic events that took place on January 6.” He added, “His inciting rhetoric was un-American, abhorrent, and absolutely an impeachable offense.”
The White House Press Briefings Will Include An American Sign Language Interpreter
The Biden administration announced this week that it would include an American Sign Language interpreter in its daily press briefings, a step that the previous administration avoided taking until a court ordered it to do so late last year.
The move is a “historical first,” according to Howard A. Rosenblum, the chief executive officer of the National Association of the Deaf.
Past administrations have occasionally had A.S.L. briefers at some White House events and meetings, Mr. Rosenblum said, but President Biden is the first to make it a fixture.
“The president is committed to building an America that is more inclusive, more just and more accessible for every American, including Americans with disabilities and their families,” Jen Psaki, the White House press secretary, said during Monday’s briefing. She introduced the interpreter as Heather.
Last year, Mr. Rosenblum’s advocacy group and five deaf Americans sued the Trump administration for holding briefings on the coronavirus without a sign language interpreter present, arguing that it was a violation of the First Amendment.
The government responded that it had provided closed-captioning, but the plaintiffs said that was not an adequate substitute. A federal judge in Washington sided with the plaintiffs, and the Trump administration started including an interpreter in November.
Fox Gives A Show To One Former Trump Aide But Shoots Down Claims It Hired Another
Larry Kudlow, the former CNBC star who served as director of President Donald J. Trump’s National Economic Council, is returning to broadcasting.
Mr. Kudlow was named the host of a new daily show on Fox Business set to begin later this year, the network said on Tuesday. He will also appear on Fox Business and Fox News as an on-air financial analyst starting Feb. 8.
This is the first major television gig secured by a senior Trump aide who stayed in the White House until the president’s term ended last week. It is also something of a hiring coup for Fox Business, which competes against CNBC and will now feature one of its rival’s longtime featured players.
Fox said that it would provide more information about Mr. Kudlow’s new weekday program at a later date.
Mr. Kudlow’s hiring is the latest example of the revolving door between Fox News and members of the Trump administration. But another prominent Trump defender may not be headed to the Rupert Murdoch-owned network so soon.
Kayleigh McEnany, the former White House press secretary, included an “employment agreement” with Fox News on a federally mandated disclosure form she filed earlier this month, signaling that she had landed a job at the cable channel.
Fox News on Tuesday had a different message for Ms. McEnany: not so fast.
“Kayleigh McEnany is not currently an employee or contributor at Fox News,” the network said in a statement.
Ms. McEnany did not immediately respond to a request for comment on Tuesday.
Democrats Weigh Next Options As Senate Republicans Filibuster Voting Rights Bill
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“They don’t even want to debate it because they’re afraid. They want to deny the right to vote, make it harder to vote for so many Americans, and they don’t want to talk about it,” Schumer, D-N.Y., said on Tuesday. “There is a rot — a rot — at the center of the modern Republican party. Donald Trump’s big lie has spread like a cancer and threatens to envelop one of America’s major political parties.”
Vice President Kamala Harris, who has been tasked by the White House to work on voting rights, presided over the Tuesday debate in the Senate.
The legislation is cosponsored by 49 Democratic members of the Senate. The one holdout, Sen. Joe Manchin, D-W.Va., said Tuesday he’d vote to begin debate after receiving assurances that the Senate would consider a compromise version that he has said he can support.
“Today I will vote ‘YES’ to move to debate this updated voting legislation as a substitute amendment to ensure every eligible voter is able to cast their ballot and participate in our great democracy,” Manchin said in a statement, while adding that he doesn’t support the bill as written.
“We’ll keep talking,” he said after the vote. “You can’t give up. You really can’t.”
Schumer said the vote was “the starting gun, not the finish line” in the battle over ballot access and vowed that Democrats “will not let it die.”
He told reporters on Tuesday that the state-led system held up well in the 2020 election.
It has been rejected by top Republicans as a nonstarter.
Trump Calls For ‘no Violence’ As Congress Moves To Impeach Him For Role In Riot
This time, there will be more. Some Republican senators have called on Trump to resign, and even Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell said he is undecided at this point.
Trump’s impeachment won’t lead to his removal — even if he is convicted — because of the timeline. The Senate is adjourned until Tuesday. The next day, Biden will be sworn in as the 46th president. But there’s another penalty the Constitution allows for as a result of a Senate conviction that could be appealing to some Republican senators — banning Trump from holding “office” again.
While there is some debate as to the definition of “office” in the Constitution and whether that would apply to running for president or even Congress, that kind of public rebuke would send a strong message — that Republicans are ready to move on from Trumpism.
The Collapse Of Law Enforcement Will Usher In The End Of America As We Know It
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Rep Tim Ryan: Probe Underway On Whether Members Gave Capitol Tours To Rioters
7. Rep. Jaime Herrera Beutler, Washington’s 3rd: Herrera Beutler was swept in with the Tea Party wave in 2010, but her district is a moderate one. Trump won it 51% to 47%. Herrera Beutler gained prominence several years ago for giving birth to a child three months early, born without kidneys and a rare syndrome. Her daughter, Abigail, became the first to survive the often-fatal condition. The now-mother of three and congresswoman from southwest Washington state declared on the House floor her vote in favor of impeachment: “I’m not choosing sides, I’m choosing truth.”
8. Rep. Peter Meijer, Michigan’s 3rd: Meijer is a freshman, who won his seat with 53% of the vote. He represents a district that was previously held by Justin Amash, the former Republican-turned-independent who voted in favor of Trump’s impeachment in 2019. Meijer, a Columbia University grad who served in Afghanistan, is a social conservative in favor of restrictions on abortion rights and against restrictions on gun rights and religious freedoms. But he said Trump showed no “courage” and “betrayed millions with claims of a ‘stolen election.’ ” He added, “The one man who could have restored order, prevented the deaths of five Americans including a Capitol police officer, and avoided the desecration of our Capitol, shrank from leadership when our country needed it most.”
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Iron Will, 21) things you said when we were on top of the world
“Green suits you,” Azula says from behind her, voice as diverting as ever. Tetsuki doesn’t tense up, though with anyone else she would–hating the idea of anyone else putting her in such a vulnerable position. With Azula physical location means nothing.
And plus, her houndsnake continues to lounge lazily across her shoulders: he would not be so relaxed with just anyone. She’s travelled with the Freedom Fighters for months and he still growls when they draw too near.
Tetsuki turns around to face her princess, “It suits you far less,” she responds, smile immediately curling on her mouth at the sight of the Fire Nation princess in overly traditional Earth Kingdom garb.
“Yes, well, needs must.” Azula sniffs, adjusting the headdress she took from the Kiyoshi warriors, “Terribly impractical, honestly, but it’s not as if I expected any better.”
“It seems effective enough,” Tetsuki nods, gesturing at their surroundings. If she had to be honest, she’d admit that she much preferred the throne room in Ba Sing Se than the Fire Lord’s–though she had only been there once. Something about the solidity of the stone, as if this palace were as old as the mountains itself.
Too bad the same could not be said of its monarchy.
“Was your ticket to entry as impractical as mine?” Azula asks, though surely she must already know.
“I wouldn’t say impractical so much as annoying.” Jet–and the Freedom Fighters through him–have been useful in many ways, especially in capturing Zuko without expending too much effort on her part, but managing his ego to guide him has been tedious.
She’ll be glad to be rid of the both of them.
“You’ve done adequately with the resources available,” Azula says and Tetsuki blinks at her, surprised. That… was a compliment, perhaps?
“You seems to be in a good mood,” she remarks, hesitantly, not wanting to spoil it but unable to ignore it. Tetsuki always wants Azula to be happy.
Fortunately, Azula’s satisfaction is not so easily soured, “Why wouldn’t I be? My idiot brother has been handled, the Dai Li is mine, this city is mine, and soon enough the Avatar will fall. Our victory is assured.”
“Our victory?” Tetsuki reflexively repeats, internally scolding herself. Azula is always careful with word choice, to question her is to doubt her.
Instead of answering her, Azula meets her eyes and reaches a hand out. Tetsuki can feel a twitch run down her arm, an attempt to reach back swiftly aborted. Tetsuki’s houndsnake sniffs at Azula’s hand, tongue flicking against her fingers in greeting. Those fingers can wield lightning, can form flames so hot they run blue; it seems neither Tetsuki nor her houndsnake are afraid.
Finally, Azula says, “I knew it would be a good match.”
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A/N: Not quite on top of the world, but definitely “before things started going to shit”–for Azula, that is. Mostly, though, I’m not sure how much impact Tetsuki would have in the world. Like… maybe Ozai still loses, but surely Tetsuki wouldn’t let Azula fail as in canon?
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Ch. 1: “The Doctor Falls” Analysis Doctor Who S10.12: The Rescue Is Not Over, Heather & What the Prison Ship Tells Us
NOTE: TPEW = “The Pyramid at the End of the World” TRODM = “The Return of Doctor Mysterio” THORS = “The Husbands of River Song” CAL = Charlotte Abigail Lux, the little girl from the Library
The Rescue Isn’t Over
The long rescue isn’t over yet, which is why the Doctor’s story hasn’t ended.  There is a Horse metaphor in the TARDIS at the end to prove it, shown below (red arrow).  
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Not only that, there are 4 other horses, too, symbolizing the 4 Horses of the Apocalypse, but with added new meaning, which we’ll examine.  It’s foreshadowing for Christmas.  We have to come back to the ship or a similar setting, and I’ll show you why in the another chapter.  In fact, there are several other pieces of subtext that say the rescue isn’t over.
There’s also a mechanical-type horse that we’ll look at.
Not Everything Is As It Appears
Right at the start, we hear birdsong, a sign that we still haven’t gotten back to reality in the Library metaphor.  We should finally get to the bottom of the main story in the Christmas Special.  There’s plenty of foreshadowing for it in the finale, which I’ll show you throughout this analysis.
However, birdsong is not the only problem that says something is wrong.  For example, the cut on the Doctor’s forehead should have healed over the 2 weeks between when Bill brought him back and she woke up. However, it didn’t.  In fact, it opened up somewhat as the episode went on. This was going in reverse, just like his timeline.
Additionally, there were plenty of reflections, inverse reflections in the ponds, and other such things to tell us that we shouldn’t believe everything we are seeing.
In another oddity, Bill saw the Doctor’s regeneration energy on the prison ship in “The Lie of the Land,” so why didn’t she know about it in “The Doctor Falls”?
Also, how did the Doctor, CyberBill, Missy, the Master have trouble taking out one Cyberman, who came up in the lift in the forest?   Yet at the end, the Doctor was going through the forest taking out numerous Cybermen all by himself, shooting them left and right?
Then, the scene with Bill and Heather in the TARDIS isn’t quite happening the way it looks.  This suggests to me that Bill will be back in some form at Christmas, even if it’s a clip.  And we’ll examine more subtext, telling us who Heather is.  We looked at that before in “The Pilot” analysis, but there’s some additional information now.
We'll examine what's happening with some of these in this analysis.
Showing You the Subtext through a Different Format
Given that we have plenty of time to look at information before the Christmas Special comes out, I want to step back and give you a different format for how to look at what is happening in the finale and the rest of DW. 
In the previous analyses, I haven’t concentrated too much on setting and characters.  I’ve done more with themes and other important pieces of subtext.  However, the setting, characters and themes all foreshadow things for Christmas, besides telling us more about the finale.  Therefore, I want to concentrate mostly on these elements.
Another element we need to examine are a few mirrored scenes from other episodes, showing us how this all fits together with previous canon. 
Brilliant 2-Part Finale with the Resolution in the Xmas Special
Before I get into the meta, I want to give you my opinion of the finale because I offered my opinion on two-part episodes before the airing of “The Doctor Falls.” 
Typically, the subtext story in the 2nd part overtakes the surface story, leaving, for example, plot holes or something tied up too quickly, which takes away the emotional aspect.  (This has happened a lot, too, with Season 10 in general, just because everything has to be tied up quickly since Capaldi is leaving.)  With so much story left to tell before the final episode, I wasn’t sure how they could finish it adequately except through a cliffhanger.
Therefore, while I was deeply concerned that the 2nd part of the finale would never live up to such a great 1st part, I came away elated at how things turned out. The 2nd part was brilliant and very much lived up to the 1st half. 
There was a fantastic mix of subtext story and canon because most of the subtext story prior to this has now become canon.
At the same time, I’m so grateful that Moffat opted to give the story the room it needs by finishing it in the Christmas Special.  Still there’s a lot to tell.  I have no doubt that the heart of the main story will get told, but many of the details will have to be in the subtext.
The subtext foreshadowed the main points that happened in the finale, and it was beautiful to watch how everything came together, showing us the near resolution of the Doctor’s 3-season character arc, as well as the very long story in the making since Classic Who.  Not only that, Missy, too, had a 3-season-ish character arc, turning from the dark side at the end.
Also, I’m elated that the 1st Doctor showed up at the end, as the subtext suggested would most likely happen.  We will hopefully see Susan, too.
So we need to see the final rescue story and the Doctor reuniting with his family. 
Because the subtext was heavily referencing former cast members, I expected to see some of them show up, and they did.  It just wasn’t in the way I imaged, except for John Simm.  However, seeing clips of Jack and of all the Doctor’s female companions, including Sarah Jane, Clara, and River was enough to satisfy me until the Christmas Special.
Will Clara show up for Christmas?  I’m not sure if her appearance in the finale counts as finishing the Great Work.  The subtext in “The Eaters of Light” suggested that he was remembering her.  However, does that mean he remembers everything about her?  This has a complication, too, which I’ll show you below.
Extending the Library Metaphor: Holo-decks & Some Perception Filters
The brilliant 2-part finale extends the meaning of the Library metaphor in connection with the Eye of Harmony.  We know that people in this metaphor typically live in dreams and illusions, like CAL does. The nightmarish situation of reality becomes just a nightmare while dreams seem real.  That includes CAL seeing herself as a little girl even though she’s a cyborg.  So the terrible truth is hidden. 
The people on Floor 507 at the beginning of “The Doctor Falls” don’t even know they are on a ship. Therefore, they are analogous to CAL and Donna in the Library dream being fed lies by Doctor Moon.  They are living in a Star Trek-style holo-deck.
Bill, too, mirrors CAL in not knowing she isn’t the person she once was.  They both see themselves through memories.  According to the Doctor, Bill’s mind is acting like a perception filter.  She could easily be in a fugue state, where the mind runs away from the truth.  We examined that with Jackson Lake in “The Next Doctor” and Oswin Oswald in “Asylum of the Daleks.”
Therefore, we can add a holo-deck to illusionary possibilities for our Library metaphor, along with some perception filters – when they act like they do with Bill and CAL. Also, we can add fugue states in similar situations.
The Doctor’s 3-season Arc: A Good Man?
The 12th Doctor has been on an amazing journey over the last 3 seasons, wondering at the beginning if he was a good man.  He started off grumpy, aloof, and not caring after having helped end the Time War.  While his journey isn’t over yet and he’s been taking the “long way home,” we have our answer.
He is both a good and great man.  As a good man, he is helping the people on Floor 507 due to his kindness and decency, even to strangers, because it is right not to abandon scared children and adults.  Also, as a good man, he is giving his life for them, and that is also part of what makes him a great man.  We see the war hero in action, a man who has had a decisive historical impact on Gallifrey and the Time War.  It’s now easy to see how he caused so many deaths.
The War Doctor
The BBC put out a promo photo of the Season 10 finale, which is a mirror of the one they put out for “The Day of the Doctor.”  Since several analyses ago we examined my hypothesis that the Doctor was really the War Doctor, I was delighted to see them.
Here’s a 50th-anniversary image with the small version of the War Doctor in the middle, along with the 11th and 10th Doctors back-to-back.
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Here’s the image the BBC put out for the Season 10 finale with the small version of the 12th Doctor in the middle, along with Missy and the Master back-to-back.
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While the 11th Doctor calls the War Doctor “Granddad” in “The Day of the Doctor,” the Master, mirroring the 11th Doctor, calls the 12th Doctor “Granddad” in “The Doctor Falls.”
The Season 10 finale is meant to give us some subtext details of the Time War in a brilliant model of the Library metaphor universe, complete with a sort of, kind of Heaven metaphor, as well as a Hell metaphor.  (We’ll examine this more in depth in a bit.)  The Doctor is in a desperate, no-win situation, and while he could run, he’s made a choice. This is a retelling of the same choice the 8th Doctor makes: becoming the War Doctor to fight in the Time War. 
The difference is that we don’t see the 12th Doctor regenerate.  He doesn’t have to.  He’s been transforming through the Great Work, returning to what he was born to be.  The warrior, a weapon of mass destruction, and a child of war.  His newborn consciousness, at least one face, arose from the ashes on Trenzalore.  Then, we have a huge gap from there until we see him in “Deep Breath.”  Part of events in that missing time can be inferred from what is happening in the finale.
After we examine the setting of the ship, floors, ice, characters, themes, etc., I'll put everything together for you, so you can see the Doctor’s story in a more condensed format, rather than through many analyses.
Problems with the Previous Time War Episodes
There are a lot of problems, oddities, and hand waving with the previous episodes talking about the Time War story.  For example, the 9th Doctor said he stopped the Time War by blowing up Gallifrey, as well as all the Time Lords and all the Daleks.  How is that possible unless they are all on Gallifrey?  Why would the Doctor assume some are not on Skaro or elsewhere?   This has never made sense to me.  At least until the Season 10 finale, which I’ll explain in another chapter.  Also, if he blew them up with the Moment (like what we saw in “The Day of the Doctor”), how did the Doctor survive according to what we think we know about him in canon? 
“The End of Time”
In a 2nd example of weirdness, Rassilon and the Chancellor are talking about something really odd in “The End of Time” Part 2:
CHANCELLOR: The signal has been sent. A simple task of four beats transmitted back through time, and implanted in the Master's mind as a child. RASSILON: Then we have a link to where the Master is right now. CHANCELLOR: But we're still trapped inside the time lock, sir. The link is nothing more than a thought, an idea.
Gallifrey is in a time lock here?  But the Doctor said he blew up Gallifrey.  We didn’t hear about the Doctor putting Gallifrey in a time lock until “The Day of the Doctor,” but then DW doesn’t tell the story linearly anyway. Things are timey-whimey here. 
“The Day of the Doctor”
In a 3rd example, in “The Day of the Doctor,” 11 Doctors, the War Doctor, and somehow the 12th Doctor (more hand waving) put Gallifrey in a time lock.  Some things don’t add up here, like greenery on the floor of the barn when there’s a desert around them.  Something is wrong. 
Also, the scene of the War Doctor looking at the barn in the distance (red arrow, shown below) looks like a bad matte painting in relation to other quality images of Gallifrey in this episode and in “Hell Bent.”  It isn’t real, and it isn’t supposed to be.  The greenery suggests these were the Doctor’s memories of a time long gone.
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“Hell Bent” 
In a 4th example, there are problems in “Hell Bent.”  Gallifrey is back in the universe, but at the end of it.   While there’s hand waving here, I can accept that because we are talking about Time Lords.
However, for what we think we know in canon, there are still other problems, which I haven’t previously mentioned with “The Day of the Doctor,” and they still exist in “Hell Bent.” The inside of the barn is shown below, as the Doctor walks in.  
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First, the yellow arrow points to a big truck tire or, more likely, one from a tractor.  That was surprising!  I didn’t expect that with such an advanced society, especially in a desert.  So something is off.  It also looks so human.
Then, the green arrow points to the structure that represents a prison – a 6-sided figure – which is also part of the structure I saw in the 3rd Doctor story “The Ambassadors of Death.”  (We examined that story’s significance in “The Empress of Mars” analysis.)
The 3rd arrow (white) points to something really odd.  It’s not a normal barn structure but the hull structure of an overturned boat. No one would build a barn with timbers crafted like that.
I figured the ship was supposed to be Viking (or metaphorical Viking) when I saw “The Day of the Day” because the 11th Doctor had a Viking funeral in a boat. 
Then, I got my Viking question answered, at least in part, in “Smile.”  The Doctor and Bill are in the Vardy building, looking for the original colony ship:
DOCTOR: When the Vikings invaded, they used to pull their longboats out of the water, turn them upside down and live in them as houses until they'd pillaged and looted enough to build new ones.
BILL: So?
DOCTOR: You didn't see a space ship outside, did you? When the settlers first landed, they must have lived in it and built out from it, so it's still here, somewhere inside this building. Ah. (a not-perfectly-smooth-and-white wall) Bits of meteor damage. Flecks of rust. Rivets. Oh, I love rivets. A wall. A real, honest wall. Not made of tiny robots but made of any old iron.
So, does that mean the barn really is a symbol of invasion?  Or is it just the symbol of the original colony ship or just a ship that landed on Gallifrey?  I’ve been considering these questions.
The Setting Is Driving the Story
At the beginning of the 1st episode of the finale, the Doctor did another bootstrap paradox to go back to near the beginning of his timeline.  We are witnessing a brilliant microcosm of an alternate universe and how it operates with the Black Hole of the Eye of Harmony. This setting also allows us to see an example of how the Time War works with one end of the ship in closer proximity to the Black Hole.  This microcosm universe, then, shows us how time is a continuum across the ship.
The Black Hole and ship are analogous to the Black Hole and Planet in “The Impossible Planet” and “The Satan Pit.”  In both the 10th and 12th Doctor episodes, the situations become desperate, and there is a rebellion.  However, the rebellion in the 12th Doctor episodes is not so clear-cut. 
The Master said that everyone on the ship is dying.  The only way the people on Floor 1056 can survive is to rebel against squalid conditions and death by upgrading themselves to Cybermen.  They are desperate to break free, building an army through forced upgrades.  At least some see evolving to Cybermen as freedom.
However, the people on Floor 507 are desperate to save their children from being turned into Cybermen. They see Cybermen as slavery and death and are rebelling in their own way.
We’re at the root of the ideological war, foreshadowed since Season 2 of nuWho, which we examined in Chapter 16 “Doctor Mysterio Analysis Part 3: Ideological War for Season 10 & the Eye of Harmony.”
Heaven, Purgatory & Hell in the Alternate Universe
The differential of time between Floor 0 the Floor 1056 is an interesting number: approximately 1000 to 1001 years per day.  This curious set of numbers recalls 2 Peter 3 in the New Testament:
With the Lord a day is like a thousand years, and a thousand years are like a day.
Therefore, Floor 0 is the Heaven Metaphor, and Floor 1056 is the Hell metaphor.  Interestingly, the Doctor goes to Hell in “World Enough and Time” to get Bill back, and we saw him in a different kind of Hell in “Heaven Sent” before he brought Clara back.  However, the Doctor can’t get back to metaphorical Heaven while he is alive. 
The Heaven Metaphor & God’s Names
The Heaven metaphor on Floor 0 looks futuristic, especially in comparison to the rest of the ship.  It’s bathed in light colors, too, as opposed to the darkness on Floor 1056.  It follows the light and dark patterns that we’ve examined in multiple ways.
Allusions to God come up in several ways regarding this Heaven metaphor.  Here are just a few for now.
This ship situation is analogous to the people in “The God Complex,” who don’t realize they are on a prison ship in a Star Trek holodeck-type situation.  There, too, we see both a “heavenly” side where people lost their fear of being taken by the Minotaur.  They were in a euphoric state, like a dream, while they eagerly awaited death.  That’s in contrast to the hellish side of everything before euphoria set in, which is analogous to pre-conversion Cybermen, at least on Floor 1056.
One odd thing about the ship in this Season 10 finale is that the floors have numbers on the sky ceilings. 
So I wonder what the people in this bucolic setting think of the sky with a grid, the number 507, clouds, etc. in the heavens?  Is that the name of God for them?  It’s a fascinating question, especially since God comes up a lot lately in DW, and many religions have multiple names for God: Islam, Judaism, Christianity, Sikhism, etc.  Therefore, floor numbers as names for God seem apt, given the reference to “The God Complex” and the 1000 years per day between the 2 ends of the ship.  
In fact, in the Book of Revelation in the New Testament, God is quoted as saying "I am the Alpha and the Omega, the First and the Last, the Beginning and the End."  In “The Zygon Invasion,” the Zygons in human form are in a church that has the symbols for Alpha and Omega, shown below.  And between Alpha and Omega is the Sun symbol.  Missy talked about the Master burning like a Sun, and we know the Doctor does too.  We’ll look at this more in a later chapter.
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Baby Melody Pond is associated with Omega.  And in fact, River was associated with the Church of the Papal Mainframe in “The Time of Angels” and “Flesh and Stone,” which uses an omega and what looks to be the capital Greek letter pi superimposed mostly within the omega.
Besides Christianity, if we count mythological gods, I’ve showed you a few of them, but there are a lot more that the Doctor is associated with in the subtext.
And I believe there is a reference to the Hindu god Shiva in “World Enough and Time.”  After the Doctor used Venusian Aikido (a very 3rd Doctor maneuver) on Jorj, the Doctor says something interesting to Nardole’s comment:
DOCTOR: Venusian Aikido. NARDOLE: I thought you needed four arms for Venusian. DOCTOR: I've got hidden talents, as well as hidden arms.
This makes sense because Shiva is the destroyer of the universe, so he can re-create it.  He is part of the Trimurti, the Hindu trinity, which includes Brahma and Vishnu.  Shiva has 2 to 4 arms (and can have more) and a 3rd eye.  The Doctor has a 3rd eye of sorts (red arrow) in the opening credits.
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Purgatory Metaphor
Floor 507 isn’t Heaven, per se, but compared to Floor 1056 it’s much more heavenly.  So 507 is like the intermediate state, relating to the Purgatory metaphor.  Not everyone on Floor 507 or possibly on other floors may be considered to be in Purgatory, although they could be.
I’m using the metaphor for those people who have died previously, like the Doctor and Bill, who are, according to Wikipedia, in an intermediate state after physical death in which some of those ultimately destined for heaven must first, according to the Catechism of the Catholic Church "undergo purification, so as to achieve the holiness necessary to enter the joy of heaven," holding that "certain offenses can be forgiven in this age, but certain others in the age to come."
Afterlife purification is not unique to Catholicism.  Other religions, like Judaism, have something similar.
BTW, it's clear to me that DW is using the Purgatory metaphor to apply to several other characters, too.  We'll examine them in a future chapter.
The Doctor Earned His Wings With all the allusions to God, Heaven, and It’s a Wonderful Life (“The Eaters of Light” analysis), it’s clear the Doctor really is a mirror of Clarence the Angel, 2nd Class, who was trying to earn his wings.  For example, Missy, the Doctor’s project, did turn toward the light at the end.
After the Doctor died, he earned one wing to Heaven, as the image below shows (red arrow).  His coat spread out under his right arm showing the red lining serves as a wing.
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After Heather and Bill move the Doctor to the TARDIS, we see him lying on the floor, having earned both wings (yellow arrows).  There is also a divine-type light (red arrow) near his head.  The lining is easier to see in the episode than it is here.
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Heather & How the Doctor Earned His 2nd Wing
Before the Doctor died, he and Bill parted without saying much to each other, although they should have. It was a mirror of Clara and the Doctor before she died.  Here’s the lack of communication problem again.
However, Bill did say one thing:
BILL: But, hey er, you know how I'm usually all about women and, and kinda people my own age.
DOCTOR: Yeah? BILL: Glad you knew that.
She put in an order, so to speak, for her love interest. 
As we examined in “The Pilot” analysis, Heather was the Doctor, so she had to come back. 
Either she is a projection of him or she is a part of his being.  The Doctor is not just male, so he can project either a male or female being.
In fact, she is wearing a ring, a symbol of the 12th Doctor, around her neck, shown below (red arrow).
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There is a precedent for this in Classic Who.  Time Lords could project a version of themselves, and we looked at this in the “Knock Knock” analysis with the 3rd Doctor story “Planet of the Spiders.”  According to the TARDIS Wikia, Cho Je only existed either as a future projection of K'anpo Rimpoche (the Time Lord abbot of the meditation center) or a creation of his mind, which Rimpoche used as a proxy.  At the end, K’anpo died and regenerated into Cho Je.
The other possibility for Heather was put forth in the 5th Doctor story “Kinda,” which we looked at in the TPEW analysis. Since Bill uses “kinda” when talking to the Doctor in the dialogue above, the Doctor’s soul probably passed onto Heather, the way the old blind woman in “Kinda” passed her soul into the young girl who was her companion.  They operated like the Holy Trinity where 3 operated as One, but in that case 2 operated as One while the old woman was alive.
Either way, they end up as beings of pure consciousness, who can manifest in human form.
After the Wings While we see Heather as a type of regenerated Doctor, the 12th Doctor has to come back to life because he has not finished the rescue.  And he has multiple faces that have to get redemption, which we’ll look at that more in a later chapter.
The 12th Doctor’s face we see at the end of the episode when he is in the icy environment with the 1st Doctor should be back at the beginning, happening earlier in time than what we see on Floor 507.  We’ll examine the symbolism on Floor 507, and how this relates to going back to the beginning.
This Doctor’s face hasn’t earned his wings yet.  The other did, suggesting that he did remember what Clara meant to him. However, what does that mean for this other version on ice?  That’s a question I’m considering.
Hell Metaphor, the Satan Pit & the Time War
We’ve seen more of the hellish side of the ship than the heavenly.  Certainly, Floor 1056 represents the Satan Pit and a living nightmare.  The squalid conditions and nasty emissions outside the hospital are a reference to “Gridlock” with similar conditions in the New New York Undercity. 
And the gridlock has to change in the Library metaphor.
Because conditions in this part of the ship are driving people to desperate measures and time is going faster in Hell, we get to see how beings from the Hell metaphor are going to overtake Heaven, Purgatory, and the children, unless something is done.  We have to see a resolution in the Christmas Special, and I’ll talk more about this in another chapter.
DOCTOR: We can't go back to the bridge. We can only go four or five floors up at the most. The further we move up the ship, the slower time moves for us and the faster it moves for the Cybermen. By the time we get to the bridge, they'll have had thousands of years to work out how to stop us. There is no safe way to get back to the Tardis. It's a mathematical impossibility.
The Ood server in “The Impossible Planet” expresses what is happening here:
OOD: The Beast and his Armies shall rise from the Pit to make war against God.
So we have a war against God on Floor 507?  Yes, in a way.  This is more foreshadowing for Christmas, which we’ll examine.
In fact, Razor said something interesting in “World Enough and Time” when Bill wanted to get back to the Doctor:
RAZOR: You do not understand the dangers. Many years ago, there was an expedition to floor 507, the largest of the solar farms. BILL: And? RAZOR: Silence. They never came back. There is something up there. And we must be strong.
We saw what was on 507, but that doesn’t explain why someone couldn’t get to the bridge.  If those Cybermedics could do it to get Bill, they could do it again.
So there’s something else going on, and the subtext shows more.  We’ll talk about that in another chapter.
Dante’s Divine Comedy, 9 Circles of Hell, Ice & Foreshadowing
The way this universe is set up, I can’t help but think of Dante Alighieri's 14th-century epic poem Divine Comedy.  In fact, it most likely gives us foreshadowing for Christmas.  The Divine Comedy comes in 3 parts: Inferno, Purgatorio, and Paradiso.  Wikipedia says, “As an allegory, the Divine Comedy represents the journey of the soul toward God, with the Inferno describing the recognition and rejection of sin.”  Dante’s work, among several others, has influenced the Christian concept of Hell.
Since this Library metaphor universe has become a very hellish place, the Inferno part is rather fitting as it describes the metaphorically fiery place of Hell.  Wikipedia continues
The Inferno tells the journey of Dante through Hell, guided by the ancient Roman poet Virgil. In the poem, Hell is depicted as nine concentric circles of torment located within the Earth; it is the "realm ... of those who have rejected spiritual values by yielding to bestial appetites or violence, or by perverting their human intellect to fraud or malice against their fellowmen".
When I saw Floor 900 being punched through by Cybermen, shown below, I immediately thought of the 9th Circle of Hell.
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9 Circles, Satan & Ice
The Master is sitting in Hell at the beginning of “World Enough and Time,” but it’s Floor 1056.  While there are 9 circles in Dante’s Hell, the last has a depth.  Wikipedia says
Dante’s Hell is divided into nine circles, the ninth circle being divided further into four rings, their boundaries only marked by the depth of their sinners' immersion in the ice; Satan sits in the last ring, Judecca. It is in the fourth ring of the ninth circle, where the worst sinners, the betrayers to their benefactors, are punished. Here, these condemned souls, frozen into the ice, are completely unable to move or speak and are contorted into all sorts of fantastical shapes as a part of their punishment.
Ice is interesting, especially because the 12th Doctor ends up there at the end of “The Doctor Falls” where the 1st Doctor is.  And a bunch of subtext shows that this would be the 9th Circle of Hell. 
Before we examine part of that in this chapter, I want to show you the other circles because the Doctor, Master, and Missy would fit into quite a few of them.  The Master would fit into all of them, including living like a king, being a dictator, and believing Missy’s soul wouldn’t continue on in some other form.  According to Wikipedia:
1.     First Circle (Limbo) - The first circle contains the unbaptized and the virtuous pagans, who, although not sinful, did not accept Christ.
2.     Second Circle (Lust) - These carnal offenders are condemned for allowing their appetites to sway their reason.
3.     Third Circle (Gluttony) – This circle contains those who overindulge in food, drink, and other worldly pleasures. At the same time, they have the inability to see others lying nearby, representing the gluttons’ selfishness and coldness.
4.     Fourth Circle (Greed) – These offenders are divided into two groups – those who hoarded possessions, and those who lavishly squandered them
5.     Fifth Circle (Wrath) – These offenders are here, being furious and sullen
6.     Sixth Circle (Heresy) – This circle contains those who say "the soul dies with the body"
7.     Seventh Circle (Violence) – There is a Minotaur in this circle that gnaws flesh.  Those who commit violence against neighbors, self (suicides), God, art, and nature end up here.
8.     Eighth Circle (Fraud) – There are several types of fraudulent and malicious offenders here.  Those who deliberately exploited the passions of others and and drove them to serve their own interests; those who abuse and corrupt language to play upon others' desires and fears; those who made money for themselves out of what belongs to God; those who are fortune tellers, diviners, astrologers, and other false prophets; and those who are corrupt politicians. Also, there are hypocrites, thieves, counselors of fraud, sowers of discord, and falsifiers.
9.     Ninth Circle (Treachery) – People here are guilty of treachery against those with whom they had special relationships. 1st Ring - Traitors to their Kindred: for example, Cain murdered his own brother 2nd Ring - Traitors to their Country: for example, Antenor, a Trojan soldier who betrayed his city to the Greeks. 3rd Ring - Traitors to their Guests: for example, Ptolemy invited his father-in-law Simon Maccabaeus and his sons to a banquet and then killed them 4th Ring - Traitors to their Lords and Benefactors: for example, Judas Iscariot betrayed Jesus
Center of Hell – Satan “In the very centre of Hell, condemned for committing the ultimate sin (personal treachery against God), is the Devil, referred to by Virgil as Dis (the Roman god of the underworld; the name ‘Dis’ was often used for Pluto in antiquity, such as in Virgil's Aeneid). The arch-traitor, Lucifer was once held by God to be fairest of the angels before his pride led him to rebel against God, resulting in his expulsion from Heaven. Lucifer is a giant, terrifying beast trapped waist-deep in the ice, fixed and suffering.”
Heresy came up in “Dark Water” after Danny Pink died.  People were getting cremated even though Dr. Chang said people’s souls lived on after death. In fact, Missy is acting like Pluto in “Dark Water” and its sequel, “Death in Heaven,” as keeper of the Matrix data slice, collecting souls.
So Missy would be sitting in the Center of Hell, too, at some point, but she did change.
What about the Doctor? In “The Lie of the Land” analysis, we looked at the concept that a face of the Doctor was a Trojan Horse.  In fact, a toy Trojan Horse shows up in “The Doctor Falls.” It’s hard to see, but there is a Trojan Horse on wheels, shown below (red arrow), next to the Doctor.
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The Doctor has a lot of sins to atone for, which we’ll examine more in a future chapter.
So the Doctor ends up on ice, most likely symbolizing Dante’s 9th Circle in Hell. He needs rescued. 
Also, he would prefer to commit suicide than regenerate.  He’s terrified of changing into something unknown, especially after all he’s been through.  Those are Steven Moffat’s words.  I can certainly understand the Doctor’s sentiment.  He’ll lose part of himself and possibly not remember the lessons.  I certainly wouldn’t want to have to repeat those lessons, if I were him.
Since he is willing to commit violence against himself, that may be another reason why we keep seeing numerous references to “The God Complex,” referencing the Minotaur from Dante’s 7th Circle of Hell.  That would make sense.
Also, since Danny Pink killed his young self in the war (we examined that in Chapter 18: "Doctor Mysterio Analysis Part 5: Rescuing Children & Missy/Master"), that would be the 9th Circle of Hell, which would be another reason the Doctor has ended up on ice.  But that may not be all…
“Fire and Ice” & Perishing Twice
Since the Doctor has to die again, the ice motif may also be an inspiration from one of Robert Frost’s most popular poems and may give us some more foreshadowing:
Fire and Ice
Some say the world will end in fire,
Some say in ice.
From what I’ve tasted of desire
I hold with those who favor fire.
But if it had to perish twice,
I think I know enough of hate
To say that for destruction ice
Is also great
And would suffice.
We saw Hell and the metaphorical fire, so now we get to see the ice.  It’s interesting that hate is associated with ice and the Doctor has been described as being fire and ice.
At the end, he certainly hates the thought of regenerating.
So ice is an appropriate setting in more than one way, besides tying in the Mondasian episode from 1966.  However, there’s more to the ice part beyond this, and we’ll explore that in another chapter.  There are several important tie-ins to the ice and hatred concept that we need to examine because this foreshadows Christmas.
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The Dragon Quest series has a long, abundant background, beginning with its influence on the early console RPG category, providing a turn-based theme and also style that would specify Japanese RPGs for several years to find. The franchise has actually reached its share of milestones, including its 30 year wedding anniversary, making it the longest-running JRPG franchise. Despite these success, the series still hasn’t dominated the Western market, never ever getting to the elevation of appeal as Square Enix’s various other significant buildings, such as Final Fantasy as well as Kingdom Hearts. Dragon Quest is such a cultural phenomenon in Japan that it introduces on weekends Kids don’t avoid college for it, was the initial video games collection to get live-action ballet adjustments, as well as also has a whole dining establishment dedicated to it called Luida’s Bar in Roppongi. While it will most likely never ever reach this degree of fanfare in North America, the group hasn’t quit on Dragon Quest making an impact right here and also the upcoming XI is Square Enix’s following opportunity to transform the trends.
The Ups and also Downs
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The Ups And Downs Dragon Quest hasn’t already had consistent showings in North America, with sales and also testimonial ratings rising and fall. At an early stage, Nintendo Power had a promo handing out duplicates cost-free duplicates of Dragon Warrior as a way to present American gamers to the series and also amass their passion in parlor games as a whole. PS1’s Dragon Quest VII, which was still under the Dragon Warrior branding due to hallmark concerns, was when points initially started moving in an extra positive direction. Square Enix proceeded to lure in Western gamers by including a PS2 trial for Final Fantasy XII with the acquisition of Dragon Quest VIII: Journey of the Cursed King (the very first video game to use the Dragon Quest name stateside) and also had shopping center trips to advertise the game.
The series started marketing better with the last couple of mainline access; Dragon Quest IX: Sentinels of the Starry Skies broke brand-new ground selling over 1 million copies between United States and also Europe. This was encouraging progression, but Square Enix had actually stopped publishing the remakes and spin-offs long prior to IX, with Nintendo grabbing the mantle considering that 2011 for the Dragon Quest VI remake as well as Dragon Quest Monsters: Joker 2 spin-off. Neither company attempted to launch MMORPG Dragon Quest X stateside, though.
The reason the series has likewise been in limbo is most likely the moment financial investment and also expense of localization. Dragon Quest video games are extremely message hefty, and maker Yuji Horii invests a lot of his own time ensuring the translation is exactly how he planned it to be, right down to his father jokes. New entries have usually taken some time to make it to our shores since of this. “It has a drawback in that means,” states produce manufacturer Yuu Miyake. “It’s actually the speed of localization; it takes a long period of time due to just how the video game is and also the text by Mr. Horii is a really essential part of the game and also allures to the fans. Clearly, we have to look at making that process much shorter and much more efficient.”
Miyake shares a price quote of Dragon Quest VII’s message count, which was 1.2 million Japanese personalities as well as claims XI is simply over double that with 2.4 million. “For the high quality of the translation, the translators really have to comprehend the globe itself as well as get it perfect,” Miyake says. “We really do make certain to include the accents of the individuals worldwide to make it benefit each private area.”
Dragon Quest XI will certainly be the first mainline entry published by Square Enix considering that VIII in North America. Why the adjustment of heart for a series without a terrific performance history along with a laborious job of centering a game loaded with content that lasts gamers anywhere from 80-120 hours? A different market and even more preparation job by Square Enix to reestablish the Dragon Quest name in North America is offering the collection much better odds than it’s ever before had before.
Leading Up To XI
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Leading Up To XI It’s completely feasible that Dragon Quest faces the exact same destiny it always has in North America, continuouslying cultivate a specific niche but dedicated fanbase but never ever making a dash with the larger target market. This time things might transform with numerous aforementioned variables altering the having fun field. Talking with the development group in the ramp up to XI’s launch has actually revealed me a positive as well as hopeful perspective concerning the series’future in the West. The designers honestly look at this as a brand-new beginning for the franchise business– a possibility to appeal
to a new, contemporary audience alongside its diehard followers. The last couple of years have actually been spent slowly reestablishing the Dragon Quest brand to Western players, with Square Enix publishing mobile ports of earlier entrances and spin-off video games such as Dragon Quest Heroes and Dragon Quest Builders. It aids that Nintendo has actually continuouslied bring over the remakes, such as the much wanted VII and VIII for the 3DS.
To its advantage, the RPG market is additionally completely different than when Dragon Quest VIII introduced on PS2; it’s not virtually as affordable and also handhelds ended up being a less costly alternative as development expenses climbed. The amount of JRPGs on the PS2 was large to the factor where it was an instance of quantity over top quality, making it simple for any kind of video game without a heavyweight to get lost in the shuffle. We don’t have JRPGs debuting at nearly that rate currently, making lots of gamers ache for the style to prosper once more. Square Enix has actually absolutely caught on to this, introducing games like Star Ocean V and I am Setsuna that feed our nostalgia for beloved series and RPG layout. It helps that a marketing point is additionally it’s a mainline Dragon Quest game on residence console, which we haven’t seen in over a decade. Inning accordance with the group, Horii was adamant about bringing the series back to the cinema. That being said, the group is completely familiar with where Dragon Quest presently stands in North America and also intends to changes it relevance with XI’s release. “From our perspective, [the collection is] still is not where it requires to be [in the West],” Miyake claims.
Staying True To The Series
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Staying True To The Series In several means, Dragon Quest XI is an event of the long-running franchise business, a conclusion of every little thing the series has actually been building toward. It was crafted with lots of callbacks as its programmers stuffed as much as possible from the collection’ history into one video game for the 30th anniversary. “Something that’s unique is you have the exact same 3 individuals, this dream group of the music from [Koichi] Sugiyama, [Yuji] Horri’s tale writing, and [Akira] Toriyama’s art design. It’s been the same men making the video games for over 32 years as well as that they could keep raising the motivation to earn these video games over this [long] duration,” Miyake states.
While movie critics have stated the entrances do not make drastic changes or developments from one video game to the following, the creators fit adequate to allow Dragon Quest welcome its simplicity and the technicians that made it such a vital as well as prominent series in RPG background. The core viewpoint has always been that any person could grab and also play a Dragon Quest game, making it appeal to a vast array of players. With those worths in mind, do not expect it to stray from its origins or shake up its formula like Final Fantasy XV did. It likewise does not suggest deserting its turn-based fight system or silent lead character either. The latter is something Horii is determined concerning maintaining. “The entire idea is that the gamer, themselves, ends up being the protagonist, becomes the hero,” Miyake discusses. “If we have actually a composed line and the player believes they would not say that, it breaks the immersion there.” After changing the series’ presentation with VIII, having a main game on portable, and creating an MMORPG, Dragon Quest XI is even more of a homecoming. “It’s returning to its roots in a great deal of ways, which makes it really feel fresh for us also,” Miyake states. “It’s got a specific degree of fond memories regarding it that I believe individuals are trying to find in video games,” includes manufacturer Hokuto Okamato,
The collection wishes to retain its traditional gameplay, and also the huge lure this time about was simply developing an entry using the technological developments of the equipment to upgrade the graphics and provide a much more practical globe. “We put in beast environments, upped the amount of enemies you discover on the field, as well as the ways the villages connect and relocate,” Miyake says. Dragon Quest XI introduces on September 4 for PS4 and also COMPUTER, with a Switch variation coming at a later day. Possibly the tale is moving as well as Dragon Quest XI will be the game-changer for the franchise business’s appeal in North America. As a longtime fan of the series, I know I’m rooting for XI, wishing it establishes a new high bar for the franchise as well as confirms that these niche experiences still have worth.
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