SPOILERS FOR "ARMY OF GHOSTS", and speculation ahoy!

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So... well, my feeling that Mickey would reappear was right, also that the ghosts were the Cybermen (though I may have been spoilered on that, can't now remember).

Impressive episode, though I'm not sure about the Big Reveal of the Daleks (I mean, how on earth can the Daleks and the Cybermen get along? It's doomed - much like the Hitler-Stalin pact, come to think of it, with the Daleks as Nazis and the Cybermen as Communists. £5 says that the Daleks crack first and go all Barbarossa on the Cybermen)

So - onto my probably crack! take on how Rose can be doing the voice-over if she's dead. It can be laid out as a series of propostitions.

i) Ghosts are dead, or rather, are in a liminal state between life and death.

ii) The parallel universe Cybermen are (wrongly) identified as ghosts.

iii) Therefore beings in the parallel universe can be said, from the point of view of people in the pirmary Who universe, to be 'dead'.

iv) It thus follows that Rose, should she for some reason enter and remain in the parallel universe, might be said to be dead. She will certainly be dead to Jackie.

Yes, it doesn't work 100% logically, but language use isn't 100% logical. My money is currently on Rose somehow having to sacrifice herself (in the sense of trapping herself in the other universe) to seal the breach, and probably in order to lock Daleks and Cybermen in the void. The one count against this theory is that she can't, then, go and look up Sarah Jane.

Comments

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I thought it's been patchier this season, but I also think a lot of the flak it's been getting was the inevitable result of not being quite so Shiny And New.

On the other hand, the one episode I really disliked 'Love and Monsters' seems to have been widly loved, so YMMV, as ever...

Actually killing off a companion is something pretty unusal, and I don't think they're going to do it here - but one never knows.