Board Thread:The Panopticon/@comment-26975268-20130407222910/@comment-5507557-20130412131213

Looks like we're bringing the Mummy/Akhaten Grandfather/Old God discussion here then. This thread has basically turned into trying to work out the episode because half the time they were using names incorrectly and didn't elaborate on geography properly.


 * Doctor: "I thought the Old God was Grandfather but it was just Grandfather's alarm clock."

The Doctor points to the mummy when he says Grandfather, and then explains to Clara that Akhaten is the Old God. Akhaten is the alarm clock for the mummy, not the other way around; the mummy woke up because Akhaten was about to destroy everything. The sun singers seemed pretty clear on who was Grandfather and who the Old God was (especially since they created those names); they had the Vigil feeding the Queen of Years to Grandfather (the mummy) and were praying to the Old God (Akhaten).


 * Clara: "Can we see it... up close?"

As for where they go after Clara requests to see Akhaten, while "[seeing] it up close" may imply actually going to it, going to the asteroid that is significantly closer to the planet would also count.