Board Thread:The Panopticon/@comment-5507557-20130411125020/@comment-188432-20130412124023

CBG, go forward one more line. By stressing "the who f what", you're taking Clara as the authority, which is illogical. She's only just arrived. Go with the guy who's been there before:


 * DOCTOR: The Pyramid of the Rings of Akhaten. It's a holy site for the Sun-singers of Akhet.
 * CLARA: The who of what?
 * DOCTOR: Seven worlds, orbiting the same star. All of them sharing the belief that all life in the universe began there, on that planet.

But beyond that pretty clear statement, just break down the phrase. What would a society steeped in song call the planets in its solar system? Sun-singers, of course. Because planets are, when poetically described, objects that sing to a sun. Planets have a relationship with a sun that is metaphorically similar to that between a singer and an audience.

It's really quite an adept and clever bit of language from Mr Cross.