User:SOTO/Forum Archive/The Panopticon/@comment-26975268-20130407222910/@comment-7302713-20130415022936

That's wording gymnastics, and it makes the rest of the sentence weird. The PLANETS share a belief that life originated here? So there are seven planets that orbit the same star and they believe that life originated on Akhet? Assuming Akhet is one of the seven planets, does Akhet share this view? You're taking her saying "the who of what" and using the what as an antecedent. She said a slightly more wordy equivalent of "huh?"

So she says "the who of what?" and we apply what as an antecedent to what he says next unless the next thing said directly contradicts the antecedent? I get why these rules came about. How do you decide facts in a world where we as viewers are constantly being introduced to all sorts of out-of-this-world things? We aren't given histories for all sorts of things so we take the most literal definition of everything in an attempt to decipher the word of god.

I get why this wiki does this, and it's very helpful in forming lots of pages, but it doesn't work here. The sun-singers of Akhet could just as easily be the "who" and it's the most logical interpretation. Unless we have religious planets believing that one of them is the beginning of life in the universe. Not to mention that I have a real problem with taking what she says and using it to infer whether or not the Doctor was referring to animal, vegetable or mineral.

If I was Clara in this conversation I'd take what he said to be informing me about the inhabitants of the solar system, the people. Especially since I've already asked where and been answered (The Rings of Akhaten). As a viewer this is what makes obvious sense. And after analysing the dialogue in excruciating detail this is still what makes sense.