History YMMV / DoctorWhoS35E6TheWomanWhoLived

* BigLippedAlligatorMoment: "Purple -- the colour of DEATH!" Perhaps it's an esoteric reference to ''[[Film/FlashGordonSerial Flash Gordon Conquers the Universe]]''? Alternatively, mauve was the colour of danger amongst most advanced species in [[Recap/DoctorWhoS27E9TheEmptyChild "The Empty Child"]].

* HilariousInHindsight: Yeah, [[Creator/MaisieWilliams Me]] does eventually kill [[Creator/DavidBradley the Doctor]] in Series/GameOfThrones.

* CrowningMomentOfHeartwarming: Clara's spontaneous hug given to the Doctor at the end. Not just heartwarming, but also a major character development moment as we see the Doctor enjoying the hug, firmly putting to bed his [[NoHuggingNoKissing "no hugging"]] attitude.

** The fact she decided not to have any more children after losing ''three of them at once'' doesn't preclude the grim possibility that she'd had kids before them. She may have torn out the pages so she could forget the pain of either watching them age to death or having to abandon them so she wouldn't see them die. Or see their fathers die, for that matter.

* HarsherInHindsight
** The Doctor's desperate, compassionate efforts to save and redeem Ashildr/Me are poorly repaid by her centuries later in "Face the Raven", when she chooses to make ''another'' sinister bargain that requires her to capture the Doctor -- and accidentally leads to Clara's death. While this Doctor is a noticeably more forgiving man than some prior incarnations, is it any wonder he never does definitively forgive Me for that? He does let Me follow him into the TARDIS in "Hell Bent" when he could have just left her outside to die, but whether it's a sign he's willing to bury the hatchet remains a mystery.
** Me warning the Doctor that Clara will eventually "blow away like smoke" correctly predicts the circumstances of her "Face the Raven" death as well.

* NightmareFuel: Ashildir tore off some pages from her diaries since the memories written there were too painful. The ones about her three children dying from plague are ''not'' among them. [[TheUnreveal Since it's never revealed]] what was written on those pages (not even if it was something she witnessed or something she ''did'') might also count as NothingIsScarier. It could just as easily be happy times only painful in hindsight -- which would be {{Foreshadowing}}, considering what happens to the Doctor at the end of the season (he loses his dear memories of loving Clara) -- we just don't know!

** The fact she decided not to have any more children after losing ''three of them at once'' doesn't preclude the grim possibility that she'd had kids before them. She may have torn out the pages so she could forget the pain of either watching them age to death or having to abandon them so she wouldn't see that happen.

** Although Ashildir does point out that she leaves the pages about her children dying as a reminder not to have any more, which wouldn't exclude their deaths from being her most painful memory, instead of meaning that they are less horrific to her than the torn-out pages.

* NightmareFuel: Ashildir tore off some pages from her diaries since the memories written there were too painful. The ones about her three children dying from plague are ''not'' among them. [[TheUnreveal Since it's never revealed]] what was written on those pages (not even if it was something she witnessed or something she ''did'') might also count as NothingIsScarier. It could just as easily be happy times only painful in hindsight -- which would be {{Foreshadowing}}, considering what happens to the Doctor at the end of the season (he loses his dear memories of loving Clara) -- we just don't know!

** [[spoiler: The Doctor's desperate, compassionate efforts to save and redeem Ashildr/Me are poorly repaid by her centuries later in "Face the Raven", when she chooses to make ''another'' sinister bargain that requires her to capture the Doctor -- and accidentally leads to Clara's death. While this Doctor is a noticeably more forgiving man than some prior incarnations, is it any wonder he never does definitively forgive Me for that? He does let Me follow him into the TARDIS in "Hell Bent" when he could have just left her outside to die, but whether it's a sign he's willing to bury the hatchet remains a mystery.]]
** [[spoiler: Me warning the Doctor that Clara will eventually "blow away like smoke" correctly predicts the circumstances of her "Face the Raven" death as well.]]

* NightmareFuel: Ashildir tore off some pages from her diaries since the memories written there were too painful. The ones about her three children dying from plague are ''not'' among them. [[TheUnreveal Since it's never revealed]] what was written on those pages (not even if it was something she witnessed or something she ''did'') might also count as NothingIsScarier. [[spoiler: It could just as easily be happy times only painful in hindsight -- which would be {{Foreshadowing}}, considering what happens to the Doctor at the end of the season (he loses his dear memories of loving Clara) -- we just don't know!]]

* NightmareFuel: Ashildir tore off some pages from her diaries since the memories written there were too painful. The ones about her three children dying from plague are ''not'' among them. [[TheUnreveal Since it's never revealed]] what was written on those pages (not even if it was something she witnessed or something she ''did'') might also count as NothingIsScarier. It could just as easily be happy times only painful in hindsight -- which would be {{Foreshadowing}}, considering what happens to the Doctor at the end of the season (he loses his dear memories of loving Clara) -- we just don't know!

** The Doctor's desperate, compassionate efforts to save and redeem Ashildr/Me are poorly repaid by her centuries later in "Face the Raven", when she chooses to make ''another'' sinister bargain that requires her to capture the Doctor -- and accidentally leads to Clara's death. While this Doctor is a noticeably more forgiving man than some prior incarnations, is it any wonder he never does definitively forgive Me for that? He does let Me follow him into the TARDIS in "Hell Bent" when he could have just left her outside to die, but whether it's a sign he's willing to bury the hatchet remains a mystery.
** Me warning the Doctor that Clara will eventually "blow away like smoke" correctly predicts the circumstances of her "Face the Raven" death as well.

* HilariousInHindsight: Yeah, [[MaisieWilliams Me]] does eventually kill [[DavidBradley the Doctor]] in GameOfThrones.

* NightmareFuel: Ashildir tore off some pages from her diaries since the memories written there were too painful. The ones about her three children dying from plague are ''not'' among them. [[TheUnreveal Since it's never revealed]] what was written on those pages (not even if it was something she witnessed or something she ''did'') might also count as NothingIsScarier. It could just as easily be happy times only painful in hindsight; we just don't know.

* BigLippedAlligatorMoment: "Purple -- the color of DEATH!" Perhaps it's an esoteric reference to ''[[Film/FlashGordonSerial Flash Gordon Conquers the Universe]]''? Alternatively, mauve was the colour of danger amongst most advanced species in [[Recap/DoctorWhoS27E9TheEmptyChild "The Empty Child"]].

* NightmareFuel: Ashildir tore off some pages from her diaries since the memories written there were too painful. The ones about her three children dying from plague are ''not'' among them. [[TheUnreveal Since it's never revealed]] what was written on those pages (not even if it was something she witnessed or something she ''did'') might also count as NothingIsScarier. It could just as easily be happy times only painful in hindsight; we just don't know.

* HarsherInHindsight: The Doctor's desperate, compassionate efforts to save and redeem Ashildr/Me are poorly repaid by her centuries later in "Face the Raven", when she chooses to make ''another'' sinister bargain that requires her to capture the Doctor -- and accidentally leads to Clara's death. While this Doctor is a noticeably more forgiving man than some prior incarnations, is it any wonder he never does forgive Me for that?

* BigLippedAlligatorMoment: "Purple -- the color of DEATH!" Uh, what? (Perhaps it's an esoteric reference to ''[[Film/FlashGordonSerial Flash Gordon Conquers the Universe]]''? Alternatively, mauve was the colour of danger amongst most advanced species in [[Recap/DoctorWhoS27E9TheEmptyChild "The Empty Child"]].)
* FanficFuel: Ashildr's eight centuries of adventures between the last episode and this one -- and four more between when the Doctor parts from her and the present day. Moreover, her mission to 'look out for the people you abandon' suggests she could seek out other companions after they've left the Doctor. (The ExpandedUniverse jumped on this, in fact -- ''The Legends of Ashildr'', a short story collection set during the two-parter's "downtime", was published shortly after Series 9 concluded.)
** Given that the final scene between the Doctor and Clara is full of "shipper fuel", and the fact the episode immediately following doesn't quite live up to Clara's episode-closing request of going somewhere "magical", one can imagine a few fanfic ideas were born.

* NightmareFuel: Ashildir tore off some pages from her diaries since the memories written there were too painful. The ones about her three children dying from plague are ''not'' among them. [[TheUnreveal Since it's never revealed]] what was written on those pages (not even if it was something she witnessed or something she ''did'') might also count as NothingIsScarier. It could just as easily be happy times only painful in hindsight, we just don't know.

* NightmareFuel: Ashildir tore off some pages from her diaries since the memories written there were too painful. The ones about her three children dying from plague are ''not'' among them. [[TheUnreveal Since it's never revealed]] what was written on those pages (not even if it was something she witnessed or something she ''did'') might also count as NothingIsScarier. It could just as easily be happy times only painful in hindsight, we just don't know.

* FanficFuel: Ashildr's eight centuries of adventures between the last episode and this one -- and four more between when the Doctor parts from her and the present day. Moreover, her mission to 'look out for the people you abandon' suggests she could seek out other companions after they've left the Doctor. (The ExpandedUniverse brought out ''The Legends of Ashildr'', a short story collection set between "The Girl Who Died"/"The Woman Who Lived", shortly after Series 9 concluded!)

* BigLippedAlligatorMoment: "Purple -- the color of DEATH!" Uh, what?
** Best guess, an esoteric reference to ''[[Film/FlashGordonSerial Flash Gordon Conquers the Universe]]''?
*** Mauve was the colour of danger amongst most advanced species in [[Recap/DoctorWhoS27E9TheEmptyChild "The Empty Child"]].
* FanficFuel: Ashildr's eight centuries of adventures between the last episode and this one -- and four more between when the Doctor parts from her, and the present day. Moreover, her mission to 'look out for the people you abandon' suggests she could seek out other companions after they've left the Doctor.

* NightmareFuel: Ashildir tore off some pages from her diaries since the memories written there were too painful. The ones about her three children dying from plague are ''not'' among them. [[TheUnreveal Since it's never revealed]] what was written on those pages (not even if it was something she witnessed or something she ''did'') might also count as NothingIsScarier.

** Mauve was the colour of emergency alarms in most of the civilized galaxy in [[Recap/DoctorWhoS27E9TheEmptyChild "The Empty Child"]].

** Mauve was the colour of emergency alarms in most of the civilized galaxy in "The Empty Child".

* FanficFuel: Ashildr's eight centuries of adventures between the last episode and this one -- and four more between when the Doctor parts from her, and the present day. Moreover, her mission to 'look out for the people you abandon' suggests she could seek out other companions after they've left the Doctor.