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* The notion of romance existing between the Doctor and his companions has been a bone of contention for the fanbase for years, and certainly since the series came back in 2005. The idea of romance between the Doctor and Clara is particularly controversial for number of reasons (real world and in-universe). "Hell Bent" (both on its own, and as taken as the conclusion of a season-long arc touching on the subject) is able to satisfy - to an extent - both opposing viewpoints. For those who favour romance, and in particular the Doctor and Clara relationship, it demonstrates the depth of the Doctor and Clara's perceived feelings for one another. For those who ''oppose'' such relationships in this series, it vividly demonstrates ''why'' the Doctor should never fall hard in love - because it's downright dangerous to the universe and to those the Doctor loves. Both sides of the issue come off vindicated.
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* The Doctor forgetting about Clara makes Clara's opening speech from "Name of the Doctor" more poignant: it's not just her echoes that he overlooks or forgets, it's ''all'' of his encounters with her. In a further bit of brilliance, the script confirms that the Doctor still remembers the actual events Clara was involved in, just not Clara specifically (and in fact even more specifically the script indicates he has only forgotten her personality and appearance). This allows all the previous adventures to still be remembered by the Doctor (i.e. wisdom gained, people encountered, etc.). "Run, you clever boy, and remember"; he does indeed remember, but he doesn't remember her specifically. Why not? Because "Me" is traveling with Clara.
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* The Doctor forgetting about Clara makes Clara's opening speech from "Name of the Doctor" more poignant: it's not just her echoes that he overlooks or forgets, it's ''all'' of his encounters with her. In a further bit of brilliance, the script confirms that the Doctor still remembers the actual events Clara was involved in, just not Clara specifically (and in fact even more specifically the script indicates he has only forgotten her personality and appearance). This allows all the previous adventures to still be remembered by the Doctor (i.e. wisdom gained, people encountered, etc.). - plus major character and universe-development events such as the end of the Time War and the redemption of the War Doctor remain intact). "Run, you clever boy, and remember"; he does indeed remember, but he doesn't remember her specifically. Why not? Because "Me" is traveling with Clara.
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* The Doctor forgetting about Clara makes Clara's opening speech from "Name of the Doctor" more poignant: it's not just her echoes that he overlooks or forgets, it's ''all'' of his encounters with her.
** ''However'', in a further bit of brilliance, the script confirms that the Doctor still remembers the actual events Clara was involved in, just not Clara specifically (and in fact even more specifically the script indicates he has only forgotten her personality and appearance). This allows all the previous adventures to still be remembered by the Doctor (i.e. wisdom gained, people encountered, etc.).
** ''However'', in a further bit of brilliance, the script confirms that the Doctor still remembers the actual events Clara was involved in, just not Clara specifically (and in fact even more specifically the script indicates he has only forgotten her personality and appearance). This allows all the previous adventures to still be remembered by the Doctor (i.e. wisdom gained, people encountered, etc.).
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* The Doctor forgetting about Clara makes Clara's opening speech from "Name of the Doctor" more poignant: it's not just her echoes that he overlooks or forgets, it's ''all'' of his encounters with her.
** ''However'', inher. In a further bit of brilliance, the script confirms that the Doctor still remembers the actual events Clara was involved in, just not Clara specifically (and in fact even more specifically the script indicates he has only forgotten her personality and appearance). This allows all the previous adventures to still be remembered by the Doctor (i.e. wisdom gained, people encountered, etc.). "Run, you clever boy, and remember"; he does indeed remember, but he doesn't remember her specifically. Why not? Because "Me" is traveling with Clara.
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* Rassilon seems unreasonably set on killing the Doctor, immediately. But if the Doctor's Confession Dial was set up so that his captors could hear his confessions, and if the Doctor was right that they could still hear him after he broke out, then the last thing they heard him say at the end of "Heaven Sent" was, "The Hybrid destined to conquer Gallifrey and stand in its ruins...is me." Especially given the tone of voice he said it in, that ''should'' scare the leaders of Gallifrey!
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* Rassilon seems unreasonably set on killing the Doctor, immediately. But immediately, but if the Doctor's Confession Dial was set up so that his captors could hear his confessions, and if the Doctor was right that they could still hear him after he broke out, then the last thing they heard him say at the end of "Heaven Sent" was, "The Hybrid destined to conquer Gallifrey and stand in its ruins...is me." Especially given the tone of voice he said it in, that ''should'' scare the leaders of Gallifrey!
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* The Doctor says he'll try not to break the General's jaw when he punches him. Given how much experience the Doctor has recently accumulated at punching very hard things very hard...Well, and his training in Venusian aikido may be a little rusty.
* When Series 9 began, the audience was introduced to the Hybrid concept. What did the Time Lords and Daleks think the Hybrid would be? A mix of Time Lord and Dalek. In the first episode of Series 9, ''[[Recap/DoctorWhoS35E1TheMagiciansApprentice The Magician's Apprentice]]'', the plot mainly took place on Skaro, homeworld of the Daleks. Where does the majority of the Series 9 finale take place? [[BookEnds Gallifrey, homeworld of the Time Lords]], after a series' worth of searching. And neither race knows exactly ''what'' the Hybrid is.
* Clara's continued presence even after an effective memory wipe is likely due to her having jumped into the Doctor's timeline in the series 7 finale. A much more severe memory wipe, of the likes the Doctor did to Donna, perhaps, would have been more effective. And even then, that would carry even more of a severe consequence as she's essentially integrated into the Doctor's life in every instance because of her actions.
* When Series 9 began, the audience was introduced to the Hybrid concept. What did the Time Lords and Daleks think the Hybrid would be? A mix of Time Lord and Dalek. In the first episode of Series 9, ''[[Recap/DoctorWhoS35E1TheMagiciansApprentice The Magician's Apprentice]]'', the plot mainly took place on Skaro, homeworld of the Daleks. Where does the majority of the Series 9 finale take place? [[BookEnds Gallifrey, homeworld of the Time Lords]], after a series' worth of searching. And neither race knows exactly ''what'' the Hybrid is.
* Clara's continued presence even after an effective memory wipe is likely due to her having jumped into the Doctor's timeline in the series 7 finale. A much more severe memory wipe, of the likes the Doctor did to Donna, perhaps, would have been more effective. And even then, that would carry even more of a severe consequence as she's essentially integrated into the Doctor's life in every instance because of her actions.
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* The Doctor says he'll try not to break the General's jaw when he punches him. Given how much experience the Doctor has recently accumulated at punching very hard things very hard...Well, and hard, it's been a while since he's practiced restraint. Also, his training in Venusian aikido may be a little rusty.
* When Series 9 began, the audience was introduced to the Hybrid concept. What did the Time Lords and Daleks think the Hybrid would be? A mix of Time Lord and Dalek. In the first episode of Series 9, ''[[Recap/DoctorWhoS35E1TheMagiciansApprentice The Magician's Apprentice]]'', the plot mainly took place on Skaro, homeworld of the Daleks. Where does the majority of the Series 9 finale take place? [[BookEnds Gallifrey, homeworld of the Time Lords]], after a series' worth of searching.And Yet neither race knows exactly ''what'' the Hybrid is.
* Clara's continued presence even after an effective memory wipe is likely due to her having jumped into the Doctor's timeline in the series 7 finale. A much more severe memory wipe, of the likes the Doctor did to Donna, perhaps, would have been more effective.And even Even then, that would carry even more of a severe consequence as she's essentially integrated into the Doctor's life in every instance because of her actions.
* When Series 9 began, the audience was introduced to the Hybrid concept. What did the Time Lords and Daleks think the Hybrid would be? A mix of Time Lord and Dalek. In the first episode of Series 9, ''[[Recap/DoctorWhoS35E1TheMagiciansApprentice The Magician's Apprentice]]'', the plot mainly took place on Skaro, homeworld of the Daleks. Where does the majority of the Series 9 finale take place? [[BookEnds Gallifrey, homeworld of the Time Lords]], after a series' worth of searching.
* Clara's continued presence even after an effective memory wipe is likely due to her having jumped into the Doctor's timeline in the series 7 finale. A much more severe memory wipe, of the likes the Doctor did to Donna, perhaps, would have been more effective.
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** The universe isn't falling apart, however, because her death still happens in the future. It's just been delayed. If anything, it's continued existence confirms that someday Clara does return to Gallifrey to die. Which brings us to...
* The implication that Clara's death in "Face the Raven" may well be a depiction of a murder or a suicide. Consider: the moment the raven hits Clara and she dies we now know that the woman is untold years/centuries/millennia older than she was when she entered trap street. After she is forced to leave the Doctor, Clara knows that she must someday return to trap street, and appears unafraid of this. But one reason for that is she has all the "wiggle room" she needs to travel, have adventures, maybe someday reunite with the Doctor, etc. She may not need to return to trap street for a million years. But we know that someday she will. Now the question is: what would make her finally decide to end her life? Will she be making amends for being cruel or cowardly? Will she be caught by the Time Lords and forced back into her timestream? Will she lose someone important to her? We may never know, but the "happy" ending of "Hell Bent" makes the ending of "Face the Raven" infinitely sadder.
* The implication that Clara's death in "Face the Raven" may well be a depiction of a murder or a suicide. Consider: the moment the raven hits Clara and she dies we now know that the woman is untold years/centuries/millennia older than she was when she entered trap street. After she is forced to leave the Doctor, Clara knows that she must someday return to trap street, and appears unafraid of this. But one reason for that is she has all the "wiggle room" she needs to travel, have adventures, maybe someday reunite with the Doctor, etc. She may not need to return to trap street for a million years. But we know that someday she will. Now the question is: what would make her finally decide to end her life? Will she be making amends for being cruel or cowardly? Will she be caught by the Time Lords and forced back into her timestream? Will she lose someone important to her? We may never know, but the "happy" ending of "Hell Bent" makes the ending of "Face the Raven" infinitely sadder.
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* The implication that Clara's death in "Face the Raven" may well be a depiction of a murder or a suicide. Consider: the moment the raven hits Clara and she dies we now know that the woman is untold years/centuries/millennia older than she was when she entered trap street. After she is forced to leave the Doctor, Clara knows that she must someday return to trap street, and appears unafraid of this.
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* Clara and Ashildr/Me seem to have been together long enough, learning to fly an unfamiliar layout of [=TARDIS=] console, finding the Doctor's [=TARDIS=], and making sure he's okay and gets back to it safely, that Clara is able to tell that she doesn't seem to be aging. That would make it at least a few ''years'' since she was extracted from her last moments. One can't help but wonder what adventures they've already had together.
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* Clara and Ashildr/Me seem to have been together long enough, learning to fly an unfamiliar layout of [=TARDIS=] console, finding the Doctor's [=TARDIS=], and making sure he's okay and gets back to it safely, that Clara is able to tell that she doesn't seem to be aging. That would make There's no way to tell how long it at least a few ''years'' has been for them since she Clara was extracted from her last moments.extracted. One can't help but wonder what adventures they've already had together.
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** ''However'', in a further bit of brilliance, the script confirms that the Doctor still remembers the actual events Clara was involved in, just not Clara specifically. This allows all the previous adventures to still be retained in canon.
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** ''However'', in a further bit of brilliance, the script confirms that the Doctor still remembers the actual events Clara was involved in, just not Clara specifically. specifically (and in fact even more specifically the script indicates he has only forgotten her personality and appearance). This allows all the previous adventures to still be retained in canon.remembered by the Doctor (i.e. wisdom gained, people encountered, etc.).
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* [[spoiler: Clara's continued presence even after an effective memory wipe is likely due to her having jumped into the Doctor's timeline in the series 7 finale. A much more severe memory wipe, of the likes the Doctor did to Donna, perhaps, would have been more effective. And even then, that would carry even more of a severe consequence as she's essentially integrated into the Doctor's life in every instance because of her actions.]]
* The music that's playing in the diner when the Doctor enters seems like a combination ContinuityNod to "Mummy on the Orient Express" and an anachronism, as it doesn't seem late enough in history for anyone to have cut a jazz cover of "Don't Stop Me Now" yet. But given how the episode ended, it's much more than that: [[spoiler: Clara deliberately put that song, and that ''version'' of the song, on the jukebox to test if the Doctor would recognize it. She needed to test how much of his memories from their mutual adventures remained. In this case, it might have worked as the Doctor ''is'' able to recall there being a mummy on the Orient Express.]]
* Little wonder that diner was just in the right place for Eleven, Amy, and Rory to end up in - the owner has a vested interest in making sure his timeline went smoothly. Although the episode does end with a reference to the chameleon circuit being broken, that doesn't mean Ashildr and Clara don't fix it at a later time. The implication being that Clara's TARDIS could be present in any number of past and future adventures without the Doctor realizing.
* The music that's playing in the diner when the Doctor enters seems like a combination ContinuityNod to "Mummy on the Orient Express" and an anachronism, as it doesn't seem late enough in history for anyone to have cut a jazz cover of "Don't Stop Me Now" yet. But given how the episode ended, it's much more than that: [[spoiler: Clara deliberately put that song, and that ''version'' of the song, on the jukebox to test if the Doctor would recognize it. She needed to test how much of his memories from their mutual adventures remained. In this case, it might have worked as the Doctor ''is'' able to recall there being a mummy on the Orient Express.]]
* Little wonder that diner was just in the right place for Eleven, Amy, and Rory to end up in - the owner has a vested interest in making sure his timeline went smoothly. Although the episode does end with a reference to the chameleon circuit being broken, that doesn't mean Ashildr and Clara don't fix it at a later time. The implication being that Clara's TARDIS could be present in any number of past and future adventures without the Doctor realizing.
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* [[spoiler: Clara's continued presence even after an effective memory wipe is likely due to her having jumped into the Doctor's timeline in the series 7 finale. A much more severe memory wipe, of the likes the Doctor did to Donna, perhaps, would have been more effective. And even then, that would carry even more of a severe consequence as she's essentially integrated into the Doctor's life in every instance because of her actions.]]
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* The music that's playing in the diner when the Doctor enters seems like a combination ContinuityNod to "Mummy on the Orient Express" and an anachronism, as it doesn't seem late enough in history for anyone to have cut a jazz cover of "Don't Stop Me Now" yet. But given how the episode ended, it's much more than that:[[spoiler: Clara deliberately put that song, and that ''version'' of the song, on the jukebox to test if the Doctor would recognize it. She needed to test how much of his memories from their mutual adventures remained. In this case, it might have worked as the Doctor ''is'' able to recall there being a mummy on the Orient Express.]]
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* Little wonder that diner was just in the right place for Eleven, Amy, and Rory to end up in - the owner has a vested interest in making sure his timeline went smoothly. Although the episode does end with a reference to the chameleon circuit being broken, that doesn't mean Ashildr and Clara don't fix it at a later time. The implication being that Clara's TARDIS could be present in any number of past and future adventures without the Doctor realizing. (Which in turn could be seen as allowing Clara to continue to fulfill the "born to save the Doctor" mandate of her echoes.
* Many viewers recognized the diner immediately as the one featured in "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS32E1TheImpossibleAstronaut The Impossible Astronaut]]" and dialogue confirms this is the same location. But there is a possible continuity hitch as "Impossible Astronaut" shows the Doctor having parked his TARDIS ''inside'' the diner - in fact, through the doors that, in "Hell Bent", lead to the console room. The console room placement isn't the issue as we know the interior configuration of the TARDIS can be altered. It's the fact the Doctor parked his TARDIS inside the diner which may cause issue as past stories have suggested parking one TARDIS inside another is a bad idea. However, the very end of this episode addresses this by revealing that Clara did in fact have the Doctor's TARDIS hidden away inside her vessel, suggesting that, for her TARDIS, at least, this isn't impossible.
* The music that's playing in the diner when the Doctor enters seems like a combination ContinuityNod to "Mummy on the Orient Express" and an anachronism, as it doesn't seem late enough in history for anyone to have cut a jazz cover of "Don't Stop Me Now" yet. But given how the episode ended, it's much more than that:
* Little wonder that diner was just in the right place for Eleven, Amy, and Rory to end up in - the owner has a vested interest in making sure his timeline went smoothly. Although the episode does end with a reference to the chameleon circuit being broken, that doesn't mean Ashildr and Clara don't fix it at a later time. The implication being that Clara's TARDIS could be present in any number of past and future adventures without the Doctor realizing. (Which in turn could be seen as allowing Clara to continue to fulfill the "born to save the Doctor" mandate of her echoes.
* Many viewers recognized the diner immediately as the one featured in "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS32E1TheImpossibleAstronaut The Impossible Astronaut]]" and dialogue confirms this is the same location. But there is a possible continuity hitch as "Impossible Astronaut" shows the Doctor having parked his TARDIS ''inside'' the diner - in fact, through the doors that, in "Hell Bent", lead to the console room. The console room placement isn't the issue as we know the interior configuration of the TARDIS can be altered. It's the fact the Doctor parked his TARDIS inside the diner which may cause issue as past stories have suggested parking one TARDIS inside another is a bad idea. However, the very end of this episode addresses this by revealing that Clara did in fact have the Doctor's TARDIS hidden away inside her vessel, suggesting that, for her TARDIS, at least, this isn't impossible.
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* The Doctor [[spoiler: forgetting about Clara]] makes Clara's opening speech from "Name of the Doctor" more poignant: [[spoiler: it's not just her echoes that he overlooks or forgets, it's ''all'' of his encounters with her.]]
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* The Doctor [[spoiler: forgetting about Clara]] Clara makes Clara's opening speech from "Name of the Doctor" more poignant: [[spoiler: it's not just her echoes that he overlooks or forgets, it's ''all'' of his encounters with her.]]her.
** ''However'', in a further bit of brilliance, the script confirms that the Doctor still remembers the actual events Clara was involved in, just not Clara specifically. This allows all the previous adventures to still be retained in canon.
** ''However'', in a further bit of brilliance, the script confirms that the Doctor still remembers the actual events Clara was involved in, just not Clara specifically. This allows all the previous adventures to still be retained in canon.
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* Whatever psychic or subconscious agency might select the Doctor's faces when he regenerates, it did a lot more than express his trust for Clara ''or'' hint that Twelve needed to live up to his Doctor-ly tradition of saving people when it selected Peter Capaldi's face. Had his "mid-life crisis" of taking on good-looking young bodies continued, he'd have been a '''lot''' less intimidating when he faced down Gallifrey's military, officials, and President: it took the age-marked face of experience (complete with Attack Eyebrows) to emulate John Hurt's level of gravitas.
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* Clara tells Ashildr flat out that she isn't afraid to die. Which sounds like a suitable BadassBoast for someone who has just been rendered functionally immortal. Until one realizes that Clara has been established - and this fact was reiterated as recently as "The Zygon Inversion" - as a skilled liar. Is she telling the truth about not being afraid of facing the raven someday, or is she actually terrified at the prospect? Consider also that the series has made her gradually becoming the DistaffCounterpart of the Doctor a major plot thread for years, hence her running away from Gallifrey in a stolen TARDIS (with plans to eventually return "the long way around") ... yet "Heaven Sent" revealed that the Doctor ran away from Gallifrey because he was afraid. Is the same rationale in place for Clara?
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* As tarnished as Gallifrey's image already was from previous revelations about its social order, both in the Classic era and in the post-Time War stories, a single line by a character who ''didn't even merit a name'' did far more to show how little the Time Lord elite care about the opinions of the ordinary citizens of their world ... so little, they ''don't even bother to conceal their own corruption''. Because it's the very '''first''' words an ordinary Gallifreyan has to say, when she discovers the Time War's greatest hero has come home, at long last:
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* As tarnished as Gallifrey's image already was from previous revelations about its social order, both in the Classic era and in the post-Time War stories, a single line by a character who ''didn't even merit a name'' did far more to show how little the Time Lord elite care about the opinions of the ordinary citizens of their world ... so little, they ''don't even bother to conceal their own corruption''. The average civilian knows, all too well, what their rulers are really like. Because it's the very '''first''' words an ordinary Gallifreyan has to say, when she discovers the Time War's greatest hero has come home, home at long last:last, are these:
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** Heck, that pattern began even ''before she was born''. She says it herself: she was blown into the world on a leaf in the wind, and now she'll blow about Time until she's finally flown out of it on black feathers.
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* As tarnished as Gallifrey's image already was from previous revelations about its social order, both in the Classic era and in the post-Time War stories, a single line by a character who ''didn't even merit a name'' did far more to show how little the Time Lord elite care about the opinions of the ordinary citizens of their world ... so little, they ''don't even bother to conceal that corruption''. Because it's the very '''first''' words an ordinary Gallifreyan has to say, when she discovers the Time War's greatest hero has come home, at long last:
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* As tarnished as Gallifrey's image already was from previous revelations about its social order, both in the Classic era and in the post-Time War stories, a single line by a character who ''didn't even merit a name'' did far more to show how little the Time Lord elite care about the opinions of the ordinary citizens of their world ... so little, they ''don't even bother to conceal that their own corruption''. Because it's the very '''first''' words an ordinary Gallifreyan has to say, when she discovers the Time War's greatest hero has come home, at long last:
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* As tarnished as Gallifrey's image already was from previous revelations about its social order, both in the Classic era and in the post-Time War stories, a single line by a character who ''didn't even merit a name'' did far more to show how little the Time Lord elite care about the opinions of the ordinary citizens of their world ... so little, they ''don't even bother to conceal that corruption''. Because it's the very '''first''' words an ordinary Gallifreyan has to say, when she discovers the Time War's greatest war hero has come home:
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* As tarnished as Gallifrey's image already was from previous revelations about its social order, both in the Classic era and in the post-Time War stories, a single line by a character who ''didn't even merit a name'' did far more to show how little the Time Lord elite care about the opinions of the ordinary citizens of their world ... so little, they ''don't even bother to conceal that corruption''. Because it's the very '''first''' words an ordinary Gallifreyan has to say, when she discovers the Time War's greatest war hero has come home:home, at long last:
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* As tarnished as Gallifrey's image already was from previous revelations about its social order, both in the Classic era and in the post-Time War stories, a single line by a character who ''didn't even merit a name'' did far more to show how little the Time Lord elite care about the opinions of the ordinary citizens of their world ... so little, they ''don't even bother to conceal that corruption''. Because it's the very '''first''' thing that character says, words an ordinary Gallifreyan has to say, when she sees discovers the Time War's greatest war hero has come home:
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* As tarnished as Gallifrey's image already was from previous revelations about its social order, both in the Classic era and in the post-Time War stories, a single line by a character who ''didn't even merit a name'' did far more to show how little the Time Lord elite care about the opinions of the ordinary citizens of their world ... so little, they ''don't even bother to conceal that corruption''. Because it's the only and '''first''' thing she says, when she sees the Time War's greatest war hero has come home:
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* As tarnished as Gallifrey's image already was from previous revelations about its social order, both in the Classic era and in the post-Time War stories, a single line by a character who ''didn't even merit a name'' did far more to show how little the Time Lord elite care about the opinions of the ordinary citizens of their world ... so little, they ''don't even bother to conceal that corruption''. Because it's the only and very '''first''' thing she that character says, when she sees the Time War's greatest war hero has come home:
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* As tarnished as Gallifrey's image already was from previous revelations about its social order, both in the Classic era and in the post-Time War stories, a single line by a character who ''didn't even merit a name'' did far more to show how little the Time Lord elite care about the opinions of the ordinary citizens of their world ... so little, they ''don't even bother to conceal that corruption''. Because it's the only and '''first''' thing she says, when she sees the Time War's greatest war hero has come home:
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* The music that's playing in the diner when the Doctor enters seems like a combination ContinuityNod to "Mummy on the Orient Express" and an anachronism, as it doesn't seem late enough in history for anyone to have cut a jazz cover of "Don't Stop Me Now" yet. But given how the episode ended, it's much more than that: [[spoiler: Clara deliberately put that song, and that ''version'' of the song, on the jukebox to test if the Doctor would recognize it. She needed to test how much of his memories from their mutual adventures remained.]]
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* The music that's playing in the diner when the Doctor enters seems like a combination ContinuityNod to "Mummy on the Orient Express" and an anachronism, as it doesn't seem late enough in history for anyone to have cut a jazz cover of "Don't Stop Me Now" yet. But given how the episode ended, it's much more than that: [[spoiler: Clara deliberately put that song, and that ''version'' of the song, on the jukebox to test if the Doctor would recognize it. She needed to test how much of his memories from their mutual adventures remained. In this case, it might have worked as the Doctor ''is'' able to recall there being a mummy on the Orient Express.]]
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* Of course The Doctor's plan went off with barely a hitch. He had ''four billion years'' to plot it all out, and at least a couple incarnations that were scarily brilliant at XanatosSpeedChess if there were any contingencies he hadn't worked out.
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* Of course The Doctor's plan went off with barely a hitch. He had ''four billion years'' to plot it all out, and at least a couple incarnations that were scarily brilliant at XanatosSpeedChess if there were any contingencies he hadn't worked out. The one factor he hadn't considered ... was Clara herself.
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* After having watched Hell Bent, go back to the beginning and start watching the Clara era from "Asylum of the Daleks" onwards and you'll find elements of her end strewn throughout her episodes, from being called "Clara Who" and thinking like the Doctor in "The Snowmen" to little things like the ''raven necklace'' she wears when she first meets the Doctor. Moffat clearly did his homework when preparing Clara's exit storyline.
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* Clara's heart isn't beating and she isn't breathing except to talk. What's happened to her body's other systems? Can she, for example, digest the lemonade she drank with the Doctor, or will she have to [[Recap/TorchwoodS2E7DeadManWalking stand on her head and let it pour out again]]?
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* Clara's heart isn't beating and she isn't breathing except to talk. What's happened to her body's other systems? Can she, for example, digest the lemonade she drank with the Doctor, or will she have to [[Recap/TorchwoodS2E7DeadManWalking stand on her head and let it pour out again]]? We do know, however, that ''some'' of her bodily functions have to still be working. For one thing, she can produce tears (''lots'' of tears), gets the sniffles from crying, and the fact she doesn't resemble Liv Moore from ''{{Series/IZombie}}'' means there must be some sort of blood circulation under her skin. And her muscles obviously still work, as well.
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* Clara’s death is a Fixed Point in Time, meaning that it has to happen, which is the danger to the universe if she doesn’t return. (We’ll ignore the reapers not showing up for now). But we’re also told by the Doctor that the Quantum Shade can and will track its victims across time and space as an explanation for why Clara can’t just run from it. But that’s exactly what she’s doing at the end of the episode. It seems possible that, unless she returns soon, the Quantum Shade might strike her down while she’s in the middle of some other adventure with Me, leading to disaster in whatever her goal at the time is.
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* Clara’s death is a Fixed Point in Time, meaning that it has to happen, which is the danger to the universe if she doesn’t return. (We’ll ignore the reapers not showing up for now).now, though keep in mind they returned only after a fixed point was actually broken). But we’re also told by the Doctor that the Quantum Shade can and will track its victims across time and space as an explanation for why Clara can’t just run from it. But that’s exactly what she’s doing at the end of the episode. It seems possible that, unless she returns soon, the Quantum Shade might strike her down while she’s in the middle of some other adventure with Me, leading to disaster in whatever her goal at the time is.
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** The universe isn't falling apart, however, because her death still happens in the future. It's just been delayed. If anything, it's continued existence confirms that someday Clara does return to Gallifrey to die. Which brings us to...
* The implication that Clara's death in "Face the Raven" may well be a depiction of a murder or a suicide. Consider: the moment the raven hits Clara and she dies we now know that the woman is untold years/centuries/millennia older than she was when she entered trap street. After she is forced to leave the Doctor, Clara knows that she must someday return to trap street, and appears unafraid of this. But one reason for that is she has all the "wiggle room" she needs to travel, have adventures, maybe someday reunite with the Doctor, etc. She may not need to return to trap street for a million years. But we know that someday she will. Now the question is: what would make her finally decide to end her life? Will she be making amends for being cruel or cowardly? Will she be caught by the Time Lords and forced back into her timestream? Will she lose someone important to her? We may never know, but the "happy" ending of "Hell Bent" makes the ending of "Face the Raven" infinitely sadder.
* The implication that Clara's death in "Face the Raven" may well be a depiction of a murder or a suicide. Consider: the moment the raven hits Clara and she dies we now know that the woman is untold years/centuries/millennia older than she was when she entered trap street. After she is forced to leave the Doctor, Clara knows that she must someday return to trap street, and appears unafraid of this. But one reason for that is she has all the "wiggle room" she needs to travel, have adventures, maybe someday reunite with the Doctor, etc. She may not need to return to trap street for a million years. But we know that someday she will. Now the question is: what would make her finally decide to end her life? Will she be making amends for being cruel or cowardly? Will she be caught by the Time Lords and forced back into her timestream? Will she lose someone important to her? We may never know, but the "happy" ending of "Hell Bent" makes the ending of "Face the Raven" infinitely sadder.
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* Little wonder that diner was just in the right place for Eleven, Amy, and Rory to end up in - the owner has a vested interest in making sure his timeline went smoothly.
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* Little wonder that diner was just in the right place for Eleven, Amy, and Rory to end up in - the owner has a vested interest in making sure his timeline went smoothly. Although the episode does end with a reference to the chameleon circuit being broken, that doesn't mean Ashildr and Clara don't fix it at a later time. The implication being that Clara's TARDIS could be present in any number of past and future adventures without the Doctor realizing.
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* Although the narrative does take us to places were the Doctor would not have been privy to conversations (i.e. Rassilon and Ohila; discussions in the elevator between the General and her soldiers), the story is supposed to be the Doctor recounting to the waitress what happened on Gallifrey. He remembers many of the details of being there, including what he did with Clara. However, at the end he says he cannot remember what she looked like, or how she talked or laughed (code-speak for elements of Clara that made him fall in love with her in the first place). What else has he forgotten: apparently just one more thing - her words to him in the Cloisters. At the end Clara suggests that the melody the Doctor has been playing might represent those lost memories. What song, then, do we hear when the camera pulls away from Clara and the Doctor in the Cloisters ... the same melody. Even in recounting the story, the Doctor uses the melody to represent what Clara had to say.
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* Given that we see no signs of the universe falling apart, and Clara having "wiggle room" in her return to Gallifrey, who's to say that her death was NOT a fixed point in time all along and the Doctor was ''deliberately cheated of the [[EarnYourHappyEnding happy ending he earned]] by everyone lying to him and Clara'', perhaps to avoid admitting that he had suffered unjustly between the Time Lords' plot and the confession dial -- and no one did anything about it?
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* Given that we see no signs of the universe falling apart, and Clara having "wiggle room" in her return to Gallifrey, who's to say is it possible that her death was NOT a fixed point in time all along and the Doctor was ''deliberately cheated of the [[EarnYourHappyEnding happy ending he earned]] earned]]'' by everyone lying to him and Clara'', Clara, perhaps to avoid admitting that he had suffered unjustly between the Time Lords' plot and the confession dial -- and no one did anything about it?
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* Given that we see no signs of the universe falling apart, and Clara having "wiggle room" in her return to Gallifrey, who's to say that her death was NOT a fixed point in time all along and the Doctor was ''deliberately cheated of the [[EarnYourHappyEnding happy ending he earned]] by everyone lying to him and Clara'', perhaps to avoid admitting that he had suffered unjustly between the Time Lords' plot and the confession dial -- and no one did anything about it?
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* The General summed up the Time Lords' findings on the Hybrid thusly: ''"All Matrix prophecies concur that [the Hybrid] will one day stand in the ruins of Gallifrey. It will unravel the Web of Time and destroy a billion billion hearts to heal its own."'' Now think of how the finale panned out: 1) the Doctor and Ashildr/Me (the two candidates so far) stood at the ruins of Gallifrey at the end of the universe; 2) Clara and Ashildr/Me have mentioned that due to her continuing survival, "time isn't healing", and 3) the Doctor, wiped of his memories of Clara, is now fresh to move on--with the still-not-healing time-space continuum hanging on all of reality's heads. [[SelfFulfillingProphecy Rassilon and the Time Lords, by trying to prevent the Hybrid from ever coming, brought forth the Hybrid from the Doctor's grief (as he himself admitted) and brought Gallifrey down]].
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* The General summed up the Time Lords' findings on the Hybrid thusly: ''"All Matrix prophecies concur that [the Hybrid] will one day stand in the ruins of Gallifrey. It will unravel the Web of Time and destroy a billion billion hearts to heal its own."'' Now think of how the finale panned out: 1) the Doctor claimed the Presidency of Gallifrey, in effect conquering the Time Lords, abeit in a bloodless way, 2) the Doctor and Ashildr/Me (the two candidates so far) stood at in the ruins of Gallifrey at the end of the universe; 2) 3) Clara and Ashildr/Me have mentioned that due to her continuing survival, "time isn't healing", 4) the Doctor burned his old body, including both hearts, billions of times in a desperate bid to bring back Clara and 3) the Doctor, wiped of heal his memories of Clara, is now fresh to move on--with the still-not-healing time-space continuum hanging on all of reality's heads. own pain and loss. [[SelfFulfillingProphecy Rassilon and the Time Lords, by trying to prevent the Hybrid from ever coming, brought forth the Hybrid from the Doctor's grief (as he himself admitted) and brought Gallifrey down]].
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* The General summed up the Time Lords' findings on the Hybrid thusly: ''"All Matrix prophecies concur that [the Hybrid] will one day stand in the ruins of Gallifrey. It will unravel the Web of Time and destroy a billion billion hearts to heal its own."'' Now think of how the finale panned out: 1) the Doctor and Ashildr/Me (the two candidates so far) stood at the ruins of Gallifrey at the end of the universe; 2) Clara and Ashildr/Me have mentioned that due to her continuing survival, "time isn't healing", and 3) the Doctor, wiped of his memories of Clara, is now fresh to move on--with the still-not-healing time-space continuum hanging on all of reality's heads. [[SelfFulfillingProphecy Rassilon and the Time Lords, by trying to prevent the Hybrid from ever coming, brought forth the Hybrid from the Doctor's grief (as he himself admitted) and brought Gallifrey down]].
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* The Doctor has ''always'' been on poor terms with the Gallifrey leadership. Hell, they already executed his Second incarnation and threatened it on at least three more! Seeing the barn of what used to be his home, Rassilon's comment that the locals of that area "don't matter," and that The Doctor was ''barely'' admitted to the rank of Time Lord in the first place, he's obviously from the wrong side of the tracks as far as their society is concerned. Yet, he achieved universe-wide fame by taking everything the aristocracy values and throwing it out an airlock, choosing to protect some backwater blue marble instead of representing what ''they'' wanted him to. And judging from the reaction from not only the desert dwellers but the Army, he's become one hell of a hero to the common folk, which is the ''last'' thing a cloistered oligarchy wants. He doesn't need to be "the Hybrid" to be the universe's biggest threat to their authority.
** Note that the Doctor's dislike of Gallifrey's upper crust may well have been Foreshadowed ''all the way back in 1963''. Waaay back when, he'd mentioned in "The Reign Of Terror" that the French Revolution was his ''favorite'' historical era.
** Note that the Doctor's dislike of Gallifrey's upper crust may well have been Foreshadowed ''all the way back in 1963''. Waaay back when, he'd mentioned in "The Reign Of Terror" that the French Revolution was his ''favorite'' historical era.
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* The Doctor has ''always'' been on poor terms with the Gallifrey leadership. Hell, they already executed his Second incarnation and threatened it on at least three more! Seeing the barn of what used to be his home, Rassilon's comment that the locals of that area "don't matter," and that The Doctor was ''barely'' admitted to the rank of Time Lord in the first place, he's obviously from the wrong side of the tracks as far as their society is concerned. Yet, he achieved universe-wide fame by taking everything the aristocracy values and throwing it out an airlock, choosing to protect some backwater blue marble instead of representing what ''they'' wanted him to. And judging from the reaction from not only the desert dwellers but the Army, he's become one hell of a hero to the common folk, which is the ''last'' thing a cloistered oligarchy wants. He doesn't need to be "the Hybrid" to be the universe's biggest threat to their authority. \n** Note that the Doctor's dislike of Gallifrey's upper crust may well have been Foreshadowed ''all the way back in 1963''. Waaay back when, he'd mentioned in "The Reign Of Terror" that the French Revolution was his ''favorite'' historical era.
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** Note that the Doctor's dislike of Gallifrey's upper crust may well have been Foreshadowed ''all the way back in 1963''. Waaay back when, he'd mentioned in "The Reign Of Terror" that the French Revolution was his ''favorite'' historical era.
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* Who's to say that exiling them isn't something the Doctor did, because he knew he'd end up ''doing something much worse'' to them if he didn't get them out of his sight as quickly as possible?
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* Who's to say that exiling them isn't something the Doctor did, because he knew he'd end up ''doing something much worse'' to them if he didn't get them out of his sight as quickly as possible?possible? Given what he did to the Family of Blood, and how much ''more'' reason he has to hate the Council...
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* The Doctor is re-created billions of times, and each time he is fresh from seeing Clara die mere minutes before. He gets to start the mourning process, but it's cut short when he sees the azbantium wall and remembers all his past trips through. Then, he punches the wall a few times, spend a day and a half crawling in agony....and starts all over again with completely fresh grief. He spends almost the entire four and a half billion years in the sharpest, freshest stages of mourning, never getting the chance to move on and heal. When the Doctor begs to please just be allowed to ''lose,'' he's really/also begging to finally get to move on in his mourning, to accept Clara's death. But while the real Clara would be the first to tell him "Yes, for God's sake, stop!", the Clara in his mind represents his denial stage, and won't let him. Perhaps if he'd had more time alone in the castle without danger and death, he'd have reached acceptance and let her go, and thus not needed the bargaining chip so badly. Rassilon's choice to scare him and torture him backfired in a big way!
* In an example of "Fridge Tragedy", back in [[Recap/DoctorWhoS28E3SchoolReunion School Reunion]], the Doctor explained to Rose that he was always haunted by the fact that as a Time Lord, he can keep regenerating but his human companions only live so long. "You can spend the rest of your life with me, but I can't spend the rest of my life with you." The tragedy is he finally had in his grasp a companion who a) was in love with him (WordOfGod aside, and even if you ignore all episodes that came before, there's no way she isn't after being told the Doctor punched through a harder-than-diamond wall for 4 1/2 billion years ''just for her'', and her "why don't we fly away somewhere" can be seen as an invitation to elope), b) was perfectly capable - she even knew how to work a TARDIS by this point, c) was likely indestructible given her obligation to return to point of her death, meaning the Doctor would no longer have to worry about her safety and d) could potentially outlive the Doctor, while never aging. In post-extraction Clara, Doctor had the ''perfect'' companion, but he had to let her go in the end.
** Given the Doctor's reservations about (functional) immortals traveling together -- that they tend to lose perspective and empathy without mortals around -- Clara and Ashildr may not be the best combination of time-travelers...
** It’s even worse than that. Most of the same “perfect” companion points could apply to Ashildr. Plus, the Doctor seems to realize after Rose that having a companion who is in love with him isn’t the best option (See: Martha getting shot down, Amy’s initial amorousness getting shot down and necessitating the Doctor bringing on Rory, and the fact that he never regularly travels with River). But, considering that the potential loss of perspective that can accompany immortality, there’s an implication that Ashildr and Clara might go far enough off the deep end to become villains that the Doctor is forced to fight. Even with the knowledge that Clara will (presumably) return to her death, that still leaves Ashildr—or, rather, Me—running around with a TARDIS, and we already know she’s capable of losing perspective. And is immortal. With a time machine. She could be as bad as the Mistress/Master.
* In an example of "Fridge Tragedy", back in [[Recap/DoctorWhoS28E3SchoolReunion School Reunion]], the Doctor explained to Rose that he was always haunted by the fact that as a Time Lord, he can keep regenerating but his human companions only live so long. "You can spend the rest of your life with me, but I can't spend the rest of my life with you." The tragedy is he finally had in his grasp a companion who a) was in love with him (WordOfGod aside, and even if you ignore all episodes that came before, there's no way she isn't after being told the Doctor punched through a harder-than-diamond wall for 4 1/2 billion years ''just for her'', and her "why don't we fly away somewhere" can be seen as an invitation to elope), b) was perfectly capable - she even knew how to work a TARDIS by this point, c) was likely indestructible given her obligation to return to point of her death, meaning the Doctor would no longer have to worry about her safety and d) could potentially outlive the Doctor, while never aging. In post-extraction Clara, Doctor had the ''perfect'' companion, but he had to let her go in the end.
** Given the Doctor's reservations about (functional) immortals traveling together -- that they tend to lose perspective and empathy without mortals around -- Clara and Ashildr may not be the best combination of time-travelers...
** It’s even worse than that. Most of the same “perfect” companion points could apply to Ashildr. Plus, the Doctor seems to realize after Rose that having a companion who is in love with him isn’t the best option (See: Martha getting shot down, Amy’s initial amorousness getting shot down and necessitating the Doctor bringing on Rory, and the fact that he never regularly travels with River). But, considering that the potential loss of perspective that can accompany immortality, there’s an implication that Ashildr and Clara might go far enough off the deep end to become villains that the Doctor is forced to fight. Even with the knowledge that Clara will (presumably) return to her death, that still leaves Ashildr—or, rather, Me—running around with a TARDIS, and we already know she’s capable of losing perspective. And is immortal. With a time machine. She could be as bad as the Mistress/Master.
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* The Doctor is re-created billions of times, and each time he is fresh from seeing Clara die mere minutes before. He gets to start the mourning process, but it's cut short when he sees the azbantium wall and remembers all his past trips through. Then, he punches the wall a few times, spend a day and a half crawling in agony....and starts all over again with completely fresh grief. He spends almost the entire four and a half billion years in the sharpest, freshest stages of mourning, never getting the chance to move on and heal. When the Doctor begs to please just be allowed to ''lose,'' he's really/also begging to finally get to move on in his mourning, to accept Clara's death. But while the real Clara would be the first to tell him "Yes, for God's sake, stop!", the Clara in his mind represents his denial stage, and won't let him. Perhaps if he'd had more time alone in the castle without danger and death, he'd have reached acceptance and let her go, and thus not needed the bargaining chip so badly. Rassilon's choice to scare him and torture him backfired in a big way!
* In an example of "Fridge Tragedy", back in [[Recap/DoctorWhoS28E3SchoolReunion School Reunion]], the Doctor explained to Rose that he was always haunted by the fact that as a Time Lord, he can keep regenerating but his human companions only live so long. "You can spend the rest of your life with me, but I can't spend the rest of my life with you." The tragedy is he finally had in his grasp a companion who a) was in love with him (WordOfGod aside, and even if you ignore all episodes that came before, there's no way she isn't after being told the Doctor punched through a harder-than-diamond wall for 4 1/2 billion years ''just for her'', and her "why don't we fly away somewhere" can be seen as an invitation to elope), b) was perfectly capable - she even knew how to work a TARDIS by this point, c) was likely indestructible given her obligation to return to point of her death, meaning the Doctor would no longer have to worry about her safety and d) could potentially outlive the Doctor, while never aging. In post-extraction Clara, Doctor had the ''perfect'' companion, but he had to let her go in the end.
** Given the Doctor's reservations about (functional) immortals traveling together -- that they tend to lose perspective and empathy without mortals around -- Clara and Ashildr may not be the best combination of time-travelers...
** It’s even worse than that. Most of the same “perfect” companion points could apply to Ashildr. Plus, the Doctor seems to realize after Rose that having a companion who is in love with him isn’t the best option (See: Martha getting shot down, Amy’s initial amorousness getting shot down and necessitating the Doctor bringing on Rory, and the fact that he never regularly travels with River). But, considering that the potential loss of perspective that can accompany immortality, there’s an implication that Ashildr and Clara might go far enough off the deep end to become villains that the Doctor is forced to fight. Even with the knowledge that Clara will (presumably) return to her death, that still leaves Ashildr—or, rather, Me—running around with a TARDIS, and we already know she’s capable of losing perspective. And is immortal. With a time machine. She could be as bad as the Mistress/Master.
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* In an example of "Fridge Tragedy", back in [[Recap/DoctorWhoS28E3SchoolReunion School Reunion]], the Doctor explained to Rose that he was always haunted by the fact that as a Time Lord, he can keep regenerating but his human companions only live so long. "You can spend the rest of your life with me, but I can't spend the rest of my life with you." The tragedy is he finally had in his grasp a companion who a) was in love with him (WordOfGod aside, and even if you ignore all episodes that came before, there's no way she isn't after being told the Doctor punched through a harder-than-diamond wall for 4 1/2 billion years ''just for her'', and her "why don't we fly away somewhere" can be seen as an invitation to elope), b) was perfectly capable - she even knew how to work a TARDIS by this point, c) was likely indestructible given her obligation to return to point of her death, meaning the Doctor would no longer have to worry about her safety and d) could potentially outlive the Doctor, while never aging. In post-extraction Clara, Doctor had the ''perfect'' companion, but he had to let her go in the end.
** Given the Doctor's reservations about (functional) immortals traveling together -- that they tend to lose perspective and empathy without mortals around -- Clara and Ashildr may not be the best combination of time-travelers...
** It’s even worse than that. Most of the same “perfect” companion points could apply to Ashildr. Plus, the Doctor seems to realize after Rose that having a companion who is in love with him isn’t the best option (See: Martha getting shot down, Amy’s initial amorousness getting shot down and necessitating the Doctor bringing on Rory, and the fact that he never regularly travels with River). But, considering that the potential loss of perspective that can accompany immortality, there’s an implication that Ashildr and Clara might go far enough off the deep end to become villains that the Doctor is forced to fight. Even with the knowledge that Clara will (presumably) return to her death, that still leaves Ashildr—or, rather, Me—running around with a TARDIS, and we already know she’s capable of losing perspective. And is immortal. With a time machine. She could be as bad as the Mistress/Master.
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* In an example of "Fridge Tragedy", back in [[Recap/DoctorWhoS28E3SchoolReunion School Reunion]], the Doctor explained to Rose that he was always haunted by the fact that as a Time Lord, he can keep regenerating but his human companions only live so long. "You can spend the rest of your life with me, but I can't spend the rest of my life with you." The tragedy is he finally had in his grasp a companion who a) was in love with him (WordOfGod aside, and even if you ignore all episodes that came before, there's no way she isn't after being told the Doctor punched through a harder-than-diamond wall for 4 1/2 billion years ''just for her'', and her "why don't we fly away somewhere" can be seen as an invitation to elope), b) was perfectly capable - she even knew how to work a TARDIS by this point, c) was likely indestructible given her obligation to return to to point of her death, meaning the Doctor would no longer have to worry about her safety and d) could potentially outlive the Doctor, while never aging. In post-extraction Clara, Doctor had the ''perfect'' companion, but he had to let her go in the end.
* Clara’s death is a Fixed Point in Time, meaning that it has to happen, which is the danger to the universe if she doesn’t return. (We’ll ignore the reapers not showing up for now). But we’re also told by the Doctor that the Quantum Shade can and will track its victims across time and space as an explanation for why Clara can’t just run from it. But that’s exactly what she’s doing at the end of the episode. It seems possible that, unless she returns soon, the Quantum Shade might strike her down while she’s in the middle of some other adventure with Me, leading to disaster in whatever her goal at the time is.
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* In an example of "Fridge Tragedy", back in [[Recap/DoctorWhoS28E3SchoolReunion School Reunion]], the Doctor explained to Rose that he was always haunted by the fact that as a Time Lord, he can keep regenerating but his human companions only live so long. "You can spend the rest of your life with me, but I can't spend the rest of my life with you." The tragedy is he finally had in his grasp a companion who a) was in love with him (WordOfGod aside, and even if you ignore all episodes that came before, there's no way she isn't after being told the Doctor punched through a harder-than-diamond wall for 4 1/2 billion years ''just for her'', and her "why don't we fly away somewhere" can be seen as an invitation to elope), b) was perfectly capable - she even knew how to work a TARDIS by this point, c) was likely indestructible given her obligation to return to point of her death, meaning the Doctor would no longer have to worry about her safety and d) could potentially outlive the Doctor, while never aging. In post-extraction Clara, Doctor had the ''perfect'' companion, but he had to let her go in the end.
** Given the Doctor's reservations about (functional) immortals traveling together -- that they tend to lose perspective and empathy without mortals around -- Clara and Ashildr may not be the best combination of time-travelers...
** It’s even worse than that. Most of the same “perfect” companion points could apply to Ashildr. Plus, the Doctor seems to realize after Rose that having a companion who is in love with him isn’t the best option (See: Martha getting shot down, Amy’s initial amorousness getting shot down and necessitating the Doctor bringing on Rory, and the fact that he never regularly travels with River). But, considering that the potential loss of perspective that can accompany immortality, there’s an implication that Ashildr and Clara might go far enough off the deep end to become villains that the Doctor is forced to fight. Even with the knowledge that Clara will (presumably) return to her death, that still leaves Ashildr—or, rather, Me—running around with a TARDIS, and we already know she’s capable of losing perspective. And is immortal. With a time machine. She could be as bad as the Mistress/Master.
** Given the Doctor's reservations about (functional) immortals traveling together -- that they tend to lose perspective and empathy without mortals around -- Clara and Ashildr may not be the best combination of time-travelers...
** It’s even worse than that. Most of the same “perfect” companion points could apply to Ashildr. Plus, the Doctor seems to realize after Rose that having a companion who is in love with him isn’t the best option (See: Martha getting shot down, Amy’s initial amorousness getting shot down and necessitating the Doctor bringing on Rory, and the fact that he never regularly travels with River). But, considering that the potential loss of perspective that can accompany immortality, there’s an implication that Ashildr and Clara might go far enough off the deep end to become villains that the Doctor is forced to fight. Even with the knowledge that Clara will (presumably) return to her death, that still leaves Ashildr—or, rather, Me—running around with a TARDIS, and we already know she’s capable of losing perspective. And is immortal. With a time machine. She could be as bad as the Mistress/Master.
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* The Doctor says he ran away with the President's daughter. It's never said exactly ''when'' he did this. We know for a fact that he ran away with his own granddaughter, Susan.
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* In an example of "Fridge Tragedy", back in [[Recap/DoctorWhoS28E3SchoolReunion School Reunion]], the Doctor explained to Rose that he was always haunted by the fact that as a Time Lord, he can keep regenerating but his human companions only live so long. "You can spend the rest of your life with me, but I can't spend the rest of my life with you." The tragedy is he finally had in his grasp a companion who a) was in love with him (WordOfGod aside, and even if you ignore all episodes that came before, there's no way she isn't after being told the Doctor punched through a harder-than-diamond wall for 4 1/2 billion years ''just for her'', and her "why don't we fly away somewhere" can be seen as an invitation to elope), b) was perfectly capable - she even knew how to work a TARDIS by this point, c) was likely indestructible given her obligation to return to to point of her death, meaning the Doctor would no longer have to worry about her safety and d) could potentially outlive the Doctor, while never aging. In post-extraction Clara, Doctor had the ''perfect'' companion, but he had to let her go in the end.
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* What better way to attract mortal company, especially the kind who might want to be full-time Companions, than by having the ultimate "pop up restaurant" that can travel anywhere there might be people willing to come on in and maybe stay a while?
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* The Doctor is re-created billions of times, and each time he is fresh from seeing Clara die mere minutes before. He gets to start the mourning process, but it's cut short when he sees the azbantium wall and remembers all his past trips through. Then, he punches the wall a few times, spend a day and a half crawling in agony....and starts all over again with completely fresh grief. He spends almost the entire four and a half billion years in the sharpest, freshest stages of mourning, never getting the chance to move on and heal.
** When the Doctor begs to please just be allowed to ''lose,'' he's really/also begging to finally get to move on in his mourning, to accept Clara's death. But while the real Clara would be the first to tell him "Yes, for God's sake, stop!", the Clara in his mind represents his denial stage, and won't let him. Perhaps if he'd had more time alone in the castle without danger and death, he'd have reached acceptance and let her go, and thus not needed the bargaining chip so badly. Rassilon's choice to scare him and torture him backfired in a big way!
** When the Doctor begs to please just be allowed to ''lose,'' he's really/also begging to finally get to move on in his mourning, to accept Clara's death. But while the real Clara would be the first to tell him "Yes, for God's sake, stop!", the Clara in his mind represents his denial stage, and won't let him. Perhaps if he'd had more time alone in the castle without danger and death, he'd have reached acceptance and let her go, and thus not needed the bargaining chip so badly. Rassilon's choice to scare him and torture him backfired in a big way!
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* The Doctor is re-created billions of times, and each time he is fresh from seeing Clara die mere minutes before. He gets to start the mourning process, but it's cut short when he sees the azbantium wall and remembers all his past trips through. Then, he punches the wall a few times, spend a day and a half crawling in agony....and starts all over again with completely fresh grief. He spends almost the entire four and a half billion years in the sharpest, freshest stages of mourning, never getting the chance to move on and heal.
**heal. When the Doctor begs to please just be allowed to ''lose,'' he's really/also begging to finally get to move on in his mourning, to accept Clara's death. But while the real Clara would be the first to tell him "Yes, for God's sake, stop!", the Clara in his mind represents his denial stage, and won't let him. Perhaps if he'd had more time alone in the castle without danger and death, he'd have reached acceptance and let her go, and thus not needed the bargaining chip so badly. Rassilon's choice to scare him and torture him backfired in a big way!
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** FridgeBrilliance: What better way to attract mortal company, especially the kind who might want to be full-time Companions, than by having the ultimate "pop up restaurant" that can travel anywhere there might be people willing to come on in and maybe stay a while?
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** FridgeBrilliance: What better way to attract mortal company, especially the kind who might want to be full-time Companions, than by having the ultimate "pop up restaurant" that can travel anywhere there might be people willing to come on in and maybe stay a while?
