History YMMV / DoctorWhoS35E12HellBent

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** Clara's TheReasonYouSuckSpeech to the Time Lords is either good or flat out blaming ''an entire race'' for the Doctor's ''four billion year hell'' when half of the race was thanking him for saving them. She doesn't know about the latter, though, only that the Time Lords trapped him there.

* BadassDecay: In his last appearance, Rassilon was the iron-fisted BigBad of Time Lord society who casually vaporised people for disagreeing with him. Here, he's a rather ineffectual old man who gets kicked off Gallifrey without even a real fight. Possibly explained when one remembers that he was brought back to rule in a time of extreme crisis, so his tyrannical methods were no longer palatable in peacetime. Also, he's [[TheNthDoctor being played by a different actor again]], so this current regeneration may just not be as forceful or effective as the last one.

** Clara's fate -- she '''must''' return to the moment of her death at some point to keep the universe together, but until then is immortal and free to roam the universe in her own TARDIS, with Ashildr as a companion -- is either the perfect way to send her off and complete her character arc or completely ruins a perfectly good exit that is further proof Steven Moffatt can't kill anyone off (a common problem people have with his era). On the other hand, the show has ''also'' taken criticism for its inability to refrain from giving companions horribly tragic endings, and Clara's fate is a huge aversion of that. Another take is that this actually ''amplifies'' Clara's death in "Face the Raven" -- we now know that she'll have untold additional adventures but '''must''' face the raven when all's said and done. For those seeking a tragic, final end for a companion, it doesn't get more tragic or final.

** Clara's fate is either the perfect way to send her off and complete her character arc or completely ruins a perfectly good exit that is further proof Moffatt can't kill anyone off - a common problem people have with his era. It is noted however that all that has happened is that the inevitable has just been delayed and she still must die. Also, the show has taken some criticism for its inability to refrain from giving companions some horribly tragic ending, which this is a huge aversion of. An alternate interpretation is that it actually amplifies Clara's death in "Face the Raven" as we now know that when she does die, it's after having untold additional adventures; and ''then'' she will have to die, no option. For those seeking a tragic, final end for a companion, it doesn't get more tragic or final.

* TakeThat: The Twelfth Doctor trying to erase Clara's memories of him, only for her to call him out for that, saying she has the right to remember her past, has been perceived as a Take That to Donna Noble's departure at the end of "Journey's End".
* ToughActToFollow: After the nigh-unanimously acclaimed experimental episode "Heaven Sent," this far more conventional story naturally didn't make a worthy end to the story for many fans.
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** Clara's fate is either the perfect way to send her off and complete her character arc or completely ruins a perfectly good exit that is further proof Moffatt can't kill anyone off - a common problem people have with his era. It is noted however that all that has happened is that the inevitable has just been delayed and she still must die. Also, the show has taken some criticism for its inability to refrain from giving companions some horribly tragic ending, which this is a huge aversion of.
*** An alternate interpretation is that it actually amplifies Clara's death in Face the Raven as we now know that when she does die, it's after having untold additional adventures and ''something'' has to have occurred to make Clara decide that it was time to die. For those seeking a tragic, final end for a companion, it doesn't get more tragic or final.

* BrokenBase: Clara's fate is either the perfect way to send her off and complete her character arc or completely ruins a perfectly good exit that is further proof Moffatt can't kill anyone off - a common problem people have with his era. It is noted however that all that has happened is that the inevitable has just been delayed and she still must die. Also, the show has taken some criticism for its inability to refrain from giving companions some horribly tragic ending, which this is a huge aversion of.
** Clara's TheReasonYouSuckSpeech to the Time Lords is either good or flat out blaming ''an entire race'' for the Doctor's ''4 billion year hell'' when half of the race was thanking him for saving them. Then again it can be interpret as them being the reason other their race suffer immensely because of this.

* TakeThat: The Twelfth Doctor trying to erase Clara's memories of him, only for her to call him out for that, saying she has the right to remember her past, has been perceived as a Take That to Donna Noble's departure at the end of "Journey's End".

* FanficFuel/[[HoYay Les Yay]]: Clara "taking the long way round" to Gallifrey with Ashildr as her companion, and a diner TARDIS. And then there's the question of what will eventually convince her to finally return to her death.
** We also have the question of how many Regenerations The Doctor currently has. Rassilon himself doesn't seem to know how many they gave The Doctor, but implies that it was quite a few, because he says he can take "all-night" killing The Doctor to get the information about the Hybrid out of him.
* TakeThat: To RTD and his treatment of Donna at the end.

** The Doctor is given a proper sonic screwdriver, after the sonic sunglasses were received with backlash.
*** Except that the series end was written, and filmed, long before the sonic sunglasses ever debuted on screen. So the Sonic Screwdriver was already returning. Moffat was either using the Sunglasses as a metaphor for something, or just trolling the fans, as he himself said of the sunglasses that sometimes he enjoyed being a bit naughty.

* BadassDecay: In his last appearance, Rassilon was the iron-fisted BigBad of Time Lord society who casually vaporised people for disagreeing with him. Here, he's a rather ineffectual old man who gets kicked off Gallifrey without even a real fight. Possibly explained when one remembers that he was brought back to rule in a time of extreme crisis, so his tyrannical methods were no longer palatable in peacetime.

* BadassDecay: In his last appearance, Rassilon was the iron-fisted BigBad of Time Lord society who casually vaporised people for disagreeing with him. Here, he's a rather ineffectual old man who gets kicked off Gallifrey without even a real fight. Possibly FridgeBrilliance, as he was brought back to rule in a time of extreme crisis but his tyrannical methods were no longer palatable in peacetime.

** Also giving The Doctor a proper sonic screwdriver, rather than the glasses.

* FanficFuel/[[HoYay Lesyay]]: Clara "taking the long way round" to Gallifrey with Ashildr as her companion, and a diner TARDIS. And then there's the question of what will eventually convince her to finally return to her death.

* AuthorsSavingThrow: The Tenth Doctor's mind-wipe of Donna is commonly believed to be his worst moment, ignoring her consent to die and the show concentrating on ''his'' pain afterwards. The Twelfth Doctor tries to do the same to Clara, even telling her he's done it before, but she calls him out, saying she has the right to remember her past.

* FanficFuel: Clara "taking the long way round" to Gallifrey with Ashildr as her companion, and a diner TARDIS. And then there's the question of what will eventually convince her to finally return to her death.

* BadassDecay: In his last appearance, Rassilon was the iron-fisted BigBad of Time Lord society who casually vaporised people for disagreeing with him. Here, he's a rather ineffectual old man who gets kicked off Gallifrey without even a real fight.

* FanficFuel: Clara "taking the long way round" to Gallifrey with Ashildr as her companion, and a diner TARDIS.

* WhatAnIdiot: You banished Rassilon and Time Lord High Council, Doctor. Have you thought that they could seek revenge?

* BrokenBase: Clara's fate is either the perfect way to send her off and complete her character arc or completely ruins a perfectly good exit that is further proof Moffatt can't kill anyone off - a common problem people have with his era. It is noted however that all that has happened is that the inevitable has just been delayed and she still must die.

* FanficFuel: Clara "taking the long way round" to Gallifrey with Ashildr as her companion, and a diner TARDIS.