YMMV / Doctor Who S34 E9 "Flatline"

• Adorkable:
  • Clara's short-lived impersonation of the Doctor, and whenever she's shown using the sonic screwdriver thereafter.
  • When the Doctor has managed to get himself to safety from an oncoming train, he does, what can only be described as, a "granddad victory dance".
• Angst? What Angst?: Clara's surprising degree of calm regarding all the people who have died is a source of great concern to the Doctor, and to Clara herself when she thinks about it.
• Broken Base: Considering how Clara's one of the more divisive companions in the revived series, a Day in the Limelight episode focusing on her was inevitably going to face this.
• Growing the Beard: The moment where the Twelfth Doctor gives a badass speech to the Boneless is widely seen as the moment where Peter Capaldi once and for all nailed his portrayal of the Doctor and got everything right to such a degree that there were no doubts he'd be amazing at the role for the rest of his tenure.
• Harsher in Hindsight: In the climax, Clara, acting as the Doctor for a day, deftly talks Rigsy out of making a pointless and unnecessary self-sacrifice because she won't lose anymore people on her watch, all while making sassy remarks about her headband. This is Played for Laughs. It is decidedly not in Rigsy's second appearance.
• Hilarious in Hindsight: The basic plot - of a brunette woman and a young black man with law troubles saving an estate from invading aliens - bears more than a passing resemblance to the earlier Attack the Block. Only in this, it's Clara playing the role of the Doctor, whereas in Attack The Block, the woman is Jodie Whittaker, the future Thirteenth Doctor.
• Narm: At one point, there is a tense conversation scene which is suddenly interrupted by a giant hand grabbing one of the community service workers from behind and pulling him into the celling at an absurdly high speed while he screams in a rather goofy and cartoonish way. The mixture of weird CGI, the fact that, up to this point, there hadn’t been giant hands in the episode, and the cartoonish scream made the moment all but impossible to take seriously.
• Special Effect Failure: When the Doctor opens the shrunken TARDIS' doors, it's obvious that the perspective doesn't match.

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