I had heard both of you talk about the shared brain, but not seen it in such perfect operation before. It was a pleasure to read.
And Promethia makes excellent points about Clara's impossibly cruelties to Twelve mirroring Eleven's cruelties to Amy and River. But it feels like the fallout to Eleven's cruelties were (at the time) just dropped. At the end of A Good Man Goes to War and Let's Kill Hitler, we know everything we're going to know about River's damaged upbringing, we know the Doctor isn't going to tear time apart to fix it, and we just ... move on. Amy and Rory and River still love the Doctor, and... part of that just didn't work for me.
And maybe the Clara/Twelve issues are going to pick up that thread again, two seasons later, but I am less sure than I would like to be that this is going to be explored. (Though Clara being in some sense and partly the universe's reaction to the damage caused by the doctor – like Kadiatu Lethbridge-Stewart in one of Ben Aaronovitch's novels being cast in some sense as the Earth's reaction to all of the Doctor's interference there – is an intriguing idea. As you say, she is more, and we're not yet sure what.)
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And Promethia makes excellent points about Clara's impossibly cruelties to Twelve mirroring Eleven's cruelties to Amy and River. But it feels like the fallout to Eleven's cruelties were (at the time) just dropped. At the end of A Good Man Goes to War and Let's Kill Hitler, we know everything we're going to know about River's damaged upbringing, we know the Doctor isn't going to tear time apart to fix it, and we just ... move on. Amy and Rory and River still love the Doctor, and... part of that just didn't work for me.
And maybe the Clara/Twelve issues are going to pick up that thread again, two seasons later, but I am less sure than I would like to be that this is going to be explored. (Though Clara being in some sense and partly the universe's reaction to the damage caused by the doctor – like Kadiatu Lethbridge-Stewart in one of Ben Aaronovitch's novels being cast in some sense as the Earth's reaction to all of the Doctor's interference there – is an intriguing idea. As you say, she is more, and we're not yet sure what.)