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. *curtsies* Thank you very much.
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. Ah, well, this is where elisi and I part ways. Personally I think that Clara is probably the Doctor and River's daughter, hidden as a human to protect her from people who like to do horrible things to timebabies. In which case everything is exceedingly circular and balance-y and correcting of past sins and paying off through the passage of generations and full of those lovely kinds of ironies of which Moffat is so fond. (This would also make all the characters in 'Listen' part of the same family, tied together by the 'family heirloom' of the soldier without a gun.)
If this is not the case then, yes, I am with you and find it all a bit sloppy.
Essentially, though:
(Though Clara being in some sense and partly the universe's reaction to the damage caused by the doctor . . . is an intriguing idea. As you say, she is more, and we're not yet sure what.) I think that is exactly what she is. Or, rather, River was the universe's reaction to the damage caused by the Doctor, and Clara is the synthesis to her antithesis. Everything that happened in the Pond era was about one thing: Trenzalore. And the solution to Trenzalore was Clara.
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*curtsies* Thank you very much.
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.
Ah, well, this is where elisi and I part ways. Personally I think that Clara is probably the Doctor and River's daughter, hidden as a human to protect her from people who like to do horrible things to timebabies. In which case everything is exceedingly circular and balance-y and correcting of past sins and paying off through the passage of generations and full of those lovely kinds of ironies of which Moffat is so fond. (This would also make all the characters in 'Listen' part of the same family, tied together by the 'family heirloom' of the soldier without a gun.)
If this is not the case then, yes, I am with you and find it all a bit sloppy.
Essentially, though:
(Though Clara being in some sense and partly the universe's reaction to the damage caused by the doctor . . . is an intriguing idea. As you say, she is more, and we're not yet sure what.)
I think that is exactly what she is. Or, rather, River was the universe's reaction to the damage caused by the Doctor, and Clara is the synthesis to her antithesis. Everything that happened in the Pond era was about one thing: Trenzalore. And the solution to Trenzalore was Clara.