So Amy stops running...and the thing with Clara is that I don't think she ever was running from anything.
Mmmmm. Yes, that is the key difference between them, you're right. Their journeys go in opposite directions. I just found some really great meta unpicking that a bit here: http://aflawedfashion.tumblr.com/post/105358530418 (you may have already seen it)
I think also possibly it's a matter of Moffat's perspective as an older, married, settled man vs the perspective of younger fans growing up in the economic crisis? Maybe? As a 20-something with no real idea of what I want to "do" with my life, I really strongly identified with Clara back in BOSJ - she had employment, of sorts, at the Maitlands, but was basically putting off 'real life' (getting a steady job, getting her own place, etc) and treading water. She was a bit bored, and procrastinating, but didn't feel so *completely* hopeless about it all that she had to ditch everything and run away, as Amy did.
To me, that feels absolutely accurate. It's not that she *doesn't fit* into the world she lives in, it's that she hasn't worked out HOW she fits into that world as yet...that's how I read it anyway. That's how I feel a lot of the time, and why I think she's such a great character.
Interestingly, by the time of the 50th anniversary ep, she's both more settled in the world - steady job, own flat, soon to get a boyfriend etc - and also LESS attached to it, as the adventure addiction is really starting to take hold and she always has one foot in the Tardis. By the end of S8 there's really very little holding her to her real life on Earth (besides her dad and her gran), and this is why I would love to see her ending up on Gallifrey...
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Mmmmm. Yes, that is the key difference between them, you're right. Their journeys go in opposite directions. I just found some really great meta unpicking that a bit here: http://aflawedfashion.tumblr.com/post/105358530418 (you may have already seen it)
I think also possibly it's a matter of Moffat's perspective as an older, married, settled man vs the perspective of younger fans growing up in the economic crisis? Maybe? As a 20-something with no real idea of what I want to "do" with my life, I really strongly identified with Clara back in BOSJ - she had employment, of sorts, at the Maitlands, but was basically putting off 'real life' (getting a steady job, getting her own place, etc) and treading water. She was a bit bored, and procrastinating, but didn't feel so *completely* hopeless about it all that she had to ditch everything and run away, as Amy did.
To me, that feels absolutely accurate. It's not that she *doesn't fit* into the world she lives in, it's that she hasn't worked out HOW she fits into that world as yet...that's how I read it anyway. That's how I feel a lot of the time, and why I think she's such a great character.
Interestingly, by the time of the 50th anniversary ep, she's both more settled in the world - steady job, own flat, soon to get a boyfriend etc - and also LESS attached to it, as the adventure addiction is really starting to take hold and she always has one foot in the Tardis. By the end of S8 there's really very little holding her to her real life on Earth (besides her dad and her gran), and this is why I would love to see her ending up on Gallifrey...