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Well, that didn't last long...
Steven Moffat on Clara Becoming the Doctor in DOCTOR WHO Series 8.
"The thing about Clara is she thinks the show is called Clara. She really does. She has no idea she’s number two in the credits, which is why we did that joke in “Death in Heaven.” She’s got a high opinion of herself, not in a conceited way, but in a correct way. She knows she’s extremely clever and capable, and she doesn’t feel like she particularly fits in the world that she lives in.
[...]
When I first wrote Clara, I thought, “Oh, this is fun. If the Doctor were a young woman living in contemporary Britain, it’d be a bit like her.”
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So, Clara’s not the Doctor; she’s not the same person as the Doctor, but – the traditional thing is to say the hero and the archenemy are mirrors of each other. Are they? Are they though? Not really. I think it’s more likely that friends are mirrors of each other. If you watch any close friendship, the extent to which they start to duplicate each other is quite interesting, even with Dr. Watson and Sherlock Holmes. While they’re different people, they have similar appetites.
So, that's my lovely theory out the window, but at least I wasn't far wrong...
"The thing about Clara is she thinks the show is called Clara. She really does. She has no idea she’s number two in the credits, which is why we did that joke in “Death in Heaven.” She’s got a high opinion of herself, not in a conceited way, but in a correct way. She knows she’s extremely clever and capable, and she doesn’t feel like she particularly fits in the world that she lives in.
[...]
When I first wrote Clara, I thought, “Oh, this is fun. If the Doctor were a young woman living in contemporary Britain, it’d be a bit like her.”
[...]
So, Clara’s not the Doctor; she’s not the same person as the Doctor, but – the traditional thing is to say the hero and the archenemy are mirrors of each other. Are they? Are they though? Not really. I think it’s more likely that friends are mirrors of each other. If you watch any close friendship, the extent to which they start to duplicate each other is quite interesting, even with Dr. Watson and Sherlock Holmes. While they’re different people, they have similar appetites.
So, that's my lovely theory out the window, but at least I wasn't far wrong...
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Amy was, essentially, training herself up to the ultimate companion - but Clara was dreaming about her own adventures. And she was always so very independent, holding her own, and the Doctor - when he found her - so focussed on her (clearly she was doing him a favour by coming along), that it's no wonder she ended up where she did.
ETA: Actually, I think this might be the key to her? (Presuming she isn't the Doctor.) Right from the start she has been structured as 'the hero'. The whole Impossible Girl arc is about how she saves him. She's the companion who doesn't 'develop' into a hero and grasp some shining moment, but about the Companion who was always self-assured.
It's interesting to look at their last parting in the light of this. "You made me feel special." This is such an un-Clara-like thing to say - except of course that the Doctor then immediately returns the compliment, thus keeping them as equals.