We saw a similar furious & single-minded attachment in 'Journey to the Centre of the TARDIS’
I always *love* those moments when the Doctor gets REALLY ANGRILY DETERMINED to save his companion. They give me chills. Nine and Ten had their fair share as well <33
Also nice differentiating between Cybermen & Daleks. And how Danny became the former, and Clara the latter.
Oooh, could you unpack this a little for me? I love the mirroring with Dalek!Clara and Cyber!Danny (lol as you know from the Pompeii emails) but I’d love to know your thoughts in more detail.
(I can’t even. And where DID he get the tea?)
That was hilarious, and also reminded me v strongly of the milk thing in Asylum.
Which makes Clara's bridging of the Pond & Twelve eras extra interesting. She has both the 'crones' of the 'verse advising her: the fairy godmother and the wicked stepmother. Or rather - they are linked. Literally. River and Clara were psychically linked. Missy and Clara were linked by vortex manipulators.
This is so interesting. I *love* Missy as Wicked Stepmother and River as Fairy Godmother. The two famous fairytales I can think of off the top of my head that have both those roles are Cinderella and Sleeping Beauty (ok so SB has multiple fairy godmothers, but River’s had multiple bodies so it still works). I can see shades of both the eponymous princesses in Clara, and not just because she lost her own real mother. The whole ‘you can go to the ball but you must be back by midnight’ thing reminds me of Clara’s ‘I’ll travel with you but only on Wednesdays’. And Eleventy’s quest to discover the ‘real’ Clara, and then to find out the truth about her reminds me of the Prince looking for Cinderella with just her shoe. And there’s the theme of metamorphosis, present in so many myths and fairy tales, which is v present in Clara’s life, as you know. (So much monstering!) Meanwhile Sleeping Beauty…well, Clara’s always living in a state of dreaming, isn’t she? And the inevitability with which she continues to return to dreamworlds - not to mention the fact that she jumped into the time stream because she knew she’d already done it - is v much like she was fated/cursed to do it. I’m sure there are many more interesting things to dig out of this.
Gallifrey is the egg, Clara the bird? Will she make it hatch?
But of course :-) As we’ve always said! She’s already nurtured the first Crack in the egg/wall at Trenzalore.
nd as we see when she fails to kill Missy when given the chance; much like the Doctor turns down the opportunity to kill the Daleks
As above, so below. I loved that they literally ended up in the underworld. I mean, the sewers.
Clara 'three of you in here and you didn't think to try the door?!' Oswald would have been way ahead of the rest of them there. But she's really not, poor thing
I like your PTSD theory, and am going to add it to my 20-foot-drop-concussion headcanon, because those are the only things that make that make sense.
If her ending is to be an instrument to heal/end the Time War, it would be immensely fitting.
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I always *love* those moments when the Doctor gets REALLY ANGRILY DETERMINED to save his companion. They give me chills. Nine and Ten had their fair share as well <33
Also nice differentiating between Cybermen & Daleks. And how Danny became the former, and Clara the latter.
Oooh, could you unpack this a little for me? I love the mirroring with Dalek!Clara and Cyber!Danny (lol as you know from the Pompeii emails) but I’d love to know your thoughts in more detail.
(I can’t even. And where DID he get the tea?)
That was hilarious, and also reminded me v strongly of the milk thing in Asylum.
Which makes Clara's bridging of the Pond & Twelve eras extra interesting. She has both the 'crones' of the 'verse advising her: the fairy godmother and the wicked stepmother. Or rather - they are linked. Literally. River and Clara were psychically linked. Missy and Clara were linked by vortex manipulators.
This is so interesting. I *love* Missy as Wicked Stepmother and River as Fairy Godmother. The two famous fairytales I can think of off the top of my head that have both those roles are Cinderella and Sleeping Beauty (ok so SB has multiple fairy godmothers, but River’s had multiple bodies so it still works). I can see shades of both the eponymous princesses in Clara, and not just because she lost her own real mother. The whole ‘you can go to the ball but you must be back by midnight’ thing reminds me of Clara’s ‘I’ll travel with you but only on Wednesdays’. And Eleventy’s quest to discover the ‘real’ Clara, and then to find out the truth about her reminds me of the Prince looking for Cinderella with just her shoe. And there’s the theme of metamorphosis, present in so many myths and fairy tales, which is v present in Clara’s life, as you know. (So much monstering!) Meanwhile Sleeping Beauty…well, Clara’s always living in a state of dreaming, isn’t she? And the inevitability with which she continues to return to dreamworlds - not to mention the fact that she jumped into the time stream because she knew she’d already done it - is v much like she was fated/cursed to do it. I’m sure there are many more interesting things to dig out of this.
Gallifrey is the egg, Clara the bird? Will she make it hatch?
But of course :-) As we’ve always said! She’s already nurtured the first Crack in the egg/wall at Trenzalore.
nd as we see when she fails to kill Missy when given the chance; much like the Doctor turns down the opportunity to kill the Daleks
As above, so below. I loved that they literally ended up in the underworld. I mean, the sewers.
Clara 'three of you in here and you didn't think to try the door?!' Oswald would have been way ahead of the rest of them there. But she's really not, poor thing
I like your PTSD theory, and am going to add it to my 20-foot-drop-concussion headcanon, because those are the only things that make that make sense.
If her ending is to be an instrument to heal/end the Time War, it would be immensely fitting.
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