You know who I am. And in all of that time, did you ever hear anything about anyone who stopped me?
Me: Yes, her name was Adelaide Brooke, and she killed herself because of what you did.
I love that Ashildr came back. And so different from what she was in Face The Raven, scared of the Doctor and vulnerable. Here she is Persephone, Mistress of the Underworld, no longer scared because she has learned the lesson that the Doctor refuses to learn. In the words of Sarah Jane, "Pain and loss, they define us as much as happiness or love. Whether it's a world, or a relationship... Everything has its time. And everything ends."
When she said "I know. And you're willing to risk all of Time and Space because you miss her. One wonders what the pair of you will get up to next" I almost got a hint of.... contempt? Or that she wasn't particularly impressed with him. It's as if she's saying "Everyone misses someone". In fact, it made me think of Rocket in Guardians of the Galaxy: "I don't care if it's mean. Everybody's got dead people! But that's no excuse for letting everyone else around get killed along the way!"
I definitely feel like this storyline was the ultimate reckoning with the Time Lord Victorious as far as Moffat's concerned. His immediate reaction on taking over was to fix Donna's story by writing Amy, a girl whose memory brings back the universe and the Doctor, where remembering is the most important thing she can do. But that still didn't fix the sheer horror of the Doctor overriding Donna's wishes and memory wiping her. So he had to go through it - not just in this episode but the previous one. Having his memory wiped over and over again to a certain point... and then losing the memory of the one person he doesn't want to lose. Except Moff doesn't put any penalties on him remembering Clara like his head splitting open or fainting because he's not that mean.
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Me: Yes, her name was Adelaide Brooke, and she killed herself because of what you did.
I love that Ashildr came back. And so different from what she was in Face The Raven, scared of the Doctor and vulnerable. Here she is Persephone, Mistress of the Underworld, no longer scared because she has learned the lesson that the Doctor refuses to learn. In the words of Sarah Jane, "Pain and loss, they define us as much as happiness or love. Whether it's a world, or a relationship... Everything has its time. And everything ends."
When she said "I know. And you're willing to risk all of Time and Space because you miss her. One wonders what the pair of you will get up to next" I almost got a hint of.... contempt? Or that she wasn't particularly impressed with him. It's as if she's saying "Everyone misses someone". In fact, it made me think of Rocket in Guardians of the Galaxy: "I don't care if it's mean. Everybody's got dead people! But that's no excuse for letting everyone else around get killed along the way!"
I definitely feel like this storyline was the ultimate reckoning with the Time Lord Victorious as far as Moffat's concerned. His immediate reaction on taking over was to fix Donna's story by writing Amy, a girl whose memory brings back the universe and the Doctor, where remembering is the most important thing she can do. But that still didn't fix the sheer horror of the Doctor overriding Donna's wishes and memory wiping her. So he had to go through it - not just in this episode but the previous one. Having his memory wiped over and over again to a certain point... and then losing the memory of the one person he doesn't want to lose. Except Moff doesn't put any penalties on him remembering Clara like his head splitting open or fainting because he's not that mean.