And also to have the person he wants to mind wipe turn on him, challenge his instinctive 'I know best'.
Yes, I loved Clara's passionate defence of her memories and her right to retain them. "Tomorrow belongs to no one but I have a right to my past!" The look she gave him when he came back after saying he'd wiped someone's memories before... she knew of Donna but I suspect she never really understood what happened until the Doctor spoke about that and then Clara, so clever, put the pieces together and was horrified.
Of course he (unlike Donna) accepts his fate, but then (as he says) he brought in on himself, whereas Donna was just a victim.
And forgetting Clara doesn't reset his personality or character, doesn't leave him reduced. As you say, that would be problematic from a show perspective. *lol*
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Yes, I loved Clara's passionate defence of her memories and her right to retain them. "Tomorrow belongs to no one but I have a right to my past!" The look she gave him when he came back after saying he'd wiped someone's memories before... she knew of Donna but I suspect she never really understood what happened until the Doctor spoke about that and then Clara, so clever, put the pieces together and was horrified.
Of course he (unlike Donna) accepts his fate, but then (as he says) he brought in on himself, whereas Donna was just a victim.
And forgetting Clara doesn't reset his personality or character, doesn't leave him reduced. As you say, that would be problematic from a show perspective. *lol*