Clara was consistently associated with a bird (as you often pointed out) from her first appearance 'Love is a rebellious bird...'
I just realised that this reaches its culmination in Heaven Sent with the Doctor telling the story of the bird and the mountain Mmm yes. He even writes 'bird'. (I went back & looked at my review, but I didn't bring it up because that post ended up more like poetry...)
Clara only has one second of eternity but she will take it and live in it, like a bird in a cage. But she also graduates to a different, infinite cage, her own TARDIS. This is genius!
It was explicitly equated with death in Donna's case so I certainly think it counts here. IKR? And since Davros keeps going on about how 'one of them will die' clearly it's accurate. After all, what are we without our memories?
I see this as the final part of dealing with Ten's legacy. I've said before that Moff's immediate reaction to Donna's mindwipe was to write a companion who was obviously damaged by having her memory altered and whose ultimate power was to remember the Doctor and the TARDIS back to life. The gaps in Amy's memory were treated as a serious problem that affected her life and her ability to relate to people. *nods a lot* And I don't think we ever see Eleven do mind wipes? I can't recall any.
That helped but it wasn't enough. So Moff created the Silence, monsters whose most frightening characteristic was their ability to wipe themselves from people's memories and to alter memory itself. Good point.
And so Moffat made the Doctor face what he had done and Clara Oswald stood up to him and said "no, this is my life and I will not let you take away my life" and the Doctor lost Clara instead. Still love it SO MUCH!! >:)
So this is a new beginning because he realises he can't behave in that way any more. He can't ever put someone through that kind of pain because he knows what it's like. And he gets so ANGRY. I love that scene to *pieces*.
ETA: All this is why I kept it so short. Because delving down, just a little, uncovers so much. I could literally write forever. Oh show. <3
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'Love is a rebellious bird...'
I just realised that this reaches its culmination in Heaven Sent with the Doctor telling the story of the bird and the mountain
Mmm yes. He even writes 'bird'. (I went back & looked at my review, but I didn't bring it up because that post ended up more like poetry...)
Clara only has one second of eternity but she will take it and live in it, like a bird in a cage. But she also graduates to a different, infinite cage, her own TARDIS.
This is genius!
It was explicitly equated with death in Donna's case so I certainly think it counts here.
IKR? And since Davros keeps going on about how 'one of them will die' clearly it's accurate. After all, what are we without our memories?
I see this as the final part of dealing with Ten's legacy. I've said before that Moff's immediate reaction to Donna's mindwipe was to write a companion who was obviously damaged by having her memory altered and whose ultimate power was to remember the Doctor and the TARDIS back to life. The gaps in Amy's memory were treated as a serious problem that affected her life and her ability to relate to people.
*nods a lot* And I don't think we ever see Eleven do mind wipes? I can't recall any.
That helped but it wasn't enough. So Moff created the Silence, monsters whose most frightening characteristic was their ability to wipe themselves from people's memories and to alter memory itself.
Good point.
And so Moffat made the Doctor face what he had done and Clara Oswald stood up to him and said "no, this is my life and I will not let you take away my life" and the Doctor lost Clara instead.
Still love it SO MUCH!! >:)
So this is a new beginning because he realises he can't behave in that way any more. He can't ever put someone through that kind of pain because he knows what it's like.
And he gets so ANGRY. I love that scene to *pieces*.
ETA: All this is why I kept it so short. Because delving down, just a little, uncovers so much. I could literally write forever. Oh show. <3
(Also apologies for the three million edits.)