OooooOoo, the 'profit' line! That seemed like a really weird and random one when I was watching it--like, why is that even in there? Makes me think of Jekyll, though. There's some particularly cutting line from Claire (and I just noticed the name similarities there) to . . . creepy old handler guy who had been guiding Jackman through life. She'd asked him why they were doing this and then said something to the effect of "on the day you took my family and put my husband in a box, remember you said 'money.'"
*scrunches face* Mind you, I do think money is a particularly boring motivation. So I would kinda prefer if that wasn't what was going on here. But it would take care of that weird line. Plus all those references to "collectors" and "debts."
ETA2: Another line that has always kinda nagged at me: A Time Lord's body is a miracle, even a dead one. There are whole empires out there that would tear this world apart for a single cell. I mean, I know she's covering there so they can dispose of the Tessellecta, but what she's suggesting doesn't quite line up with, say, the Silence's motivation for getting their hands on her--they just seemed to want a good way to get the Doctor dead.
Yay, you wrote something \o/ 'Tis well and good.
ETA: Re: the idea of Clara being a weapon who could become human. I'm not sure if that's holding up? I mean, she wasn't born a Dalek, she became one (resisting every step of the way). And Victorian Clara didn't seem to have anything weapon-y about her--quite the opposite. Unless she's secretly a bomb or something.
Which isn't to say that she can't be a thing of some kind.
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*scrunches face* Mind you, I do think money is a particularly boring motivation. So I would kinda prefer if that wasn't what was going on here. But it would take care of that weird line. Plus all those references to "collectors" and "debts."
ETA2: Another line that has always kinda nagged at me: A Time Lord's body is a miracle, even a dead one. There are whole empires out there that would tear this world apart for a single cell. I mean, I know she's covering there so they can dispose of the Tessellecta, but what she's suggesting doesn't quite line up with, say, the Silence's motivation for getting their hands on her--they just seemed to want a good way to get the Doctor dead.
Yay, you wrote something \o/ 'Tis well and good.
ETA: Re: the idea of Clara being a weapon who could become human. I'm not sure if that's holding up? I mean, she wasn't born a Dalek, she became one (resisting every step of the way). And Victorian Clara didn't seem to have anything weapon-y about her--quite the opposite. Unless she's secretly a bomb or something.
Which isn't to say that she can't be a thing of some kind.