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Oswin Clara was in the library?
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I saw oswin Clara in the library with 10, now oswin said she wanted to see the stars and what not but her first time out he crashed, so how did she end up in the library, same outfit all of that, unless she is from the library. Perhaps she was saved originally. I don't know, this one stumps me. I have so many theories running in my head, perhaps she is the one who sent rivers message to 10 via psychic paper. I'm not sure how Simeon would have thwarted 10s action of saving the library. I need theories even if they are theories it will help my aching confused Brain.
I saw oswin Clara in the library with 10, now oswin said she wanted to see the stars and what not but her first time out he crashed, so how did she end up in the library, same outfit all of that, unless she is from the library. Perhaps she was saved originally. I don't know, this one stumps me. I have so many theories running in my head, perhaps she is the one who sent rivers message to 10 via psychic paper. I'm not sure how Simeon would have thwarted 10s action of saving the library. I need theories even if they are theories it will help my aching confused Brain.
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Although I may be wrong
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v19/cherryflvrdgum/null_zpsc8bd6c7d.jpg
So I suppose he saved her from endlessly looping in cars and allowed her to travel. Either way, either scenario he saved her as 10 so she could go to the Dalek asylum to save him.
Remember these are different Claras. He didn't save her, she saved him. In different places, with different memories, as different people. It was a different person (with a similar personality) that was in Gridlock, from the one that crashed in the Asylum.
Yes, I know that. But essetially he did save her in that particular life because almost all of new newyork was in an endless loop, or all enhabitants of the library were saved either way 10 saved oswin, perhaps pervoking her to stop Simeon from destroying this man that had just saved her.
Oswin that saved him in aotd being they are wearing the same clothes.
So while we saw Oswin in the Library/New New York* with the 10th Doctor that was a mixture of two different memories (part of Oswins life and part of a different Clara Echo that met Doc#10).
If Oswin had met Doc#10 then she would have remembered it when she was with Doc#11 on the Dalek Asylum yet there's no indication that she did.
We see another CEcho with two different Doctors (Six and Four) which pretty much confirms the memories are mixing together.
She's the same CEcho as she has the same outfit on.
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She also has the same outfit on for Doc #3 that she has for Docs#2 and 8.
*Or somewhere totally different that just looks a little like the two places.
She was obviously teasing him when she said "never met you". She knew who the Doctor was all along (whether she met 10 or not), it would be kind of difficult to help him a million times if she had no clue who he is each time.
Be that as it may, I think Clara/Oswin at least vaguely knew her purpose and who the Doctor was but perhaps didn't remember the rest of her original life - like Amy in The Wedding of River Song time crash when she knew the Doctor but had no clue who Rory was.
What Clara's other incarnations *DID DO* however, was prevent the Great Intellegence interfering in those adventures or affecting thier outcome to the Doctor's detriment. Hers' were like adventures that ran paralell to the Doctors, but didn't actually have any impact on them - as Clara was always successful in thwarting the Great Intellegence.
When Clara's path did occasionally brush past the Doctors (as seen in the episode forward) - in every instance but during the Theft of the Tardis - The Asylum of The Daleks - and in Victorian London - he didn't even see, hear or acknowledge her.
So to answer the OP's question. Yes - Clara was in the Library. She wasn't summonded by Psychic Paper. She was there, by the same means she came to be 'in the background' throughout of ALL the Doctors' other adventures. Modern Day Clara placed herself throughout the whole of his Timeline.
That was spelled out - she doesn't know who he is, just that she needs to save him.
And it wasn't an obvious tease. She quite clearly had no idea who he was!
You have successfully put new meaning behind her three period dramas.
Dancing on the Edge is Black Orchid, Room at the Top is... what, The Idiot's Lantern?
Wonder how her time on Waterloo Road fits into all this.
I don't think that's the case. Whether it was on Moffat's part or Clara's part, Oswin's dismissive "never met you" was blatant foreshadowing. Besides, Clara entered the timeline to save the Doctor, she had to know who he is in order to succeed a million times. Nothing suggests that her memory would have been wiped any more than Amy's was in The Wedding of River Song (where she didn't remember her real life but remembered the Doctor and knew she had to save him).
But the Clara in The Snowmen surely didn't know him.
She didn't know him but we can clearly see the point where "her destiny" kicks in.
She's about to go back into the Pub but then pauses before changing her mind and chasing after the Doctor.
Ah yes, her density.
Again she had to have known who he is, whether Moffat fully intended it that way at the time or not. She didn't seem to have any reaction to meeting him and her epitaph read "Remember Me" obviously at her request. My own interpretation is that deep down she remembered him and this was her chance to have one last adventure with the Doctor so she played along, and obviously the GI went all out on that occasion so she had to anyway.
The problem is that there are conflicts.
1) In the episodes we've seen such as Asylum of The Daleks and The Snowmen, it is apparent that she doesn't have any conscious knowledge of her true purpose. Unless there are subtle clues within those episodes that she does.
2) But the dialogue with William Hartnell about which Tardis to steal suggests that she is acting with the benefit of some prior knowledge, I can't explain that. Maybe that may become apparent in the 50th Anniversary Special.