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So has Clara left?
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I'm really confused, has Clara actually left the show now? There hasn't been any official confirmation of her departure.
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I presume if it's the former they'll announce it soon enough because they'll want to introduce the new companion before filming starts in January.
Not because I dislike her. But this whole nonsense with her not travelling with the doctor on off on off on off has just got tiresome .
Interesting, I wanted odgood as the next companion but she no more
NO!!!
That's Captain Caveman wearing a nurses dress and fluffy grey slippers
Hey CD - is that the Journey Blue actress in the XMas episode trailer, about 7 seconds in
It's probably Natalie Gumede (sp?) that you saw.
Ah, hope so, she's beautiful
Edit - oh and she'll put in a great performance too
If that is her, please tell me that's not Danny behind her?
You're safe - it's a woman.
Only if he's regenerated into a female as well
There was no mention of him in the Christmas special and no sight of him during filming. Hopefully we can safely assume he's very dead (and if they bring him back they'll officially ruin Christmas
Phew, thanks. You've improved my Christmas considerably.:):D
Clara is likeable much more likeable than Amy then again Karen Gillan's character from Guardians Of The Galaxy was more likeable than Amy and she was psycho assassin
I'm glad that Danny has gone. But you say 'wait to see if we're fully rid of Clara'.
I actually like Clara as a companion and hope she stays for a lot longer.
I think Jenna plays her well, but in my opinion I think it's important when it comes to what is written for the character.
I think she's probably the best female companion in New Who and plays it just right. Not too much of anything and not the usual template character.
Without the Danny crap, and without any more 'Saviour of the Universe' storylines, I think she'd be perfect.
I just like Clara, even if I'm not always overkeen on what they've done with the character.
Or deliver one labelled Danny methinks...
"We"? Whose "we"? Speak for yourself, I for one liked Clara and will miss her if she goes at Christmas (which is looking very likely).
That's like me saying "We're all happy to see the back of Rose Tyler and trapped in the alternate universe forever because we all hate her guts, good riddance we're all happy now!" Which isn't quite true, just because I personally couldn't stand Rose and was happy to see her go, doesn't mean the rest of the Fandom felt the same way.
Having said that however, as much as I like Clara I do think it's the right time for her to go now and to have someone new join the adventures.
Of course you did; you were supposed to. She's the Doctor Who fan nerd avatar character. Despite what some people will claim Moffat is a skillful writer who usually has the audience dancing to his tune. Look at the hilarious 'Clara is the the Doctor' fake-out, complete with 'new' title sequence. It had me chuckling because I knew at that very moment there would be reactionary, gullible fans working themselves into a frenzy of anger. It's obvious with a second's thought of course that it was a ruse and I'm sure the majority would have known that but there's always that reactionary section who aren't capable of a second's actual consideration even with hindsight, let alone whilst watching.
Look at the muppets who got themselves all worked up at the Doctor's comments about soldiers throughout the series. It was obvious to anyone with any kind of artistic sensibility or understanding of drama that it was a theme that was going to be paid off (as it was in this episode) but so many people just react, instead of analyze. Those are the people writers love. The amusing thing is they can't see it. They think they're being clever, cleverer than the writer; usually, they even think they're critiquing him
This is why writers don't listen to fans. The writer's job is to manipulate the audience, not vice versa, and Moffat plays Doctor Who fans wonderfully.
I find it really annoying that some people want the character's to be unrelentingly likeable, rather than rounded. Amy Pond and Clara both had flaws. It's called drama.
I thought it was a wonderful, bittersweet ending, and very nicely wrapped up the season's theme of Clara's increasing resemblance to the Doctor. I think it's a shame it's apparently not going to stand as Clara's actual ending but Moffat typically brings me round on these things by writing something excellent.
Clara was a poor companion the whole on off on off thing hurt her character. Not living on the TARDIS disconnected her character. Plus the impossible girl story arc was crap. And the Danny Pink story was so thin it had the depth of a cigarette paper.
You must've been really disappointed to learn afterwards that no-one had any frenzy of anger, just tired sighs of exasperation at yet another example of how corny and gimmicky the show has become.
It was obvious without even a second's thought. It was just another cheap, corny gimmick that no-one fell for because we're all so tired of Moffat's cheap, corny gimmicks by now.
That's certainly what Moffat was trying to do. Whether he succeeded or not is a different matter. Let's see...
For no in-story reason at all the Doctor suddenly starts acting out of character by having a total unreasoning hatred of all soldiers under all circumstances, just so that the end of the arc he can be restored back to his normal grudging tolerance of the "good" ones.
That's a lot to put up with for very little pay-off. Moffat might as well have not bothered in the first place! No, his critics were right even if it was for the wrong reason.
It's like at the beginning of The Time Warrior, when for no reason at all the writers suddenly made the Doctor a sexist misogynist pig, just so that by the end of the season, Sarah Jane could teach him about women's rights. I'd hoped that DW writing standards had improved over the past 41 years, but apparently not!
He just needs to learn a few new tunes.
>:(