Options
Oswin and Clara...
OhWhenTheSaints
Posts: 12,531 Forum Member
✭✭
Are they like...The same person or not? Because they used very similar phrases and she made a reference to Oswin.
0
OhWhenTheSaints
Posts: 12,531 OhWhenTheSaints
Posts: 12,531
Comments
Something wibbly wobbly going on. Or it's like Blackadder!
Indeedy. There's three Claras now in the timeline thingy.
And will it be the same Clara each episode?
(You b***ards!)
Soooo funny:D But I so agree - I couldn't believe it when she actually died!!
Even if she does, it will take even longer for her to steal Jacks reputation!
Then, of course, when Clara died, she told him that she remembered. The timeline is screwed, again.
I'm not sure the writers always realise that fans become attached to actual characters rather than simply enjoying seeing actors playing a given role.
When you see one character going through experiences you start to feel for that specific character and having them die and be replaced by another iteration of the same character isn't the same character, IMO at least.
Course, it remains to be seen how they go on to deal with the whole "Clara" thing in future episodes.
I hope it doesn't end up like Kenny in Southpark where she's continually getting killed and "redicovered" though.
the same character, but played by a different actor ... technically also a different character, but still called The Doctor.
Could be that the future dalek put them all there as a kind of window into the outside world for itself.
TBH, I think that's actually the opposite of what I'm talking about.
I mean, even though a new actor takes the role, the fans will accept that it's still the same character, even though he might have a different personality.
You "know" it's the same person who's got all the same baggage and hang-ups that he's always had.
The idea that Oswin was an interesting character in her own right and she died, and then Clara was an interesting character in her own right and she died and now DW is, apparently, off to find another "version" of her is something I find a little bit creepy.
It's kinda like James Stewart finding a new version of Kim Novak in Vertigo and then insisting she restyles her hair and wears the correct clothes so that she's just like his original missus.
He obviously knows it's not the same person, even though she looks the same, and it seems (to me, at least) like that's what the writers are forcing the audience to do with these sorts of stories.
Course, I'm happy to accept that most people might have a different opinion.
*EDIT*
And also, of course, there's a very good chance that there'll be some resolution to the story which will address my concerns anyway.
Which the Doctor is guessing at and gave her the key almost straight away. I think he knows something he's not telling anyone. In short I think she's the female version of Turlough, although possessed by the G.I. Which is why she keeps coming back. This may also tie in with Rory who kept coming back after 'death'.
It's an idea.