There were some lovely parallels between this and The Time of the Doctor when Clara said goodbye to Eleven in his aged and fragile state. Personally, I would have preferred if Clara’s time with the Doctor ended when she woke as an old lady. But it is all just another dream and when she and the Doctor finally, truly wake, Clara is ready for life in the TARDIS again and the Doctor is ready to take her along. It would have been a beautiful and bittersweet end to Clara’s time as a companion, not to mention the third time she could have cut ties with the Doctor.
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When she wakes from one of the deeper dreams, she is elderly and frail, having lived a full life without the Doctor and Danny. Your turn to help with my arthritis, buddy.įor a moment, it seems like this might be the end for Clara, as has been rumoured over the last few months. (Side note: I don’t see why Bellows couldn’t have been in a wheelchair the whole time the only thing that had differed in the dream for everyone else was their occupations and not their physical states.) And Clara … Clara is deeper in the dream state than most, wrapped up in her grief and unwilling to wake to a life without Danny and without the Doctor. They are, in fact, just regular people: a wheelchair-bound grandmother a shop girl an account manager for perfume. Everyone-the scientists, the Doctor and Clara-have all been attacked by dream crabs at some point and have been submersed in dreams within dreams within dreams within-well, I lost count but I’m pretty sure it outnumbered Inception.Īs everyone tries to wake up again and again, aided by Santa Claus and his sassy elf companions, we get closer to who these scientists actually are. Just when you think you have your head around the basic premise, Moffat throws you for a loop.
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When Clara is attacked by a dream crab and thrust into a perfectly comfortable and normal vision of Christmas with the late Danny Pink, the plot begins to unravel. The remaining scientists (including Michael Troughton, the second son of Second Doctor Patrick Troughton) have not been able to rescue their comrades. So make sure I’m wearing something more exciting than a Santa suit. You can only think of me for five minutes a day.