And yet, "The Name of the Doctor" implies that they had met before that.
Right before Jenny disappears, Vastra says, "He saved your life when we met." Although I suppose Jenny could have been unconscious or something...
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And yet, "The Name of the Doctor" implies that they had met before that.
Right before Jenny disappears, Vastra says, "He saved your life when we met." Although I suppose Jenny could have been unconscious or something...
I really, really hope Moffat isn't lying and she isn't a returning character.
At this point, I just want the damn episodes to air so everyone can see that the clip at the end of the trailer was just for shock value and can easily be explained entirely in the context of the story.
Shameless ploy to get the fandom in a tizzy, and that's all.
Shameless ploy to get the fandom in a tizzy, and that's all.
The buzz would've been there regardless.
The buzz is there because the trailer implied that character's importance, thus misleading the true purpose of said character.
Why can't she be important because what she does in that episode? Or simply because it's Maisie Williams, someone who genre fans are going to be familiar with?
A character's importance is not dependant on them being someone from the series past.
It's a major guest role for one of the most loved actors from one of the biggest series in the world. Why wouldn't they make a big deal out of it?
New promo photo. (Same bad old photoshop.)
http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-8s77MY8RrUc/Vb_38ndCXjI/AAAAAAAAQQ8/Xmy2g75A4ig/s1600/s91.jpg
So he looks like the tramp you wouldn't sit next to on the bus and she think's it's the 1970's. Interesting choices.
http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-8s77MY8RrUc/Vb_38ndCXjI/AAAAAAAAQQ8/Xmy2g75A4ig/s1600/s91.jpg
So he looks like the tramp you wouldn't sit next to on the bus and she think's it's the 1970's. Interesting choices.
I've said it before -- the trailer was designed for the Hall H audience at SDCC. Maisie Williams gets the longest unbroken scene in the trailer because she's the guest actress that the attendees were going to know.
It's a better Photoshop job than any Marvel Studios poster. I die a little inside anytime I look at the posters for either Avengers movie or Captain America: The Winter Soldier.
What's not to like about that picture. I love how Clara coordinated her dress with the environment and explosion in the background! 
What's not to like about that picture. I love how Clara coordinated her dress with the environment and explosion in the background!
I've just had a crazy thought. Moffat mentioned last week that the subject of the other Claras would come up again this series, so what if that really is 1970's Clara...
What's not to like about that picture. I love how Clara coordinated her dress with the environment and explosion in the background!
I've just had a crazy thought. Moffat mentioned last week that the subject of the other Claras would come up again this series, so what if that really is 1970's Clara...
I think that's unlikely, though it would be interesting.
If Moffat were interested in revisiting the Clara fragments, then I don't see why he'd have let DWM do a comic strip (that finished a month or two ago) with Clara and the twelfth Doctor meeting a Clara fragment. Big Finish has been told to stay away from things because of the television series. DWM would certainly be told to stay away from certain things, too.
Honestly, thats similar to how I think they should've kept Jenna in the cast, but retired the original Clara off with her superb, original send-off in Last Christmas. A splinter of one of the Doctor's past that survived her encounter with one of them, which would interesting to explore in some regards - does he treat her the same way as Clara, or someone different? Is she Clara still, though different?
For an actress, that would be an interesting challenge (and pretty much the same one Tatyana Maslany faces in Orphan Black) -- how to make all of her different characters different, but also the same.
I think Jenna could do that. She's played three different Claras (and arguably four, since her season eight character was actually a character instead of a plot point as she was in 7b). I'm not sure I'd trust Moffat to write and develop the character differently, though.
I just think it would be cool to have a splinter that was evil. That would be interesting but cliche
Agreed. Jenna's a fantastic actress, and could handle the material relatively well. I didn't like the characterization of Clara in series 8 very much, but she's not the reason for it. She stepped up to the challenge and then some.
That would be really fun. Actually, while I enjoyed the Missy character, having "the woman in the shop" actually be a Splinter Clara would have made for a much more interesting twist.
She always *was* actually a character and not *just* a plot point/plot device. The whole point to Rings of Akhaten's prologue and ending, and the telling exchange in Journey to the Center of the TARDIS, the events of Nightmare in Silver, etc. was to make her a character. With a backstory and reasons why she traveled with the Doctor in the first place, her attitude towards children, her bossy nature...
It continues to mystify me how everyone ignores all that and says "Oh she was just a plot point." Yes, she was. But she was a fully-developed unique person, too.
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