Doctor Who -- Jenna Louise Coleman's Character Name UPDATE!!

[kilodalton]

From the wonderful folks at doctorwhospoilers.com, who normally call entire PLOTLINES right, so I'm inclined to trust them ...

[Spoiler (click to open)]
She will be "Clara"

(Source is here, but this is a massive spoiler site with on-set pics so you've been warned!!!)

Oh well D=

Comments

[kilodalton]

Here's what he said - so I think we're safe XD

(from the 2006 GitF MP3 audio commentary with Noel Clarke and Steven Moffat - I have all of them in case you or anyone wants a copy)

Steven Moffat: Yes, he’s off to dance. Now some people might think...
Noel Clarke: The horizontal foxtrot?
Steven Moffat: You know, actually, I don’t think. I’m the writer, I can say this. That’s the night of the Yew Tree ball, and Madame de Pompadour was actually, for all that she’s one of history’s most famous courtesans-look it up kids!-she was quite cold. She wouldn’t be that quick. I think what happened that night is he had the best night of his life at a party with, you know, flirting with Reinette, dancing with Reinette, talking to Reinette, and just thinking she was wonderful. And you’re about to see the after effects of the Doctor of having had the best night at a dance he’s ever had.
Noel Clarke. Okay. Because people have wondered if “dancing” was a euphemism for ...
Steven Moffat: Well, I think it is. And in Doctor Who terms, also, she’s seen inside his head, she knows that he would use it in those terms. So she’s flirting with him. She clearly wouldn’t slap him in the face if he kissed her.
Noel Clarke: Of course not.

[charlottetrips]

OK, so he said it! He can't renege on it!

[kilodalton]

Yeah, that would be unlikely - especially since it seems to be his head!canon, and DWM literally just referenced this a few months ago. If he'd changed his mind in the interim, I think he would have mentioned it XD

[rosaxx50]

unless he uses the cracked timeline as an excuse to rewrite things. which would be... interesting.

[kilodalton]

But rewrite his own head canon? =/

Honestly, I've never understood why so much is made of that scene in GitF. I think it's just because people find the idea titillating, tbh. The whole asking-to-dance bit, frame by frame, is almost a complete replica of Nine and Rose's convo in The Doctor Dances, where - just like Moffat said for GitF - it's about flirting and innuendo and nothing x-rated.