Well, I don't know about any of you, but I thought last week's Heaven Sent was one of the strangest, and at the same time, most fascinating things I have seen in Doctor Who in quite some time indeed. A masterclass from Capaldi...and what a payoff... How on Earth are they going to top that? Well, let's find out this week in the hotly anticipated
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Gonna get back offline and read as much of Ann Leckie's Ancillary Mercy as I can, that's how ( ... )
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I'll confess to having a bit of a "moment" when Clara said she was going the long way around as well. It must have been dusty in here or something.
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My reaction was because the Doctor was obviously so damaged from Heaven Sent, and so willing to go out of control (despite having said he wanted to FIX his mistakes), that his having to lose the memories of what Clara had meant to him was probably the only way to resolve that. It felt right that they risked the mindwipe together, with Clara having agency, and that it got the Doctor, after the vile crap of the Tenth Doctor mind-raping Donna's memories (which is one reason #10 is unredeemable to me). But if he remembers her influence, does that mean he still remembers going through eons of torture in Time Lord prison for some vague someoneI'm hoping (beyond hope, because modern DW is cruel to the Doctor) that the Twelfth Doctor might be less haunted. Capaldi has said he'll be different in S10 after all that, but in what way? Because he seemed puzzled by the memory gap, but maybe... lighter? A little freer? (Actually willing to talk companionably with someone who, to him, ( ... )
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Totally agree!!! The whole way it was handled felt like justice (in a way) for Donna and was done so much better. A friend posted on FB that Moff seems to be much better about giving the women agency for when they leave than RTD did which I thought was a very good point. The whole thing just made me incredibly happy (despite all the tears I shed).
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