![]() ![]() It’s those last few minutes between Peter Capaldi and Jenna Coleman, not surprisingly, that make this episode sing. But she also, thankfully, referenced Danny as she chose to die in the same way he did - on her own terms, “to die right.” She spent her final minutes not thinking of herself but of the Doctor, making sure that he won’t revert after she’s gone to the truly scary version of himself that she knows firsthand is lurking within his regeneration-energy soaked body. And in fact, Clara herself came to this realization in her final moments. Is that normal? Even the Doctor didn’t seem to think so. I mean, she has had something of a death wish, hasn’t she? Just look at her in this episode, dangling out of the TARDIS above London and giggling. ![]() It was effective, sure, but maybe my reaction is simply the result of kind of sensing this was coming for the past two and a half months. But I wasn’t quite as moved by the events of this episode as I was when, say, the Eleventh Doctor regenerated, or when Rose left. Coleman apparently is not in next week’s Doctor-only episode, and while she may or may not pop up for a farewell moment in some capacity in the season finale the following week, “Face the Raven” certainly makes it seem as though she’s getting a far less happy ending than Rose or Amy or Donna or Sarah Jane or… Not just that, but did Clara’s death feel lacking in some way? I love the character I really do. We’ve known Jenna Coleman was leaving Doctor Who this season, and with all the underlying themes of death and dying these past 10 episodes, it seemed more than likely that Clara wasn’t going to make it out of the TARDIS alive. ![]()
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