I am so not ok right now. This final broke my heart more than I thought it did (Clara’s theme song makes me cry now). I’ve been wanting to draw that scene all day and came back home to see that someone already did an amazing painting of it. But I still went with it because I have feels to evacuate. I’ll be the unoriginal one~
On another note, it’s officially been a year since I joined the Doctor Who fandom, with this little doodle. The comment makes me laugh… good times~
If you could only see the beast you’ve made of me
I held it in but now it seems you’ve set it running free
hungry like the wolf > duran duran | space girl > the imagined village | big jumps > emiliana torrini | touch the sky > julie fowlis | darlin’ do not fear > brett dennen | kaleidoscope > kate havnevik | brave > idina menzel | que sera sera > pink martini | life on mars > david bowie | don’t you forget about me > simple minds | wolf like me > tv on the radio | don’t stop me now > queen | lose control > evanescence | icarus > bastille | the state of dreaming > marina and the diamonds | liar > three dog night | i love you cos i have to > dogs die in hot cars | blinding > florence and the machine | if i apologized > josefine cronholm | howl > florence and the machine
A quick thought on Clara/Danny, Amy/Rory, and modelling your life on stories, with obvious spoilers for the finale:
Oh my god – as if the finale wasn’t devastating enough already. :( It’s funny how Amy and Clara’s affinity for stories have played out in different ways: Amy got to write her own story in a sense (“Tell her a story…”) but Clara only got a dose of hard, cold reality. (Well,what passes for reality in the Whoniverse.)
I also wonder if Clara’s desire for an epic love story might come from her parents, too. We never saw them argue, never saw them be anything but happy…maybe she’s idealised them in her adult years. Especially since, as other people have pointed out, Clara’s parents met when her mother saved her father from a car. :(
God I love Clara’s perceptions and lies to herself. What are lies but another word for stories, sometimes…
“I’ve served under them. They push you and make you stronger, till you’re doing things you never thought you could.”
#Danny thought she was a soldier…#I have my doubts#even as the Doctor acknowledged her betrayal#he followed her straight into the underworld#she commands absolute loyalty#and suddenly he finds himself in places he never thought he would be#learning about a good Dalek#heeding her orders not to look for where they went#and searching for a dead man for her#what is too far for the Doctor?#and who’s left to carry them out of the fire?
Clara Oswald is most definitely an officer, and that tag about how she commands absolute loyalty speaks to me a lot. Clara not only likes being in control, but she’s very good at it. She has this magnetic personality with a terrifying combination of kindness and ruthlessness. She’s easy to fall in love with, easy to trust, presents as non threatening, but she also will go further than anyone would expect. She’s good at the tough calls, at people skills, at doing what needs to be done. She’s everything a leader and officer needs to be.
She’s not infallible – she’s seen her doubts and fears throughout this series over her growing leadership role. For most of the series she hasn’t felt like she was capable of that sort of responsibility, even when the Doctor was sure she was (see: Kill the Moon). In the last few episodes though, she’s more comfortable with the responsibility and power, and is relishing in how much she enjoys the control. Leadership is a fine line between confidence and arrogance, and Clara’s walking it, but not perfectly. It would be easy to play it safe and take a back seat – less risk, and the responsibility is on someone else – but it comes so naturally to her that it seems a shame not to use her skills. Only problem is, control and power can very easily turn dark. One of the best examples of which is the Master.
This is going to be a very interesting finale.
I’ve been putting together the shots of all the post-it notes that Clara has at the beginning and I’ve noticed something.
Clara is telling Danny everything. Absolutely everything. Not just the truth he asked her for, corrections of her previous lies. She’s telling him everything he doesn’t know, about the dinosaur in London, about Courtney on the moon, about Robin Hood. Back before she even knew him, to Vastra and Jenny and the half-faced man. She’s telling him about her interference in his past. She’s telling him loads of things that put her in a bad light, but she’s telling him the truth.
This is a complete and total loss of control, which is what Clara is absolutely terrified of. This is the biggest sacrifice she can make for someone, bigger than jumping into a timeline. Something simple but so difficult, and something very very human.
I’m so proud of her.
I don’t want to derail from being proud of Clara (I am too, for this decision), but – look at all the interesting character stuff hidden in her bookshelves! Lots of classic literature. Some things that look like they’re from adventures we didn’t see (Hyperscape body swap tickets?!) Lots of travel books, echoing back to the desire for travel she had before the Doctor even came along. A picture of Danny in a rare relaxed moment. A picture of Clara’s dad (this one, actually.) God, I love it when set designers put the effort in.
[via claraoswin]
It fascinates and concerns me that the last person we saw him display this “I’ll forgive you no matter what you do” attitude around… was the Master.
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