This is everything I have been missing without fully realizing it.” I love the way Clara reaches out to touch The Doctor in that moment and the way she gazes at him in pure wonder. Her reaction to his arrival screams “Yes. Danny died at the end of the school year and now it’s been a good six months since Clara’s seen The Doctor. It’s time to go on an adventure! Now, we don’t have a time stamp for when the events in “Death in Heaven”, but my head canon places it around late May/Early June. Out pops The Doctor, acting like nothing has changed. It’s like the TARDIS knew she had lost all hope and Sexy needed to remind her that she SHOULD believe in Fairy Tales. That wheezing, groaning sound that brings hope where ever it goes. What’s the point of believing when it only brings you grief?Īnd then she hears that sound. But now…she’s seen too much and all her belief in the fantastical has brought her nothing but pain. As recently as “Robots of Sherwood”, Clara has believed in myths and fairy stories. “I grew out of fairy tales,” she insists, which cuts me to the core (as does Santa’s response. Yet, despite all appearances, Clara refuses to believe what’s right in front of her. Yes, Virginia, it’s Santa Claus (Nick Frost, so delightfully snarky, that I will believe he IS Santa Claus from now on). (She probably HOPES it’s the Doctor, yes?) Clara doesn’t find the TARDIS on her roof, she finds a crashed sleigh, wild reindeer flying about the sky, sassy Elves (including the man behind Straxx, Dan Starkey), and a man in a red suit. Clara is awakened by a ruckus on her roof, so naturally she goes to investigate. There are many levels to the Clara and Doctor’s Christmas dream…let’s do our best to unravel them shall we?Ĭhristmas Eve. What is that understanding? That they need each other. It’s often said that we process our truest feelings through our dreams and the multiple dream states are exactly what Clara and the Doctor need to (as Jenna Coleman has put it) “reach a point where they really understand each other”. The circumstances may not be real but the emotions are. (It’s also “Field Trip” from The X-Files with just as many OTP feelings.) Everything is a dream within a dream within a dream and it is all a shared consciousness. Because “Last Christmas” is Inception with deeper emotions and better female characters (#ChrisNolanShade). And all we want is to drown ourselves in the Whouffaldi feels, so it looks like Father Moffat is giving everybody what they want this year.ĭid you see Inception? If yes, please proceed with this recap. Now, stop gawping, and tell me… what do you want for Christmas? Santa Claus: Doctor! You know it can’t end like that! Mm? We need to get this sorted and quickly. Cue Father Christmas bursting into the TARDIS. Either way, both the Doctor and Clara are miserable. Was Gallifrey blown to pieces Alderaan style or was it simply not there? Hopefully we’ll get some details next series. (Did Danny give ANY thought to how Clara would deal with that or how the kid’s family would react to their long dead child returning to them the exact same age? Seriously, P.E., how was she supposed to handle that?) The Doctor found SOMETHING in the coordinates that Missy gave him, but whatever he found was not good. Danny is dead and Clara somehow dealt with the child he sent back in his stead. When we last left our intrepid heroes, they were “Gift of the Magi”-ing the HELL out of each other, both convinced that the other was better off without them, and thus LYING through their teeth about their current circumstances.
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