The Second Star to the Right
I'm Susie, 21 years old (AAAHHH!!!) and an English concentrator at Brown University. I like Disney, Harry Potter, Doctor Who, Broadway (Les Mis FTW), and all kinds of assorted literature, film, theatre, and music. I'm a Nerdfighter, a Ravenpuff, a Whovian, a Disnerd, a Starkid, a Lost Girl, a Starcatcher, a Newsies fangirl (or Fansie, if you like), a Downtonian, a member of House Stark, a Browncoat, an Avenger, and a flailer. I flail all the time. And you can now find me on Pottermore, where I'm called WombatHolly175 and am a proud member of Ravenclaw House!
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Caught in A Storm. #ihaterain x
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les mis movie meme | 10 songs (1/10): one day more
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Sherlock imitates the guards // x
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Clara/11 versus River/11 - my thoughts
Another long post.
I should start by saying that if you’re a hardcore River/Doctor shipper DO NOT READ THIS BECAUSE YOU’LL HATE ME. It’s true that I ship Clara and Eleven but I’m making this analysis as unbiased and rational as possible, so hopefully I don’t come across as one-sided.
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I just want to talk a bit about how the feelings I have for this woman and her love for the Doctor.
In the first gif, she’s still clearly uncertain—after all, she’s only been traveling with the Doctor for a little while, and so she doesn’t quite know what to make of him. But she knows she wants to be more than a ghost to him, more than a face that reminds him of someone else.
In the second gif, she’s thinking about how little she knows him, and how much she wants to know him more—and yes, she does look down at his lips because by now, she’s beginning to feel a bit more for him, against her own wishes—she doesn’t want that attraction, since she is ultimately scared of the Doctor and his secrets. Knowing just one of his secrets is enough to give her more confidence, enough to let her trust him just a bit more, so being aware that she’ll lose that trust—and that knowledge of how scary he can be when he feels threatened, that knowledge that she has some sort of power over him—breaks her heart.
When “the Doctor” begins to tell her how he feels in the third gif, Clara looks amazed and surprised and so very happy, but as she begins to understand that such a declaration is just not his style, she realizes that these words can’t possibly be coming from the Doctor himself. Now what she doesn’t know is that Cybermen do not have emotions, so whatever Mr. Clever was saying, he must have found in the Doctor somewhere and mirrored it—but regardless, it hurts her to think that she can never have that sort of relationship with the Doctor, a relationship that is open, with freely given love.
Finally, Clara realizes that the Doctor has indeed had “exes” in the past, so she’s obviously a bit disappointed that he hasn’t shown any interest—so she thinks—in her. In the end, she learns that the Doctor does allow himself to love, but only on his own terms, and it seems, only with women who are just a bit too glamorous to be real.
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May222013
devoted-to-whouffle: The Impossible Girl
I have noticed that a lot of people have misinterpreted Clara’s “I was born to save the Doctor” line and the fact that she was at one point a Gallifreyan woman. Quickly and succinctly, this is who the Impossible Girl is:
Clara Oswald is a pure, 100% human woman born in the 21st century in Lancashire. She has human parents and grew up as a completely ordinary girl. She was not destined to become the Impossible Girl; it was a choice she made in her own right.
What makes her impossible is that she, as the original Clara, jumps into the Doctor’s time stream and splits herself into millions of versions that will be born at the right time, in the right place, to save the Doctor’s life - hence being “born to save the Doctor”. Each echo is similar to the original, with some characteristics amplified and others diminished. She has the same face and a similar name - Clara Oswald, Oswin Oswald, Clara Oswin Oswald, you get the idea. And to link her back to herself or to get him to recognise her, she has her line: “Run, you clever boy, and remember me.”
The echo Claras are drawn to the Doctor, no matter which version of him she encounters, and she will save his life. This doesn’t mean she has all the exact, crystal-clear memories of the original Clara; he’s in her subconscious, a constant presence in her mind that she doesn’t constantly think about but is always there. Perhaps she doesn’t know she’s in love with him, but she will always save him because that’s what each echo was born to do, and the fundamental part of her knows she loves him even if her surface memories don’t.
Victorian!Clara, for instance, was instantly attracted to the Doctor even though she didn’t consciously recognise who he was at first, while Oswin subconsciously loved him so much that not even the Daleks could take that away from her, which enabled her to save his life.
She will be whatever his life and situation needs her to be. If she has to be there to choose the right TARDIS for the first Doctor, she’ll be born as a Gallifreyan because there are no humans on his planet. If she has to be a Victorian barmaid, or a Junior Entertainment Manager on the Starship Alaska, that’s what she’ll be. Just as long as she is there when his life is in danger, so she can save him.
So what does this all mean? She’s still Clara. She’s still human. She isn’t related to him, and she isn’t a Time Lady. She is Clara Oswald, an ordinary and incredibly brave human girl who does something extraordinary to make herself impossible. While not all the loose ends are tied up, this is who she is and why the Doctor kept running into her. She is his “impossible girl”, the one woman who has known him for 1000 years and been there even when he didn’t know it. And that’s pretty incredible.
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