Personally, I wish I could write and think like you. This is beautiful. As ever.
I'll fully admit to not having a handle on this season yet. It's been a difficult and ambiguous season (excellent, but difficult), and I have been waiting and waiting for the episode that would pull all the shards together. This was not that episode. But the emotional continuity, as you so poetically show here, has been the solid undercurrent of the whole thing.
I especially like how you tie Clara's past acts of almost unbelievable (and seemingly too easy) heroism in the finales and specials to her downwards spiral here. It somehow had not quite occurred to me that what we were seeing now was the cost of her Impossible ability to rise to the occasion again and again. And isn't that the Doctor's condition in a nutshell? He rises to the occasion again and again. And he pays the price.
I certainly have a rewatch in my near future, and I will be reading this again as I do so. Thank you <3
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Personally, I wish I could write and think like you. This is beautiful. As ever.
I'll fully admit to not having a handle on this season yet. It's been a difficult and ambiguous season (excellent, but difficult), and I have been waiting and waiting for the episode that would pull all the shards together. This was not that episode. But the emotional continuity, as you so poetically show here, has been the solid undercurrent of the whole thing.
I especially like how you tie Clara's past acts of almost unbelievable (and seemingly too easy) heroism in the finales and specials to her downwards spiral here. It somehow had not quite occurred to me that what we were seeing now was the cost of her Impossible ability to rise to the occasion again and again. And isn't that the Doctor's condition in a nutshell? He rises to the occasion again and again. And he pays the price.
I certainly have a rewatch in my near future, and I will be reading this again as I do so. Thank you <3