Warning: This whole post is a huge spoiler for current season of Doctor Who, up to episode 10 and possibly including episodes that haven't aired yet.
In episode 10, Face the Raven, the increasingly manic Clara has finally managed to get herself killed.
Except.... Except for two things that didn't need to be in this episode, and a third thing elsewhere that's a little out of character.
First, the light worms in the alien refugee camp. We're told they don't just project a hologram to mask the aliens' appearance, they feed images into your mind telepathically based on what you expect to see. Which the story doesn't really require to be explained to us so explicitly. And at the end, everyone is expecting to see Clara die when the raven does its ravening.
Second, in the scene where the Doctor hugs Clara when she's about to head off to die, there's a moment where he bends down a little lower, as though he was about to either touch the countdown tattoo on the back of her neck, or whisper something in her ear. That's the sort of subterfuge they've done in the past before an escape trick.
And third, I've been avoiding the spoilers for subsequent episodes, and apparently they've been unusually thick on the ground lately. And it would be a very, very Steven Moffat thing to do to fake a character's death and leak misleading spoilers about subsequent episodes, while embedding tiny little clues into the show that all is not quite what it seems.
If she's just dead, then I'll be extremely miffed, not so much because I like Clara (I preferred Amy Pond), but because they'd have missed the opportunity to troll the entire Doctor Who fanbase on an epic scale.
Posted by: Pixy Misa at
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