themagicofvenice:

[…] This not being romantic love but this being a strong, bond friendship and then this guy comes in…

“I think The Doctor is very possessive about Clara. He has a very, very deep bond with Clara, because essentially, she saved him – saved the being that The Doctor is. And that is something that he feels very grateful to her about. And you all have to remember the Doctor is not a human being, so his emotional responses to things, expressions of a far, deeper, more complex sort of relationship with the universe… but suddenly he has a new body and it  has human components and suddenly there are emotions flying around in it.” (x)