You made a post last week about how people can /deserve/ better but that the universe owes no one. Does that mean you disagree with what Clara said in the finale? “Tomorrow’s promised to no one, Doctor. But I insist upon my past. I am entitled to that. It’s mine.” Are you saying Clara was wrong in feeling that she is owed her past, seeing as the universe owes no one anything at all?
No one is wrong for
feeling they are owed. It was never my
intention to imply that feelings are
wrong – I definitely feel owed a lot more than I’ve gotten in life, but that
doesn’t mean I can take from others
and that’s the distinction. Clara doesn’t feel she is owed her memories, she states that she is entitled to her memories and she IS
because they’re intrinsically hers.
Taking them
is akin to raping her mind and we’ve seen it happen before on the show with
Donna Noble, and the Doctor was wrong for that because he was not owed or entitled to them. Donna begged to die with those memories and
she is entitled to make that decision for herself. Not because she is owed, but because her
memories were already hers.
Clara was allowed the agency to say no and her statement to the Doctor was
absolutely the truth and he recognized that.
They went into the memory wipe Russian Roulette game consensually and
that would have made all the difference if Clara’s memories had been wiped. It would have been the consequence of her choice, but it would have been her choice.
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