Both Peter and Jenna come across on screen – and frankly in real life – as very, very bright. It would be hard to use Jenna just as a striking, lovely young girl who’s going to go out and be feisty; there’s something darker and more complicated about her. You can imagine her going to dark places, and there’s something about them… you think, ‘They probably have quite high-flown arguments’.
This is a trickier version of the Doctor, and a trickier version of the companion. These two episodes is where that comes to a head. The Doctor and Clara are as heroic, and charming, and loveable as the Doctor and his companion have ever been, but they do things that make you uncomfortable at times. You can still like them even through they do things that are a bit, ‘Wow, that’s really not good. You’re really not supposed to do that’. They’re not goody two-shoes, either of them.
In terms of the Doctor and the companion, we’ve done the fairytale version, we’ve done the romantic version… but this is the real-life version. What would it actually be like in real life if an intelligent, off-centre girl happened to meet a much older – to say the least – dangerous man, who whisked her away and took her to some terrible places? What would that turn you into? I don’t think that would necessarily improve you. It would improve you in some ways, but… she’s never going to comfortably fit back into the boring world.
Keeping The Same Tabs Open For 9 Days Straight Because They Contain Information Relevant To Tasks You’re Too Lazy To Complete – A novel by me
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