capalxii: veradune: “There’s a beast in the man, a creature who is ruthless and raw power, an intelligence that is wielded without wisdom. There is nothing more dangerous than this, except for the woman who holds the leash.” Inspired by capalxii’s absolutely excellent dark!Clara fic There Is a Beast, the quote above has been haunting …

The subtext – the thing that’s happening this time that you haven’t really quite seen with the Doctor before is… we’ve seen him fall in love loads of times, we’ve seen him have secret crushes, we’ve had him… we’ve had all of that very much in the Doctor – I don’t think we’ve quite seen …

It wasn’t so much the sadness, it’s that both the Doctor and Clara are people who think they know better. That’s what they are. The Doctor always thinks he knows better; Clara always thinks she knows better. So what they do at the end is a perfect summation of their relationship. They lie and endure …