Moffat: Clara Will Never Return

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When Clara departs the TARDIS, they’ll be no coming back.

That’s the verdict of showrunner Steven Moffat who told fans gather in the medieval town of Lucca over the weekend for the Lucca Comics & Games Convention, just how they’ll react to the moment when Clara and Jenna Coleman says goodbye.

“Clara is gone and will never return,” he said. “I will not reveal any forecast about her fate. I can only say that what will happen will shock, terrify and surprise. Strictly in that order.”

While that doesn’t sound like a particularly heart-breaking departure – although that’s not to say we won’t get an emotional goodbye; it’s just strange that none of the words used here sound particular heart-rending – Moffat does have previous when it comes to separating the Doctor from his companions.

In The Angels Take Manhattan, Amy and Rory were cast back into a time period that is now permanently off-limits for the TARDIS thanks to alone Weeping Angel breaking through a time paradox caused by their own suicide.

And then there’s Dark Water/Death in Heaven, where Danny Pink – it’s open to debate if you would class him as a full blown companion –  who, after being killed in a collision with a car, has his consciousness stolen by Missy and her artificial afterlife, the Nethersphere; where, confronted with his guilt over the accidental death of an innocent boy during a tour in Afghanistan, he deletes all his emotions. That now emotionless consciousness wides up back inside his body which has now been harvested into a Cyberman.

Sheesh! So no, things don’t usually end well for Moffat’s companions.

Throwing this open to wide speculation, and being that the theme of this year has been ‘hybrids’, just what fate do we think will befall Clara? Who do and don’t you want to see happen to a companion, who it’s fair to say, has evolved and developed over the course of her time in the TARDIS into one of the most resilient and challenging the Doctor has ever invited aboard. Do you think she deserves a happy ending? Or do you think after saving the Doctor in the past, the Doctor just might fail to save her when it comes to her final moments?

 

 

 

 

 

 

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