The episode's director Rachel Talalay described the story as being "about memories" and praised Moffat for being able to weave Clara into it: "The fact that the Doctor, having lost his memories of her, got them back in the Christmas episode, I just felt was so brilliant."
Ultimately, the Doctor had to have his memory of Clara wiped to allow her to return to Trap Street and restore the timeline. But not before Clara, in a stolen TARDIS from Gallifrey, flew off with immortal companion Ashildr, for her own adventures in time and space!
The Doctor Forgets Clara | Hell Bent | Doctor Who - YouTube. The Doctor realises how far he went for fear of losing Clara. One of them has to go but only one of them will remember their time together... Subscribe: http://bit.ly/SubscribeToDoctorWho Taken from Doctor Who Series 9, Episode 12.
Clara Oswald was always the Eleventh Doctor's “Impossible Girl,” a mystery to be solved “wrapped in an enigma, squeezed into a skirt that's just a little bit too … tight.” And according to the Eleventh Doctor himself, she was also his girlfriend.
Clara is the future child of the Doctor and River who's had her memory erased. The two Time Lords must be up to something on their nights away from River's prison cell.
The episode's director Rachel Talalay described the story as being "about memories" and praised Moffat for being able to weave Clara into it: "The fact that the Doctor, having lost his memories of her, got them back in the Christmas episode, I just felt was so brilliant."
The actor, who played companion Clara Oswald on the show, has teased the possibility of her return to Doctor Who. Doctor Who's Jenna Coleman has teased her potential return to the sci-fi show, revealing that it "could happen in the future".
If the Doctor does have a "one true love," Doctor Who makes River Song unequivocally that person. Primarily the partner of the Eleventh and Twelfth Doctors, River Song's timeline-hopping allowed her to know the Doctor better than any of his various spouses.
Her final message to him even is "Run you clever boy, and be a Doctor". Instead of lecturing him on his mistakes, she supports him on his difficult journey of accepting and learning from them on his own.
Jamie McCrimmon accompanied the Second Doctor in 113 episodes, far more than any other companion. Frazer Hines happened to be working on the show during one of its busiest times ever and stayed with the program at the request of Patrick Troughton who wished to have Jamie and The Doctor together until the end.
It was the Doctor's memory that got erased, in case that hasn't been clear enough. So, Clara still has her memories and is flitting about in the universe in a stolen TARDIS with Maisie Williams's Lady Me (another part of the story that's not worth getting into), and the Doctor has no memory of the Impossible Girl.
In answering that question in Doctor Who Magazine, Moffat suggested that the TARDIS' dislike of the current companion may be due to her sceptical nature and how she did not seem suitably awed by the Doctor's spaceship.
Let me be brave!" Face The Raven recap - R.I.P. Clara Oswin Oswald Clara's final words to the Doctor..." I know it's going to hurt you, but please be a little proud of me. Let me be brave!"
However, despite the Raven seemingly killing the Doctor's companion, the Time Lords brought her back to life which lead to Clara travelling off in space and time with the aforementioned Ashildr in their very own TARDIS!
Both of them had ties to each other since their childhoods — thanks to time travel — and their relationship blossomed as she was the companion of his eleventh and twelfth incarnations. Soon enough, it became clear that Clara and the Doctor were most definitely in love with each other, despite not becoming lovers.
Plot. Clara phones Danny, ready to admit the full truth of her travelling with the Twelfth Doctor and that she sincerely loves Danny. Danny is killed by a passing car midway through the call. Visibly upset, Clara schemes to use a hypnotic patch on the Doctor to blackmail him into saving Danny.
SO, no Clara's Granny is not Amy Pond. There are also various other reasons, like the fact that Amy and Rory's son's last name was Williams, not Oswald OR Ravenwood. Amy and Rory were dead by 2012, which was proved in THE ANGELS TAKE MANHATTAN when they arrive and the Doctor says they're in 2012.
Settling into her new life with the Meta-Crisis Doctor, Rose later became pregnant and gave birth to a daughter. Years later, she was briefly transported to her original universe and met the Eighth and Eleventh Doctors, after which she returned to her family.
River, who is a professor of archaeology and carries a TARDIS-colour/pattern diary of her adventures, is able to convince the Doctor of his future trust in her by whispering his real name into his ear, which he explains he would only divulge under rare circumstances.
She has just come from the Byzantium and meeting Amy for the first time. Amy is really struggling with killing Madame Kovarian and the Doctor's death, so River confesses that she knows that the Doctor is alive. Turns out when the Doctor leaned in and told her his name, he actually told her to look in his eye.
Clara Oswin Oswald is the third (and current, as of December 2013) female companion of the Eleventh Doctor. She exists under Moffat as producer. The Doctor calls her "The Impossible Girl." Clara is called "The Impossible Girl" because she has died and then reappeared again in the Doctor's life numerous times.
Marsay played Shona in the 2014 Christmas special 'Last Christmas' in what was supposed to be Jenna Coleman's final episode as Clara. When Coleman did eventually leave the show one year later, she was replaced by Pearl Mackie's companion Bill Potts.
