DW: S09x06

Hey Guys,
i know i am very late with the ‘new’ episode of Doctor Who. Next week and on the weekend i will have the early shift so i will have time to actually write you the article about the next episode on monday. But now lets talk about this episode. It is not that i have really much to tell about it.

The Doctor with out his better half

I loved it when David Tennant was without Donna in Midnight. The whole episode just worked because of that fact. When we had that with Matt Smith i was someone of the few people that hate it. I am totally not a fan of Craig and after he defeated the change of the cybermen i really started to dislike him. So now Peter Capaldi is on an adventure with out Clara. In the last episode the only thing i alwalys loved about the season was the developement of Clara and the relationship between them. So this isn’t in this episode. For me it was really not so good without her. But the episode is not bad. We had better but also worse.

She could be everyone

Ashildr is the important person in this episode. The episode function because it is about the feelings about the character. Ashildr is living over 800 years now. What happend to the lovely nice girl form next door. Because this is the really important point here. She could be everyone. It could be you or me or the girl from next door. She is calling her now ‘Me’ because every name is dying with the person she knew. That me, that she hasn’t a name anymore, is for me a sign that it could have your name. This is why the episode is working for me. What happend to her isn’t something special. It isn’t the story about Captain Jack Harkness with his complex to save the earth. The Doctor doesn’t influencend her. She was just herself and the Doctor did this to her. This is how we would be when we would be immortal.

Big question

But one time more i am asking the question why the Doctor did this? He lived that life. He lost so many persons, he loved. It brokes his heart to leave Susan behind. It hurts him that Ian and Barbara choose a life without him. A part of him died when Adric died. The lost of Rose totally made him a mess and she not even died. He knows how it hurts to live this life without people that are the same. He knows what it made out of Captain Jack Harkness and how it broke Jacks heart. But still not even thought twice about doing this to her. Really i don’t understand that. This is not saving her and the Doctor knows it but he still does it. But the worst is that he did it after he remembered want Donna told him. This was not what she ment.

Same old Story

‘Me’ is bringing us back to a very old storyline. Saving the world from the Doctor. We had this story before. This is the reason that Torchwood came to life. Torchwoods function was to protect the world from the Doctor. Now we have Me/Ashildr that wants to do the same. Of course she is right that someone needs to protect the world from the Doctor because he often forgot what sacrifice are nessassary.
We saw that she is already looking after the Doctor and Clara. I am not a big fan of that storyline. We had Torchwood and that was enough.