Doctor Who: The Legends of Ashildr

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The Doctor maintained surveillance of Ashildr/Me, keeping the information in a room of his TARDIS that, for reasons unknown, he kept hidden from Clara, though she found out about it. Ashildr/Me learned of its existence when Clara told her shortly before her death. ( TV: Face the Raven) Welsh, Katie (18 October 2015). "Review: 'Doctor Who' Season 9 Episode 5 'The Girl Who Died' Keeps a Good Thing Going". IndieWire . Retrieved 19 October 2015. Gone Horribly Wrong: Although not wholesomely intended in the first place, Ashildr/Me didn't think that her plan to trap the Doctor would get Clara killed.

Me had set up a chess game, though she and the Doctor didn't play. She remarked that the dying stars were a beautiful sight; when the Doctor said that it was sad, Me retorted that it was both, and the same was true of Clara's death, now a fixed point in time. She inquired about the Hybrid, which the Doctor accused her of being. Me countered that she was a human with a little bit of Mire, not a true hybrid. She then suggested that the Doctor might be half-human and thus he was the Hybrid. As the Doctor refuted that suggestion, Me offered her true theory: the Hybrid wasn't a single individual, but a Time Lord and his human companion, so alike that they constantly push each other into more and more catastrophic actions. During her time as mayor of the trap street in London, Me had a mental link with an agent of the Quantum Shade that manifested itself as an animated tattoo on her chest, although her agreement with the entity had strict rules and she was unable to prevent it from killing Clara. ( TV: Face the Raven)

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a b " 'Doctor Who': 10 Things You May Not Know About 'The Woman Who Lived' - Anglophenia - BBC America". BBC America. a b Moffat, Steven (writer); Talalay, Rachel (director) (5 December 2015). " Hell Bent". Doctor Who. Series 9. Episode 12. BBC. BBC One. Ashildr/Me's personality has continued to evolve with the centuries; she's now the hard-nosed mayor of the trap street and willing to do anything to protect it. The Doctor's ability to "speak baby" is demonstrated again in this episode. It appeared previously in the Eleventh Doctor stories " A Good Man Goes to War" and " Closing Time". [3]

Killed Off for Real: Though at least the outside of her body is intact, Clara's lifeforce/soul is ripped from her body by the raven. Thus, there's nothing anyone — not even the Doctor — can do to revive her; even the events of the finale episode do not actually change this fact because Clara is still technically dead (no heartbeat). This is a Fixed Point in time and so she cannot be truly revivedCreepy Crows: The quantum shade that carries out the sentences in the trap street takes the form of a raven most of the time.