I'm not sure if he was beaten for good, but if he does come back, he's probably going to be mad. And it must be said that without Clara he might have won. The idea of defeating the Doctor by going back through his own time line, on the surface seems to be an obvious one, but nobody else - even the ones with Time Travel - had thought to do it. He certainly lived up to his name as well. I'm not entirely sure what was up with the guys in top hats, but it was nice to see the Great Intelligence again. I don't know if she's coming back next year, but I really hope she does. She's just an ordinary girl like Rose and Martha, who chose to do whatever she could to save her friend. In the end it turned out that she isn't anything special, not a living incarnation of the TARDIS or anything. There have been plenty of rumours floating around the internet about who exactly Clara is and how she came to be scattered through out time. Certainly going to be interesting though.įinally we discover what Clara's story is. This was last touched upon in 'The Wedding of River Song' but this time we got to see how his influence has affected specific people rather than just the universeĪs for John Hurt. It was also interesting to see again exactly how much he has helped and influenced the universe. His interactions with Clara and the Paternoster Gang, showed how much he cares about his friends - doing whatever he can to save them - and his interactions with River, showed that whatever the fans may say, he really did care about her and her death really hurt him. Taking the Doctor to Trenzalore - the one place he couldn't go - gave Matt a chance to deliver another stonker of a performance, even if in the end he didn't actually have much to do. In fact, that secret - the biggest one in the Whoniverse - was kept safe, while the actual resolution - that there is more to the name 'Doctor' then just a name he picked out mid-air was brilliant.Īs for the appearance of John Hurt? I can't wait till November. All along we had assumed that we were going to discover the Doctors name. The concept that the Doctors tomb, contained not his body, - which while interesting to have hold of is still just the body - but a way into his personal time line was a resolution very Moffaty.īut what was really interesting was the end. Since we first spotted Clara in the Asylum and then again in Victorian London, the question has been how can their be copies of her scatted around time and this episode provided a perfect solution. While I'm sure that this episode wasn't what many people were expecting - I always assumed that we wouldn't get to Trenzalore until Matt was going to leave - it still served as a rather excellent season finale.

This was the episode that we have been waiting for since the end of season six, when Dorium warned the Doctor against travelling to the Fields of Trenzalore. Who is the Doctor?ĭespite being written by Steven Moffat, the episode was not as timey wimey as it could have been and in fact had a fairly simple solution. The finale to Seventh Season of Doctor Who, revealing the answer to the question of who Clara is, but the greatest question in the history of Doctor Who. MAJOR SPOILERS!! DO NOT READ IF YOU HAVE NOT SEEN IT!!! BardingtideReview of Doctor Who 7x13: The Name of the Doctor.

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