Doctor Who: The Legends of Ashildr

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Missing Steps Plan: We never find out exactly what the Doctor was planning to do with the "annoying stuff" he sent Clara to fetch from the TARDIS. Presumably, it was meant to disable the misdirection circuit with sensory overload, as demonstrated when Ashildr pinches the Doctor to break the effect momentarily. ( All There in the Manual: The published shooting script includes dialogue that explains more clearly what the Doctor had in mind for the stuff.) Ashildr doesn't come out of this unscathed. Aside from being legitimately remorseful that anyone was killed, she's left (for now) concerned as to whether the Doctor will heed Clara's instructions to not take revenge. Me mentions she has been in the trap street "since Waterloo". The Doctor believes she is referring to the Battle of Waterloo. However, she corrects him, saying that she meant the Waterloo station. Tonight, Someone Dies: Three "intruders" — marked for death Rigsy, secondary lead Clara Oswald, and the Doctor — and one must die. It turns out to be Clara.

Big Bad: Someone, or someones, made a deal with Ashildr to deliver the Doctor and his confession dial to them in exchange for the trap street's protection. Who/what they are is a mystery as of the Cliffhanger.Clara preventing the Doctor from saying "I love you" (or anything resembling this statement) is reminiscent of the Tenth Doctor's difficulty saying it to Rose in " Doomsday" and " Journey's End". The Nose Knows: Rump can tell from smelling the Doctor that he isn't human, and apparently recognized Rigsy from his smell. Ashildr was killed in the process, but was resurrected by the Doctor altering a Mire repair kit to fix human physiology. He left another for her to give to whomever she chose, knowing that she would continually be fixed, thus losing the "ability" to die. The Doctor later realised that she was a human-Mire hybrid. ( TV: The Girl Who Died) Alasdair Wilkins of The A.V. Club highly acclaimed the episode, awarding it a perfect "A" grade – the first of this series – and stated that "the writing, the acting, the directing combine to create what is quite possibly the best episode yet of this Doctor's tenure". He called the episode "fantastically funny whenever it wants to be", but also heavily praised the subplot of the Doctor's face, calling the reveal "wonderfully simple". He closed his review by labeling the episode "a damn triumph. More than that, it's a triumph because it feels so resolutely like a Doctor Who episode", and stated that the episode "remembers that what motivates the Doctor's decisions are fundamentally the same emotions that we all feel, and that's what makes this such a brilliant hour of television". [10] Morgan Jeffery of Digital Spy also praised the episode, calling it "unlike anything you've seen before". He called the episode "fast-paced, with sharp, funny dialogue and some great clowning from Peter Capaldi" and further praising Williams as "nicely ethereal in the part, without ever overplaying the character's enigmatic nature". He closed his review by saying "while Doctor Who shouldn't be like this every week, the show's boundless variety has always been its biggest selling point, and it's refreshing to see 'The Girl Who Died' break the mould and dare to be entirely unpredictable and different". [20]

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 revivedClara tells the Doctor that his "reign of terror" will end at the sight of the "first crying child", noting his need to be kind when children are sad. ( TV: The Beast Below, The Day of the Doctor, The Girl Who Died) The Doctor and Clara find that Rigsy's memory has been " retconned". The retcon drug was frequently used by Torchwood Three. ( TV: Everything Changes, et al.) Mood Whiplash: An uber-example of this trope, pivoting from a lighthearted adventure to tragedy with virtually no warning. Ashildr (also known as Me) is a fictional character in the British science fiction television series Doctor Who, portrayed by actress Maisie Williams. The character was introduced in the ninth series episode " The Girl Who Died", before making a few more appearances during the series. Odin's face appearing in the sky to talk to his disciples directly references a scene in Monty Python and the Holy Grail in which God does the same thing. [2]

Face Death with Dignity: Everyone runs from the raven, despite it being pointless. Though it takes all her courage, Clara does not. In fact, she walks towards it. Also applies to her touching speech to the Doctor before going into the street. This is mainly just a rant. I really dislike Ashildr. Her character never grows. Never gets better. Never does anything but talk shit for some reason to the doctor while somehow being very smart and stuff even though she can't remember more than a single life-time worth of information. And apparently, nothing ever happens to her journals, thank god for that. Imagine a flood or fire, she'd be through.The Masquerade: The residents of the trap street are aliens from various worlds disguised as humans. Ashildr is the key exception, but she is an immortal hybrid of human and Mire. Eldritch Location: The trap street: It's built on Alien Geometries and inhabited by actual extraterrestrials of all kinds.