I must admit that after watching "The Snowmen," the Christmas special for Doctor Who this year I am damnably curious who (or what) Clara Oswin Oswald really is. I have settled on thinking she is
- a doppelganger of someone of great import to the Doctor,
- a being with plural, eternal consciousnesses,
- an agent of the Great Intelligence, in the sense that she keeps on finding her conciousness in a physical form,
- a Time Lord of sorts, which could be Jenny, River Song, Susan Foreman, Romana, The Master, since a Time Lord can regenerate as a female, in which case, Clara could even be the Doctor himself, which would be very weird but hey, anything's possible
- Or something completely different.
I thought about the scenes from the episode "Asylum of the Daleks" again: I conjectured that it is possible that what the audience sees as the inside of her imagined pod could actually be a real pod or control room, and that Clara could have been controlling the Dalek body from a remote location. Hence, the 'ganger theory. Yes, yes, I know that the Daleks should be able to tell the difference between a Ganger and a real human being, but perhaps Clara's Ganger technology is above that of the Daleks -- if you catch my drift (?). Ahem. But I'm not sure who she is and I will not pretend to know; I don't want to turn this blog into one of those speculation websites (which I'm sure I've already done somewhat here). But in any case, I'm sure I'll find out who Clara Oswin Oswald is in the anniversary special (November 23rd, 2013, the fact of which brings me to another observation --
Clara's birthday is November 23rd. Hence, the Doctor himself theory. She dies when she is twenty-six in this reincarnation; and Matt Smith is 26 years old when he started working on
Doctor Who. I'm not saying anything. :-x
