Doctor Who: 10 Biggest Problems With The Matt Smith Era

2. Time-stream Cop-out

So Clara€™s story lasts for a whole season, she€™s the impossible girl and all sorts of mystery is wrapped around her. We find out in the Name of the Doctor that the Great Intelligence has somehow located the Doctor€™s grave and wants to kill him by jumping into his time-stream. By doing so he is able to turn each of the Doctor€™s victories into defeats, killing him time and again and time is re-written around the event. Minutes later Clara jumps into the Doctor€™s time-stream to save him. This same act killed the Great Intelligence but our plucky girl somehow survives and interacts with the Doctor in all his incarnations, undoing the work of the Great Intelligence, Clara saves the Doctor yei! Clear enough so far. Then the Doctor jumps in after her. Into his own time-stream. He then somehow finds her in this wasteland after she has saved him and her story is €˜done€™. The Doctor sends her a leaf that was already destroyed in €œThe Rings of Akhaten€ so she can find him but how do they both then get out of the time-stream? There€™s no TARDIS, no explanation, we just go from that to her being back at school teaching in the 50th. The Doctor does make some vague reference to the time-stream collapsing but as far as shaky endings go this is right up there with The Impossible Astronaut. Writing a whole series, building up to the crescendo of Clara saving the Doctor only to then say €˜and they all lived happily ever after€™ is a cop-out.