Clara Oswald. The Impossible Girl. The Woman Twice Dead. Or (if you prefer) the enigma wrapped in a riddle squeezed into a skirt thats just a bit too tight. Well thats who she was until last year. Now shes just Clara Oswald; Coal Hill School teacher and companion to the Doctor. This series, rather being defined by her status as the Impossible Girl, Clara will become more of a character in her own right, now that the mystery of her existence has been solved. We saw the first stages of this at the start of The Day Of The Doctor where shed settled into a full-time teaching job, and properly met her family in The Time Of The Doctor. But it looks like Series 8 will be where we really delve deeper into what makes her tick. Relationships would seem to be the biggest factor for Clara's character development, with Danny being introduced as a potential love interest, and a BBC source quoted in the Radio Times mentioning that Capaldis Doctor is more of a mystery and that Clara has to try and gauge him. A typically ambiguous hint about more development for Clara came from Steven Moffat in Doctor Who Magazine, replying to a reader comment that Clara's relationship with the Tardis is because she is sceptical and hard to impress, and is "almost like it's building to something".
JG Moore is a writer and filmmaker from the south of England. He also works as an editor and VFX artist, and has a BA in Media Production from the University Of Winchester.
