Doctor Who: 10 Things That STILL Don't Make Sense
6. Clara’s Teaching Transformation
The Name of the Doctor left Series 7 on one hell of a cliffhanger. Clara had just jumped head first into the Doctor’s timestream, scattering herself across his personal history and becoming The Impossible Girl.
Seemingly trapped in some sort of Doctor-y purgatory and surrounded by former incarnations, she and the audience are introduced to a mysterious figure. Turns out, it's kindly old John Hurt, and somehow, by some miracle, he’s agreed to play the Doctor. Boom. Big reveal. Roll credits.
The reasoning behind ending this finale on the surprise reveal of a new Doctor is fair enough, but here’s the thing… that whole cliffhanger is never resolved by the next episode. In The Day of the Doctor, the two are off gallivanting about again having escaped the timestream without explanation, and Clara is seemingly unchanged by the whole ordeal.
In fact, the only thing that has changed is that she’s
gone from being a nanny, to a fully-qualified secondary school
teacher. This change goes completely unacknowledged, and absolutely zero
groundwork was laid beforehand. Many fans, on a first watch, would've been
forgiven for thinking they missed an episode somewhere along the way.
Yes, it was nice to bring the show full circle to Coal Hill School for the 50th, but this screams ‘last minute idea’.
Still, if it means that Angie and Artie are gone forever, we’ll take it.