1. Could The Main Theme Of This Series Be Integration/Disintegration?
Clara Oswald is a character who is fractured across time multiple personalities that exist independently with no knowledge of the other incarnations. The Doctors memories are slipping; he is having trouble recalling events from his past incarnations. The universe itself is losing touch with the knowledge of his existence. Is Clara struggling to reintegrate while the Doctor is unraveling? Is Steven Moffat once again exploring the central question of identity? What is identity really? Is it memory? Is it personality? Is it experience? Is it immutable or constantly shifting? The identities of the people controlled by the wifi were being continuously re-written Clara didnt have computer skills so she was given them. Was she still the same Clara afterwards? The Doctor himself can rewrite time. If you do that arent you also rewriting identity? People will change with every potential permutation. If their experiences are different, especially if they cant remember their old ones, then have they not become essentially different people? The Doctor stands at the center of time; he can see and remember all the different timelines. What does that make him then? Does he even have his own identity? Or is he himself the cloud built out of everyone elses individual existence?