puppetmaker | New Who Review for Face the Raven

This one was well written, well acted, and I had to grab tissues by the end.

There isn’t much I can say without spoiling it.

Acting was splendid. The story was mostly set up for the ending because we are heading to the last couple of episodes. It was nice to see another character show up.

I really hope Sarah Dollard gets to write more Doctor Who, she has the knack for it.

We knew Clara was going to go out sometime this season and this was probably one of the best exits for a companion ever.

Jenna Coleman did a splendid job especially with the last speech to the Doctor where she makes him promise not to take revenge for what was going to happen.

And it was really Clara’s fault that she died. If she hadn’t tried to be the Doctor, she would not have found herself in that situation.

The one thing that didn’t quite ring true was at the beginning when she is hanging out of the TARDIS and laughs at nearly dying but it makes more sense when I realized that she believed that she was invulnerable and didn’t have to worry about gravity until gravity caught up with her or rather she figured that the Doctor who save her.

And let’s give some props to Calpaldi who had to use body language to inform the audience how the Doctor felt about events around him. I watched it a second time just to watch him.

It was nice that Maisie Williams showed up again as Ashlidr showing how an eternity can weight very heavy on the soul. I also like that the re-established that she read her diaries to remind herself of what she had done in her long life. So she knew Clara but only by what Ashlidr had written about her, which was through the lens of time.

So next week the Doctor deals with things that go bump in his head.

I am grateful for all the entertainment Jenna Coleman has given me as Clara Oswald.