I don't get how you don't buy something that the story is pretty explicit about (Clara's heart doesn't start beating!)

Davies has tightly plotted season long mytharcs? Seriously, that's your argument? Davies has well developed *character* arcs (and I'd agree that Moffat's general unwillingness to part with actors/character ended up muddling both Amy & Rory's and Clara's arcs a bit), but the plotting consists of just using a word a…

Surely https://www.youtube.com/wat… is the mandatory link here.

The way Gallifrey was depicted in this story was much more in line with Deadly Assassin/Invasion of Time/Arc of Infinity/Five Doctors Gallifrey than anything you've laid out. Hell, it's also more in line with that than The End of Time was.

1969 and The War Games, surely? I'd also add that, I mean, if anything is respectful of classic Who traditions, it is having Gallifrey be uninteresting.

In what way? I mean, that's what she says she's doing. All her adventures with Me are basically like those Big Finish stories that they insert between two TV stories that don't seem like they have much time between them. We know the beginning and the end, but the middle is largely unknown and infinitely extensible.

Clara is returning to Gallifrey and they'll send her to face the raven, so Ashildr presumably won't get to keep the TARDIS.

She's still headed for that alley, she's just taking the long way.

Well, Clara is obviously lying as it is. The Doctor presumably, yeah, to make the parting easier.

She's not unattractive, but she looks like a normal person, and was considerably older than any of the other proper companions.

If they got Paul McGann and Maisie Williams to star together in something for Big Finish, it could be "Me & I."

Can we point out here that Moffat has actually brought back the whole plot point of the Doctor being half-human on his mother's side? I kind of want him to bring back and toy around with all the most hated/ridiculous pieces of continuity. Can the Rani be far behind?

I think it works just as well with the information we've been given as the other version, so a perfectly usable piece of fanon, if one is so inclined.

Yeah, I think the Master and Rassilon both forcing each other to regenerate makes a fair amount of sense.

Actually, it's not at all clear what the Hartnell Doctor was doing, but he certainly wasn't hiding from the Time Lords, who didn't exist until The War Games, several years after he stopped being the Doctor.

Well, as far as a season without an Obligatory Hot Female Crushing on the Doctor, we did have a season of Catherine Tate.

So I'll just throw this out there, but Phil Sandifer suggests that the Doctor hasn't actually forgotten anything and that he and Clara are lying to each other, just like they did at the end of Death in Heaven. Thoughts?

The thing is that Gallifrey has always sucked. That is pretty much the point of Gallifrey.

Pierce Brosnan as Rassilon would have been fucking amazing.

I think Moffat did an interview recently where he mentioned that multiple companions was under active discussion. I will note, though, that we actually have had multiple companions for a significant portion of the Moffat era.