Double-Standards 101

"The writers and show runners said it was a bad decision."

"It's Doctor Who!" {magic-wand and faerie dust} ;) lol

((1) She slapped him. Once. Oh, and I guess she (half-heartedly) threatened to slap him another time. Don't really know why that's such a big deal for you.))

((It was explained to the viewer why she made the decision, it was clear she did it because of her gut reaction.))

((But why is Clara's femaleness at all relevant to the discussion in this context? You yourself claimed that it felt like the episode was written by a pack of 12-year-olds shouting "grrrl power," and in so doing, you're making the implicit argument that Clara is behaving self-righteously because she's a girl.))

LOL! If you perceive me using question marks as "attack mode" that's your own personal assumption. And you will have a tough time in life navigating other people who aren't like you. I'm using the English language to ask questions. If someone posts something I don't understand, I am going to ask them questions in an…

Ah, GentleGiant, he who follows me to every Doctor Who review because he doesn't like what I say. Turns out, when you have an informed opinion and can back your opinion up with examples, and are willing to debate point after point with people? That's not trolling. That's called "debate". You should look into it…

Two other Doctors were there to back him up, as well. She just didn't want him to have to make a terrible decision at all. He, in turn, trusted her to be like most of his Companions and take responsibility for traveling with him and for her own species. She had two other humans there to back her up, as well. They…

She made the "right" decision in the post-tense. At the moment, she just made a decision and it wasn't explained to the viewer why she made that decision. She just chose, against humanities wishes, arbitrarily.

Well, she feels entitled to attack him physically whenever she doesn't like something. She feels entitled to judge him for placing faith in her and assuming she's a capable adult that doesn't always need his support. She feels entitled that traveling in the TARDIS and what they do and what The Doctor does should only…

I thought so, since he was personally mentored by Carl Sagan and reveres him as a man and an astrophysicist. But we all have personal tastes, so as far as I know he might be like me and like the book but tolerate the film.

Well, I'm not a Companion and you're not a Time Lord and a hostage negotiation isn't comparable because you don't have the right to make that decision if I can't. Also, you don't carry me on adventurers around the world and get involved in the affairs of other nations on a regular basis. If you did, I think I would be…

"he can't just disown it when it comes time to make a difficult decision"

I think that's always been the whiplash I've gotten from Clara. She's special—…….until she isn't.

Who said it was a "bad decision"? How did she know? Maybe humanity was right and that would have saved them. We're only given a solution to this in the post-tense. But in the moment, she made a choice and we're not given any inclination as to why she made that choice. She just did it at the last moment in a panic.…

But he's not "always leaving her in the dark". He thought so highly of her that he left the choice to her. To allow her to be an adult, to carry the weight and make the decisions he makes. She arbitrarily chose to ignore the entire world, and for reasons that they never explained other than for us to guess she just…

Totally unreasonable. As you mentioned previously, they aren't equals. She has no right to make judgements on his decisions, since she's not capable of grasping why he makes those decisions. He trusted her to stand on her own as he has many others before him, and instead of finding a new sense of empowerment and…

Oh hey, the Bidmead era takes the other extreme. I don't need techno-babble and I don't need magic fairy dust. The show has ridden the middle many times and found many perfect balances. For me, this was not one of them.

So, then you admit she had no right to freak out on him then? Where does this "school teacher" get the right to sit in judgement of "a 2000 year old alien with a time machine"? This just proves my point that the episode was clearly showing that she is inferior to him, cannot handle the weight he carries, and thus has…