Clara Oswald appreciation post.

"I don't know where I am. It's like I'm breaking into a million different pieces and there's only one thing I remember: I have to save the Doctor. He always looks different. Sometimes, I think I'm everywhere at once, running every second, just to save him, but he never hears me. Almost never. I was blown into this world on a leaf, and I'm still blowing. I don't think I'll ever learn. I'm Clara Oswald. I'm the Impossible Girl. I was born to save The Doctor."

So when we first meet Clara, she's not Clara. She's Oswin, the girl in a shipwreck on the planet of the Daleks. No, she's a Dalek. She's a genius, and she's been converted to a Dalek, and she doesn't know it. She's been locked in an asylum because she couldn't handle the truth. But she saves the Doctor, and she dies. Then, we see her again, and she's Clara from Victorian London. She's a barmaid and she's a nanny. But she meets the Doctor, and she saves him. She dies helping him again.

And then we meet Clara Clara! We travel with Clara for most of a season, and we get to know how she's kind and she's brave and she's feisty and she's smart. But we also have no idea how she's Clara from present-day London and she's Clara from the Dalek asylum and she's Clara from the Victorian age. She's the Impossible Girl.

But here's the thing: she's just a normal girl. She's not River or Amy or Rory, she's not important in all sorts of weird ways. She's a normal girl who did something extraordinary, and she's only a mystery because first things first, but not necessarily in that order. We get to the season finale and it all makes sense! The Great Intelligence goes inside the Doctor's time stream to destroy every victory he ever had. He does it for revenge. And then Clara, she picks up on it: this is why she's all of these people.

And she doesn't even cry. She doesn't even blink. She tells him to remember her, and she smiles and she sacrifices her whole being to save the Doctor. Even when River tells her she will die, that everyone else will just be hallow copies of her, her response is, "but they're real enough to save the Doctor, right?" 

It's 8:30 in the morning, I am tired, and I just watched a bunch of Clara episodes, but let me tell you this: if you don't love Clara Oswald, you're wrong,