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== Clara, River, and the Name == | == Clara, River, and the Name == | ||
River knew the Doctor's name in the library ([[Forest of the Dead (TV story)]]), and Clara learned the name by reading [[The History of the Time War]] inside the wrecked TARDIS ([[Journey to the Centre of the TARDIS (TV story)]]: surely not a throw-away scene). That Clara was erased, but on Trenzalore she began remembering conversations from that time in ([[The Name of the Doctor (TV story)]]). That means that, on or after Trenzalore, she might remember the Doctor's real name. River uses that name on Trenzalore to open the tomb, and she uses it in the Library to convince the Doctor to trust her: perhaps she learned it not from the Doctor but from a post-Trenzalore Clara, and she lied to the Doctor in the Library. | River knew the Doctor's name in the library ([[Forest of the Dead (TV story)]]), and Clara learned the name by reading [[The History of the Time War]] inside the wrecked TARDIS ([[Journey to the Centre of the TARDIS (TV story)]]: surely not a throw-away scene). That Clara was erased, but on Trenzalore she began remembering conversations from that time in ([[The Name of the Doctor (TV story)]]). That means that, on or after Trenzalore, she might remember the Doctor's real name. River uses that name on Trenzalore to open the tomb, and she uses it in the Library to convince the Doctor to trust her: perhaps she learned it not from the Doctor but from a post-Trenzalore Clara, and she lied to the Doctor in the Library. [Unsigned but appears to be 98.180.49.69 06:08, May 21, 2013 (UTC)] | ||
It wouldn't need to be from a '''post'''-Trenzalore Clara. Telling River the Doctor's name could have been one of the things Clara did while she was inside the Doctor's timestream. Clara did, after all, remember the events of ''Journey to the Centre of the TARDIS'' '''before''' she went into the timestream. Indeed, it was partly her memory of being told about her other selves that led her to enter it. River's knowledge of his name has helped the Doctor at two critical moments that we know of -- in the Library & at Trenzalore itself -- & helping the Doctor is what Clara's presence in his timestream was all about. --[[Special:Contributions/89.240.249.124|89.240.249.124]]<sup>[[User talk:89.240.249.124#top|talk to me]]</sup> 06:39, May 21, 2013 (UTC) | |||