Howling:Clara's Super Powers?

(I'm moving this off of Clara's Talk page to The Howling, seems more appropriate)

Clara was a human woman, albeit one scattered throughout the Doctor's timeline of 900+ years. But she had no superhuman powers. She was pretty good with computers (thanks to the Great Intelligence, by the way) and pretty clever but that was about it.

Exactly how could she possibly undo all of the damage that Great Intelligence wrecked upon the Doctor's life it entered his timestream? I'm not sure if even a Time Lord could follow the tracks of the GI and undo whatever they did, much less a human being.

Any ideas? Badwolff ☎ 20:44, May 21, 2013 (UTC)


 * Well, it appears that Clara simply "overwrites" the Great Intelligence in all of its appearances. --Bold Clone 20:52, May 21, 2013 (UTC)

One thing that Clara managed to do that Time Lords couldn't is access Gallifrey's past. It was pretty solidly established in the classic series that time travel into Gallifrey's past was prevented, although it wasn't explained how. By going via the Doctor's timestream, Clara walked through whatever protections there were.

On a closely related point: In The End of Time, the Doctor explained that "nothing could get in or get out" of the time lock on the Time War, "except something that was already there". In that story, it was the noise in the Master's head that was "already there" & provided a way through the time lock. The Doctor's timestream was "already there", too, so Clara ought to have had a way of walking through the time lock & into the Time War. (The same, of course, applies to the GI.) --89.242.69.88talk to me 01:25, May 22, 2013 (UTC)