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)

I have a theory on Clara's "powers" but it may be too "spoilery" even for here. [Unsigned but appears to be DCT 12:14, May 22, 2013 (UTC)]

It's up to you whether you post it or not but, if you do post ir (or anything else), please sign your contributions. You can do that by typing 4 tildes ( ~ ) or with the signature button on the toolbar. --2.96.29.191talk to me 12:30, May 22, 2013 (UTC)

Sorry, was supposed to sign it but was distracted and rushed by technical considerations. I am actually loving the simplicity of those tildesDCT ☎  15:55, May 22, 2013 (UTC)

Don't worry too much about it. It's just that I've run into a succession of unsigned contributions lately, in several discussions, & decided it was time someone posted a reminder. Yours just happened to be the first unsigned one I found after deciding that. Personally, I try to remember always to use the "preview" button to check I've not missed anything out, like the signature -- but I occasionally forget, too. --2.96.16.178talk to me 16:41, May 22, 2013 (UTC)

Back to the topic (more or less): One thing we don't yet know is how much the original Clara will remember of her other lives. If she does remember them, there'll be another reason for her to be very special to the Doctor -- she'll be the only other person still around who remembers Gallifrey as it was. --2.96.17.223talk to me 12:57, May 23, 2013 (UTC)

potenitally and technically could clara be an access to the time war and gallifrey as i assumed she could go to gallifrey because by entering the doctors timestream she was then in a timywhimy sense 'always' on galifrey rather than traveling through the time lock, like the drums in the masters head (i might have said the same thing as above)...but i digress if she was on galifrey within the time lock could she then on only remember it but act as a access point like the master and the diamond in the end of time. 87.83.10.218talk to me 13:36, May 23, 2013 (UTC)