User:SOTO/Forum Archive/The Panopticon/@comment-188432-20130129081336/@comment-1166667-20130401051841

OS: I only bring it up because the logic being used to support merging all the Claras flies in the face of our already-established practices with similar cases like that of the Rorys.

SmallerOnTheOutside wrote: Clara's situation is "impossible," but true. Even the Doctor doesn't contradict the facts. But it's something new, something he'd never encountered before. He can't explain it, but he sees the connection. We can't explain how she can be the same person. According to so-called 'common sense', she can't be. But she clearly is!

And how do we know it's true? The whole point of her is that she is a mystery. Literally the arc of the next two months is going to be about her impossible existence.

We CANNOT assume that three women who live in different time periods are the same woman. You are taking the side of the unlikelier possibility, that one woman is transcending spacetime. There is more proof that they are different than that they are the same.