Board Thread:The Panopticon/@comment-188432-20130129081336/@comment-1046-20130131211348

It's an interesting point — because while I agree that all the language of film is telling us that modern Clara is another form of "the same woman", it somehow seems like a leap to act as if that information is available to a hypothetical omniscient neutral observer, because such an observer would not be receiving the information via a filmic medium. If the medium is the message, this seems like the sort of information that doesn't quite translate accurately, if you see what I mean.

I don't want to push the point too far, but it's worth remembering that "filmic language" can lie too. For example, all the filmic language of The Impossible Astronaut told us that the Doctor was killed and his body burned at Lake Silencio. Later we found out that, no, that was just a Teselecta ship disguised as the Doctor.

Anyway, I don't feel that strongly about the point. I'm willing to go along with whatever consensus develops here. I still think that having three articles is the simplest and clearest solution for our readers, but I don't feel like it's important enough to fight for.