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Sorry, I didn't mean to say she was "just annoying".
I meant to say she is an extremely annoying, self-satisfied, smug pest!
If they had to bring back an old "companion" then why not bring back Rose?
- I would love to change the world, but they won’t give me the source code.
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Clara is my favorite as well. When she makes my soufflé rise it never falls.
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Nope. Nope-nope-nope. Nope-ity nope. IMHO.
Last week's episode was brilliant.
**********SPOILERS NOW **********
This week started off very well - The Doctor facing down the Rassilon / The High Council and effecting a coup without any weapons other than personal loyalty and a spoon. Oh and the attack eyebrows were deployed. Then, after centuries/eons (depending on how you view the timeline) of trying to get back to Gallifrey, The Doctor returns - and it swiftly becomes the Clara Oswald show once more. Clara should have stayed dead - instead she's functionally alive and functionally immortal (at least as long as she wants to be). What was a poignant death has been reversed, because Moffat can't stand dead characters and (I suspect) likes having the option of bringing back actors he's worked with. I also didn't like the who Diner TARDIS thing - I suspect this is intended to pander to an American audience, in a programme which trades on its quirky Britishness.
Certainly not the worst episode in this series - but a huge missed opportunity.
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Quote: Clara should have stayed dead
Why? She never has before. She's the Impossible Girl remember? Moffat is merely staying true to his meme, while cunningly setting us up with new questions about the true Hybrid. Is it the Doctor as he claimed? Ashildr? Or Ashildr/Ex-temporal Clara? And he's paying tribute to that historic line that suggests that Clara has literally become the Doctor.
Keith Barrow wrote: I suspect this is intended to pander to an American audience
Wake up! It's a knowing nod to the episode in which River 'kills' the Doctor which features the same diner and therefore entirely appropriate to this episode in which the Doctor who knows Clara also 'dies'. Moreover it's not American at all. It's a real cafe in Cardiff!
Too clever for you Moffat be?
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Member 9082365 wrote: Why?
For plot reasons, nothing to do with the "mechanics" of it - they've taken a well-written ending for a character and mucked it up.
Member 9082365 wrote: Wake up! It's a knowing nod to the episode in which River 'kills' the Doctor
It's not just a nod - it's the same diner, or at least a TARDIS Chameleon rendered version of it. But it's also pandering to USian audiences - or don't you think something can be two things at once?
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Appearing as the backdrop to a fraction of two episodes in 5 years does not smack of pandering to anyone! If you were pandering to the Americans surely you'd choose the first episode to do it, not the last. You'd have UNIT move to New York, Missy would be a Southern Belle, and the companions would all be high school cheerleaders. The Doctor would not speak in an accent which a lot of Americans find impenetrable and everybody would be seen with a tin of Coke in their hands at least once per episode. You might as well say that The Girl Who Died was pandering to the Vikings (or their descendants at least)! And didn't Missy greet Clara in a Spanish Piazza (or did I just make that up?) Pandering to the Americans, my arse! (Yes, that's right ... not ass!)
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For the first time in my two and a half decade career so far...
I wrote a base class named "Shape" and derived "Square", "Circle", "Triangle" and "Octagon" classes! 
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I hope you have success with your alternative to Visio.
/ravi
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Programming a scanning laser for a tattoo removal device....
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Yowza! Codez plz - urgent! 
/ravi
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You would probably find these descendants helpful.
Shape -> ExPartnersName
Shape -> ExPartnersFace
Shape -> MysticalSymbol
Shape -> SomethingInChinese
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Smart K8 wrote: Shape -> SomethingInChineseThatDoesn'tMeanWhatYouThoughtItDid
FTFY! 
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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That's what I meant, I just don't like long class names. 
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That won't compile... You know that'll come back in QA, right? 
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ND TAT2 CODZZ URGNTZ!!!
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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clawton wrote: Programming a scanning laser for a tattoo removal device....
Software with friggin' lasers coming out of its head!
A slice of awesomeness.
I'm retired. There's a nap for that...
- Harvey
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Sir, I'm offended by that.
--The Pentagon
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But it had to be an octagon!
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Wait til you're a *gon!
The sh*t I complain about
It's like there ain't a cloud in the sky and it's raining out - Eminem
~! Firewall !~
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I think I did that a couple of years ago, but derived slightly different classes from the parent. I was writing a small app to calculate fluid flows through different channel shapes with different slopes and frictional coefficients. It was rather cool, actually, but the company I wrote it for didn't have anyone working for them bright enough to use it. Oh well... 
Will Rogers never met me.
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Aren't those all move titles? 
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Just don't derive square from rectangle
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