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Originally Posted by Jay042
A little something I threw together in response to a scene from Doctor Who's Christmas special.
In the story, The Doctor and Clara had to enter this place wearing holographic clothes, she gets seperated from the Doctor, and runs into the Silence. I just felt the need to shut off the hologram
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Nice. Though to be honest, that whole bit seemed unnecessary to this episode and frankly was wasted, if you miss them mentioning the holographic clothes, you'd never know they had them, and with the exception of the scene with Clara's family (another part that just seemed stapled to the story to make it a Christmas episode), it didn't cause any real problems for them. I think the concept should have been saved for another episode, maybe a nudist planet where everyone has to use the holographic clothes and some alien force uses it to take control of people (now that would have been a great episode to watch).
Then again I felt this episode was too soon after the 50th anniversary and at least two or three episodes should have been made first to lead up to Matt Smith's departure. I always felt there were three kinds of great Doctor Who episodes, Christmas specials (ex. A Christmas Carol, the best in my opinion), Season marks (any season finale, seasons 3 and 4's being my favorites), and TV movies (The Waters of Mars, and Day of the Doctor). Now you can combine one or two of these types and have a great special like the 50th anniversary, but if you try to cram all three into a single episode (without making it a two parter like with The End of Time) everything will feel forced and rushed and great plot devices like this will not get their fair amount of development and be reduced to a footnote in the overall story.
To get back on the subject at hand, it would have fun to have Clara experience a embarrassing moment and while I never found it necessary for any female character in the doctor who franchise to show some skin since most of them were written well enough that they never had to use their looks as a selling point for the series (although the thought of Freema Agyeman naked under David Tennant's overcoat in season 4 did score her few points with me), at least one shot of her wouldn't have hurt. They just did one for Smith like they did with Tennant, though it was probably meant just to taunt female audiences by being the first last and only scene, and don't even get me started on how many they've done for Barrowman in Torchwood.