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‘Run like hell because you’ll always need to. Laugh at everything because it’s always funny. Never be cruel and never be cowardly and if you ever are, always make amends.’

Does he know? After a psychedelic, head-spinning finale that piled twist upon revelation on top of rug pull, Steven Moffat could not resist one final question mark that’s likely to keep us guessing until the end of everything. As Clara imparted the wisdom the Doctor had given her about memories becoming stories, surely knowing he wouldn’t remember, so couldn’t have told her in the Diner Tardis, he tacitly let it go and walked away. Was she giving him just enough information to work out that Clara was OK, or had the whole conversation been the final flourish in the pair’s dance, knowing the universe could no longer handle their unique type of Hybrid, and nobly sucking it up? It was a neat reversal of last series’ closing moments, them both lying to each other in a cafe, but this time, with the comfort of resolution.

Considering the stakes involved ripping apart all of time itself and an epic foray into the very core of the show’s mythology, here was an oddly intimate finale. Part western, part poetic contemplation, told with the deft flashbacks that are the writer’s trademark, in the end it was a beautiful character piece and a fitting exit for Clara. It would never have been plausible for her to go back to a normal life – she was getting the best of both worlds as it was. But neither could the Raven have been the end.

Moffat said recently that Clara was no longer the apprentice, she had “sort of become the Doctor”. But audacious doesn’t even begin to cover him following through on that all the way. This is where we leave Clara Oswald, zipping around time and space in her own Tardis, with her own companion Ashildr, stuck in the moment between two heartbeats, accepting of her fate, but taking her sweet time about it along the way. Crucially, she turned the Doctor’s duty of care back onto him, flip-reversing the nature of Donna Noble’s exit years ago. In ostensibly killing off his companion, Moffat delivered possibly the most upbeat ending we’ve ever seen.

That line, “never be cruel, never be cowardly”, originates from a description of the Doctor written way back by veteran Who writer Terrance Dicks, and those words stand as an emblem of everything our hero holds himself to be. It’s why the War Doctor didn’t think he lived up to the title. And it’s why, after the loss of Clara caused him to fall short of that standard, they both knew that they could not stay together. They were bad for each other. Missy, “the lover of chaos”, knew exactly what she was doing when she put them together, the