Doctor Who, S9 Ep6

Doctor Who, S9 Ep6

Hi everybody, Mary here.

So, today here's the review for the sixth episode in the ninth series of Doctor Who ! Without any further ado let's get started, shall we ?

The Woman Who Lived

So, here are the three words I've picked for this episode :

- Immortality : In this episode, we see Ashildr once again (yay me for finding her name !!!), as she spent the last 800 years living in her own with no company. When the Dotor asks her what she's done with the other chip that would grant immortality to someone, she said that no one was worth it. But I guess that in the end, she cared ad she saved this robber, and at the same time, the village that was about to get burned by aliens that used her to achieve their goals. And the most valuable lesson she's learnt in this episode is that even if humans have a very short lifespan, unlike her, they are valuable and should be protected at all costs.

- Escape : In the beginning of the episode, we see Ashildr wanting to fly away with the Doctor, to avoid seeing people die everyday. Well, actually, I don't think that it would improve her life pretty much since the Doctor still sees people dying everyday. But when she says she deserves more than that, and that her immortality is a curse that the Doctor has given to her, leading her life to be just an awful lot of running, hiding, changing your identity and being heartbroken by seeing your loved ones die, it's a little bit heartbreaking, too. Like in the end of The Girl Who Died, with the scene with all the passing days and night and her staying and seeing everyoe die around her.

- Second chance : I think that the real message here was in the title of the two episodes in this double-parter, The Girl Who Died and The Woman Who Lived. In the end, Ashildr was right : when she forgot who she was in the past and had to write her memories in a journal to get her life sorted, the girl she was in the Viking village died, in a way, with her loved ones she had to leave behind since everyone died, in the end. The thing she was the most afraid of losing her family and friend, ended up happening, and she had to bottle up her feelings to avoid being too emotionally invested in people who would abandon her, in the end. And in the end of the episode, when Clara shows the Doctor a selfie of her and one of her students who got an A thanks to his help, the Doctor sees Ashildr in the background. He doesn't tell Clara since she wasn't there, but now, the woman lives and enjoys her life and tries her best to care about people, even if they end up dying anyways.

Overall impression : Great episode, lots of very clever stuff about immortality and the human condition, and Clara saying "I'm not going anywhere" is ALREADY breaking my heart into pieces knowing she will end up leaving the TARDIS too.

Okay, that's it for today, I really hope you enjoyed this post and I'll see you very soon with another one !

And as usual, our last word : KIDNEYS !