Similarities Between Clara Oswald and Charley Pollard

Are you trying to make me like Clara here? Well it won't work, I tell you!

Just kidding, these are all really interesting observations.

Very little, because Charley wasn’t annoying, patronising and outright rude and abusive towards the Doctor.

That's a reverse of one of the climatic scenes in Neverland where Charley would rather die than let Gallifrey, and the whole of time, be infected with anti-time and even when she begs the Doctor to kill her (the villain was a nasty piece of work) he can't bring himself to do it because he loves her.

The Doctor, Sixie and Twelve.

For Gods sake. That is a mess!

To be fair, that is nine releases (so 24-ish episodes?) worth of story compressed down into a paragraph or two. Personally, I thought the run with Sixie and Charley was very strong, everything from The Condemned to Blue Forgotten Planet I enjoyed immensely. The arc was done very well with individual tales taking priority and the mistrust between the two always balancing on the right side of being believable. Both are aware that they don't trust one another as much as they should, but they can still function together as a team without it getting too much in the way.

It's one of Big Finish's best, I think. Thoughtful and clever, not talking down to its audience. It even managed to use the trilogy format for its finale without feeling rushed.

I really, really wish we had gotten more exploration of Clara post-Last Christmas with how she was coping with losing Danny. For all intents and purposes, it commits the same faux pas of early-1980s Doctor Who where a companion's backstory doesn't resurface until their departure (in this case, Face the Raven). Doctor Who has always been a show that dealt very frankly with the subject of death. Even in the silliest of Season 17 or 24, the Doctor and his companion still treated the subject with the earnestness it deserves; Nightmare of Eden and Paradise Towers both spring to mind in that regard (with the latter even having a funeral).

It's part of that unfortunate blushing that the Moffat era does. We don't talk about loss because loss doesn't happen. And when it actually does, we don't know how to handle it, so we don't acknowledge it. There's more than a touch of Happiness Patrol to it. It's a shame because there are shows like Steven Universe that are for children and deal with these kinds of problems in a very matter-of-fact, but optimistic fashion. It is possible and I've always thought it's important to talk about these kinds of things through media. Particularly when you have an arc that's set up around a character coping (unhealthily) with their grief.

Given Doctor Who's continued life in prose and print, stories that touch on Clara's grief during that period less obliquely might help to smooth out the character's sudden left turn at Face the Raven.

Nah, just continuing on the general discussion of the thread. It's fine if you think Blue Forgotten Planet missed the mark, we've all got our own opinions about what works and what doesn't. I'm not bothered.  Sorry if that seemed to be directed straight at you. I've got hospital visits on my mind and it was just a general musing.

I'm usually not a fan of the mindwipe/amnesia solution, truth be told. It's often used as a last-ditch save to free a character of ties to their past in preparation for whatever the new creator has in store for them. Planescape Torment is one of a handful of stories where an amnesiac protagonist done beautifully, the character may have forgotten but the world he lives in remembers all too keenly.

I'll put it in spoiler tags because it really is a great arc and I highly recommend people pick it up:
But a wipe is still a wipe and I can completely understand why it might not have been an appropriate catharsis for such a strong run.