Every episode of New Who in chronological order (Doctor Who)
Spoilers: it makes no fucking sense. Also, there are some episodes which occur in two or more time periods
"The Fires of Pompeii" - 79 David Tennant
"The Eaters of Light" - 2nd century Peter Capaldi
"The Pandorica Opens" - 102 Matt Smith
"The Big Bang" - immediately after "The Pandorica Opens", 102 Matt Smith
"The Girl Who Died" - 851 Peter Capaldi
"Resolution" 9th century Jodie Whittaker
"The Magician's Apprentice" - 1138 Peter Capaldi
"The Witch's Familiar" immediately after "The Magician's Apprentice", 1138 Peter Capaldi
"Robot of Sherwood" - 1190 Peter Capaldi
"The Bells of Saint John" - 1207 Matt Smith
"Can You Hear Me?" - 1380 Jodie Whittaker
"The Day of the Doctor" - 1562 Matt Smith and David Tennant
"The Vampires of Venice" - 1580 Matt Smith
"The Shakespeare Code" - 1599 David Tennant
"The Curse of the Black Spot" - 16th century Matt Smith
"The Witchfinders" - 1612 Jodie Whittaker
"The Woman Who Lived" - 1681, sequential to "The Girl Who Died" Peter Capaldi
"Legend of the Sea Devils" - 1807 Jodie Whittaker
"Thin Ice" - 1814 Peter Capaldi
"The Haunting of Villa Diodati" - 1816 Jodie Whittaker
"Spyfall Part Two" - 1834 Jodie Whittaker
"Deep Breath" - Victorian era (between 1837-1901) Peter Capaldi and Matt Smith
"The Next Doctor" - 1851 David Tennant
"War of the Sontarans" - 1855 sequential to "The Halloween Apocalypse" Jodie Whittaker
"The Unquiet Dead" - December 1869 Christopher Eccleston
"Tooth and Claw" - 1879 David Tennant
"A Town Called Mercy" - somewhere between 1865-1890 Matt Smith
"Empress of Mars" - 1881 Peter Capaldi
"Vincent and the Doctor" - 1890 Matt Smith
"The Snowmen" - 1892 Matt Smith
"The Crimson Horror" - 1893 Matt Smith
"The Name of the Doctor" - 1893 Matt Smith
"Ascension of the Cybermen" - "the early 20th century" Jodie Whittaker
"Nikola Tesla's Night of Terror" - 1903 Jodie Whittaker
"Survivors of the Flux" - 1904 sequential to "Village of the Angels" Jodie Whittaker
"Human Nature" - 1913 David Tennant
"The Family of Blood" - Immediately after "Human Nature", 1913 David Tennant
"The Power of the Doctor" 1916 Jodie Whittaker and David Tennant
"The Unicorn and the Wasp" - 1926 David Tennant
"Daleks in Manhattan" - 1930 David Tennant
"Evolution of the Daleks - Immediately after "Daleks in Manhattan", 1930 David Tennant
"Let's Kill Hitler" - 1938 Matt Smith
"The Angels Take Manhattan" 1938 Matt Smith
"Victory of the Daleks" - between 1939-1945 Matt Smith
"The Empty Child" - 1941 Christopher Eccleston
"The Doctor Dances" - Immediately after "The Empty Child", 1941 Christopher Eccleston
"The Doctor, the Widow and the Wardrobe" - December 1941 Matt Smith
"Demons of the Punjab" - August 1947 Jodie Whittaker
"The Idiot's Lantern" - June 1953 David Tennant
"Rosa" - 1955 Jodie Whittaker
"Village of the Angels" - November 1967 sequential to "Once, Upon Time" Jodie Whittaker
"The Impossible Astronaut" - 1969 Matt Smith
"The Day of the Moon" - Immediately after "The Impossible Astronaut" 1969 Matt Smith
"Blink" - 1969/2007 David Tennant
"Hide" - 1974 Matt Smith
"The God Complex" - 1980 Matt Smith
"Cold War" - 1983 Matt Smith
"Twice Upon a Time" 1986 Peter Capaldi and Jodie Whittaker
"Father's Day" - 1987 Christopher Eccleston
"The Return of Doctor Mysterio" - 1992 Peter Capaldi
"The Eleventh Hour" 1998 Matt Smith
"Rose" - contemporary to release, March 2005 Christopher Eccleston
"School Reunion" - 2005 David Tennant
"The Christmas Invasion" - contemporary to release, December 2005 David Tennant
"Aliens of London" - Approximately March 2006 Christopher Eccleston
"World War Three" - Immediately after "Aliens of London", approximately March 2006 Christopher Eccleston
"Rise of the Cybermen" - contemporary to release, May 2006 David Tennant
"The Age of Steel" - Immediately after "Rise of the Cybermen", May 2006 David Tennant
"Love & Monsters" - contemporary to release, June 2006 David Tennant
"Army of Ghosts" - after "Love & Monsters", summer 2006 David Tennant
"Doomsday" - Immediately after "Army of Ghosts", summer 2006 David Tennant
"Boom Town" - autumn 2006 Christopher Eccleston
"Turn Left" - autumn 2006 David Tennant
"The Runaway Bride" - December 2006 David Tennant
"Smith and Jones" - contemporary to release, March 2007 David Tennant
"The Lazarus Experiment" - contemporary to release, May 2007 David Tennant
"42" - contemporary to release, May 2007 David Tennant
"The Sound of Drums" - contemporary to release, June 2007 (immediately after "Utopia") David Tennant
"Blink" - 1969/2007 David Tennant
"Partners in Crime" - contemporary to release, April 2008 David Tennant
"The Sontaran Stratagem" - contemporary to release, April 2008 David Tennant
"The Poison Sky" - contemporary to release, May 2008 (immediately after "The Sontaran Stratagem") David Tennant
"Last of the Time Lords" - contemporary to release, June 2008 (sequential to "The Sound of Drums"), David Tennant
"The Stolen Earth" - contemporary to release, June 2008 David Tennant
"Journey's End" - contemporary to release, July 2008 (immediately after "The Stolen Earth") David Tennant
"The Lodger" - contemporary to release, June 2010 Matt Smith
"Night Terrors" - contemporary to release, September 2011 Matt Smith
"Closing Time" - contemporary to release, September 2011 Matt Smith
"Fear Her" - July 2012 David Tennant
"Dalek" - 2012 Christopher Eccleston
"Asylum of the Daleks" - contemporary to release, September 2012 Matt Smith
"The Power of Three" - contemporary to release, September 2012 Matt Smith
"The Rings of Akhaten" - contemporary to release, April 2013 Matt Smith
"Into the Dalek" - contemporary to release, August 2014 Peter Capaldi
"Listen" - contemporary to release, September 2014 Peter Capaldi
"Time Heist" - contemporary to release, September 2014 Peter Capaldi
"The Caretaker" - contemporary to release, September 2014 Peter Capaldi
"Flatline" - contemporary to release, October 2014 Peter Capaldi
"In the Forest of the Night" - contemporary to release, October 2014 Peter Capaldi
"Dark Water" - contemporary to release, November 2014 Peter Capaldi
"Death in Heaven" - contemporary to release, November 2014 Peter Capaldi
"Last Christmas" - contemporary to release, December 2014 Peter Capaldi
"Amy's Choice" - 2015 Matt Smith
"The Zygon Invasion" - contemporary to release, October 2015 Peter Capaldi
"The Zygon Inversion" - contemporary to release, November 2015 (immediately after "The Zygon Invasion") Peter Capaldi
"Face the Raven" - contemporary to release, November 2015 Peter Capaldi
"The Pilot" - contemporary to release, April 2017 Peter Capaldi
"Knock Knock" - contemporary to release, May 2017 Peter Capaldi
"Extremis" - contemporary to release, May 2017 Peter Capaldi
"The Pyramid at the End of the World" - contemporary to release, May 2017 Peter Capaldi
"The Woman Who Fell to Earth" - contemporary to release, October 2018 Jodie Whittaker
"Arachnids in the UK" - contemporary to release, October 2018 Jodie Whittaker
"It Takes You Away" - contemporary to release, November 2018 Jodie Whittaker
"Spyfall" - contemporary to release, January 2020 Jodie Whittaker
"Fugitive of the Judoon" - contemporary to release, January 2020 Jodie Whittaker
"Praxeus" - contemporary to release, February 2020 Jodie Whittaker
"The Hungry Earth" - 2020 Matt Smith
"Cold Blood" - 2020 (immediately after "The Hungry Earth") Matt Smith
"Revolution of the Daleks" - September 2020 Jodie Whittaker
"The Halloween Apocalypse" - contemporary to release, October 2021 Jodie Whittaker
"Once, Upon Time" - contemporary to release, sequential to "War of the Sontarans", November 2021 Jodie Whittaker
"Eve of the Daleks" contemporary to release, January 2022 Jodie Whittaker
"Kill the Moon" - 2049 Peter Capaldi
"The Waters of Mars" - 2059 David Tennant
"The Rebel Flesh" - 22nd century Matt Smith
"The Almost People" - 22nd century (immediately after "The Rebel Flesh") Matt Smith
"Under the Lake" - 2119 Peter Capaldi
"Before the Flood" - 2119 (immediately after "Under the Lake") Peter Capaldi
"Dinosaurs on a Spaceship" - 2367 Matt Smith
"The Beast Below" - some point after the 29th century Matt Smith
"Sleep No More" - 38th century Peter Capaldi
"Planet of the Ood" - 4126 David Tennant
"The Time of Angels" - 5000 Matt Smith
"Flesh and Stone" - 5000 (immediately after "The Time of Angels") Matt Smith
"The Girl in the Fireplace" - 5000-5100 David Tennant
"The Husbands of River Song" - 5343 Peter Capaldi
"Silence in the Library" - 5100 David Tennant
"Forest of the Dead" - 5100 (immediately after "Silence in the Library") David Tennant
"The Long Game" - 200,000 Christopher Eccleston
"Bad Wolf" - 200,100 Christopher Eccleston
"The Parting of the Ways" Immediately after "Bad Wolf", 200,100 Christopher Eccleston/David Tennant
"The End of the World" - 5 billion (plus 2005) Christopher Eccleston
"New Earth" - 5,000,000,023 David Tennant
"Gridlock" - 5,000,000,023 David Tennant
"Utopia" - 100 trillion David Tennant
"Smile" - it's in "the far future" Peter Capaldi
No indication of the date:
"The Impossible Planet", David Tennant (Broadcast June 2006)
"The Satan Pit", David Tennant (Broadcast June 2006)
"Voyage of the Damned", David Tennant (Broadcast December 2007)
"The Doctor's Daughter", David Tennant (Broadcast May 2008)
"Midnight", David Tennant (Broadcast June 2008)
"Planet of the Dead", David Tennant (Broadcast April 2009)
"The End of Time", David Tennant (Broadcast December 2009)
"A Christmas Carol", Matt Smith (Broadcast December 2010)
"The Doctor's Wife", Matt Smith (Broadcast May 2011)
"A Good Man Goes to War", Matt Smith (Broadcast June 2011)
"The Girl Who Waited", Matt Smith (Broadcast September 2011)
"The Wedding of River Song", Matt Smith (Broadcast October 2011)
"Journey to the Centre of the TARDIS", Matt Smith (Broadcast April 2013)
"Nightmare in Silver", Matt Smith (Broadcast May 2013)
"The Time of the Doctor", Matt Smith (Broadcast December 2013)
"Mummy on the Orient Express", Peter Capaldi (Broadcast October 2014)
"Heaven Sent", Peter Capaldi (Broadcast November 2015)
"Hell Bent", Peter Capaldi (Broadcast December 2015)
"Oxygen", Peter Capaldi (Broadcast May 2017)
"The Lie of the Land", Peter Capaldi (Broadcast June 2017)
"World Enough and Time", Peter Capaldi (Broadcast June 2017)
"The Doctor Falls", Peter Capaldi (Broadcast July 2017)
"The Ghost Monument", Jodie Whittaker (Broadcast 2018)
"The Tsuranga Conundrum", Jodie Whittaker (Broadcast November 2018)
"Kerblam!", Jodie Whittaker (Broadcast November 2018)
"The Battle of Ranskoor Av Kolos", Jodie Whittaker (Broadcast December 2018)
"Orphan 55", Jodie Whittaker (Broadcast January 2020)
"The Vanquishers" Jodie Whittaker (Broadcast December 2021)
"The Timeless Children" sequential to "The Ascension of the Cybermen", Jodie Whittaker (March 2020)
Key: red is Christopher Eccleston; orange is David Tennant; green is Matt Smith; Peter Capaldi is blue; Jodie Whittaker is purple
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While Donna Noble will always be my favourite companion in NuWho, Clara will always be the most multi-faceted and complex (as of now). I think that a lot of divisiveness surrounding Clara stems from 5 common criticisms:
1. Clara’s characterisation in 7B and how Moffat treats her mostly as a mystery box first and character second.
2. The length of Clara’s tenure and how some may have been fatigued due to the many times “she should have left.”
3. The emphasis on Clara’s flaws in Series 8 and how it kind of paints her as unlikable over her Series 7B depiction as at least kind.
4. Clara’s departure in Hell Bent as something that ruins her ending in Face The Raven.
5. The belief of Clara as the most important character in the Doctors life inherently devaluing other companions.
I think while I can understand the reasons leading up to these criticisms, I also think that it does help to look back throughout the Moffat and RTD era as it does help explain a lot of these points imo.
Actually, the character Clara most prominently echoes is Rose. Rose, like Clara, helped the Doctor through a time of extreme emotional vulnerability (for 9th, Time War trauma) and developed a relationship of co-dependency with him (as 10th) which never really went away even after Doomsday. Clara had the luxury of time however, and has undergone more events with the Doctor (Impossible Girl, Trenzalore, 50th Anniversary etc) but also how 12th was undergoing an extreme identity crisis of figuring out whether he’s a good man post-Trenzalore and saving Gallifrey. Clara was the one who facilitated his character growth through the turbulence of the arc in instances like Dark Water, Death In Heaven, Mummy on The Orient Express, Kill The Moon, Last Christmas etc and would naturally result in the Doctor developing an extremely unhealthy reliance on Clara as being his “carer,” his anchor to being The Doctor (refer to her whole “Be A Doctor” spiel in the 50th Anniversary). Series 9 already heavily implied the Doctor’s willingness to engage with destructive measures by choosing to separate Clara and The Doctor almost every episode (Magicians Apprentice/Witch’s Familiar) as the stakes rose and cumulated in Face The Raven.
RTD has also once said when paying tribute to Moffat:
“And nestling at the heart of the show is Doctor Who's very own problem category, the Companion, a title inherently subordinate to the Man. Until Clara comes along!”
Imo, while poorly phrased, I think does also hit another nail on the head to explain how Clara can be so compelling to someone like me but also extremely polarising. RTD is talking less about the companion being “weaker” or “submissive” but how Clara is the NuWho companion that wishes to obliterate the boundaries between the power dynamic of companion/doctor. Series 8 for instances plays on the recurring motif of, “Do as you are told” which the Doctor firstly uses to threaten Clara to keep her safe. However, Clara actively retaliates by parroting the phrase back in an attempt to attain parity. This escalates to the events of Dark Water where she attempts to maintain control of her circumstances by forcing the Doctor to be on equal ground with her. What is so fascinating is that Clara while changing and emulating more of the Doctor’s heroism, she equally begins to absorb his flaws which intensify throughout Series 8-9. Clara becomes more deceitful, egotistical, reckless and cunning as she begins to become more and more like him. The means she lies to Danny, her ability to think more and more like him.
However, what people (fans and haters) also ignore is how nuanced the circumstances are. While Clara’s flaws become more heightened, it is also a fact that she wants to be like the Doctor because of his kindness and heroism. Episodes like Robots of Sherwood, Last Christmas or even Rings of Akhten reveal a lot about how Clara reveres the Doctor as a mythic and heroic figure. Clara’s attitudes towards the children in Forest Of The Night, Name Of The Doctor and Into The Dalek reveal that in spite of her ego and selfishness, she is someone who desires to help people. Thus, her desire to become the Doctor becomes more explainable. What a lot of people can’t really accept is that she can be both egotistical, reckless and kind at once. Her actions in Face The Raven were driven out of the fact that it came from a place of ignorance and impulsiveness (not stupidity, the Doctor would do something similar, it’s just that Clara did not have all the clues) in what she believed would be what the Doctor would do and that she was confident she could match the trickery of the Doctor, and yet it was also driven by her compassion towards Rigsby and her while impulsive, sincere desire to save her friend.
Clara is punished because of this, she forgets that she’s far too human. The Doctor is less breakable. She pays for it and as Ashildr says in Hell Bent:
“She died for who she was and who she loved. She fell where she stood. It was sad. And it was beautiful.”
She died due to her physical fragility, her ego, her ignorance, her impulsiveness/recklessness and yet she also died because she was too brave, she died like the Doctor, who she loved (literally look at how her arms were outstretched as though she was mid-regeneration and how the black smoke parallels the orange glow of regeneration). However, this leads to the fourth main criticism I prior stated, so how does one answer that in relation to her character?
The answer is what Clara does and what the Doctor says towards the end of Hell Bent. Clara after being extracted and is with the Doctor in the TARDIS, spies on him because she is instantly suspicious of his erratic behaviour. Again, Clara shows how much she has become like him, she immediately picks up that he is hiding something because she has begun to think like him. Of course, the Doctor was planning on wiping Clara’s memories similar to what he did to Donna. But what does Clara do? She immediately reverse the polarity of the device that the Doctor was going to use on her and challenges the Doctors actions. Clara states:
“Tomorrow’s promised to no one, Doctor. But I insist upon my past. I am entitled to that. It’s mine.”
Clara’s language indicates her assertiveness and also a kind of last hurrah in her game of parity. She is refusing to submit to the narrative of being reduced to merely a companion that the Doctor moves away from. But more importantly, the Doctor after pressing the device and is losing his memory, states:
“Run like hell because you 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 (…) Never eat pears. They’re too squishy. And they always make your chin wet. That one’s quite important. Write it down.”
I think on initial viewing when the show was airing, this wouldn’t make much sense but this really shows the crux of how Hell Bent completes Clara’s arc and the necessity of her resurrection. In Face The Raven, the Doctor tells Clara that she’s more breakable as she questions why she can’t be as reckless as him. However, now the Doctor is instead telling her what would later be repeated in Twice Upon A Time, his regeneration speech. In his eyes, Clara has succeeded in graduating from the Magicians Apprentice and into becoming the Magician herself. He’s instructing her how to properly be The Doctor. As I said, Clara was also motivated by her desire to be kind when she engaged in her reckless gambit but what is so wrong about the desire to be kind? And why should Clara be punished for it? Thus, while Clara MUST die, her final act of kindness at the end of her arc enables the Universe to allow for Clara’s final transformation into the Doctor.
Clara is still dead, it is an unchanged historical event. However, to challenge the status quo and allow for Clara’s ascension, Clara becomes a fairy tale herself. Her body is caught in a permanent form of stasis, signalling her departure from the limits of her physicality (subverting her physical fragility) but also as seen through her last words to the Doctor:
“You said memories become stories when we forget them. Maybe some of them become songs.”
Clara has successfully become what she admired, a myth, a fable. She has become a symbol in a story, a story that would go on to have an infinite number of other stories. She has become the leaf she raises to the monster in the Rings of Akhten, she sails off into narrative ambiguity but also infinity. Clara is so polarising because she challenges the definition of what it means to be The Doctor on a pure metatextual level. It’s a logical progression from the introspection of the question from the Doctor himself in Series 8. To want to resist, I argue, is natural.
I could explore further about her adrenaline addiction in Mummy On The Orient Express or these traits I raised explored in Flatline which I may do another day, but I hope I have provided a new perspective on Clara Oswald.
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