Post-Christmas Special, were still barely the wiser about the Doctors new companion.
Lets tot up the facts so far…
Warning: contains spoilers forAsylum Of The DaleksandThe Snowmen.
Heres what we need answering: what is the connection between Oswin the Dalek and Clara the governess?
How is the same woman reappearing at different points in time, memory-less of her past selves?
Where and who is her family?
What is her link to the Doctor?
Was she born behind the clock face of Big Ben?
And most importantly, did she invent fish?
A woman of action and hand-grabbing, hang about Clara does not.
The one-word reason she gives Vastra for seeking out the Doctor?
Curiosity, the prerequisite of anyWhocompanion worth their salt.
Add the ability to psychically melt a horde of snowmen (collective noun for a group of snowmen?
This Victorian heroine is no hysterical fainting lady.
Whats wrong with dangerous?.
By which I mean that shes extremely good at it.
Either way, both Clara and Oswin are weapons-grade flirts.
The series new episode teaser trailer said it: shes the woman twice-dead.
What was it that the Doctor tells Amy inThe Pandorica Opens?
This pithy little motto recalls the many appearances of the remember motif in this and recent episodes.
We saw snow and ice that remembers, and the memory worm in the Christmas Special.
But then again, neither was that astronaut.
