A lot of people seem to have this huge issue with Clara after she threatened the doctor with the keys.

Let us reevaluate the situation here.

Clara is different from many of the doctors companions.

LIKE many companions, she brings out the best in the doctor the humanity of the doctor and reminds him to keep trying, to keep saving

UNLIKE many companions she is soo incredibly caught up in her travels with the doctor that she herself needs to be grounded and reminded of her own humanity. She is so in love and obsessed with traveling with the doctor that she becomes immersed and wants so badly to keep up with the doctor. Problem is they both see this, she sees it and so here is where Danny Pink comes in.

Remember that scene in the episode where the Forests take over the world? Danny is clearly worried about the children and is just looking out on how to keep them alive and well. Clara, who has spent so much time with the doctor, isn’t threatened like average people. She is enamoured, excited, delighted, questioning everything and considering it a beauty much like the doctor when he sees a terrifying creature or object but sees the sheer beauty in it.

But back to that scene, Clara, although on a completely different level than Danny, finds his protective, caring, nurturing ideals attractive and almost reassuring.

Very much like how the doctor is attracted to his human companions by their human nature, caring and empathetic aspects that keep him grounded.

Clara is so wrapped up in the doctor she is one of if not the first companion to struggle with her own humanity. She realizes this, this is why Danny Pink is around. Danny Pink is Clara Oswalds companion, the one to remind her of the beauty in the simple stuff, to remind her of her humanity, that one that keeps her grounded while the Doctor inspires her and flies her off into wonders.

As being the first companion to struggle with such a thing, we see her acting more and more like the doctor. Being able to keep up with him, make decisions, be clever and adapt to whatever is going on. The drawback is losing who she is, her humanity, her empathy, and love for the small things that ground her and the doctor. She knew this, I feel that she knew this and that she knew how she was so in love with being with the doctor that it terrified her and made her run to danny and cling to him as the only thing keeping her grounded on earth.

She doesn’t seem to be so close with her family, yes with her gran but nothing like Donna with her grandfather, Rose with her mother and mickey, Martha with her family, or Amy with Rory. So it ends up being Danny that is her only connection to WANT to stay on earth, to be grounded.

She also knew that she is only human and as much as she loves the Doctor he is impossible, she already knew that it wouldn’t work out between an ageless timelord and a human with a short life span. She admits to this in the Christmas special, but I am more than positive she figured this when he abandoned her on their coffee run in Glasglow. Which is probably why she started expressing an interest in someone else. Which is why she started depending on someone else. Danny was the only thing stopping her from falling completely for the doctor and admitting it and falling off the earth. The doctor offered her a life in the Tardis. Not wanting to get hurt she went after someone simple, someone comfortable, a good kind grounded earth man.

So now, loving him, her only big connection on earth that is keeping a wedge between her and her impossible man that she refuses to fall for… is dead. He not only died but he died while she was about to either fess up to everything or maybe come to terms with her feelings, her obsession and addiction with the doctor, now no longer able to do so.

She lost it, the connection to earth, the one thing saving her from falling into the dark abyss with her obsession. She did love him, he kept her human. Just like the doctor loves his companions for the same reason.

Now here it is, you lot. You high and mighty lot all disappointed with a crazy girls decision to threaten a time lord to save the only thing keeping her good, reminding her of the goodness in humanity, in simplicity, in people.

She just lost someone she loved, the only person she decided to pour her hopes into for coming back to earth.

I want you to imagine someone you love, someone you would come back for if you were traveling with the doctor. Your mom? You siblings? Your significant other or best friend?

If any of my siblings were to die and I not only had a time machine but an incredibly clever and powerful alien being that can travel, maintain, and change time and space. Are you going to tell me you wouldn’t even TRY to save the one you love, the one connection saving you and keeping you on this earth?

Hell Rose went against the doctors wishes when she went to save her father!

Martha immediately bitched back at the doctor for even trying to stop her from saving her family.

Amy LEFT the doctor and practically committed suicide because she couldn’t bear to be without Rory.

And no, none of them threatened the doctor like Clara did, but if you are to tell me that you wouldn’t even try to do something similar in order to save the one thing you have that makes you a good person and reminds you of everything good and human in you and in the world, then you haven’t loved, you don’t love the people in your life as much as you should and you don’t see that the doctor himself has done the same thing.

He has burnt up suns to say goodbye,

Gone back in time to see his dead or lost companions, cheated death and even with Clara has tried to find ways to get her back in his life to where he became obsessed.

Im sure at that point that’s what the doctor knew, he saw the desperation in that lonely girls eyes. He saw how similar they truly were, how obsessed they both were with eachother, the doctor and his impossible girl. Which is why he was hurt but understood, which is why he was able to practically admit that he loved her by saying that betraying him wouldn’t stop him from helping her. Which is why he was more than willing to go to hell for her and even told her that they deserved each other.

Clara was a sad, scared little lonely girl, scared of falling in love with an impossible man and scared of losing herself and felt that if she lost her human boy she would lost her humanity. Which she practically did, threatening the doctor.

I think she finally gave in during the Christmas special. She was finally able to admit that she did indeed love the doctor but he was impossible, only because she thought she was old and had lived her life without him. Then when she realized she was young again, she had come to terms with it. It was out there and the Doctor knew and she knew and then they ran.

Clara, to me, is such a relatable and real companion. She isn’t perfect, she is flawed, human and a companion that has so many REAL issues showing drawbacks of being a companion aside from just being in danger all the time. If you disagree, lets debate or share your opinion. But this is how I feel about Clara Oswald, this is why I love her and this is why I choose to be Oswin.