Doctor Who, Season Nine

[Esquilax]

I'm beginning to suspect that this writing team, Moffat particularly, doesn't understand that their audience is comprised of thinking human beings. The earnestness with which Clara's several minute death sequence was presented, when they have done the same thing with literally every other principle character in the series since Moffat took over as showrunner, often multiple times, only to reverse it, only makes sense if they just think the audience is stupid. You don't spend that much time on an emotional death scene if you think your viewers have been conditioned by year upon year of "deaths," that don't stick not to take such things seriously anymore.

I knew from the moment she died that Clara wasn't going to stay dead, and lo and behold, she comes back to life for the final episode. This has happened with Amy, with Rory, with Eleven, with Rory, with Rory, with Clara (twice!), with Eleven again, with Twelve, with Missy, with Osgood, and with Twelve again, and yet every time we're expected to just take the death with po-faced seriousness, as though it's a real thing that'll definitely happen this time. Just keep going back to that well, guys. Nobody will notice the pattern, because we're all drooling imbeciles. Just make up more space words to write around it!

The only death that was remotely permanent was Osgood, and that was only the case because they literally had a spare!