Board Thread:Whoniverse Discussion/@comment-27271845-20151025062456/@comment-15395126-20151025122801

I loved this episode, and my one real issue with it is just the fact that Maisie Williams' age does not support her character's backstory, what with all the husbands and children she's supposedly had and lost over the many years. Then again, given the time periods through which Ashildr lived, it makes sense, since people married earlier and had children earlier in those days.

I enjoyed The Girl Who Died because I did not view it as a "vs. the Mire" piece. I viewed it instead as a "Story of Ashildr" piece and was rewarded for this. The Woman Who Lived simply continued to reward me for the same reason; it really makes me wonder why this was not counted as a two-parter… I agree that the bit with Leandro was a little underdeveloped, but it was more the background to the episode than anything else, like the Mire in the story before. These episodes were more intended to introduce and develop Ashildr, who NEEDS her own spin-off series, if you ask me.

I guess another thing that bothered me at the end of the episode was how Ashildr sort of wasted the second Mire medical kit. Sure, she was able to bring back Sam Swift after killing him, but the Doctor wanted her to use it on someone special, whom she could spend the rest of eternity with. Am I really to understand that Ashildr and Sam are gonna be lovers/partners now? Seems a bit forced…

I liked how this was a Clara-lite episode; I'm honestly sick of her at this point. What pains me most about episodes like this, though, is they remind me of how weak and terrible Series 8 is unless you analyze it to death...