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mh quite the theories here for the upcoming hell bent. i just watched heaven sent again with a friend and after two hours of geekiness i came up with a another theory regarding the finale, which will (in my opinion) reveal that clara was the master all along. i know it’s kinda farfetched but i think it makes kinda sense, so bear with me. would love some comments on my theory, here we go:

i think day of the doctor, end of time and heaven sent/hell bent are both happening at the same time.

first we have the war council at the end of day of the doctor. they say the high council is in session and no help will come from them. i think that mentioned session is the one we’ve seen in end of time where rassilon enacts his plan to save gallifrey from destruction with the (unwilling) help of the master.

so whilst the doctors war, 10 and 11 are about to save gallifrey with their other incarnations, 10 is battling the master and meets rassilon, when he shifts gallifrey out of the “time-lock”.

my point here is, that rassilon started his plan at the same time that the doctor(s) saved gallifrey from certain doom with their tardises. so the second they sealed gallifrey in the pocket universe, gallifrey was also present in earths orbit and later got sucked back into the time-war.  we know the master got wounded and sucked with them back to the time-war, right?

i think the john simm master regenerated back on gallifrey into clara. let me explain my reasoning:

gallifrey was saved with the help of a statuscube which is timelord art and seals a moment of time into a painting, bigger on the inside. that means the pocket dimension/universe was the painting “gallifrey falls no more” all along. since it is a section of time removed from actual time, the flow in that universe goes by different, which explains why in the actual visible painting the time war is still full on with the remnants of the dalek fleet etc.

the painting only shows the fallen city of arcadia, but not other parts of gallifrey like the panopticon, which has in the meantime be rebuild with the rest of the planet (besides arcadia which is still in war because of the painting depicts it that way)

the doctor lands via his confession dial in the pocket universe (the painting). there he meets clara again which is unbeknownst to him the newly regenerated form of the master.

ashildr/me will be revealed as the hybrid (two warrior races: viking + mire technology) who aquired the painting during her tenure through history and learnt through the cracks of the connection of the doctor and the time lords, possibly talked and worked with them to bring the doctor back to gallifrey.

back on earth, claras dead body is still with ashildr. there she regenerates into missy (as delayed regeneration is a thing, 10, 11 and 8 didn’t regenerate immediately). thats where missy realises why she gave clara the doctors number. she gets into the doctors tardis and takes jacks vortex manipulator, which was in the possession of the doctor, after clara used it to escape from the zygons in the day of the doctor. thats how missy got hold of the manipulator in the first place.

after that she seeks out the time when clara-prime first called for help, which missy provided by giving her the number of the doctor. missys remark that “she’s chosen well” refers to one of claras splinters, from which missy chose the prime clara. missy gave herself the number of the doctor to keep the web of time intact and make sure, that she’d be with the doctor. her closest friend in the original sense and in her incarnation as the doctors companion.

so why doesn’t clara remember that she’s a time lord/lady? because the doctor (now on gallifrey in the pocket universe) sees the john simm master regenerate into clara and it starts to make sense to him. he rescues the incarcerated master-clara and uses the chameleon ark on her to turn her human and wipe her memory and send her to earth with a set of new memories.

the scene with clara in the diner takes place when the doctor checks on her to make sure she doesn’t remember and clara is just doing a parttime job. this clara is the one that will meet 11.

that would explain why missy gave clara the number of the doctor, how she got hold of the vortex manipulator and why she created the cyberman army for the doctor. she already witnessed all that has happened in her time as clara and followed her memories for her plot to show the doctor she was always and will still be his best friend. it was all to make sure she survived and came to be the way she’s now with that wicked fixation on the doctor.

back on gallifrey the doctor is to stand trial for his (various) crimes and executed and this is where ashildr as the hybrid comes in, who saves him. that makes sense with the overall prophecy, because the doctor as the alleged hybrid and ashildr as the “real” hybrid are walking on gallifrey whilst its destruction (which is still depicted in the painting)

i know, the theory is full of holes but i think it explains a lot and fits with the overall theme of the current series. all a bit timey-whimey.

so what do you think? utter bs or maybe some possible truths?

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