Doctor Who - Do you think I care for you so little

The Twelfth Doctor (Peter Capaldi) shows his soft side, forgiving Clara (Jenna Coleman) after tossing the TARDIS key.

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[loha]

No other Doctor has so perfectly said 'I love you' without saying it.

[mdr]

"Do you think I care for you so little that betraying me would make a difference"

Gets me all the time.

[sadisticD]

" Do you think I care for you so little that betraying me would make a difference" He understood she was acting out of grief and not being who she really was. His compassion and care for her is amazing.

[itsmesquares]

"Go to hell..."
Eleven would've smiled afterward.
Ten and Nine would've meant it.
But Twelve had his resting face on. She was fooled by the eyebrows. He was confused why she tried to leave and he made sure she stayed.

[robboyte]

"Do you think I care for you so little that betraying me would make a difference?"
THAT is the moment when Peter Capaldi became the Doctor.

[caomhan]

"Stop it with the eyes.  Don't DO that with the eyes.  How DO you do that anyway?  It's like they inflate."  LOL

[callumreid]

Capaldi's Doctor really did love Clara; went to Hell to save her boyfriend, fought against his own people for 4.5 billion years, brought her back at the end of the universe and wiped his own memory just to keep her safe. If that isn't devotion then what is?

[BlastedOblivion]

The kind of friend who would go through 4 billion years of pain and death. We should all be so lucky.

[theadman]

"am i a good man?" for me this answered it

[godoflemmings]

I feel like this was the turning point in their relationship. Through this whole series, she watched him do and say cold and selfish things and she called him out on it, then she does an extremely cold and selfish thing, and he calls her out but forgives her. She obviously saw at that point that the Doctor she knew was still in there.

[Mercerenies]

I like how genuinely confused he is at 0:36 when she tries to leave.

[DL-wukk]

I think that's why the twelfth's doctor's love for clara seems so deep compared to the eleventh's. sure the eleventh really was flirty and more affectionate but the twelfth doctor was so much more sacrificial in his love for clara.

[DL-wukk]

I totally fell in love with the twelfth doctor at this moment. how can he be so forgiving and so giving after such an insanely selfish act.

[thebighurt]

Clara was to Twelve like Ten's Rose and Eleven's Amy. To put it as Eleven did: "The first face this face ever saw." THAT's why they were so special to them.

[FlippinGurtrude]

When an actor, who's far older than the female lead, can make you forget their age, that's when you know they're talented. Not for one moment did the bond between them two feel weird.

[DiRtYLaWs]

I still think as time passes people will see Peter Capaldi as quite an underrated Doctor. His run was marred with some of the weaker writing since the show came back. He was a great Doctor.

[rtaylor]

I do love the chemistry between Peter Capaldi and Jenna Coleman.

[ruthrios]

...ok this is super emotional and sweet but are we just gonna ignore the fact that the Doctor, upon considering where Danny Pink ended up, immediately decided that the guy went to hell? 😂

[LogicalGamingUK]

When he said "Go to hell" when I first saw this I was like... Damn this doctor ain't fucking around.

[Seemlypseudonym]

I think the Doctor's calculation here is obvious: he doesn't blame Clara for what she did because in the end there were no real consequences (unlike Rose and Amy, who were both almost excluded from the TARDIS previously). What the sequence with the sleep patch did was show the Doctor the extent of Clara's trauma in light of Danny's death and the impossible situation he had to deal with: if he wants Clara to continue to travel with him, then he has to make some effort to bring Danny back from the dead, because otherwise his inaction would hover like a black cloud over all their future adventures – every world saved, every wrong righted, every incredible, impossible thing the Doctor does would be marred by the same question: "You can do all that but you couldn't save the love of my life?" So he has to go down this rabbit hole with her and ride out her grief in the hope that he might exhaust her desperation and disabuse her of the belief that he can do anything, so that she can finally accept Danny's death and begin to heal.