Whoo boy

The more spoilers I hear about the new Doctor Who companion Clara the more cringeworthy awful the character sounds.

Here's the latest- get this, in 1892 London she's both a bar maid and a governess- working both jobs at the same time. Uh no. No family in 1892 London would have allowed a bar maid anywhere near their children. No woman working as a governess would have ever even approached an establishment like that, much less worked there.

Seriously, where is the Doctor Who staff minds? Guess that's why the BBC has only green lit 10 episodes for series 8. They must already have a  feeling Clara is going to tank as a companion- now the constant hyping they've done of Clara since March- six months before Amy and Rory even left (eyeroll) takes on the color of desperation.

Instead of shoehorning this Clara character in oh so awkwardly, and on top of that trying to push a romantic angle by making her a doctor groupie who pushes the Doctor into making her his companion, all while he's married to River Song- who will make possibly two more episode appearances this season. Considering the way part 1 of series 7 ended, Clara just looks like a very crass move to draw in the 20 something male viewers and very poor writing as well. It would have been better served to have the Doctor's descent into what he is at the start of the Christmas special last most of the rest of the season and had River and his friends (Madame Vastra, Jenny, Strax) trying to bring him around, maybe had a series of one episode companions who walk away for various reasons, male and female, and no Doctor Groupie type.