{"id":28646,"date":"2014-08-17T21:56:30","date_gmt":"2014-08-17T21:56:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/?p=28646"},"modified":"2014-08-17T21:56:30","modified_gmt":"2014-08-17T21:56:30","slug":"a-changing-of-the-guard","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/?p=28646","title":{"rendered":"A Changing of the Guard"},"content":{"rendered":"

Jenna Coleman is leaving Doctor Who<\/em>.<\/p>\n

If you believe the Mirror<\/em>, that is.<\/p>\n

I don’t believe the Mirror<\/em>, not exactly. I think the basic story is right — she’s leaving the series at the end of the year — but the details are invented.<\/p>\n

The characterization that she “quit” especially strikes me as false. I think it is vastly more likely that she simply took stock of her career and her two seasons on the series and chose to pass on re-upping for another.<\/p>\n

To be honest, having read the leaked scripts; I’m not clear why she’s in the series this year. I don’t understand why Clara travels with the twelfth Doctor; he treats her like dirt, and she doesn’t like him.<\/p>\n

I can’t say I will miss Clara when she’s gone. She was a plot point, not a character, in her first season. She was fun to watch, especially how Coleman and Matt Smith played off one another. She brought energy to some dire material. <\/p>\n

Two years is a good run. I’m sure Coleman will do well, whatever she does next.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Jenna Coleman is leaving Doctor Who. If you believe the Mirror, that is. I don’t believe the Mirror, not exactly. I think the basic story is right — she’s leaving the series at the end of the year — but the details are invented. The characterization that she “quit” especially strikes me as false. IContinue reading “A Changing of the Guard”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":28647,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[4082,3961],"class_list":["post-28646","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-doctor-who","tag-doctor-who","tag-jenna-coleman","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28646","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=28646"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28646\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/28647"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=28646"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=28646"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=28646"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}