Doctor Who Recap: The Caretaker

I’ll be skipping the recap going forward, so if you haven’t been watching this season’s episodes of “Doctor Who,” you’d better catch up. I don’t know about you, but I’ve been waiting for this episode. We’ve known since the first interaction between Danny and Clara that their relationship would be a source of contention with the Doctor. After all, Danny’s a soldier. The Doctor hates soldiers. And both Danny and the Doctor care for Clara.   Hey there, killer robot guy, you’re not the actual cause of the main conflict in this episode. So yeah, you can go sit down somewhere in your time vortex.   Since the beginning of the Danny-Clara courtship, Clara’s been rushing around, jumping between her adventures with the Doctor and her social life with Danny. That’s obviously taken a toll on Clara and ultimately affects her relationship with Danny in this episode. Still, it makes for some comedic scenes in the show, as Clara spends most of her time bounding around with wide eyes trying to avert crises in the universe and her own life. The episode definitely did well to capture her perspective; the whole thing felt frantic and rushed, and I did feel bad for Clara. But at the same time, there’s almost a bit of masochism involved. It’s a point Danny himself brings up, a point that obviously bothers him and that should bother us (but perhaps doesn’t because we’re so used to the standard craziness of the Doctor-companion relationship): Clara is following the Doctor like a soldier wo…