The pacing of Clara ' s relationship with Danny Pink just wasn ' t done that well , given how important it was to series 8 . It ' s strange because it started off pretty well with Into the Dalek and especially Listen , but suddenly turned dramatic in The Caretaker without the audience really knowing what happened in between . I think the tension between Danny and the Doctor wasn ' t written in a great way , plotwise . While the idea of the Doctor being repulsed at Danny being a soldier is a great idea , the show didn ' t develop this idea in the scripts as well as it could have . <| sep |> As an American this confuses me also . Lots of people ask me if I ' m Republican or Democrat and I shrug and say I don ' t associate with a party . We are not all like this though and I think this is becoming increasingly prevalentent with this horrific past year of politics . I had to choose to associate with a criminal or a racistsexist so I voted third party .