RE x 7
No you weren't the only one (hurry up, not the undergarments)
Actually, I thought it good that one of the Doctor's companions finally had to face up to their rash decisions without a convenient McGuffin to bail them out. I reckon Clara's death would have had far more impact if she hadn't gone on about it for so long though... I was rooting for the raven to appear halfway through her farewell speech. That's the sort of thing that Joss Whedon excels at; an unexpected* death, showing that death isn't pretty and sometimes it just is futile.
* yeah, well it wasn't going to be unexpected in Clara's case, but cutting her short mid-speech would have done the trick.