#and how frigging brilliant it was for Moffat to stage his own writing tropes in such a manner? #pretty absolutely brilliant if you ask me #that was one of the most Moffatesque ride Moffat wrote since Jekyll #time loops! #but not really #big speeches! #to no one and constantly interrupted #childhood monster that’s a machine! #that actually succeeds in killing the Doctor #the power of words! #that really doesn’t help since in the end mere strength changes it all #mind palace! #to escape from an actual mind fortress #the TARDIS as his home! #nope that was Gallifrey #I just #the thing is that now we are used to Moffat surprising us #and he probably knows it #so he wrote an entire episode that was nothing but a twist #an hour-long plot device filled with subtle undermining of his many writing shticks #literally a twisted castle that is a bag of tricks that is a door (c) onaperduamedee