I love meta, especially when it adds to my enjoyment of an episode, and this meta certainly did. There was just SO much going on in this episode and it was all kinds of beautiful.
If RTD was picking apart the question of "Who is the doctor?" by stripping him back to his most depressed state, than Moffat's "Who is the doctor?" is all about putting him back together. Last series, Eleven declared that he had gotten "too big" and that the universe needed to forget him for awhile. His biggest problem is that so many remember and tell stories of him. Oswin gave him a wonderful gift by making the daleks forget their former greatest enemy. It was the most perfect gift a person could give somebody like the doctor- a second chance.
And actually, in many ways this episode was just as much about second chances as it was about love.
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I love meta, especially when it adds to my enjoyment of an episode, and this meta certainly did. There was just SO much going on in this episode and it was all kinds of beautiful.
If RTD was picking apart the question of "Who is the doctor?" by stripping him back to his most depressed state, than Moffat's "Who is the doctor?" is all about putting him back together. Last series, Eleven declared that he had gotten "too big" and that the universe needed to forget him for awhile. His biggest problem is that so many remember and tell stories of him. Oswin gave him a wonderful gift by making the daleks forget their former greatest enemy. It was the most perfect gift a person could give somebody like the doctor- a second chance.
And actually, in many ways this episode was just as much about second chances as it was about love.
And now I will write more meta...