Doctor Who 9.12 Hell Bent

Honestly, I have no idea yet how I feel about all of this. There's probably somewhwere some great meta to be written about all echoing and contrasting and deconstructing and reconstructing of Previous Events (particularly two from the RTD era, but by no means exclusively; Moffat's own stuff comes heavily in for it as well, plus some Old Who tropes and the TV Movie Of Doom, oh, and the Big Finish canon, too). But I'm not up for writing said meta yet (horribly real life business!), so just a few impressions, as per usual. For the most part, it emotionally worked for me... I think.

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