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The direwolf still flies above our walls

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Layla || 20s || Huffleclaw || French || Multifandom || Currently obsessed with: River Song.
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Moffat Appreciation Day

I dedicate this post to all Moffat’s characters of his era. The Girl who waited in a garden who grew into a woman struggling to figure out who she was beyond the stories in her head that somehow became her real life, the girl raised to believe she existed only for a singular obsession to murder a man yet who ultimately learned how to balance love and a life of her own choosing, the nurse who never wanted to be extraordinary, but could always stand up for the moral decision and fight for his family, the old man in a young man’s body who just wanted to see the universe and do the right thing, but lost site of his own moral compass, the FBI agent who never let his sexuality define his life and career, but couldn’t stop others from making it define him, the queen who tried to save her people by making a choice she couldn’t live with, the woman who thought she had it all under control who could only really learn about life by losing control, the lizard woman from the dawn of time and her Victorian human wife who were the detectives that inspired Sherlock and Watson, the socially awkward soldier scarred by war who made the ultimate decision only a leader could make, the shy fangirl who was also competent and intelligent, the fallen hero who spent a lifetime at war and nearly destroyed his own people, including the innocent, to save the universe, the hero who wasn’t very good at showing affection and accepted that he would never be like the humans he worked so hard to protect yet questioned his own character, the self proclaimed queen of evil who showed no remorse for killing yet showed a misguided loyalty to a former friend, and the many others who made this era fantastic.

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“Why don’t you like hugging, Doctor?” - “Never trust a hug. It’s just a way to hide your face.”

Veils and hiding appear in complex ways in Moffat’s writing on Doctor Who. His first monster on the show wears a gas masks, turning a child into a threat, conceiling a lost little boy just looking for his mother. Future monsters will include creatures capable of taking on the form of other beings, a species forgotten once no longer looked at, and the Weeping Angels, the lonely assassins, whose "greatest asset is their greatest curse - they can never be seen".

On other occasions, veils and masks can become a symbol for searching and revealing a truth. Miss Evangelista’s veil separates her from the bright, carefree world of the Library, but lifted it shows the proof that this world is wrong. Liz 10’s mask is part of a cloak and dagger adventure, "undercover to investigate her own kingdom". And yet it is an essential piece of evidence to what the secret truly is. A mask, centuries old, perfectly sculpted to her face.

There is always a dissonance between appearances and what can be found below the surface with Moffat’s characters. Amy’s confidence and humour conceil her insecurities and her fear of abandonment. At the beginning of her story, the adventure might just be a disguise for running away. River admits she does her “best to hide the damage”. The Doctor will never quite be what he seems to be, whether it is the silly young time traveller with the bowtie, or the abrasive older man pretending not to care.

But this theme is most notable for the way it bookends series 8.

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Well. They’ve seen you.

This is one of the most important moments in the show.

#Moffat never ever shows that the Doctor’s actions have consequences #he’s just running around space and time #being awesome #committing a bit of genocide #and it’s not like anyone ever notices or cares #and it never impacts the lives of the people he cares about #OH WAIT (via tillthenexttimedoctor)

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