Doctor Who: Saying Goodbye To The 12th Doctor
Steve Moffat’s final fairy tale graces his Doctor Who Christmas farewell on Twice Upon A Time.
If there’s one thing Steve Moffat has proven himself very good at over the course of his tenure, it’s Doctor Who-As-Fairy-Tale. There are times when fans would argue he went overboard with it, such as the later Amy Pond years, or River Song-and-The Doctor’s love story. The really terrible bits of his tenure, such as Clara and the “I flew in on a leaf” bit was a complete fairy tale that didn’t work in the Whovian canon.
But when Moffat’s fairy tales do work, such as his very first story, “The Girl In The Fireplace,” it can be magic. The Doctor’s 50th-anniversary episode also worked. And almost everything with the 12th Doctor and Bill Potts worked. So is it really a surprise that for his final hurrah, Moffat took the elements from those, mixed in a bit of real history and called it a happy ending?
First Doctor: It’s bigger than it was.
Twelfth Doctor: Well, it’s all those years of bigger-on-the-inside! You try sucking your tummy in that long!
