Your metas...your metas are always perfection. I have one quibble - the 'fake fixed point' at Lake Silencio. I don't think it was fake. The Doctor HAD to be there and he was...just not as expected. But he definitely lived up to the fixed point and made sure it wouldn't break time again.
Maybe 'fake' wasn't the best way of putting it, but it was created and he escaped. (And he had to escape because he had to go to Trenzalore...) So Lake Silencio was rigged, and came with a built-in 'out'. Danny's death does not.

Eleven was rescued from himself a lot. Clara was the epitome of that and I find it funny, that just like Missy-Master, she showed up LONG before we could find the relevance. The reveals ripple back over two seasons and that is MARVELOUS. I always wanted the Master to show during the Doctor's timeline. Funny. She/he DID. We just didn't see how until Twelve.
IKR? I love how Moffat does this - reveals something, and that thing then changes how we view the story so far.

Twelve...ye gods. The man who LEARNS.
The Doctor is slow. But he gets there eventually.

It is amazing, really. We always see the Doctor through the Companion's eyes. This time we LIVE through Clara's eyes and see through his own.
All hail Clara!

This is just...thank you for this meta. I shall be thinking on it for a long, long time.
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