Ok. So. I've read ALL your DW meta but I don't think I've ever commented before....but this time I just had to, because THIS. IS. PERFECT. I love all the meta and symbolism and parallels (BOWTIE OMG) almost as much as I love the squee and flailiness of Moffat's Doctor Who, (seriously, ask such_heights, as she's the unwitting recipient of my 4am emails in which I ramble really incoherently and at length about whatever shiny meta thought has just struck me....) and I wanted to thank you for this. Every time I sit down to try and write my own meta analysis of Doctor Who, I get overwhelmed by the HUGENESS of it all and I give up because I don't even know where to start. So thank you for being able so say so coherently everything that I could not, and MORE. The chess metaphor in particular blew my mind. I'd already had my own thoughts about the symbolism of the Doctor's chess piece, but I NEVER would have called River as the electric queen, or the chess game as a metaphor in itself. The bits about exactly what River gets from her parents were amazing as well, and the parallels with the COTBS and TDW and the bit about their kiss creating the universe and and and ACTUALLY ALL OF IT.

Um. So. Thank you!