Into the "Impossible Astronaut/Day of the Moon" part of my Doctor Who rewatch and hit the bit where the Doctor says "you're building me the perfect prison" and I know there's a running joke in the fandom about Stephen Moffat using the same three ideas (database of the dead, the weeping angels, River Song), but this is seriously the SECOND time in THREE episodes that "the perfect prison to contain the Doctor" is used as a concept. Like, it's such a tiny part of the episode but it's a constant reinforcement of the idea that the Doctor is this god-like figure that you can only defeat with the specialest materials/all the armies in the universe/etc. and like, that's bizarre? Because he doesn't have super strength or anything? Just handcuffs have been enough to stop him in his tracks in the past. (They literally do IN THIS EPISODE.) I know the Doctor is clever, but he's also, you know, physically fallible? That's kinda the appeal, that he can't get his way out of ordinary situations sometimes because he's not a superhero. Needing a "perfect prison" to contain him is such a minor quibble, but it's one of those details that bugs me.
