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"Actually, there's at least one strong (if probably unintended) thematic link between Sleep and Raven: the Doctor's willingness to be lured into dangerous situations, and even apparent traps. Gattiss isn't a strong enough writer to make this resonate the way it should, but Sleep is more or less about how the Doctor's complicity in his own serial entrapment -- I'm assuming he was enticed onto the Vernier Station somehow -- becomes part of a meta-trap for the viewer (pretty much the history of the show!). Raven goes in two directions: Me concocts a plan that is Master/Missy-worthy in its implausible embellishment to draw in the unsuspecting Doctor, then confronts him with an obvious trap which he totally fails to avoid. That's to say, the mis-misdirection that Dollard's plot is rightly being praised for totally trips up the Doctor at the most critical moment.\n\nNow I'm seriously wondering if Moffat started in on Season 9 by exclaiming: \"Traps!\""
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