I en intervju i Doctor Who Magazine # 495, vars innehåll har hjälpt till att kopiera till Reddit , adresserar Steven Moffat dessa frågor.
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Vad var klädernas ursprungliga tillstånd i rummet?
Han hittar några kläder från andra håll i slottet och bär dem medan han torkar. Tidig slinga-iterationer tog mycket längre tid medan han fortfarande kunde räkna ut alla ledtrådar, så han kunde gå tillbaka och få sina ursprungliga kläder. Det var bara när slingan stramade att han klättrade på kläder från sitt tidigare själv.
If the Doctor leaves his clothes for himself in Heaven Sent, was there a previous version who was left naked?
Naked Doctor Who?? It's AGAINST THE LAW, I tell you. Showrunners have been executed for less. No, of course there wasn't - I sort of wrote that moment to force you to think that the first time round the castle (the first of many times) wasn't the same as the version we saw. By the time Heaven Sent starts, the Doctor has been going round the loop for seven thousand years, and the details have settle down to a fairly precise repeat. But each detail of the repeat takes a while to fix in place.
For instance…
He always dives into the water. But the first time he clambers out, he finds himself in a room with a fireplace. He lights a fire, and dries his clothes on the rack. While he's waiting, he finds another set of clothes and puts them on. These clothes are provided by the castle (just as it provides him with soup, and a bed to sleep in) and don't resemble his own - just your basic, ordinary clothes, but in his size.
The first few hundred times he goes back and puts his own clothes on. But then, as the loop gets tighter (I'll explain in a moment) there comes the time he never makes it, because he's too busy to bother. Next time round, the Doctor finds his own clothes drying for him.
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Varför nollställde inte målningen?
Målningen lämnades inte av slottdesignerna; Det var kvar av en tidigare iteration av doktorn. Som Moffat noterar är återställningen inte perfekt - den här målningen är avsedd att skicka ett meddelande till sitt framtida själv.
He knows that some of those hidden messages might just survive, because he knows the castle reset isn't perfect – the dust in the teleport room, the skulls in the water, the way the portrait of Clara he painted (of course it was him, the soppy old fool) has aged.