Em uma entrevista na Doctor Who Magazine # 495, cujo conteúdo tem útil foi copiado para o Reddit , Steven Moffat aborda estas questões.
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Qual foi o estado inicial das roupas na sala?
Ele encontra algumas roupas de outras partes do castelo e as usa enquanto elas estão secando. As primeiras iterações do loop levaram muito mais tempo enquanto ele ainda estava descobrindo todas as pistas, então ele foi capaz de voltar e pegar suas roupas originais. Foi apenas quando o circuito apertou que ele alcançou a roupa do seu eu anterior.
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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Por que a pintura não foi redefinida?
A pintura não foi deixada pelos designers do castelo; foi deixado por uma iteração anterior do Doutor. Como Moffat observa, a redefinição não é perfeita - essa pintura foi projetada para enviar uma mensagem para o seu eu futuro.
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.