Oh, that's all very interesting! Thanks for explaining. I hadn't noticed most of those things, but now that you mention them, they do seem very fairy tale. :)

Yeah, it's been a bit weird bouncing back and forth from fairy tale logic to horror-inflected scifi and back again. I feel like some of the more absurd elements of Doctor Who have been back this season as well--the sort of campy things that were more common during the RTD-era (and probably before that, but I haven't watched much classic Who).