I was pretty tickled by that too. Though I imagine someone eventually came along to let him out. "Let's kill Hitler! Orrrrr we could just shove him in the closet at the end of the first act, that works too."
Also, "So, you...named your daughter...after your daughter."
Moffat loves that stuff doesn't he? It's like that magic sonic screwdriver that came out of nowhere in "The Big Bang".
Like, here, she doesn't know her name will be River Song, but in "A Good Man Goes to War" she said that she was given the name in the Gamma Forest as a child -- and we know that the Alex Kingston incarnation of River was always and will always be Alex Kingston, so when was she a child in the Gamma Forest?
You extrapolated that one on your own. She never said that she was a child in the Gamma Forest. Lorna Bouquet (pronounced Bucket) was from the Gamma Forest and she made that prayer leaf featuring Melody's name in Lorna's native language. The Gamma Forest is entirely incidental. I'm sure at one point, she got her name FROM THE PRAYER LEAF, but her and the Doctor's timelines are so intertwined that at this point, she pretty much just named herself twice.
(Okay, unless he was lying about his age to make it clear to Team TARDIS what was going on. It's certainly possible. Not only is Rule Number One that "the Doctor lies" but it's practically canon that the guy lies about his age.)Honestly, I sort of figured that one from the get-go
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Plus we've got another date to count towards: April 22, 2011. Interestingly I double-checked and "The Impossible Astronaut" actually aired on April 23, but I admit I wasn't paying attention to the information off the invitation in that episode. Still no working theory on how the Doctor gets out of that one, given how conclusively my two timelines theory has been shot down.I saw one person speculate that it was really weird that The Doctor would go and change clothes while he was dying, so instead, he hopped around the time stream, made another sentient ganger of himself, dropped the ganger off in Berlin while the original went after Melody's space suit. Ganger Doctor faked dying (note how many times he was declared dead and then popped back up to say something) and ended up picking up all of Melody's regenerations when she gave them to him and it's the Doctor in the space suit who will eventually end up killing himself
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I saw one person speculate that it was really weird that The Doctor would go and change clothes while he was dying, so instead, he hopped around the time stream, made another sentient ganger of himself, dropped the ganger off in Berlin while the original went after Melody's space suit. Ganger Doctor faked dying (note how many times he was declared dead and then popped back up to say something) and ended up picking up all of Melody's regenerations when she gave them to him and it's the Doctor in the space suit who will eventually end up killing himself.
Yeah, I do believe we'll find out he did something during those 29 minutes that will come back to set up the end of the season. Given that the title of the finale is "The Wedding of River Song" and he turned up in the same morning suit he wore to Amy's wedding, I'm wondering if maybe it's another crossing-the-timestream "Big Bang"-style stunt.
I don't know. I had problems. Not a lot of problems, but the problems I did have were sizeable.Yeah, I agree, having had more time to think on
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Don't get me wrong. I had a lot of complaints about Rusty's run, but I'm pretty sure that being a big ball of guilt about that stuff was a huge factor in his eventual emotional breakdown. I distinctly remember Journey's End and his "OH GOD I RUIN EVERYBODY," meltdown and refusal to take another companion after Donna. It was never "They're fine! Tee hee!" If anything, it was, "Well, they're fine now that they're not with me. Woe. Woe. Angstbucket. Emo. Woe."
The bit that has come to characterize the Tenth Doctor's relationship with his companions for me is his various statements about Martha to Donna in "Partners in Crime": "I had this friend Martha Jones. She was brilliant. And I destroyed half her life." and "It got complicated. And it was all my fault." and then: "She fancied me
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Also, "So, you...named your daughter...after your daughter."
Moffat loves that stuff doesn't he? It's like that magic sonic screwdriver that came out of nowhere in "The Big Bang".
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You extrapolated that one on your own. She never said that she was a child in the Gamma Forest. Lorna Bouquet (pronounced Bucket) was from the Gamma Forest and she made that prayer leaf featuring Melody's name in Lorna's native language. The Gamma Forest is entirely incidental. I'm sure at one point, she got her name FROM THE PRAYER LEAF, but her and the Doctor's timelines are so intertwined that at this point, she pretty much just named herself twice.
(Okay, unless he was lying about his age to make it clear to Team TARDIS what was going on. It's certainly possible. Not only is Rule Number One that "the Doctor lies" but it's practically canon that the guy lies about his age.)Honestly, I sort of figured that one from the get-go ( ... )
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Yeah, I do believe we'll find out he did something during those 29 minutes that will come back to set up the end of the season. Given that the title of the finale is "The Wedding of River Song" and he turned up in the same morning suit he wore to Amy's wedding, I'm wondering if maybe it's another crossing-the-timestream "Big Bang"-style stunt.
I don't know. I had problems. Not a lot of problems, but the problems I did have were sizeable.Yeah, I agree, having had more time to think on ( ... )
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The bit that has come to characterize the Tenth Doctor's relationship with his companions for me is his various statements about Martha to Donna in "Partners in Crime": "I had this friend Martha Jones. She was brilliant. And I destroyed half her life." and "It got complicated. And it was all my fault." and then: "She fancied me ( ... )
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