Doctor Who, timelines and that odious episode known as Girl in the Fireplace

[kilodalton]

So I have a new head canon regarding Girl in the Fireplace! Kinda. This is after all, Moffat, who adores timeloops and timeline backtracking.

Basically, my new head canon is that at least a part of the Doctor’s melancholy over the letter at the end of the episode is the thought: “Wow … I honestly thought Reinette was smarter than that, having seen

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[rosaxx50]

Lol I have always thought this too? It's a recurring problem in Moffat's work, and one of the things I didn't like about Angels Take Manhattan -- that prop that cemented the time loop could just have been staged. They're just words, they don't mean anything.

[kilodalton]

EXACTLY!! River could have written anything she wanted to in there.

[develish1]

you know, I'd never actually considered that, but you're exactly right, once he knows he never went back, he can't, simple as that.

stupid Moffat and his stupid writing :P

[kilodalton]

Basically, this!!

[redcirce]

One of the reasons that GiTF makes me sad, is, as you pointed out, was that the real Madame was awesome and nothing like what was portrayed in the ep. Oh, what could have been...

[kilodalton]

Yeah exactly ... so so so much of a waste.

[kikuneechan]

Interesting! And makes a a lot of sense!

I suppose the thing that bothers me a lot about S5+ or whatnot is that despite all of Moffat's love of time loops and whatnot, there's a tonne of "TIME CAN BE REWRITTEN."