I’m still not sure how he rescued River though – I’ll have to check that out when I rewatch it.
Just before the TARDIS exploded, it put River into a few-second time loop until the Doctor came and rescued her from it.
does the destruction of reality and Big Bang 2 which created a universe in which the Doctor never existed mean that all of DW from 1963 until now never happened? Or does the fact that Amy remembers Eleven mean that all of him, from One to Ten, have been re-incorportated into history?
It could work both ways, I think? The Doctor said that the atoms of the original universe that were trapped in the Pandorica with Amy, would be enough to restore all the original universe, and, I assume, everything that happened in it. (As suggested with the words reappearing in River's diary at the end.) OTOH, since 7-year-old Amelia met the Doctor only once, then IMHO only what she knew of him, either from real life or from her dreams, would be restored. TBH I was wondering if Moffat was going to do a retcon. He did, and he didn't, it just depends on how we choose to see it. So well played, sir, well played.
I did find a major plot hole with Amy though; if she were already nearly dead when she were put in the Pandorica, and the Pandorica holds its prisoner in stasis, then theoretically she should still have been nearly dead when she was released from it. Unless we're to handwave it away by saying the Pandorica has mystical healing powers. (ETA: Well, yes, it does. Which--um, well, how deus ex machina convenient.) Which--well, stasis means everything's suspended.
Also, with River, if the Doctor couldn't exist in real life again until Amy remembered him, how could River know to give her (empty) diary to Amy?
I suppose the “everybody lives” theme is much more in keeping with Moff’s vision of DW as the fairytale for kids – both big and small.
and We’ve heard that time can be rewritten several times and also last week that remembering something that’s gone means it can come back… I’m just not sure how.
On one hand, nothing is truly gone as long as we remember it. OTOH, in real life it's still gone: it can't physically return, we can't restore it to life again just by remembering it, as much as we might want to. The implication of Moffat's message, that it can be fully restored just by remembering--I wish it worked that way in real life, but it doesn't. So I must be too cynical for Moffat's Who.
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Just before the TARDIS exploded, it put River into a few-second time loop until the Doctor came and rescued her from it.
does the destruction of reality and Big Bang 2 which created a universe in which the Doctor never existed mean that all of DW from 1963 until now never happened? Or does the fact that Amy remembers Eleven mean that all of him, from One to Ten, have been re-incorportated into history?
It could work both ways, I think? The Doctor said that the atoms of the original universe that were trapped in the Pandorica with Amy, would be enough to restore all the original universe, and, I assume, everything that happened in it. (As suggested with the words reappearing in River's diary at the end.) OTOH, since 7-year-old Amelia met the Doctor only once, then IMHO only what she knew of him, either from real life or from her dreams, would be restored. TBH I was wondering if Moffat was going to do a retcon. He did, and he didn't, it just depends on how we choose to see it. So well played, sir, well played.
I did find a major plot hole with Amy though; if she were already nearly dead when she were put in the Pandorica, and the Pandorica holds its prisoner in stasis, then theoretically she should still have been nearly dead when she was released from it. Unless we're to handwave it away by saying the Pandorica has mystical healing powers. (ETA: Well, yes, it does. Which--um, well, how
deus ex machinaconvenient.) Which--well, stasis means everything's suspended.Also, with River, if the Doctor couldn't exist in real life again until Amy remembered him, how could River know to give her (empty) diary to Amy?
I suppose the “everybody lives” theme is much more in keeping with Moff’s vision of DW as the fairytale for kids – both big and small.
and We’ve heard that time can be rewritten several times and also last week that remembering something that’s gone means it can come back… I’m just not sure how.
On one hand, nothing is truly gone as long as we remember it. OTOH, in real life it's still gone: it can't physically return, we can't restore it to life again just by remembering it, as much as we might want to. The implication of Moffat's message, that it can be fully restored just by remembering--I wish it worked that way in real life, but it doesn't. So I must be too cynical for Moffat's Who.