But - perhaps with the exception of whatever was going on with the Time Lords in EoT - Rusty's twists tended to make sense. While Moffat did finally give us (most) of the answers to the big questions, there are lots of other things he seems to have forgotten about. Like why exactly River had to rise from a lake in order to kill the Doctor. Or why they needed to get married (although that reality doesn't exist any more so presumably they're not married any more!)
I'm sure I read somewhere that Moffat had said that his stuff is quite simple really - and if you take this episode as an example, I suppose it is. Basically - the Doctor used a copy of himself to avoid dying. BUT, it all got extra complicated because River decided to NOT kill him and thereby screwed up a fixed point in time, and that only happened in the last episode. All the rest of it was a lot of foreshadowing (the gangers, the Teselecta, the two Amys, lots of mirrors) and stuff about River that wasn't really handled very well.
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Date: 2011-10-03 11:15 am (UTC)I'm sure I read somewhere that Moffat had said that his stuff is quite simple really - and if you take this episode as an example, I suppose it is. Basically - the Doctor used a copy of himself to avoid dying. BUT, it all got extra complicated because River decided to NOT kill him and thereby screwed up a fixed point in time, and that only happened in the last episode. All the rest of it was a lot of foreshadowing (the gangers, the Teselecta, the two Amys, lots of mirrors) and stuff about River that wasn't really handled very well.