Film Brain looks upset over the loss of the episode, too. Either that or Todd in the Shadows finally roped him into watching Crossroads with him... (-:
So basically it was self-preservation? So that the Doctor wouldn't die in the library?
Because idk. I'd see the Doctor saving Melody as saving River from a life of captivity and brainwashing. So maybe it'd erase River exactly as we know her, but it would also save her from everything she went through with the Silence.
...River wouldn't have died in the library either if he'd saved Melody. If he'd saved Melody, they wouldn't have ended up in the situation in "Let's Kill Hitler" where they took her to the hospital in the 51st century and she wouldn't have been there to study arcehology there and go to prison in the 51st century etc etc etc.
But if he was choosing to save River over Melody, he should have manned up and told Amy and Rory that instead of letting them believe that he was actually going to save their baby.
Honestly I wouldn't even give a shit -- okay, well, I would give less of a shit -- if in the end, timelines have to be preserved because reasons blah blah blah can't save Melody because River blah blah. Fine, okay, whatever, I'd still call shenanigans on this plot being written in the first place, but at least it would make some modicum of sense... IF, at any point, the Doctor and the Ponds had had a discussion -- maybe even an argument?! :O -- about it. But it never gets discussed in the text at all. We can ASSUME that the Doctor's doing it because he wants to preserve River and because of one line River said three years ago in another episode, but the show never drew attention to that, never had Amy or Rory question it, never had the Doctor think about the consequences, never had River herself say anything about it... it just doesn't happen because, as has been mentioned, Moffat doesn't give a shit about the emotional consequences of his ~timey-wimey~~~ plotlines and gotcha moments.
Except River didn't/wouldn't want him to. She said as much in the library. "Time can be rewritten!" "Not those times. Don't you dare." Even with all the pain she's gone through, she cherishes her life and her relationship with him as it is now too much to let the Doctor go back and save her, and change everything.
That didn't really seem to stop him in The Girl Who Waited. Yes, it was ultimately Old!Amy who made the choice. But before she made the choice, Eleven had already decided that Old!Amy needed to be erased.
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Linka~ara!
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Because idk. I'd see the Doctor saving Melody as saving River from a life of captivity and brainwashing. So maybe it'd erase River exactly as we know her, but it would also save her from everything she went through with the Silence.
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But if he was choosing to save River over Melody, he should have manned up and told Amy and Rory that instead of letting them believe that he was actually going to save their baby.
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He'd already picked Young!Amy.
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