Time Travel for Confusion and Profit!

[retsuko]

It seems that in every time-travel related movie/tv show/short story/etc. these days, there's a part where the characters complain about how time travel is a fundamentally headache inducing plot device. Invariably, these discussions are cut short, either by literal violence or by a sort of conversational misdirect, like silly words ("wibbley

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[sioneva]

Ciaran was as excited as could be about the Weeping Angels, especially the BIG ANGEL.

He's concluded that the BIG ANGEL is his Halloween costume for this year.

[retsuko]

Further proof of C's awesomeness! :D

[alexeia_drae]

I'm more worried about River's lines and role in this episode.

I took it more to mean that it's a reminder of their short life span compared to his long one. Agreed that he seems oblivious in general to their aging. What threw me was that her lifespan should theoretically be as long as his and she doesn't know that she's going to die...if that reality even exists anymore.

Something I started wondering about this morning was that in Silence at the Library she was given parole for murdering the Doctor, but now she says the person she murdered never existed...so she's not under arrest and can't be paroled. So, does she still die in Silence of the Library?

[retsuko]

That is an excellent question. I'm really worried about the concepts of "fixed points", the unfixable points in time. I know these have been hinted at before, but now there seem to be so many of them, which is counterproductive to the concepts of Doctor Who in the first place. Is River's eventual/previously happened death a fixed point, and if so, does this mean she'll murder someone else and go on parole for that? Oh, headachey time travel stuff!