Some thoughts on Dr Who

[rochvelleth]

I just rewatched the first half of the current series of Dr Who, and I have a list of questions I want answers to. I think these are all, in the immortal words of Donald Rumsfeld, known unknowns:

Comments

[ewx]

IIRC the Doctor is looking at the pregnant/not pregnant scans of Amy from after the point they defeat the Silence, giving him a terminus ante quem. Why he doesn't suspect it was during the American episodes - for instance, when the Silence took Amy - I don't know. (We know it was before that kidnapping, but I don’t think he has that information.)

[rochvelleth]

Yes, it might seem logical for him to at least question whether it could have happened when the Silence took her. Unless he thought of that and then dismissed it because he thinks everything with the Silence is over?

If he's now connecting River with the girl in the spacesuit though (and he says he knows exactly where to find her when he goes off at the end of A Good Man Goes to War), maybe he'll start questioning that again?

My instinct was initially that she must be abducted in America between the first and second halves of the first episode (so after she tells the Doctor she thinks she's pregnant but before it goes all epic)... but I'm not sure now.

[emperor]

6) My money's on Rory

[rochvelleth]

This was my first assumption too :)

[epea_pteroenta]

Mine too!

[cjwatson]

5) Ooh, good question; I hadn't thought of that. We do know that River is good at keeping secrets from the Doctor ("Spoilers!").

6) They clearly aren't actually going to kill off the real Doctor for out-of-universe reasons. Furthermore, we have a conveniently introduced body-double of the Doctor just at the right time. Therefore I think it makes a lot of sense for that to be Flesh!Doctor; although what everyone is trying to achieve by that I'm not sure yet. (This is assuming that River is indeed the Impossible Astronaut and that the killing in question is the Astronaut shooting the ?Doctor, although I suppose that link isn't entirely certain yet.)

[rochvelleth]

I think Flesh!Doctor would make sense too. Though I suppose that does leave the problem of there presumably being two versions of the Doctor around for 200 years or so - if that is a problem!

And yes, I don't think we should necessarily assume the killing of a good man and the death of the Doctor in The Impossible Astronaut are the same event.

[cjwatson]

Yes; although I notice that we only have the ?Doctor's word for it that 200 years had passed for him.

[cjwatson]

Oh, and I just checked the transcript. Just after the Astronaut shoots the ?Doctor, Amy says "Maybe he's a clone or a duplicate or something". Hmm.