He might choose to tell the story of being a parent through Rory and Amy, but I doubt it, not when he has the Doctor to play with. Moffat is changing the very nature of Doctor Who in this series, I feel, and isn't scared of taking risks and perhaps losing some of the more traditional fans. This is very much my feeling about it all. We *know* he's writing game-changers here--he's told us as much himself. I think this would qualify.
One, why the girl was trapped in that spacesuit by the Silence without future!River and future!Doctor not turning the Universe over with a fine toothcomb to find her. I rather wonder if this is not, in fact, what's happening, and that whatever the future!Doctor we saw die on the beach was planning with the envelopes and the dying and all that is the plan for getting her back. I have no idea how that would work in terms of story logic, but as far as motivation goes, it's the only thing I've come up with so far that might explain why future!Doctor is choosing to go to his own death.
Two, when River examines the spacesuit and says the girl must be incredibly strong to have broken out of it, if this theory is correct then she would suspect at this point that it was their daughter and show distress But has the River we have there actually had this daughter yet? She may be totally in the dark too. (I suspect that she is mistaken about what's going on with her timeline. Them meeting back to front doesn't square with anything we knew about them before. I'm wondering if Eleven's death didn't in fact completely screw up her timeline somehow.)
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He might choose to tell the story of being a parent through Rory and Amy, but I doubt it, not when he has the Doctor to play with. Moffat is changing the very nature of Doctor Who in this series, I feel, and isn't scared of taking risks and perhaps losing some of the more traditional fans.
This is very much my feeling about it all. We *know* he's writing game-changers here--he's told us as much himself. I think this would qualify.
One, why the girl was trapped in that spacesuit by the Silence without future!River and future!Doctor not turning the Universe over with a fine toothcomb to find her.
I rather wonder if this is not, in fact, what's happening, and that whatever the future!Doctor we saw die on the beach was planning with the envelopes and the dying and all that is the plan for getting her back. I have no idea how that would work in terms of story logic, but as far as motivation goes, it's the only thing I've come up with so far that might explain why future!Doctor is choosing to go to his own death.
Two, when River examines the spacesuit and says the girl must be incredibly strong to have broken out of it, if this theory is correct then she would suspect at this point that it was their daughter and show distress
But has the River we have there actually had this daughter yet? She may be totally in the dark too. (I suspect that she is mistaken about what's going on with her timeline. Them meeting back to front doesn't square with anything we knew about them before. I'm wondering if Eleven's death didn't in fact completely screw up her timeline somehow.)