Hee--thank you for my Moff brain! *pokes* Hopefully he shall not be needing it himself ; ) 'Tis for a good cause, though!
I had an idea the whole blowinguptheuniverse thing was a last ditch attempt to stop what the Doctor does in the future ever happening... *nods* I've been feeling for awhile that TPO/TBB is probably in response to something we haven't seen yet--all the whys are just so nebulous and unexplained. Although, when you get right down to it, "why would someone want to destroy the universe?" is a pretty hard thing to justify . . . Hmmm, with this 'why didn't they just try shooting him first?' . . . what if maybe the intent *wasn't* really to end the universe but to get the Doctor to do exactly what he did: wipe himself out of all of space and time in order to bring the universe back? If it weren't for Amy and her freaky memory and the Power of Stories, you might have ended up with a universe more or less as it was but without the Doctor and without River Song . . . I saw a spec that said that River wasn't at Amy and Rory's wedding because that's where she belonged, but that she was "unraveling" in the same way that the Doctor did as he was being unmade, and she had simply followed her timeline all the way back to the day she was conceived so that, essentially, handing over the diary would have been the last thing she did before she disappeared. I don't know if we'd ever get confirmation of that, but I kind of like it as a notion.
It's got me thinking that if their plan had succeeded, the only thing left in the universe would be River and the Doctor, trapped apart forever. Whatever the Big Bad's issue is it is NOT HAPPY with those two. Wow, that is some impressive spite. You know, I rather love that, no matter what the explanations are for what was going on, the picture will be mind-blowingly epic.
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Date: 9 Aug 2011 03:54 pm (UTC)I had an idea the whole blowinguptheuniverse thing was a last ditch attempt to stop what the Doctor does in the future ever happening...
*nods* I've been feeling for awhile that TPO/TBB is probably in response to something we haven't seen yet--all the whys are just so nebulous and unexplained. Although, when you get right down to it, "why would someone want to destroy the universe?" is a pretty hard thing to justify . . . Hmmm, with this 'why didn't they just try shooting him first?' . . . what if maybe the intent *wasn't* really to end the universe but to get the Doctor to do exactly what he did: wipe himself out of all of space and time in order to bring the universe back? If it weren't for Amy and her freaky memory and the Power of Stories, you might have ended up with a universe more or less as it was but without the Doctor and without River Song . . . I saw a spec that said that River wasn't at Amy and Rory's wedding because that's where she belonged, but that she was "unraveling" in the same way that the Doctor did as he was being unmade, and she had simply followed her timeline all the way back to the day she was conceived so that, essentially, handing over the diary would have been the last thing she did before she disappeared. I don't know if we'd ever get confirmation of that, but I kind of like it as a notion.
It's got me thinking that if their plan had succeeded, the only thing left in the universe would be River and the Doctor, trapped apart forever. Whatever the Big Bad's issue is it is NOT HAPPY with those two.
Wow, that is some impressive spite. You know, I rather love that, no matter what the explanations are for what was going on, the picture will be mind-blowingly epic.