Postby PlasmaCow » 19 May 2013, 13:05
well that was quite something
A something I enjoyed I'd add, but I'd agree it was a little rough in places - river song's grave as a secret entrance into catacombs in which there was then a secret entry to the TARDIS makes any story sense how?
Is the implication that River will witness the final death of the Doctor in the battle on Trenzilore? and was believed among the dead?
Certainly the least understandable piece of the plot. Everything else I could pretty much get behind one way or the other.
Also this River being a projection of the copy stored in The Library rather than the flesh-and-blood one was... different.
It felt more like it needed a 60min length to give a better flow to things rather than it's 45mins or a full-on two parter to be honest.
I also really liked that the episode title was used with several different meanings throughout the story, and without the obvious choice of revealing his actual name.
Geoff_B:
"1. GI goes into the scar, messes with the Doc's life and is destroyed in the process, however when Clara goes into the scar she helps the Doc over his life, is not destroyed and ends up in one piece in the centre of the Doc's mind. Then the Doc goes into the scar after her. Why is he not scattered throughout his life as well? Why did GI not end up in the same place as Clara?"
As I understood it, she doesn't end up in his mind, she ends up in a state a'la Schrödinger's cat, both existing and not existing in all places across his entire timeline.
Apparently the Doctor entering his own timeline in the same fashion works differently - or perhaps will be answered by the 50th anniversary episode. Heck perhaps him entering his own timeline is what causes Matt Smith, David Tennant and John Hurt to interact in the context of the 50th special.
Nov 23rd, we shall see, I suspect.
With some further thought and re-watching the ending, I'd guess John Hurt probably is the Doctor that fought in, or at least ended, the Time War.
Perhaps dying in the process and creating Ecclestone's Doctor who still possessed the warrior spirit needed during the war, something that didn't truly fade until the regen into Tennant.
Or maybe he didn't die in the Time War, hence why there's the chance to overlap with Tennant/Smith.
So much to think about, so very long to wait for answers!!! And Sherlockian's think they get it bad from Moffat.