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* There's no freak natural phenomena going on here.'''Someone''', some sentient being, is trying to destroy the Universe. How do we know this? Well, '''someone''' keeps talking. We keep hearing this little nugget in the TARDIS during [[Doctor Who/Recap/S31 /E12 The Pandorica Opens|"The Pandorica Opens"]]:

* The destruction will be caused by the TARDIS exploding. We saw the fragment in [[Doctor Who/Recap/S31 /E09 Cold Blood|"Cold Blood"]], we saw the painting at the beginning of the episode.

* Someone has taken control of the TARDIS and is making it explode--andexplode—and when I say "someone", I mean "'''Someone'''". When the TARDIS starts going apeshit and exploding (thereby causing the destruction/erasure of the entire universe), the Doctor tells River that it must be some kind of fault. River disagrees:

** How is he able to do all this when he's only a manifestation of the Doctor's dark impulses? [[Fridge Logic|...yeah, okay, good point]] [[TalkingInner to ThemselfDialogue|self]]. Maybe he was able to manifest his own form at some point in the Doctor's relative future. Or perhaps he's inhabiting the TARDIS--telepathicTARDIS—telepathic circuits, remember? This would also fit with the fact that the voice declaring that "silence will fall." is heard ''inside the TARDIS'' (which is supposed to be shielded from most assaults) right before the screen cracks, and at the end of "Amy's Choice" The Doctor saw the Dream Lord's face in the TARDIS console.

**** She says in [[Doctor Who/Recap/S31 /E12 The Pandorica Opens|"The Pandorica Opens"]] that the Doctor taught her to fly the TARDIS. Later in her personal timeline (i.e. [[Doctor Who/Recap/S31 /E04 The Time of Angels|"The Time of Angels"]]), she says that someone else taught her to fly even better than the Doctor does. She almost certainly met this other TARDIS driver in the intervening time period.

One part [[Continuity Snarl]] ,<ref>''[[Doctor Who]]'' has been going for almost 50 years: if there was ''ever'' a series in which a [[Continuity Snarl]] would bite the characters in the arse, it's this one.</ref>, one part [[Eldritch Abomination]]. It's been bound in this "Pandorica" place, and it's so massive and powerful that [http://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots0275.html when it starts to escape, cracks appear all across space and time.] The Gate <ref>(Wait, what Gate?)</ref> is Amy, and somehow, her getting married will break open the Pandorica, unleash the Snarl and literally unmake creation.

* So that would make the little joke about this in [[Doctor Who/Recap/S31 /E04 The Time of Angels|The Time of Angels]] [[Chekhov's Gun|important]]...

As of the end of Season 6, we now know that the Silence are not [[Omnicidal Maniac|Omnicidal Maniacs]]s, but [[Well-Intentioned Extremist|Well Intentioned Extremists]] who believe that the Doctor will destroy the universe by asking/answering the First Question ([[Title Drop|Doctor Who?]]), and that killing him will prevent that. ''And'', we know they can send signals into the TARDIS, since they were able to keep Amy's Ganger stable the entire time it was onboard, no matter where in time and space it was. So, perhaps in their attempts to kill the Doctor, they hijack control of the TARDIS and trigger a [[Phelbotinum Meltdown]] to kill the Doctor, or possibly strand him away from the planet where the Question is meant to be asked (though from what we've seen of the Silence, the former seems like the more likely). They just misjudge how strong the explosion is, not realizing it'll result in the very end of the universe they're trying to prevent. And after the universe is rebooted, they learn from their mistake and decide to try a smaller scale assassination, which is what leads to the whole plot with River/Melody.

* It all adds up to Leadworth being held unnaturally in stasis--outstasis—out of Time, if you will.

* Well, since the Cracks erased the Dalek Invasion, as well as the [[Doctor Who/NS/Recap/S4 S30/E14 The Next Doctor|Cyberking incident]], I would consider it '''''confirmed'''''.

* However, since he ''was'' in his first twenty-four-hours of regeneration, [[Doctor Who/Recap/2005 CS the Christmas Invasion/Recap|any damage done to him would have healed]].

== Since the events of ''[[Doctor Who/NS/Recap/S4 S30/E12 The Stolen Earth|The Stolen Earth]]'' and ''[[Doctor Who/NS/Recap/S4 S30/E13 Journeys End|Journey's End]]'' have been seemingly erased, some of ''[[Doctor Who/NS/Recap/S4 S30/E17 E18 The End of Time|The End Of Time]]'' must have been as well. ==

** See the [[Viewers Are Geniuses]] entry on the [[Doctor Who/Recap/S31 /E05 Flesh and Stone|Flesh and Stone page]]. The [[It Makes Sense in Context|coat thing]] pretty much confirms this.

* One can only wonder then what was going through her mind then to create the events of ''[[Doctor Who/Recap/1985 JFIGSA Fix With Sontarans/Recap|A Fix With Sontarans]]''...

== The future Amy and Rory Team TARDIS saw will play an important role in [[Doctor Who/Recap/S31 /E09 Cold Blood|Cold Blood]] ==

Why point them out? Why show Amy and Rory (and subsequently us) them if they aren't important. And yeah, the Doctor may say [[Never the Selves Shall Meet]] but surely he remembers that that actually ''saves the day'' in [[Doctor Who/Recap/S20 E3/E03 Mawdryn Undead|Mawdryn Undead]]. I think that whole scene was to set up a [[Chekhov's Gun]].

* Depending on how much we can take from the original run, it was already established that the Doctor was Merlin -- orMerlin—or an alternate-dimension version of the Doctor was. That storyline was a bit confusing.

** You are correct about Eleven's character development, but you have made the typical mistake of getting the numbers wrong. The Eleventh Doctor signed a five-year contract with the BBC. Although Eleven's next regeneration will bring the Whoniverse into balance, it will not make Eleven happy. Instead, it will give him a more ambiguous personality (as is seen in Jack Harkness and Rory Pond). He will feel incredibly confused. This is when the Master comes into the picture. The Master is an [[Author Avatar]] of Steven Moffat. The Master deliberately created the Eleventh Doctor as a way of de-sterilizing the Whoniverse, and undoing the damage of the Rassilon Era. Rassilon sterilized the Time Lords and prevented Time Lords from reaching their full potential by instilling the Time Lord race with the following genetic programming: Regenerate only twelve times, and do not regenerate unless the need is dire. Do not interfere with the Whoniverse. Merely watch it helplessly while it destroys itself. Rassilon created the first Whoniverse with a SQUICK WARNING: nocturnal emission. He has regretted the creation of the Whoniverse ever since. That's right. Steven Moffat's Whoniverse is the same as Douglas Adams' Universe. The Fourty-second Doctor shall be Arthur Dent. When that happens, the meaning of life shall be 42, because an orgy of 42 people will be required to reboot the universe. In the mean time, the meaning of life is Eleven. The Master intended Eleven to clean up the Whoniverse by dumping all of its Yang force into Pete's World, and then experiencing the pain of both Leadworth, and the London of Pete's World (I suspect these towns are the exact same place). In the Series Seven Climax, Eleven shall re-integrate the Series 5 Whoniverse with Pete's World by screwing the Kings Arms Football Team. (Seven of these people are also Clerics--ElevenClerics—Eleven's companions are stalking him). This is Eleven's biggest crack. When he opens it fully, the orgy will get Amy pregnant with a Time Lord. The Eleven parents of this child are all of the incarnations of the Doctor. When the Master regenerated the Tenth Doctor, all of his incarnations obtained their own bodies, and regenerated into fertile bodies. During the Eleventh Hour of June 26th26, 2010, all of the Doctor's incarnations will merge, and become the Eleven Aspects of Fate. Eleven will be restored to his natural state of incredibly confused. That is when the Master will try to seduce him. He created Eleven because he wanted to repopulate the Time Lord race, and recreate the Doctor according to his own fantasy. (The Master's love for Ten was unrequited). This is a rather sick form of affirmative therapy, but thus far, it as ''somehow worked''. Series Eight will be devoted to the Master's plotline, and Series Nine will be dedicated to Amy's Choice, in which Amy finally gives birth to a Time Lord baby that has been gestating in her womb for five tears. Steven Moffat will then consider Eleven fixed, and offer him a contract renewal, which Eleven shall be free to decline. If Eleven renews the contract, the next season will be a honey-moon for Amy's Choice. She shall marry all of her boyfriends, as well as Sophie and River, but Amy is still heterosexual, so she will be a sister-wife of Sophie and River.

Back in [[Doctor Who/Recap/S31 /E05 Flesh and Stone|Flesh and Stone]] the Doctor (metaphorically) threw three-year worth of continuity into the Crack when he said that the Angels can choose not to move when they think they're observed. [[Magic A Is Magic A|Which goes against everything we know about them.]]

[[Foreshadowing|Just wait for the next time the stakes rest on his educated guess.]]<ref> and given the way he laments at how others always know much more about [[Arc Words|the Cracks]] than him in [[Doctor Who/Recap/S31 /E09 Cold Blood|Cold Blood]]...</ref>

* Who says that Ten was right? As far as we can tell, everything he knows about the Angels in Blink he learned from a [[Stable Time Loop]]. There's no good reason that any non-essential knowledge [[Ontological Paradox|Ontological Paradoxed]]ed into existence need be correct.

** It explains how River could kill the greatest man she'd ever known -- aknown—a hero to millions -- andmillions—and still be ''relatively'' flippant about it: she killed "the Doctor", but not THE Doctor, and got locked up by people who didn't realise the difference.

* ''Confirmed'', but the truth is more mundane. It's a set of [[Stable Time Loop|Stable Time Loops]]s in which the Doctor uses the Vortex Manipulator to go back in time, give Rory his screwdriver, and let him out. (Among other things.)

Remember the psychic pollen? The stuff that draws out your darkest side, created the Dream Lord, all that? Got into the TARDIS's rotors? Oh, yeah, and remember that the TARDIS is ''sentient''? The TARDIS is currently under the influence of its evil side, its equivalent of the Dream Lord. When it started behaving weirdly, taking River Song to the wrong time, locking her in, and then exploding in a cataclysmic universe-destroying explosion--nobodyexplosion—nobody was messing with it. ''It did all that itself.'' [[For the Evulz|For The Evulz.]]

* CHEST JOHN LO NO -- CaptainNO—Captain Jack will appear and have a shirtless scene, but not a pantless scene?

*** You were almost correct actually! You just got the wrong Mr. Pond! The mid-series cliffhanger involves Rory Pond snogging Eleven against the wall of the TARDIS. His reason? He thinks that he and Eleven need to move past their internalized homophobia. Technically, Eleven has already moved past this mentally, but he has not accepted Rory's existence emotionally. The Whoniverse is not fixed. It is a Pete's World with all the sadness dumped into the Series 5 Whoniverse. Even after the "Flesh and Stone" kiss, the Eleventh Doctor felt comfortable in his role. For Eleven, the "Flesh and Stone" snog was a localized Time Loop and out-of-body experience, so Eleven had as much time as he wanted to examine the situation. He determined that there was a 50% chance of Amy's plotline having a happy ending, and decided that 50% was acceptable odds. Eleven may have been a lot more scared of the snog with Rory (which I like to call the "Stone and Flesh" cliffhanger). This would explain why it was uncertain for a few weeks in October of 2010 whether or not the Eleventh Doctor would reprise his role in Series Seven. Note that Eleven was a lot more committed to portraying the second half of Series 5. Luckily he's decided to portray Series Seven despite the fact that it climaxes with his worst nightmare.

Specifically, to [[Discworld]]. I mean seriously, a brilliant [[Mad Artist]] is the only one who can see an invisible chicken monster that's slow driving him mad(der)? That's straight out of ''[[Discworld/Thud|Thud!]]!''

== Three of the Five Arc Phrases from Series Five are: ==

* Not only are the old-style Daleks killed off -- violently -- theoff—violently—the new ones promptly ''run away'' and are only seen sparingly afterward, in contrast to Davies' overuse of them.

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