Indeterminacy said:
TyrantGanado said:
Perhaps The Silence will realise that if the Doctor dies at Lake Silencio in 2011 then the series of events will lead Past!Doctor to go back to the 60s and oust them. To prevent this, they actually stop him from being killed so that they will go back to being unknown.
But that would be a paradox, and a really powerful one. We'd be looking at another Tardis-Explosion-level event... Or maybe, the same one?
Also, I'm just watching Lets Kill Hitler again on iPlayer, and the death of the Doctor at lake Utah on the 22nd of April 2011 is confirmed as a fixed point of History by the Teselecta. Maybe this just means the Silence are manipulating historical record, but if we take it at face value, what would it mean to reverse a fixed point in history? An influx of dangerous and destructive monsters?
Moffat does love his timey-wimey ball. Plus you have a point with the TARDIS explosion, perhaps the paradox ripples back through time to 10 months prior and blows the shit out of the universe. Maybe The Doctor is actually solving the Silence's destruction in reverse order. Plus, given the main plot of The Wedding of River Song (all of history is going on at the same time) there are ways to work god knows how many past and future events into this.
As for the fixed point thing, it would bring in The Reapers normally, but The Doctor is such a fundamental force in the universe (he is the champion of Time, as picked by the eternal of Time herself) that his death itself could itself be a paradox due to being 'fixed.' Of course this assumes there ever were a Twelfth and Thirteenth (and Fourteenth... and Five-Hundred-And-Seventh) Doctor in the first place.
Ow. My Head.