Marc P
Monday 25th April 2011 9:13pm
17,698 posts
Quote: Griff @ April 25 2011, 10:06 PM BST
No, we know more than The Doctor does about River. Because of this contraflow time-stream nonsense. Each time he meets her, he knows less (until one day he won't recognise her) while we know more. (Because we've seen the adventures his future self has with her. Or something. Although why the River episodes should be picked out from S5 as stuff he doesn't know about, while obviously he remembers everything else, baffles me.)
You are not alone, and I am getting time travelled confused keeping up with this thread with the rapidity of posting
Quote: Matthew Stott @ April 25 2011, 10:09 PM BST
But that's not true, is it? In the order of stories we've seen, what do we know more about River than he does? He knows she's someone from his future, she's in prison, and she he knows when she dies; same as us! It's in Rivers timestream that he knows less and less as she moves forward, but we're following the story through at the same time as him.
But WE know he knows less that WE do. It makes no sense man.