Matthew Stott
Monday 3rd October 2011 8:00am [Edited]
19,296 posts
Quote: Marc P @ October 2 2011, 11:36 PM BST
Open jawed here. Isn't a fixed point something that happens rather than something that doesn't?
Something DID happen. I've already explained it; the events we saw in the last episode WERE the fixed point, it was what always happened. We and everyone else thought it was the Doctor dying, but it never was, it was exactly as we saw. The SIlence had made it so the events on that beach at that time would be a fixed point; but The Doctor cheated them, so his death was never what happened. The first episode of the series always showed what we saw in the final episode.
Quote: KLRiley @ October 3 2011, 7:05 AM BST
Moff fudged it. If a fixed point is supposed to be a fixed point then destroying the robot doesn't solve the problem because the fixed point is the Doctor's death.
Nope, that's just what it was meant to be, and what the Doctor made it look like it was; he never died at any point, so his death was never the fixed point.
At no point, in any episode, on that beach did he actually die, he was always inside that robot thing, so his death cannot be the fixed point.
Once you realise that, that the Doctor never died, that he always cheated The Silence, then it all fits together just fine.