The Doctor is around 903 or so years old, Rory has the memories of the 2000 years he guarded the Pandorica, so is he technically older than the Doctor?
Steven Moffat has recently said the title for this episode was also secretly a dirty joke about what happened on Amy and Rory's wedding night. can't remember the exact name of the trope so if anyone else knows feel free to add it.
Amy is saved from the Pandorica by her younger self. After "our" Amy emerges from the box, she proceeds to immediately pat her younger self on the head. Could someone please explain to me how the hell this is not a paradox? What happened to those monsters that appeared when Rose met herself in the first season? They could have atleast just made sure she never actually touched...herself...
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The multiverse fucking collapsed, wiping out everything but an insane, twisted version of Earth. The reapers were gone by that point, or gorging themselves on all the other paradoxes in the cosmos.
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That Amy was an alternate universe Amy, so our Amy had no problem touching her. Basically, our Amy is the Amy in the universe with stars, and little Amy is the Amy in the universe without stars.
Why do people assume what occured was a Class Z Apocalypse?Class Z means the destruction of all existence.The Doctor said "the universe will have never existed at all."Not a bunch of universes,not the entire multiverse,just "the universe."The other realities would've been fine.If anything,it's a Class X-5(every moment of the Whoniverse' history being removed,sans the Earth)
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That's all fine and dandy,but it doesn't explain how a second Big Bang is capable of rebooting The Multiverse. At best,it would reboot all universes related to the Whoniverse via the many-worlds interpetation. Yet how could unrelated universes like the DCU and ours be restored?
Is there any reason to believe that the DCU even exists within Doctor Who's continuity? Only universes related to the Whoniverse exist within its narrative, and its writers are not obligated to explain how, say, the continuity of the Kool-Aid Man's promotional comics fit into the whole thing.
So if Class Z dictates the destruction of every universe wihthin the narrative, what class dictates the destruction of every universe, period?
So that's what this does
In the question of who remembers what,
After he asks how they could have forgotten the Doctor, groom!Rory comments on having been plastic, so he remembers some of his auton life at least.
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Er- is groom!Rory still an Auton? I can't quite figure it out. I realize everything has gone back to normal, so he should be human, but if he remembers.... ?
Everyone got their memories back. He has memories of being an Auton because he had his real mind when he was an Auton, thanks to the crack in Amy's wall making her memories special.
Old New Borrowed and Blue practically called by name - The TARDIS
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I removed the Pot Hole to Wham Line from the Dalek's plea for mercy after some reflection. When River gives her previous line, she's got an I-know-something-you-don't-know smile suggesting that she knows if the Dalek looks her up, it'll find something (or multiple somethings) to make it rethink what it had said about her showing mercy. And before that, it was established that the Dalek was at her mercy. So when she says, "Check your records again," the viewer can guess that the Dalek won't like what it finds or be as confident afterwards.
It's still very impressive, but there's enough non-ambiguous buildup toward it that it doesn't qualify as a Wham Line.
I know it's coincidental, but the keeping people existent by remembering them through time compression reminds me of Final Fantasy VIII.
The WMG surrounding Amy's Dad based on the name of his actor being mis-spelled "Helco" Johnston (instead of "Halcro") is just hilarious. A salutary lesson for us all on the perils of WMG based on the flimsiest of evidence. It could almost be a trope in itself — it's more than just Jossed, it was 'Jossed By Typo'.
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Big Damn Villains was split into two tropes: Villainous Rescue and Villains Do The Dirty Work. From the description I can't quite tell which of the tropes fit. Please feel free to add the correct one to the recap page.