Howling:Time can be rewritten, but not after you've read it- foreshadowing?

So, a new idea introduced in The Angels Take Manhattan is that time can be rewritten, but not after you've read it. In Asylum of the Daleks, we saw the actor who is cast to play the new companion turned into a dalek. I wonder if this idea of knowing the future determines it might play into the new companion becoming a dalek? Just a theroy though. Frodo the 9 fingered ~Hobbits FTW  14:54, October 14, 2012 (UTC)

It's not really a new idea, though it is a new & clearer expression of it. The way it was used in The Angels Take Manhattan brought it to the viewers' attention very emphatically indeed, so I think you're probably right that it's setting something up for subsequent episodes. The new companion? Maybe. It could be setting up more than one "something". It'd be just like Moffat to have several upcoming plots that depend on it & for some of them to use it in devious, non-obvious ways (I mean not obvious in advance -- but likely to be obvious after the fact). In respect of your idea, the first thing we need to find out is what connection the new companion has to Oswin Oswald, if they are connected.

On the assumption that they are connected & that the "time can be rewritten, but not after you've read it" principle is also connected with the new companion, it wouldn't be too surprising if these connections turned out to be another method of emphasising the principle -- as part of the setup for something further. For example, it could be that Oswin Oswald being turned into a Dalek is the motivating factor behind the Doctor eventually finding a way around the principle & that he'll go on to use what he's learned from that in solving an even greater problem. After all, the prospect of losing yet another companion as a result of the principle -- and losing her in that way of all ways -- would give the Doctor a pretty strong motive for trying to do something about it. --2.101.60.137talk to me 16:11, October 14, 2012 (UTC)

P.S. Again assuming that your idea is right, it's probably going to turn out to be important that the Doctor never actually saw the human form of Oswin Oswald. Just how it'll be important I don't know, of course, but I think it will be & it could be related to your idea. --2.101.60.137talk to me 16:22, October 14, 2012 (UTC)