Howling:Amy's two pasts

In one of the mini-episodes included in the Complete Series 6 Box Set (I think it's Good Night?), it's shown that both versions of Amy's past - the one where she grew up without parents and first met the Doctor when she was a child, and the one where she always had parents and didn't meet the Doctor as a child - are both simultaneously "real." They both happened, even though they contradict one another. This would normally imply parallel universes, but we're dealing with a single universe here, so how can this be? 82.2.136.93talk to me 18:34, April 17, 2012 (UTC)

It's more like alternate timelines in this case than parallel universes, although the fact that the universe was rebooted does complicate things a bit. Anyway, I think Amy just remembered both versions of her past, but the version where she had parents is now the only one that actually hapenned. Icecreamdif talk to me 19:18, April 17, 2012 (UTC)

The adventures she had in Series 5, when she didn't have parents, did still happen though, because her daughter turns up at the end of The Wedding of River Song having just escaped from the Byzantium. River even mentions meeting Amy there. So it did all still happen, though quite how escapes me. 194.168.208.42talk to me 09:45, April 18, 2012 (UTC)