User:SOTO/Forum Archive/The Panopticon/@comment-1711089-20140322010838/@comment-207.181.249.206-20140607180123

In the Wedding of River Song, Dorium refers to "The Fields of Trenzalore," "The Fall of the 11th" and the "The Question," etc. Of course, Moffatt and other DW writers could play writing magic to change the implied story by stringing all those phrases together.

Doubt they would, though. With the rapid shot resolutions that they threw out in The Name of the Doctor and the fan frustration with all the hanging plot lines, I feel like Moffat wants to dust off his hands and move on.

I personally hate that there are Alternate Timelines there, too, because it calls into question a lot of story logic. What occurred that change the sequence of events for this alternate ending? Heck, in some ways, the eventual set up of the Name of the Doctor doesn't match the graveyard in The Time of the Doctor.

It can't be the Great Intelligence, even though he's probably one of the few entities to have the power to make such a change. But it can't be him because the Eleventh met iterations of Clara in this iteration we watched and encountered the graveyard of Trenzalore from our perspective at that point.

The only other entity we've seen powerful enough in modern Who to possibly make such a change without "outside timeline" sources is The Moment. Takes incredible power to bring three iterations of the Doctor together without triggering some kind of Universe-shattering Blinovitch-limiting effect. We've only seen Timelords successfully pull that off.

Maybe they'll provide some kind of resolution in the future. MOffatt has expressed many times, though, that he has no problem violating canon and such because it's violated itself so many times already. I would say, though, from the perspective of the show, the Fields of Trenzalore is an alternate timeline until proven otherwise within the show.