Theory:Doctor Who television discontinuity and plot holes/The Wedding of River Song


 * Doesn't River telling Amy and Rory that the Doctor isn't really dead (just after having witnessed his "death") negate almost the entirety of series 6? The events following Lake Silencio should lead the group directly to meeting the younger Doctor and the events of the second episode, thus inciting all following episodes. Amy recognizes that River is her daughter at the end of the finale (possibly due to this information bleeding through into the all-at-once time) even though she has not even given birth to Melody at this point. Is Amy still going to be kidnapped? How does this all work?!?
 * We dont know it was the early rory and amy from the Lake, it was my impression it was future amy and rory just before the older doctors death that was refered at the end as it seems it takes place in there house
 * It was indeed the "present" Amy and Rory, since they know River is their daughter.


 * Why isnt the TARDIS in the 5.02pm universe as it was at lake silencio why would it not go into the 5.02 universe like the Teselecta?
 * It was. If you look in the background of the close-up of the Teselecta's eye, the TARDIS is behind the Doctor.
 * Your right, but then why didnt he just use the TARDIS to fix everything?
 * Because he can't? You'll have to be more specific than "fix everything".


 * How was the timeline restored if River kissed a Teselecta?
 * Because the doctor was inside the Teselecta, he described it like wearing a suit, and it was shown when he grabbed rivers arm, that the restoration works through clothing, so the same princible applies here.
 * Or...
 * The scene that played out in The Impossible Astronaut always was the Teselecta being shot. When River managed to save the "Dcotor", time fractured. That would make River and the Teselecta the "opposite poles" of the event. While the Doctor was inside it, the "fix" wasn't dependant only on him.


 * How did the Teselecta start a regeneration process when receiving the initial shoot ?
 * The Teselecta is a shapeshifting robot, it could easily mimic the appearance of the start of a regeneration.


 * When Rory stays behind to face the Silents, he refuses to remove his eyepatch so as not to "forget what is coming", even though the others have removed their eyepatches and not forgotten.
 * Two possibilities:
 * The long exposure to the eyedrive allowed a buffer.
 * He was speaking specifically about the Silence that would come through the door.
 * I think it may be both. He would remomber something is coming, but was concerned that he would "miss" one or more as they came in and he lost eye contact with the individuals.
 * (Side issue: Keep in mind that River, Rory, the Doctor and Amy-Ganger were able to escape a hive/nest when there focus could not have been on all he Silence present.)


 * If Time stops at the lake BEFORE all the event's of sereies 6, how does alternative "all of time at once" Amy remember the Minitour even though they never met the Minitour time changed at a fixed point at the lake BEFORE that adventure. And yet Amy has a drwaing of the Minitour from her alternaive memories.
 * Because it was surpost to end with the doctor dieing, the doctor describes it as different versions of the same event, happening symulantously, as such it did happen, only it didn't, if you understand what I mean.
 * The Minotaur - as well a Pirate Amy and Siren (both from The Curse of the Black Spot) - could be bleed through. Same as River's presence - she was born after IA remember.
 * Best techno-babble reasoning? Three quartet are all "complex space time events" to one extent or another. In Amy's case that could translate into "remembering" the alternate time line.
 * The Doctor himself said that Amy has unique powers because of the Time Crack (even though they never technically existed). So Amy can remember an alternate timeline that didn't happen because of time being changed.


 * The answer given by the Doctor is that Amy can remember alternate timelines due to her long exposure to the time cracks. That means she has both memories of the (at that point) current 'time doesn't change' timeline and the original The Impossible Astronaut through The God Complex timeline.


 * Heading one comment off at the pass, the episode's treatment of the death of the Brigadier does not contradict what's been mentioned on TV or in the novels. On TV the Doctor said in Battlefield that the Brig died in bed, as he as done here. And in the novels the Brig has his youth restored around the year 2010 and continues to live for many more years; there is nothing in this episode that says when the Brigadier actually died (time machine, remember). The only possible flub is why the Doctor would be upset at learning of the Brig's death if he already knew the circumstances.
 * The events of Lake silencio AND the events of 'united' timeline all happen after Day of the Moon; hence every 'common' soldier should be imprinted with 'kill silent on sight' mission. We could imagine that the Kovarian's order was later reimprinted by silents by being imprisoned or something. But what about generic soldiers of captain Williams? Should we still presume that spreadout humanity fights The Silence across the Universe? In the way that they are still very oppressed 'parasite' race and hence need those religious orders?
 * The 'united' timeline only occurs 'afer' Day of the Moon in a limited sense - it has a (sort of) history of its own, in which there was no "kill us all on sight" video, which the Doctor does mention.


 * If the Teselecta was shot, how was it able to regenerate?
 * Well with the Doctor at the controls and to direct the look, it would have been easy for the Teselecta to project energy waves to create a simulcrum of a Regeneration. Keep in mind this thing fired beams of light out of its mouth in LKH. Projecting yellow energy subcutaneously shouldn't be beyond its capabilities.