I too, was never wondering "How does Moffet get us out of this?" Because whatever is going on or has gone before, the feelings and emotions of the Doctor on that beach are real, and the death is a real and fixed point. He is sorry for something. He dies, and it's permanent and regretful and all of that, and even if something happens... a consciousness transfer, resolution of an alternate universe, him needing to figure out how to stabilize his "real" mind in a flesh construct, whatever, you know that this is the consequence of choices that have been made or of saving the world.
Contrast the feelings of the Doctor's death at the beginning of TIA, with the "deaths" of Amy, Rory and River at the start of DoTM. In that one, you KNOW something fishy is going on; you just don't know what (at least I didn't). In the first three minutes of DoTM I was totally saying, "How is Moffat gonna get out of this?" In TIA I wanted to know, "Who the hell is that astronaut and why did he/she kill the Doctor?"
That scene was so surreal; it had such a different feel to it than the fake deaths of the companions at the start. And so I do feel if there is some tricksy thing that happens akin to what happened in DoTM, where however it is done, the Doctor comes out and says "Psych!" and carries on as if nothing truly changed, then that, THAT would be the utter, utter cheat.
In fact, aside from the "why" question that I asked upon seeing that scene, my next reaction was "Hell, Moffat had better not get himself out of this one!" At least not without repercussions and as you note, a sea change.
But plz to be keeping Matt Smith as the Doctor of course. In some form. I don't care if he's now in a robot body or a flesh body that looks and acts exactly like Matt Smith, or if he's a doctor from an alternate universe that takes up the mantle or whatever. I love him too much to see him go. And hey, there's 200 years in between the Doctor now and the Doctor then... how crackified would it be if Moffat didn't even answer that question this season??? O_o
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I too, was never wondering "How does Moffet get us out of this?" Because whatever is going on or has gone before, the feelings and emotions of the Doctor on that beach are real, and the death is a real and fixed point. He is sorry for something. He dies, and it's permanent and regretful and all of that, and even if something happens... a consciousness transfer, resolution of an alternate universe, him needing to figure out how to stabilize his "real" mind in a flesh construct, whatever, you know that this is the consequence of choices that have been made or of saving the world.
Contrast the feelings of the Doctor's death at the beginning of TIA, with the "deaths" of Amy, Rory and River at the start of DoTM. In that one, you KNOW something fishy is going on; you just don't know what (at least I didn't). In the first three minutes of DoTM I was totally saying, "How is Moffat gonna get out of this?" In TIA I wanted to know, "Who the hell is that astronaut and why did he/she kill the Doctor?"
That scene was so surreal; it had such a different feel to it than the fake deaths of the companions at the start. And so I do feel if there is some tricksy thing that happens akin to what happened in DoTM, where however it is done, the Doctor comes out and says "Psych!" and carries on as if nothing truly changed, then that, THAT would be the utter, utter cheat.
In fact, aside from the "why" question that I asked upon seeing that scene, my next reaction was "Hell, Moffat had better not get himself out of this one!" At least not without repercussions and as you note, a sea change.
But plz to be keeping Matt Smith as the Doctor of course. In some form. I don't care if he's now in a robot body or a flesh body that looks and acts exactly like Matt Smith, or if he's a doctor from an alternate universe that takes up the mantle or whatever. I love him too much to see him go. And hey, there's 200 years in between the Doctor now and the Doctor then... how crackified would it be if Moffat didn't even answer that question this season??? O_o