I too never thought it would end with the Doctor being saved, and for myself, the question has always been not so much why and how as who.
And since that first episode this series, I have said it is the present!Doctor, the one we are following, having been the one to kill his own future self. Which, of course, means he's known all along about his death (and how to explain it to his younger self when the time comes on why he must do it.)
I still haven't changed my mind on this. And, as I said to someone once before, the only other truly important person to take to an execution, apart from the victim, is the executioner. And I believe the Doctor has a very good reason for dying, we just don't know it yet.
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I too never thought it would end with the Doctor being saved, and for myself, the question has always been not so much why and how as who.
And since that first episode this series, I have said it is the present!Doctor, the one we are following, having been the one to kill his own future self. Which, of course, means he's known all along about his death (and how to explain it to his younger self when the time comes on why he must do it.)
I still haven't changed my mind on this. And, as I said to someone once before, the only other truly important person to take to an execution, apart from the victim, is the executioner. And I believe the Doctor has a very good reason for dying, we just don't know it yet.