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. *nods* It has to be real, or it's pointless.
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.) This is an interesting theory, and I can sort of see it, except wouldn't younger!Doctor try to change his future if he knew what was happening? Not to save himself, but to stop what-ever-it-is that he did that means he has to die. Unless it's a world-saving thing, which it could certainly be. Anyway, we can agree that there's a Doctor in the spacesuit! :)
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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.
*nods* It has to be real, or it's pointless.
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.)
This is an interesting theory, and I can sort of see it, except wouldn't younger!Doctor try to change his future if he knew what was happening? Not to save himself, but to stop what-ever-it-is that he did that means he has to die. Unless it's a world-saving thing, which it could certainly be. Anyway, we can agree that there's a Doctor in the spacesuit! :)