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Thinking aloud with pictures...
Because we are watching one long, continuous story, and it's timey-wimey and told backwards, but also hugely dependent on what came before (i.e. Ten).
Let me show you what I mean (obvious point is obvious, but hey ho, that's not stopped me before):
The Impossible Astronaut (/this whole season) is literally the counterpoint to Waters of Mars. That is... on Mars the Doctor declared that The Laws of Time were his, and that he could do whatever he wanted and broke a Fixed Point.
In TIA he submits to The Laws of Time and - willingly - makes sure that the Fixed Point stays fixed, even though it means his own death.
Now the other thing is the Doctor's death. When Ten died you had to have a heart of stone not to feel for him (oh that music)...
OK, so he was man!pain incarnate, but he'd screwed up pretty much everything and died alone, realising what a fool he'd been.
Now Eleven... Well, it was a bit of a surprise, to say the least. And we didn't know what to make of it. But looking back at that scene on the beach, his final words are beginning to be painfully poignant:
Let me show you what I mean (obvious point is obvious, but hey ho, that's not stopped me before):
The Impossible Astronaut (/this whole season) is literally the counterpoint to Waters of Mars. That is... on Mars the Doctor declared that The Laws of Time were his, and that he could do whatever he wanted and broke a Fixed Point.
In TIA he submits to The Laws of Time and - willingly - makes sure that the Fixed Point stays fixed, even though it means his own death.
Now the other thing is the Doctor's death. When Ten died you had to have a heart of stone not to feel for him (oh that music)...
OK, so he was man!pain incarnate, but he'd screwed up pretty much everything and died alone, realising what a fool he'd been.
Now Eleven... Well, it was a bit of a surprise, to say the least. And we didn't know what to make of it. But looking back at that scene on the beach, his final words are beginning to be painfully poignant:
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I can't really claim is as my own, since I have it from Moffat himself, talking about how the Doctor's reputation has gotten too big. I don't think he sees it as somehow taking down RTD Who (he and RTD like each other very much), but more he's trying to work out where to take the story next.
And I think the one story is a much better one than the sum of its parts.
Oh yes. Which is why I always love to stand back and view everything as a whole. A bit like Buffy - I might be a Spuffy 'shipper through and through, but I'd never deny the huge impact on her that Angel had.