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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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You know, I wrote that and there was something poking me at the back of my mind, but it was late and I was tired... Which isn't really a very good excuse, since I know the Library episodes pretty much by heart. Maybe I'm just meta'd out. ANYWAY, what I'm trying to say it: Thanks for the catch, and you're absolutely right. (I have for... a long time now said that EVERYTHING comes back to the Library. I don't mean that we'll actually re-visit it, just that Moffat laid out his vision there, and that it is too early, because it's a piece of Moffat-era stuck in S4...)
/rambling. Hope you don't mind.