From Newsgroup: rec.arts.drwho.moderated
From Address: arromdee@rahul.net (Ken Arromdee)
Subject: Re: Angels take Manhattan plot holes

In article ,
James Kuyper   wrote:
>> -- Regeneration energy to fix River Song?  What?  Really, that was totally
out
>> of left field (and raises the question of why the Doctor never did that to
>> help anyone else, including people who were actually dying).
>A) she's his wife. B) his entire current supply of regeneration energy
>(which is apparently sufficient to support at least a couple of
>additional regenerations) came from her; he was appalled that she gave
>it to him, and is looking for excuses to give some of it back.

That raises its own can of worms: we assumed that the regeneration energy
she gave him was used up.  If it wasn't used up, and all he had to do was
wait until he got well enough that he could give it back, it wasn't even a
sacrifice.  

>It's a fixed point in time - no matter what you attempt to do to change
>things, something will normally happen to interfere. We've seen what
>happens if you're unfortunate enough to be clever enough to find a way
>to break a fixed point in time.

What's a fixed point in time?  They didn't know she broke her wrist.  They
knew there was a book where she writes of breaking her wrist.  No reason to
believe she wrote the truth in the book (her name certainly isn't Malone).

Furthermore, when the Doctor thought that she got out without breaking her
wrist, his reaction wasn't "oh no!  Look what you did!  You violated a
fixed point in time and that'll cause a disaster!"
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