From Newsgroup: rec.arts.drwho.moderated
From Address: jameskuyper@verizon.net
Subject: Re: Angels take Manhattan plot holes

On 10/24/2012 05:40 PM, Ken Arromdee wrote:
> And another thing: Amy tells the Doctor to go talk to young Amy.  If he
> does that, isn't that going to cause a paradox?  We already know that Amy
> was upset at waiting for the Doctor and not having him appear.  If the
> Doctor goes back and meets young Amy, that will change the past--
> young Amy will no longer be disappointed by the Doctor not showing up.
> And of course we don't know the effect this will have on other events.
> Worse yet, Amy wants the Doctor to hint at future adventures that young
> Amy hasn't had yet.  What if Amy remembers one of those hints and derails
> the adventure completely?

Of course she remembers those hints - that's why she tells him to make
that visit. The won't derail her adventures - those stories were part of
her history from the very beginning. The scene at the end of "The Angels
Take Manhattan" came straight from "The Eleventh Hour", where she was
dreaming a memory about the Doctor's visit to tell her those stories -
though we didn't know that's what was happening at the time. The Doctor
had just arrived to take her away on her first adventure, and the sound
of the Tardis is probably what triggered that dream memory.

I'd always thought that her childhood obsession with the Doctor seemed a
rather extreme reaction to his visit. It makes a little more sense now
that I know he reinforced it with a follow-up visit. "The Girl Who
Waited" didn't wait quite as hopelessly as we originally thought, not
the first time.
-- 
James Kuyper

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