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<!-- Please put your content under this line.  Be sure to sign your edits with four tildes: ~~~~ -->Sorry if this has been brought up elsewhere. In the finale the impression seems to be that The Doctor is rewinding along his own time stream. However, visiting a young Amy Pond sees him in a time and place that wasn't part of his time stream. He didn't return that night; he showed up years later by mistake. Taking that into consideration, it seems The Doctor is rewinding along Amy's timestream (she's the common denominator), not his own.
<!-- Please put your content under this line.  Be sure to sign your edits with four tildes: ~~~~ -->Sorry if this has been brought up elsewhere. In the finale the impression seems to be that The Doctor is rewinding along his own time stream. However, visiting a young Amy Pond sees him in a time and place that wasn't part of his time stream. He didn't return that night; he showed up years later by mistake. Taking that into consideration, it seems The Doctor is rewinding along Amy's timestream (she's the common denominator), not his own.


Is this just an oversight by the writers or is there an explanation I just didn't catch?
Is this just an oversight by the writers or is there an explanation I just didn't catch?
: I thought the rewinding was to do with sealing the cracks, so he could show up at any time anywhere there was a crack nearby [[Special:Contributions/187.59.243.210|187.59.243.210]] 17:03, January 2, 2011 (UTC)

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Sorry if this has been brought up elsewhere. In the finale the impression seems to be that The Doctor is rewinding along his own time stream. However, visiting a young Amy Pond sees him in a time and place that wasn't part of his time stream. He didn't return that night; he showed up years later by mistake. Taking that into consideration, it seems The Doctor is rewinding along Amy's timestream (she's the common denominator), not his own.

Is this just an oversight by the writers or is there an explanation I just didn't catch?

I thought the rewinding was to do with sealing the cracks, so he could show up at any time anywhere there was a crack nearby 187.59.243.210 17:03, January 2, 2011 (UTC)