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So, what was the point of resetting history? Was he spending 2-1/2 years setting up for next week, so Amy's final story can play out differently from an RTD finale? Is the fact that Amy's home time has always been a safe zone a plot point? Is the payoff even farther ahead, with the new companion? Or is it just that, for whatever reasons, Moffat never ended up writing a present-day story, so it all turned out to be for nothing? --[[Special:Contributions/70.36.140.233|70.36.140.233]]<sup>[[User talk:70.36.140.233#top|talk to me]]</sup> 17:23, September 25, 2012 (UTC) | So, what was the point of resetting history? Was he spending 2-1/2 years setting up for next week, so Amy's final story can play out differently from an RTD finale? Is the fact that Amy's home time has always been a safe zone a plot point? Is the payoff even farther ahead, with the new companion? Or is it just that, for whatever reasons, Moffat never ended up writing a present-day story, so it all turned out to be for nothing? --[[Special:Contributions/70.36.140.233|70.36.140.233]]<sup>[[User talk:70.36.140.233#top|talk to me]]</sup> 17:23, September 25, 2012 (UTC) | ||
I reckon it was just a way of allowing Moffat to start from scratch. [[Special:Contributions/94.72.194.203|94.72.194.203]]<sup>[[User talk:94.72.194.203#top|talk to me]]</sup> 20:08, September 25, 2012 (UTC) | |||
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Moffat told us repeatedly that the whole reason for the cracks/reboot plot was so he could remove aliens from public consciousness, so people in the 2011 Whoniverse would react to everything exactly the same way as people in the 2011 real world.
That all made sense at the time. But looking back, Amy didn't have a single adventure set in present day Earth since her first episode. When she finally did, after 2-1/2 years for us and 10 for her, the public reactions we saw were played as an intentional homage to the RTD era; The Power of Three would have gone down exactly the same way in, say, series 3. (Not to mention that it isn't even our present day, it's probably years in the future…) The Doctor did have two present-day adventures without her, but both of those were small stories where nobody had to deal with aliens but Craig and his family, so there was no payoff there either.
So, what was the point of resetting history? Was he spending 2-1/2 years setting up for next week, so Amy's final story can play out differently from an RTD finale? Is the fact that Amy's home time has always been a safe zone a plot point? Is the payoff even farther ahead, with the new companion? Or is it just that, for whatever reasons, Moffat never ended up writing a present-day story, so it all turned out to be for nothing? --70.36.140.233talk to me 17:23, September 25, 2012 (UTC)
I reckon it was just a way of allowing Moffat to start from scratch. 94.72.194.203talk to me 20:08, September 25, 2012 (UTC)
