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:::Also, because it erased them from peoples' memories, so if you remember them they are no longer erased... that doesn't make much science fiction sense, but that's the explanation. | :::Also, because it erased them from peoples' memories, so if you remember them they are no longer erased... that doesn't make much science fiction sense, but that's the explanation. | ||
::::As I described further up (and despite how it's described) the crack doesn't seem to remove people from history it just seems to act as a perception filter, removing any record of people. So maybe all it takes is for one person to be certain you existed and you come back. Maybe Amy's better than normal at this (having lived next to the crack). Or maybe the Doctor's in so many people's memories that there's traces of him everywhere. Amy might have been the tipping point. | ::::As I described further up (and despite how it's described) the crack doesn't seem to remove people from history it just seems to act as a perception filter, removing any record of people. So maybe all it takes is for one person to be certain you existed and you come back. Maybe Amy's better than normal at this (having lived next to the crack). Or maybe the Doctor's in so many people's memories that there's traces of him everywhere. Amy might have been the tipping point. | ||
::::Additionally, remember that Moffat's big 'theme' here is fairytales or simply stories - isn't the best way of 'keeping someone alive' to tell a story about them? Amy restoring the Doctor by telling the wedding guests about him as a character in a story is comparable to Martha (in [[ | ::::Additionally, remember that Moffat's big 'theme' here is fairytales or simply stories - isn't the best way of 'keeping someone alive' to tell a story about them? Amy restoring the Doctor by telling the wedding guests about him as a character in a story is comparable to Martha (in [[TV]]: ''[[Last of the Time Lords]]'') restoring the Doctor by getting people to have faith in him as a messiah-like saviour. | ||
::It's also possible (and more sciencey... well, for Doctor Who, anyway) that remembering somebody after they've been erased creates some sort of psychic connection that they can use to pull themselves back into the universe from the outside. | ::It's also possible (and more sciencey... well, for Doctor Who, anyway) that remembering somebody after they've been erased creates some sort of psychic connection that they can use to pull themselves back into the universe from the outside. | ||
::One way to look at it might be something akin to the observer effect in quantum mechanics. The Doctor, Rory, and Amy's Parents had all been erased, but the cause of this erasure also ceased to exist, and, thanks to the Pandorica restoring the prior state of the universe, many of the effects of their existences (Various effects of the Doctor's intervention; the engagement ring; Amy herself, as her parents had been erased) still remain. This places those erased beings in a kind of ontological superposition, in a sense both having-existed and also not-having-existed. By remembering Rory, her parents, and the Doctor, Amy breaks the superposition, forcing their existence to be the "real" state of the universe.<br /> | ::One way to look at it might be something akin to the observer effect in quantum mechanics. The Doctor, Rory, and Amy's Parents had all been erased, but the cause of this erasure also ceased to exist, and, thanks to the Pandorica restoring the prior state of the universe, many of the effects of their existences (Various effects of the Doctor's intervention; the engagement ring; Amy herself, as her parents had been erased) still remain. This places those erased beings in a kind of ontological superposition, in a sense both having-existed and also not-having-existed. By remembering Rory, her parents, and the Doctor, Amy breaks the superposition, forcing their existence to be the "real" state of the universe.<br /> | ||
