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::::::::::::::Larry Miles has a completely different answer to that, which ties directly to your "the Time Lords wouldn't have needed the Web of Time". And actually, there are real-world physicists who have brought up effectively the same question and tried to answer it; see Julian Barbour's "The End of Time" for an example. But we've already got enough to deal with. --[[Special:Contributions/70.36.140.233|70.36.140.233]]<sup>[[User talk:70.36.140.233#top|talk to me]]</sup> 20:52, September 29, 2012 (UTC) | ::::::::::::::Larry Miles has a completely different answer to that, which ties directly to your "the Time Lords wouldn't have needed the Web of Time". And actually, there are real-world physicists who have brought up effectively the same question and tried to answer it; see Julian Barbour's "The End of Time" for an example. But we've already got enough to deal with. --[[Special:Contributions/70.36.140.233|70.36.140.233]]<sup>[[User talk:70.36.140.233#top|talk to me]]</sup> 20:52, September 29, 2012 (UTC) | ||
This is more of a question than a theory, since I'm not sure if I actually believe this, but it seems worth mentioning: Has it been considered yet that River may have been the one who blew up the TARDIS?... | |||
We know that she has been under the influence of the Silence (though technically I mean she's been influenced by the Silence '''and''' the "Silents") several times in her life. It would seem entirely possible for them to have implanted the idea in her mind to blow it up in an effort to kill the Doctor, and not have realized how enormous the consequences would be. Until we find out what happens when the prophecy comes to fruition we can't even be entirely certain of their motives in general anyhow. Also, if this is the case, it would also stand to reason that they then blocked the door (which how that could happen was also never quite explained) to keep River from leaving. Which would, so to speak, be them "tying up loose ends". Probably having known the Doctor was not on board at the time, an attempt to destroy the TARDIS would still make sense. Because what can the Doctor really do if he becomes "a madman with a box without a box"? He certainly would never reach Trenzalore- which also seems to be the central plan. Not necessarily to kill him, just to keep him from answering the question. (Perhaps the Lake Silencio scenario came about only because this failed, and they finally realized they '''did''' have to kill him.) | |||
When the TARDIS was exploding, River also seemed to be doing a whole lot of frantic things to the TARDIS, including hooking together giant cables that didn't seem too "happy" about being connected. It '''seemed''' like she was trying to stop it, but you never know. The Silence would have certainly known how familiar she was with the TARDIS, especially having apparently orchestrated her having becoming part Time Lord, or at the very least were able to enhance that quality in her. Even with the war that humans had already unknowingly waged against the Silents, we still know that not only did they survive, but they're still on Earth for quite some time after that. (The Silent who stood and watched at Lake Silencio in modern times, and even the ones with Madame Kovarian in the far future.) As a matter of fact, even though those attempts to build their own TARDIS were never explained fully, it's obvious that the Silence organization has access to time travel since they brought River to Utah from the future. Now that I think about it, they could have even been using River to build those TARDISes, since they don't tend to make anything themselves, but rather influence others to do so. | |||
[Side note: Is Time Lady the official name for a female Time Lord, or since they can change gender anyway is Time Lord generally used for all of them?] [[User:Saghan|Saghan]] [[User talk:Saghan|<span title="Talk to me">☎</span>]] 16:48, October 1, 2012 (UTC) | |||
