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:It's possible -- no more than just possible -- that River slipped up this time & that that's why the Doctor replied the way he did. If so, it would mean that it '''is''' the Doctor who's erasing the records but that '''he hasn't done it yet'''. River's comment (combined with the memory of what Oswin did in ''Asylum of the Daleks'') has tipped him off & he's now going to '''start''' erasing the records, so we'll see him doing that in later episodes of the series. A major theme of the episode was that they were doing things '''because they'd found out that they were going to have done them'''. (Urgh! English tenses ain't designed to cope with time travel. We need a "future past perfect" tense, among others. The future perfect isn't quite what I mean.) His reply could have been intended to conceal from River that she had slipped up & given him information about his personal future. (I was 89 but I'm 2 again, just now.) --[[Special:Contributions/2.99.198.167|2.99.198.167]]<sup>[[User talk:2.99.198.167#top|talk to me]]</sup> 20:51, October 3, 2012 (UTC) | :It's possible -- no more than just possible -- that River slipped up this time & that that's why the Doctor replied the way he did. If so, it would mean that it '''is''' the Doctor who's erasing the records but that '''he hasn't done it yet'''. River's comment (combined with the memory of what Oswin did in ''Asylum of the Daleks'') has tipped him off & he's now going to '''start''' erasing the records, so we'll see him doing that in later episodes of the series. A major theme of the episode was that they were doing things '''because they'd found out that they were going to have done them'''. (Urgh! English tenses ain't designed to cope with time travel. We need a "future past perfect" tense, among others. The future perfect isn't quite what I mean.) His reply could have been intended to conceal from River that she had slipped up & given him information about his personal future. (I was 89 but I'm 2 again, just now.) --[[Special:Contributions/2.99.198.167|2.99.198.167]]<sup>[[User talk:2.99.198.167#top|talk to me]]</sup> 20:51, October 3, 2012 (UTC) | ||
::I like this bit, 89-now-2: "it would mean that it '''is''' the Doctor who's erasing the records but that '''he hasn't done it yet'''." | |||
::Also, may I add I feel very welcomed that my first post here has continued to be interesting to others.[[User:AthertonX|AthertonX]] [[User talk:AthertonX|<span title="Talk to me">☎</span>]] 21:35, October 3, 2012 (UTC) | |||
