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:Huh? What's your basis for saying they had no interaction with the Doctor? The alternate name for the Silence is the "Academy of the Question", and the question has everything to do with the Doctor. ''[[Let's Kill Hitler (TV story)|Let's Kill Hitler]]'' and ''[[The Wedding of River Song (TV story)|The Wedding of River Song]]'' are the sources for saying that the Question is their organising principle. {{user:CzechOut/Sig}}{{User:CzechOut/TimeFormat}} 15:44: Sat 25 May 2013</span> | :Huh? What's your basis for saying they had no interaction with the Doctor? The alternate name for the Silence is the "Academy of the Question", and the question has everything to do with the Doctor. ''[[Let's Kill Hitler (TV story)|Let's Kill Hitler]]'' and ''[[The Wedding of River Song (TV story)|The Wedding of River Song]]'' are the sources for saying that the Question is their organising principle. {{user:CzechOut/Sig}}{{User:CzechOut/TimeFormat}} 15:44: Sat 25 May 2013</span> | ||
:: I will never "win" an argument here. I'm just registering my disagreement. So, I'll just work other areas of the wiki. [[User:Badwolff|Badwolff]] [[User talk:Badwolff|<span title="Talk to me">☎</span>]] 20:13, May 27, 2013 (UTC) | :: I will never "win" an argument here. I'm just registering my disagreement. So, I'll just work other areas of the wiki. [[User:Badwolff|Badwolff]] [[User talk:Badwolff|<span title="Talk to me">☎</span>]] 20:13, May 27, 2013 (UTC) | ||
== 1.5 Fixing something Wikia broke == | |||
Yes it was kind of a cop-out, but ignoring that for a moment, what does it tell us about the meaning of The Question? | |||
Assume for a moment that it was the Silence who engineered (somehow or other, which has never been well explained) the destruction of the TARDIS. It was obviously an extremely risky maneuver--it ended up destroying the universe in the abortative timeline where it succeeded--so if the Silence's motivation is self-defense against the consequences of the Doctor divulging the secret he alone knows, why not do something less dangerous? | |||
I think "The Name of the Doctor" reveals that pretty explicitly. The Doctor's True Name was needed to open the TARDIS doors. When the Great Intelligence got the doors open and stepped into the Doctor's timestream, it subverted every moment of the Doctor's history. If you knew that this was a possibility, then risky endeavors like TARDIS-exploding start to make more sense. | |||
In short: yes, the question is, "what is the Doctor's name?" But it's dangerous because of what can be accessed with that information, not because of the name itself. | |||
[[Special:Contributions/66.65.165.171|66.65.165.171]]<sup>[[User talk:66.65.165.171#top|talk to me]]</sup> 01:49, September 11, 2013 (UTC) | |||
