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Precisely. The crack has a mind of its own. There's a design behind all the changes in the timeline. This, I feel, adequately explains any apparent "plotholes". [[User:Bluebox444|Bluebox444]] 12:24, May 30, 2010 (UTC) | Precisely. The crack has a mind of its own. There's a design behind all the changes in the timeline. This, I feel, adequately explains any apparent "plotholes". [[User:Bluebox444|Bluebox444]] 12:24, May 30, 2010 (UTC) | ||
:#2 is easy, and I honestly don't know why everyone is so puzzled. There are three big differences between the Doctor's case and Rory's: | |||
:* It took minutes for the time energy to erase Rory--it was still going on as they were leaving. The Doctor put his hand in for a few seconds. | |||
:* Rory is a normal person who's traveled in time a couple times. The Doctor is a "tremendously complicated space-time event". We know that such a thing is much harder to erase from history. That's why he would be enough to close the crack, while River, or anything less than hundreds of Angels, wouldn't be. | |||
:* The Doctor is clearly struggling against something, making noises and Troughton faces. Rory, being dead, presumably wasn't struggling. | |||
:So, the time field was "trying" to erase the Doctor, but it didn't get a chance to. | |||
:As for #3, I think you've got a different conception of how time works than the show does. There isn't a straight-line timeline. The reason time travelers can remember things as they were before history was changed is because that timeline still exists, right alongside the new one. The Doctor remembers Rory helping him because in his past, Rory actually did help him. You can try to work out the details, or you can call it wibbly-wobbly timey-wimey, but you can't just apply the physics and common sense of a world where time travel is impossible to time travel, or it makes everything impossible. --[[User:Falcotron|Falcotron]] 12:33, May 30, 2010 (UTC) | |||
