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: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) | :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) | ||
::Well ya the Doctor remembers Rory helping him but from Amy's recollection of the times she had with Rory have been re-written. Maybe that's not time being re-written but it's her memories but something was changed besides just Rory not having ever existed. [[User:V00D00M0NKY|V00D00M0NKY]] 12:41, May 30, 2010 (UTC) | ::Well ya the Doctor remembers Rory helping him but from Amy's recollection of the times she had with Rory have been re-written. Maybe that's not time being re-written but it's her memories but something was changed besides just Rory not having ever existed. [[User:V00D00M0NKY|V00D00M0NKY]] 12:41, May 30, 2010 (UTC) | ||
:::There is a timeline in which Rory never existed. This one is pretty simple, although it has lots of differences, big and little, from what we've seen on the show. This is the one that affects all non-time-travelers. | |||
:::There is also a timeline in which Rory existed up until he got eaten by the time energy. This one is also simple, and it's exactly what we've seen on the show. This is the one that affects the Doctor. | |||
:::Amy doesn't live on either of those timelines. It's possible that there's a third, very complicated, timeline for her. | |||
:::But it's also possible that she just jumped from one to the other, and her history and memory are therefore inconsistent. The human brain is built to confabulate, to paper over inconsistencies. You and I don't remember nearly as much as we think we do, but our brains fill in the gaps with whatever seems to fit the story. Her brain will do the same thing if she tries to remember how the Doctor figured out Prisoner Zero, or why she went to Venice with the Doctor, or why he refused to sleep with her, etc.. It doesn't matter that in this case, it's not just her memory but her actual past that's inconsistent; there's no way she'd be able to tell the difference. --[[User:Falcotron|Falcotron]] 12:54, May 30, 2010 (UTC) | |||
