Doctor Who Season 6: 5 Questions About “Closing Time”

I have a quick question here….maybe I am over thinking this but When did the Doctor that received the envelope  find out about the events that happened at the Lake? The first 2 eps didn’t Rory, Amy and River keep the events from him?

In The Almost People, Amy thought se was telling the Ganger Doctor about it but she didn’t know they switched shoes to trick her into trusting the ganger, so she told the real Doctor about his own death.

You know, I was thinking about that, it being on his screen. A fixed point may not always be changeable, however, there’s no saying the date was accurate. Lots of things are recorded incorrectly, or purposefully, to direct a specific path. Plus, if there were only the four of them, plus canton and the silent, and whoever was behind the shed, who recorded his death? Canton couldn’t, he’s an old man in that scene. Amy + others wouldn’t, and it doesn’t make sense it would be the silents. Given that most of us assume it is the doctor behind the shed, he’s the only one left to record it, but why?

Also, with the whole timey wimey thing factoring in, if they rid the world of the silents in 1969, how was Amy seeing one then and there? One would assume they’d have moved on with people offing them on sight.

finally someone smart, eccleston was fantastic childish and serious brooding and silly all rolled into one(and he had a chin) i liked tennant but eccleston was good he just didnt really hang around long enough to own the character . no doctor who fan that i know personally likes matt smith we watch to see how they’ll get rid of him, including my mom who has watched since 1963 , she has missed the last 4 episodes and doesnt really care. that is not a good thing.

okay so i will bid doctor a fond farewell as matt smith will indeed be back and i just cant take anymore of him so i will quit watching for now  and hope for a change before the next season starts cross fingers and farewell.doctor.!(sad face)

Who says the TARDIS needs to give him anything? If he’s an exact duplicate of the Doctor (the entire point of that episode), he should be able to regenerate on his own.

Amy hasn’t been a famous model all this time because the name of the perfume is Petrichor, the smell of rain on dust.  She only found that out in the Doctor’s Wife episode.  I think this is what Amy decided to do with her time after traveling with the doctor.

That’s just a kids fancy, by the end of the episode he prefers Alfie.

I can see that point, afraid of the consequences for others.

Agreed, there are some people who think Tom Baker was the ultimate doctor and others who couldn’t stand him. Each man who’s filled the role has had both strengths and weaknesses. Matt’s not my favorite doctor, but after having watched them all, I can at least buy him in the role.

Rule Number One: The Doctor always lies.  He could be lying about his age.

I’m starting to think the entire thing has more to do with his companions than we realize.
“Silence will fall when the question is asked.”  I think the question is so simple we overlooked it.  I think the question is the single question that will forever save the doctor from this tedium he’s created in forsaking others for their safety.  The episodes have been very focused on children, friends, and in this one, relationships or better halves including how much the doctor needs one he can talk to and will talk back.  The question asked?  “Will you marry me?” By the doctor to River or vice versa.  I think the death of the doctor is a fixed point, especially now that it’s crossed into his timeline of Amy and Rory, even River apparently knew this as her response of “Figures” when shooting at herself as it’s a paradox.  She can’t kill herself in an earlier time as it’d negate her being there to fire the shot, but coming back from the dead?  The doctor keeps finding ways to do that as the Pandorica showed.  He can’t be late for his own wedding if River says yes.  Unless it happens after the wedding, but that’d be an older river who already killed him?  I don’t know, so far I’m still leaning the same ritual the master used as well as the question being a proposal.  It’d make sense though for now him to marry future her, so when he dies by her younger hand, future her can use the ritual with the wedding bands or something to bring him back.    It’d also explain her birthday remark(an in joke to this moment of rebirth? or rebirth and birth of the valeyard?).  Can’t wait for saturday to see how they do all this, or how much of this pans out or if it’ll be stretched into next year too as a sub plot.

In God Complex which happened in this Amy’s timeline before the perfume had her faith shaken and destroyed by the doctor himself.

She has no time machines as yet.

The history book adventures are the 200 years between God Complex and Closing Time.

Other time-lords have come back as well. The President, Rassilon, is one of the original time-lords. They still die. And since we’ve seen no evidence of the Doctor having a ring like the Master’s, I’m inclined to think he doesn’t have one.

I just watched the last scene again and yea that is who I think they were, Rose, Donna and Mickey. Too much of a coincidence not to have been. 

I commented below about the question that is to be asked and the silence will fall. Is it “Doctor Who?’ River knows his name and they seem to make a big deal about keeping his name hidden..

ugh… i hope he doesn’t pull a Doc Brown.

at the end of “the impossible astronaut” amy and rory went down in to the sewer which linked to the tunnel network, you hear river scream “RORY!!” but you don’t see what happens, could it be the silence have done something to rory as he seems to be the over looked and steven moffat does like us to be distracted with other things “ooooh shiny”

plus the whole why did amy, rory and river have to go on the run from canton 3 that was never explained and when amy was in the orphanage and the astronaut and the silent came in you never see what happened there either………so fricken excited people!!!!!

Matt Smith is not a believable doctor.  And, (I know this will probably make most of you mad, but) this 6th season is positively one of the worse since they ended the serious once before with that actor Sylvester, something or other, back in the 90′s.  They are clearly running out of material and the last 5 episodes I actually fell asleep watching they were so boring.  Now, I am not just a recent doctor who fan… I was born 2 months before the original was released in 63 and grew up with the Doctor and have watched every episode tens of times, some of them 100′s.  They really lost track of so much that could have pulled the story together, like Romana, or the Doctors Grandaughter Susan.  She too was a timelord.  As was the Doctor Daughter. They just blew it all off and Amy and Rory’s baby was the bombshell??????  Bad writing.