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That's pretty awesome.

It's all well and good saying you shouldn't intervene, but call the cops. The problem is, it took the cops 20 minutes to turn up, by which time someone could have be killed.

Jones seems to be breaking up the fight and drawing the heat onto himself, it is risky but he has got armour and pepper spray.

Except this is a fictional Universe.

We've seen that Racnoss formed Earth with their ship at the centre, thus the Racnoss must have existed long before humanity.
The Nestene, Carrionites, Great Vampires and Racnoss (along with perhaps the Vashta Nerada and Weeping Angels) all existed in the "Dark Times" of the Universe along with the Time Lords. The Time Lords, in interstellar war eventually wiped them all out. This was all long before Earth even existed.
The Dark Times ended some 4.6 billion years before now.

I had a story idea where the Doctor's name was a password to some kind of super weapon or prison holding something evil or something like that. Something that would bring about the destruction of the universe. The 1st Doctor would have been instrumental in it's locking and had to use his name as a password (for some reason). Wiping his name from the Matrix and then escaping with Susan (the only other person alive who knew his name). He would then use all his psychic might to lock his name from even his memory so no mind reading could ever find it.
By the time he was recaptured in the War Games, there'd been a power shift on Gallifrey and the real reason for his escape had been forgotten, with the new Council simply putting it down to a rebellious streak.

You misunderstand, the Doctor was trying to convince EVERYONE he was dead. In the end he had to settle for everyone bar four (and I guess the Teselecta crew). He didn't want to just come out and say "I'm in a robot suit" as that would have utterly defeated the point of trying to fool everybody.

I can understand a fixed point being something you can't go into and directly change.
But as pointed out, there gets to a point when you realise that any change can effect everything. Especially when earth's destruction was at stake, what if, in The Empty Child the Doctor hasn't been there and the whole world was recreated by the Nanogenes?
A whole host of fixed points would not be able to exist.
And since the whole concept of non-fixed points in time is that time can be changed or rewritten, there was no guarantee that the Doctor would be there to set things right.

The Silence had managed to make the Doctor's death a fixed point in time.
Fixed points cannot be altered under any circumstances, they are events that MUST happen.
River attempted to rewrite a fixed point, which caused time to start "dying".

"Look in to my eye."
*Doctor does a dance in the eye of the Teselecta*

No, the Doctor never technically needed to escape his death, the fixed point in time is and always was fooling everyone into thinking he was dead.

He was the Doctor. The Doctor in a Doctor suit. The Teselecta isn't an automation, it's controlled from the "bridge". The Doctor was controlling it the whole time, as himself.

I suppose that depends. They might go down the route of some of the novels and make the Doctor like The Other, making him one of the first Time Lords along with Rassilon and Omega. That would make it a very old question.

Or you could just make the argument that since he can travel right back to the start of the universe and introduce himself to someone it could make it the oldest question in a wibbly wobbly kind of way.

Except she looks nothing like Amy, and also didn't say anything when she could have when Amy went to kill her.

While I think she could have been the most likely candidate to be the Rani, at this point she doesn't really fit her MO. Plus, I think the Doctor would have recognised her.

Um... no.

I think we've been thinking too hard about this, I think she is just who she is, Madame Kovarian.

It was. I've been watching classic Who, and I really enjoyed the 3rd Doctor's run. Although they had a prickly relationship, you could tell that they both had a mutual respect and later on a real friendship. The way they played off each other was one of the highlights of the 3rd Doctor's run, and whenever you got to see him return was always a delight.
It was such a shame that he never got to appear in NuWho in some way, although he did get to appear in the Sarah Jane Adventures (which, of course features another of the dearly missed from that time) which is something I suppose.

Only in the Ultimate Universe. He managed to lift it with pure might.

In 616 several others have used it, such as Captain America (remember, wielding it is based on "worth" not physical strength).

That is depressing.

Honestly, it's such a simple explanation but it logically seems to make sense.

As has been pointed out, there's been 200 years missing between A Good Man Goes to War and now.

I wouldn't be surprised if that 200 years was between A Good Man and Let's Kill Hitler, since the Doc isn't with Amy and Rory and that's also the "first" time River meets the Doctor.

I'm wondering if it might be a bit longer than normal.

Yeah they are.

Check-and-mate... (poor Cybermen).

Also, I'll bet anyone we will have Radio controlled Cybermats in shops by Christmas.

It still doesn't make sense to be frank.