Yeah, about your first point, I only realised what you were actually talking about waaaaay after I made my reply.
To that I can only say that it seems like when someone is erased, it's not wiping out everything they've ever done. From what we've seen, it erases the memory but not the consequences of your life. Like how Amy can be born even though her parents fell into the crack. Thus, even without the memory of the Doctor, the fact that he saved the universe and Earth all those times still happens. It might not make sense how it happened, but it did. I like the line where River says that "all memory of the Doctor will be purged". It's different from saying that the Doctor has never existed, which arguably isn't the best way to describe it. Some review I read mentioned it's like having a perception filter over the memories of a person. Whatever happened still happened, but people's memories sorta bends around how it happened. (Much like in the Lodger where everyone just assumes there's always been a second floor, and after it's gone, everyone just assumes there never has been one.)
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About the others, don't take my word for it or anything. You don't even have to take my word for my explanation above. I wasn't seriously defending the Doctor's decision not to disable the Vortex Manipulator really. Just trying to come up with a somewhat plausible explanation for all the questions you raised. I do agree a bit more exposition for bits and pieces would have been good, but I also did think that the Big Bang was so excellent I can't imagine where they could have inserted more scenes since they would have had to remove other stuff.
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And I've gone and rambled on again. Don't mind me. I like being able to offer plausible explanations for when others see a plothole (with evidence for it within the show itself). That way I can hopefully help others enjoy the show more now that there's actually an explanation that makes sense.
Go drunk giraffe Eleven! That just makes me laugh so hard and I fall in love with Doctor Who all over again.
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Date: 2010-06-30 01:34 pm (UTC)To that I can only say that it seems like when someone is erased, it's not wiping out everything they've ever done. From what we've seen, it erases the memory but not the consequences of your life. Like how Amy can be born even though her parents fell into the crack. Thus, even without the memory of the Doctor, the fact that he saved the universe and Earth all those times still happens. It might not make sense how it happened, but it did. I like the line where River says that "all memory of the Doctor will be purged". It's different from saying that the Doctor has never existed, which arguably isn't the best way to describe it. Some review I read mentioned it's like having a perception filter over the memories of a person. Whatever happened still happened, but people's memories sorta bends around how it happened. (Much like in the Lodger where everyone just assumes there's always been a second floor, and after it's gone, everyone just assumes there never has been one.)
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About the others, don't take my word for it or anything. You don't even have to take my word for my explanation above. I wasn't seriously defending the Doctor's decision not to disable the Vortex Manipulator really. Just trying to come up with a somewhat plausible explanation for all the questions you raised. I do agree a bit more exposition for bits and pieces would have been good, but I also did think that the Big Bang was so excellent I can't imagine where they could have inserted more scenes since they would have had to remove other stuff.
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And I've gone and rambled on again. Don't mind me. I like being able to offer plausible explanations for when others see a plothole (with evidence for it within the show itself). That way I can hopefully help others enjoy the show more now that there's actually an explanation that makes sense.
Go drunk giraffe Eleven! That just makes me laugh so hard and I fall in love with Doctor Who all over again.