Timeline for Haven't the Silence tried to kill the Great Intelligence instead?
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| Jun 23, 2013 at 15:41 | comment | added | Amy | @Zetta: You make a good point, but then again, time can be rewritten. :) | |
| Jun 23, 2013 at 14:39 | comment | added | rurouniwallace | @Omega I would argue that there's no way the Silence knew what was on Trenzalore or what would happen there. If they knew the Doctor's tomb there, they would know that he doesn't die at Lake Silencio. Trenzalore is a battlefield graveyard, so for the Doctor's tomb to be there he would have to have died on a battlefield, which Lake Silencio in 1969 was not. This proves that the Silence don't even know what Trenzalore is, let alone what would take place when the Doctor arrived there. | |
| May 23, 2013 at 14:31 | comment | added | K-H-W | True enough, but since it was basically scattering him thru time, I would not put it past the writers to find a way to bring him back, later, if they decide to. Consider that it was explained to Clara that she would be destroyed, but that 'copies' of her would be scattered all thru time; even without a rescue like she got, copies of the GI are all thru time. It isn't really stated why Clara and the GI aren't stuck in an ongoing battle; it would make sense if the GI did it's nastiness and died, then Clara undid it with no opposition.. but, again... death in Doctor Who is rarely certain :) | |
| May 23, 2013 at 6:22 | comment | added | Amy | Well, the Great Intelligence himself was pretty confident that it would kill him (in fact, it seemed like he wanted to die), and his Whispermen evaporated as soon as he stepped into the timeline. While I guess I wouldn't be surprised if he managed to survive it, I don't think it would make much sense for him to try to find "peace at last" in death if the method he had found wouldn't actually kill him. | |
| May 23, 2013 at 6:15 | comment | added | K-H-W | "it took being ripped apart by the Doctor's time tunnel in order to do him in for good" -- assuming that it DID do him in 'for good.' -- all things considered, possibly a hasty assumption. | |
| May 23, 2013 at 3:48 | history | answered | Amy | CC BY-SA 3.0 |