By: Frank Wales

Frank Wales — Sun, 02 Oct 2011 17:02:53 +0000

1) Given that it’s apparently capable of faking the appearance of lots of other stuff, such that people standing next to it can’t tell the difference between it and an actual person, and that it can extend itself sufficiently to create things like a whole motorbike (as in ‘Let’s Kill Hitler’), I think I can presume faking regeneration energy is straightforward for it. Remember, Mels’s regeneration happened when it was in the room, so the Tessalecta and its crew knew what that looked like.2&3) You’re presuming that the Doctor originally died at Lake Silencio, and the Tessalecta was just a subsequent fake. But suppose it was *always* the Tessalecta that got shot there?Then the Fixed Point in Time is still the same, its effects on those who witness it are what’s important, and River and the Tesselecta are, indeed, what need to be involved for things to work out. What screws things up is not that River doesn’t kill the Doctor, but that the Doctor doesn’t *appear* to have been killed to everyone involved, particularly to those who go off to 1969, and to the Silents who were witness to the events at Lake Silencio. The events in the mangled timeline show that River needs to be let in on the secret, so that she will go through with events as they’re supposed to happen, instead of fighting them. Events that include Canton conveniently turning up to ‘dispose’ of the body before anyone gets the smart idea of doing a post-mortem on it and blowing the gaffe.

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By: Frank Wales