10 Most Confusing Scenes In Doctor Who History
1. Day Of The Moon's Confusing Opening
Day of the Moon begins in the Valley of the Gods in Utah, three months after the cliffhanger ending to The Impossible Astronaut. A terrified Amy is being chased by government agents, including Canton Everett Delaware III, who shoots her and bundles her into a bodybag.
In New York, River Song dives off a skyscraper to escape Canton, and then, at the Glen Canyon Dam, Rory Williams also dies. Again.
Canton then takes the bodies of Amy and Rory to Area 51 and seals them inside the Eleventh Doctor's impossible prison, revealing that everyone was in on this crazy scheme to stage their deaths and seal the Doctor in a box of Lego.
But... why?
When we left Canton and the TARDIS team in The Impossible Astronaut, they were escaping the Silence and they were free. The Doctor even lands the TARDIS inside Area 51!
The only explanation is that they were keeping up appearances for the Silence, so they didn't realise the Doctor was plotting against them. However, the only information that Amy, Rory, and River gather from their travels across the USA is that the Silence are everywhere, which... we kind of already knew.
Also, if the Silence are everywhere, they'd have seen River land in the TARDIS swimming pool after jumping, so all the subterfuge was pointless.
Steven Moffat once said that he likes to start Part Twos under different circumstances, to hook viewers in and keep them on their toes. Which is fine in principle, but this one probably needed a few more drafts.