Doctor Who: 10 Unanswered Questions From The Revived Series

4. Why Can't The Doctor Visit Amy And Rory?

Because he doesn't want to and he's secretly really pleased that they're finally gone. That's one theory, of course, and it would probably be much easier to just accept that as canon rather than trying to get our heads around the sheer timey-wimey chaos that besieged the events of The Angels Take Manhattan. Alas, let's give it a whirl anyway. To all intents and purposes, Amy and Rory's departure at the end of Series 7: Part 1 ticked all the boxes. Nobody can deny that it wasn't as heartbreaking as it was always going to be (and then some) but once your tears had subsided, you probably started to realise that the fateful events in that graveyard didn't actually make as much sense as you first thought. It's obvious that the Ponds were zapped to 1950s New York by the Weeping Angels - and as such were both dead in the present day - but why did that mean that the Doctor couldn't travel back in time and visit them at some point along the way? Well, it's vaguely written off that "one more paradox would rip New York apart" which is fair enough, really. They could've always met the Doctor somewhere else though, couldn't they? Apparently not. Thankfully (or perhaps not so thankfully) Steven Moffat himself has responded to the confusion by trying to shed a light on the situation. According to him there was already "so much scar tissue" that reality would've ripped apart if the Doctor had attempted "some surgery". So there you go. If the Doctor Who timelines are damaged beyond repair, he only has River Song to blame.