Doctor Who: Matt Smith’s 11 Best Understated Moments

10. €œTime can be re-written.€

doctor who It€™s the end of the episode that very nearly ruined the Weeping Angels forever (don€™t get me started. Or do, if you like€”I love ranting). The Doctor and the audience have gotten some tantalizing clues about River Song€™s identity, pieces to add to the puzzle from €œSilence in the Library.€ River and the Doctor smile at each other, River dangles her foreknowledge smugly, and then she vanishes, laughing. And the Doctor gazes off into space. Amy asks him what he€™s thinking, and he says that €œTime can be re-written,€ and smiles. Amy doesn€™t know what he€™s talking about, but we do. He€™s talking about The Library. River said then that if the Doctor ever truly surrendered to the implacable nature of death€”and therefore of time€”€œall the stars in all the worlds might just go dark.€ And here he is, thinking that time can be re-written. Maybe he can still save her. Or, maybe, he€™s thinking that there must be some sort of way to get out of that wedding.
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Rebecca Kulik lives in Iowa, reads an obsence amount, watches way too much television, and occasionally studies for her BA in History. Come by her personal pop culture blog at tyrannyofthepetticoat.wordpress.com and her reading blog at journalofimaginarypeople.wordpress.com.