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Mind you, I still think that some of the River plotting is a bit messy. She certainly appears to think that it's herself in the spacesuit at that point - after the astronaut has killed the Doctor, she shoots at it from all of six feet away, five or six times, as it walks back into the water, and misses. This is the same woman who, one episode later, will kill multiple Silents while spinning around like she's a one-person fairground ride. When she doesn't hit the astronaut, she turns and says "of course", indicating that she knows that she wouldn't be able to harm it, because if it's her past self, that'd create a paradox.
And there are moments in these episodes where similar things seem to be going through her head. At one point, in the Tardis, the Doctor is talking to Canton about the astronaut. River is stood next to the American and looks to be doing everything she possibly can not to get involved or make eye contact with either of them.
But then, later in the episode, she helps the Doctor examine the now-empty spacesuit and is surprised by the fact that the child inside it was able to get out under her own steam ("must be incredibly strong").
I really am concerned that this series is going to be full of plot holes. The plotting so far hasn't been amazing, exactly. Take the cliffhanger we've just been left with until the series returns - it's not a patch on the one from the episode before, with Amy screaming as she's just about to pop the nipper out into a waiting technotube (on which note, I was disappointed that she then gives birth in a manner that must have been relatively pedestrian, as it's never mentioned - I totally thought that the sprog was going to be sucked out into some kind of weird machinery, or fired off into a warp tube or some shit. They left us with a fantastic image - white room, bulge, stirrups, waiting black hole of terror - and then did fuck all with it). |
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