Too long; didn't read. One of those internet phrases, which means providing a summary for people who don't want to read all that.



I'm glad you like it.



Yes, you're right, I did miss that bit. How is a guy supposed to keep track of all the insights he has, anyway? "The Doctor in the TARDIS doesn't know" is an interesting phrase, especially since it was used twice from two different sources, phrased exactly the same. If there are two Doctors, and the one who knows what's going on does not have a TARDIS, that would certainly explain it.



Yes indeed. I can't claim all of that insight, whoever made that Youtube video is the one who spotted it, but it definitely indicates that the timeline has been altered somehow.




Me too.



Does our Doctor get his jacket back somehow afterward? Or is he wearing a slightly different jacket now?



Yeah, I'm not sure if he said anything to her or not. But I definitely have the suspicion that it was the future Doctor, involved right from the beginning.



There are enough moments where he should have noticed something that it feels like something deliberate. Whenever writers (especially writers as clever as Moffat) reuse something several times, there is probably some significance to it. It also fits in with the whole style of clues and mystery that we're assuming is going on here.



Would he leave her in prison if he knew that her future self had to be with the clerics to cause the angel sequence to happen?



Yes. Maybe whatever happens to make Amy give her watch to River also causes the Doctor to change watches?



I really can't shake the feeling that she's more than meets the eye. A lot of her child scenes whisper that to me, and there was that preview for Vampires of Venice that cast her in an ominous light (even though the episode itself didn't really).



This is true. River didn't seem worried for either of them, or sad for them. She seemed confident, and content with her own role in matters.



That would be an interesting change.




I do too, but when I imagine the most dangerous thing in the universe, the sort of thing that entire races would fear, the sort of thing that would be sealed away, and also the sort of thing that could be described, in the preview, as a warrior, or a trickster, soaked in the blood of a billion galaxies -- I think of the Doctor gone horribly wrong.

But I still doubt it.



If it's not the destruction of the time vortex within the TARDIS that causes the cracks, then it must be whatever is in the Pandorica, perhaps used by Amy to bring Rory back and breaking the rules of the universe, cracking it.



It's the only explanation for it I can come up with -- that it illustrates some truth about memory that will be important to the finale's plot.



Certainly possible. The whole fairy tale thing makes me wonder about Amy though ... and whether she might not actually be something from a fairy tale, something different than a regular person. There's no real "evidence" for that though, just feelings.



Mmhmm. I couldn't quite make out everything he was saying, but it was something about "Amy, why not Amelia?" He was doing that thing of his where he thinks through ideas very quickly, and somehow that got in there even though he was trying to save her life, so he quickly said "Nevermind!" and went on to the idea of closing her eyes.

And if he really is unfocused because of a timeline shift, it might be one of those things he will kick himself for not realizing earlier, if it turns out to mean anything.



Yes, I don't agree with me either, I was just talking possibilities out loud. I like that The Lodger revealed that perception filters can trick your memory as well though. I would like that to be an important fact, and would love for a perception filter based reveal to play a part. If the repetition of an unfocused Doctor is deliberate, so too might be the repetition of the perception filter.



This plus some of the stuff you said below is interesting, and now I'm leaning your direction on this. I like the idea that as soon as the Doctor set onto this path, the future in which the cracks appear became a reality, and said cracks began to reach back into the timeline that caused them. The second Doctor trying to manipulate or correct events still works with that idea. You've swayed me, which is good, because I was never in love with all that time travel stuff I wrote further below, about things being different and just how far the timeline might be altered, all that. It didn't quite fit for me, but the thoughts were in my head so I included them.



I think it's just a matter of how you define it or look at it. If the events already happened once, then Jacket Doctor is the first Doctor. If the events haven't "happened", but if the Doctor's actions will make them happen, thus setting into motion a future that involves a Doctor with no TARDIS, allowing said Doctor to move back into his timeline to alter things, then our Doctor could be considered the first one.

Either way, the Jacket Doctor is from the future of events.



I couldn't shake the feeling that there was no aunt. She still wasn't home at 11:30 p.m., leaving a young girl home alone. But that young girl knew how to cook for herself and was not afraid. It might be nothing. But I have suspicions.



Ooh, interesting.