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I think the predestination question goes a bit deeper than that. After all, we've been told from the beginning that Angel is a champion of the higher powers of the universe. First Doyle, then Cordelia, are given visions of the future by these higher powers. Not to mention all of those prophecies.

I felt like it was earned because the end of the universe wasn't really the issue, it was the human-scale drama of the Doctor's loved ones trying to cheat time itself to keep him alive.

Plus it's worth remembering she's not really dead. She's saved in a computer. It would be the work of about 30 seconds to bring her back to the land of the living, and the writer wouldn't even need to cheat to do it.

I sure can!

Honestly I think the dates on the newspapers in "Closing Time" are just a mistake. Like Rory's namebadge having the wrong year on it The Eleventh Hour.

I'm in agreement with Uthted, except I'm pretty sure Amy gets kidnapped and replaced with the Ganger during the 3-month gap between the first two episodes of the season, in 1969.

Or Forest of the Dead. "Why do you have handcuffs?" "Spoilers."

It was actually a plot point that she hasn't. When she was pretending to be Ourlivia, the trickiest part was faking a photographic memory, since she doesn't have one. 

I'm assuming they'll go for some of the old Alternate Timeline Tasha Yar Angst, where AltBroyles finds out that if they bring Peter back, he'll be dead.

Another nice touch that I hadn't really considered - we already knew that Fauxlivia wasn't part of the Cortexifan trial, but I hadn't really thought through why. This episode pretty much tells us the reason - she never lived in Jacksonville with the man who was her stepfather on Earth-1. She was never abused, and thus…

Yeah, bugging cell phones is a whole different world from the days of landlines. The "force pairing" stuff they're doing on here is actually reasonably accurate for TV.

Ben's complicity is also being overstated a bit I think. He didn't cover for Glory for most of his life - why would he? It was impossible for anyone to remember any connection between them. I'm pretty sure he even mentioned becoming a doctor to try to do at least a little to make up for the harm she caused.

A few notes -

I kind of wonder how much of the tech people keep compaining is "magical" in this show actually is. Take all the stuff with the cell phones - there was an article in Wired just a couple of weeks ago about a hacker who stalked and blackmailed women by hacking their laptops and cell phones, who then proceeded to track…

Oh sure, I'm not saying we're supposed to agree about gunning them down.

You know, SWAT teams actually do sometimes go trigger-crazy and shoot people they don't need to. It's one of the major problems with the drug war - it encouraged police forces to start keeping a bunch of heavily armed paramilitary squads on staff. There's a reason the army isn't allowed to police the civilian…

Yeah, but she doesn't become a Professor until sometime between "Time of Angels" and "Silence in the Library." Come on, get your River timeline straight! It's not complicated, it just requires a bit of 9-dimensional quantum math!

Spoiler, I guess?

This is actually explicitly confirmed in the show. He had a day left of his own time before he had to go die, but it didn't matter when it time he lived that day - so he was originally planning to go spend his last day at that galactic alignment, and instead spent it fixing up Craig's house. Which he had to go back in…