Foreshadowing: Part 2

Ok here we go. A few more possible clues to the future in the past ;)

Victory Of The Daleks
5.) Here we have the beginnings of an overall theme for Moffat's run so far - remembering. In this case, Amy can't remember any of the events from the Battle of Canary Wharf. She SHOULD remember the huge Dalek/Cyberman invasion and know immediately what Daleks are as soon as Winston shows them an "Ironside" but she doesn't.
This will come back later thru this season and all the "cracks" in time but then the entirety of series 7.2 is all about the Doctor remembering his past. Plus all those quips about his past and former companions throughout series 7.

The Time Of Angels
6.) Here we go with the insanity that is River's timeline. We are at the crash of the Byzantium, which she mentions to 10 in the Library. Plus we have all the little things like River knowing how to pilot the TARDIS and "park" it...oh and the Doctor introducing Amy to River...because ya know THAT wont seem at all weird later on...LOL
There are way too many things that happen with River that we see or hear of later on that from now on I'm only going to stick to major things...
(side note - River looking thru the journal mentions about having the pocket guide to the Doctor - pics of all his faces. Makes one wonder how many incarnations she's actually met - or did they think she might hop further back than 10? Or has she seen future him? I still think 11 is HER Doc tho...)

7.) Like all of Amy's questioning just who River is and how she can talk to the Doctor the way she does - 'She's kinda like ya know "Heel boy. She's Mrs Doctor from the future, isn't she? Is she gonna be your wife one day?" "Yes."' Even now at the end of series 7, we all aren't too sure just how this all worked out. But for better or for worse, the Doctor and River are a item...we just won't get to see a lot of it. Which is honestly rather sad, I think, because for most of the time, the Doctor is still very much a wide-eyed teenager in love when it comes to River. Its very cute to see them together. I really think Alex Kingston was done a disservice by not being made a full on series regular. Would've been nice to have a whole season with her and the Doctor alone, especially given who exactly the River Song character ends up being. Which leads to my next point...

7.1) (Cause its only an observation) I don't get the feeling that the River we see here knows exactly who Amy is to her. They've only just been introduced. I'll have to keep my eye out for a sign when she does figure it out...

8.) Another big reveal about River - that she's apparently in prison for something, something that if the Doctor finds out about, he may decide not to help the clerics destroy the angel. This is a big reveal about River, one that will continue to have meaning for her character all the way through series 6.

Flesh And Stone
9.) We have a crack again. The Doctor tells the angels that its the fire at the end of the universe. What's really going on, he's still working out, but he's leaning toward something to do with a Really Big Bang. We have the Doctor trying to get Amy to remember what he told her when she was little. We also have the clerics disappearing, being so completely gone that the others, besides Amy, don't remember them at all. The crack also swallows the Angels. Retconing at as plot device ladies and gentleman...

10.)  And now we find out about River - that the Bishop released her from the Stormcage Containment Facility, though we aren't told why, just that she is in his custody until they've accomplished their mission and she'll get her pardon. The Doctor seems...intrigued that she was in Stormcage. Maybe even a bit turned on? He even whispers it back to her with a smirk when the Bishop walks away. Eventually, as the Bishop is dying, he reveals that River isn't to be trusted, that she killed a man, a hero to many.

11.) The Doctor figures out here that the crack in time is what caused there to be no ducks in the pond, why Amy doesn't remember the Daleks and Cybermen. That it will keep going till everything is gone. This crack closes because it gets fed the Angels, but the explosion is still happening somewhere.

(Interesting note here that in 11's first episode with River, he downright yells at her, twice, when they are trying to save Amy. This Doctor doesn't usually get that upset, mad yes, but screaming? Not so much. And who does he scream at? The one person that will take it - River.)

12.) Cute bit - River to the Doctor - "You, me, handcuffs. Must it always end this way?" Well River sure wouldn't mind ;) They are very flirty here. He may not know all about her yet, but he seems to be enjoying it so far...
We do have him questioning just who it was she killed, but of course she won't say. She does tell him that he'll see her soon, when the Pandorica opens. He whispers to her "That's a fairytale!" She replies, "Aren't we all?" with a smirk and a laugh. Big foreshadowing here, because the endgame of all of this is that Pandorica box...

13.) At the end, Amy finally admits that she's been running from something too - her wedding to Rory. She tries to make a pass a the Doctor, thinking that maybe he is really what she wants, which of course he wants no part of! She does get quite a good snog in tho! The Doc finally realizes that for whatever reason, she and her wedding day are at the center of everything, and that he needs to make sure it happens.


(This past weekend, I was a volunteer at the local Wizard World Comic Con and had a chance to talk to tons of people about WHO. Was a GREAT time for me to be able to let lose in this new fandom and meet so many people, new fans and old, and hear all the talk. Someone mentioned that the Moffat really has been foreshadowing all the way back to his first episode of the new series with the 9th Doctor. I pondered on this for a while (see what I did there? PONDered....LOL) and I've decided for the purposes of this blog I'm trying, I won't go all the way back to anything before SatL/FotD unless we come across something directly related. There's already so many episodes to get thru (the whole of 3 series worth!) and I'm thinking I'd like to be as done as I can before we get the to the 50th and then Matt's departure from the show, which seems to be set for the Christmas Special. But as always, PLEASE feel free to leave me a comment if I've missed something or you think I'm completely off the mark! This whole endeavor was really just some where for me to let out all of my LOOK!! OMG!!! LOOOOOK!!! moments as I re-watch the episodes (And maybe to see if I wasn't the only one who's had the same thoughts) so I know I will miss tons of stuff along the way.)

Thanks for reading!