Oh my, I'd forgotten how absolutely wonderful The Beast Below is.
It's gorgeous, isn't it? I think the plot suffers just a little from the lack of a real "wow" moment, but it's a lovely story and the Starship UK is beautiful. I want a Smiler. Just to have in my room - creep people out.
THE IMPOSSIBLE ASTRONAUT BROADCASTS
TOMORROW!How are we all doing for crackpot theories? I've got
loads! I don't typically theorise much before a series of Doctor Who - most episodes in previous series have just been regular episodes, but now that we've got this exciting pile of events and shocks and twists and turns ahead of us, snaking around like spaghetti, I can't help myself.
I had a "moment" half an hour ago when I decided that River Song's secret is exactly the same as the Doctor's, and she saw him die when she first met him, so they're both pottering around concealing the exact same truth. I really liked this for all of five minutes because the irony is
delicious, and it's properly timey wimey, and very Moffat. Then I decided that this would make no sense as she's always all laughs and smiles when she's going on about how "you'll find out soon," and that's an f'ing grim secret.
Then I decided that the "Good Man" she kills is Rory, and he is also the titular good man in "A Good Man Goes to War," but then I decided that
that would make no sense as she doesn't recognise the "plastic centurion" in TPO, and is surprised to find that he's on their side in The Big Bang - so any episodes with Rory in will have to be set
after the Pandorica in both of their timelines, and so she wouldn't remember killing him.
EDIT: Although! She only mentions killing a good man in Flesh & Stone, doesn't she? But, then, she's already in Stormcage at the beginning of TPO, so it still doesn't work.