Because “no living creature can speak falsely or fail to answer” when the Question is asked at Trenzalore.
Moffat thrives on minor technicalities like that.
While that’s true, I think it’s more likely that the quote of “no living creature can speak falsely or fail to answer” was referring to the Doctor’s final visit to Trenzelore when he dies. If that wasn’t the case, why didn’t the Doctor answer when asked?
a valid point
Chapter Eight: Dam Good
Fandom: Doctor Who.
Rating: T
Characters: Eleventh Doctor, River Song, Jim the Fish
Words: Approximately 2500
Special thanks to: SnubNosedSilhouette for beta
Note: Chapter Three of this story has been updated for canon compliance with The Name of the Doctor
You’re always here to me. And I always listen. And I can always see you.
Always and completely
:sniffle:
I hate reading theories about river being alive because I instantly take as a possible canon and in the future this might hurt. I already love the theory about clara saving river from the database and it would be haven if this happens. But I just read nomorespoilersweetie’s theory that river is…
Works for me
An Archive of Our Own, a project of the Organization for Transformative Works
Chapter Three: Bone Meadows
Fandom: Doctor Who.
Rating: T
Characters: Eleventh Doctor, River Song, assorted aliens
Words: Approximately 2600
Special thanks to: SnubNosedSilhouette and steelesays for beta
NOTE: Now edited for canon compliance with The Name of the Doctor
“Wait, the Doctor’s name is John Hurt?” ~Abby, 10
“No, that’s the actor playing the Doctor who’s not the Doctor; I think he’s the Doctor from the Time War, between the Movie Doctor and Rose’s first Doctor.”
<Abby bursts into tears, and can’t say why, only that she started crying in the scene with River and couldn’t stop>
We back away from the angst and I ask her if she knows where she’s seen John Hurt before. She says he looks familiar but she’s not sure. I show her an image of him holding a wand and she says, “Harry Potter. It seems like just yesterday I was giving your mother and father their first wands.” In perfect mimicry of the accent too.
Fandom: Doctor Who RPF / Doctor Who 2005
Rating: G
Characters: Alex Kingston, Matt Smith, The Doctor, River Song, etc
Words:~400
SPOILERS
Because “no living creature can speak falsely or fail to answer” when the Question is asked at Trenzalore.
Moffat thrives on minor technicalities like that.
