Originally Posted By: Son of Mxy
What I find interesting in this episode is that this doctor is 200 years older than the doctor from the last episode. What did he do all this time? Marry River Song? Send her to her death? Visit other people? Do something to save himself? etc.


All we know for certain from the Impossible Astronaut is Easter Island and Jim the Fish. And, as we just saw, Stormageddon.

On an aside, saw an interesting theory that all of this goes back to Timelord Victorious fucking shit up on Mars. By breaking that fixed point, he caused the cracks in time that Eleventh was dealing with in series 5 and, of course, everything this season. Would almost work as it does seem that Moffat has been looking to tear down the Timelord Victorious motif with Smith.

Other odd theory and, methinks, wrong is that the Doctor laid the foundation for all of this due to his excessive regeneration from Tenth to Eleventh. Not sure where they tried to go with this one.