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« on: October 03, 2012, 10:01:40 pm »

It occurred to me that, after all the speculation about time passing and the Ponds having their tenth anniversary etc, the Doctor specifically referred to the present as 2012.  It's possible, of course, that they'd gone back to New York in 2012 from whichever year they were in, but it doesn't seem like it.  Which means none of the other stories can be any later either, unless the Doctor's somehow got into an alternative timeline and has been visiting the might-have-been Ponds.
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« Reply #1 on: October 03, 2012, 10:09:03 pm »

I think that from the Doctor's POV, this story came first and Asylum came last. We already know that TPO3 came before (or sort of wrapped around) Mercy, so perhaps he lost them here and went and had a couple more visits. It would explain why he was sad about the thought of being the death of Amy in Asylum and his general anger throughout the stories about losing people and whatnot and why he was asking them for more adventures and dropping in sporadically, but from Amy's POV it was happening in normal order in her timeline.

However, during filming the paper Amy was reading in Central Park was seen as dated 2018. It never came up in the episode so perhaps it's relevance was cut.
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« Reply #2 on: October 04, 2012, 01:40:58 am »

I was going to suggest that maybe 2018 is when she finally kicked the bucket, but it really wouldn't make sense for her name to already be one the gravestone in 2012.
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« Reply #3 on: October 13, 2012, 06:25:22 pm »

I like the idea of the Doctor going backwards to visit them. That will always be the get out of jail card for bringing them back, because they can just come from any point before they were zapped back by the Angels.
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