Which, of course, is a disappointment for those who had already determined who she was (considering the many not-so-subtle hints dropped by Moffat in the course of the season.)
The whole episode left me feeling as though "this isn't finished." So we know who she is, but we don't really know who she is. Being Amy's daughter was called even back in season 5, on the strength of the river/pond connection, but dismissed because of the apparent time gap (they're 21st Century, she's 51st Century). But really, 'risen higher than ever before and fallen so much further'... that hasn't happened yet.
Well, to me there's no question about that, is it? The good man who went to war. The Doctor.
See, that's too obvious. The Doctor himself says that he's not a good man. "Good men don't need rules." / "Today's not the day to find out why I have so many."
I can't help thinking it's Rory that she ultimately goes to Stormcage for.
She obviously killed him in the opening episode. (And of course it'll be explained later that it's not what we thought, and he didn't actually die. Not that it'd be a flesh copy though, it's highly unlikely.)
That's what we're meant to think. I don't think it's that obvious, and I can't help but think the Doctor shot there was the Ganger version, but no doubt we'll get an explanation. Fortunately I think it'll be more clever than the RTD style "poof and it is all sorted out" that we saw in seasons 1 and 3 and to a lesser degree season 4.
Hmm yeah... Maybe the Doctor will eventually show up later in her timeline. I know he's inspired by that (relatively underwhelming) Time Traveller's Wife when it comes to the relationship between the Doctor and River, but in TTW, the man has random time jumps, it's not a completely opposite flow of the timeline, see? Maybe she's lying to him, maybe she saw an older Doctor right before she met in in SITL. (Heck, maybe Moffat will even find a trick to 'save' her from her relatively okay fate in Forest...)
The Doctor must show up again in her timeline, because their first meeting, where he arrives on her doorstep knowing everything about her hasn't been shown, neither has their last meeting at the towers of Darillium when he gives her his screwdriver.
As far as her fate in Forest, one thing about that never sat right with me: as I see it there is no reason whatsoever why she could not be saved. Her body is gone at the end of the process, and her essence is in the Library computer. Like the other 4022 that were saved - so there's no reason why she can't be resurrected other than "because."
Is it of any matter really...?
It is if you want to know who she really is.
From her timeline, the Pandorica, then the crash of the Byzantium, then the Library happens - and somewhere in the middle of that are the events of AGMGTW. She's aware that he will find out who she is on that day, but its temporal placement would seem to be prior to the Pandorica.
So in the events there, she's helping fight against the military, in a sense, but by the time of the Byzantium, she's their prisoner and working for them, and by the time of the Library, she has been pardoned.
I don't consider the old show as canon.
Moffat does. And that insignia looks very much like that of the Time Lord Omega.
Really, TW season 2 was largely on par with Doctor Who for me -- actually, I liked it better than most DW seasons. That's why I was let down by season 3, although I did expect that to happen, given that the best characters in season 2 were all killed off or disposed of. Don't get me wrong, I like the other characters... It's just that they weren't given much of interest to do in s3, and I doubt it'll be any different in s4.
It isn't shaping up to be much different in S4 thus far.
What I like in DW is precisely the opposite of what most RD episodes did: the intimate moments, the slow moments, the moments where story matters most than the thrills
Yeah, RTD wrote a lot of Torchwood.
I'm excited for what I'm seeing right now! I don't spend hours discussing theories on the next DW! (Well, happened to me, but mainly to play along, not for the sheer enjoyment of it ;))
Hahah, well, I love the fact that Moffat drops in more clues than RTD did about where things are going and I love the fact that they can be pieced together, there's a feeling of knowing something that others might not have seen - and trying to figure out where it's all going, it's why people watch detective shows, just on a lesser scale.