odditycollector

I've gotten the impression, especially with Moffat's Who, that the particular way time and causality work aren't the ones most people assume, and that means cause and effect aren't the same and the whole Predestination Paradox thing isn't a paradox but, well, Tuesday. Time doesn't have a "from" and a "to", an "is," "was," and a "will be," it has a funny little squiggle with some slashes through it and a whirly bit that looks like of like a slinky. (Probably, actually, it strongly resembles a witch's shamble from Pratchett.) I'm sure Gallifreyen has words for this stuff. But more importantly from a storytelling point of view, we've seen enough of this sort of thing--River Song is a walking embodiment of it--that it's not a plot hole, as far as I'm concerned. The rules of the universe make it work, and even if we don't precisely know those rules, we've seen enough of them in action to accept it.