

Cracks in History: The obvious solution is that the cracks in time have somehow changed history. Erasing the attack on Canary Wharf and the Day the Earth Was Stolen has the advantage of making sense of the Who timeline, not just in terms of the Dalek Invasion of the mid-22nd century, but of the new series itself (such as when no one knew what a Dalek was in "Dalek"). On the other hand, I'm not sure fans would like it if the RTD era's key points were undone. In fact, how would that work? Does Rose fall into the parallel universe without the events of Doomsday? Does Donna ever stop traveling with the Doctor without "Journey's End"? And wouldn't the Doctor be aware of such massive distortion in his own timeline.

Duck Pond Universe: Let's go further still, because Moffat is quite capable of it, and think of Leadworth itself. I mean, what else fell through the crack? What if, for Amy, there never was any Dalek attacks on 21st-century Earth. She's from a parallel universe to the one we watched evolve for the last 5 years and the TARDIS fell through the crack to her world. In the same way that Pete's World teetered on the edge of the apocalypse because of travel between the dimensions, is it possible that Amy's World is becoming more and more fragile, cracking like an egg wherever time travel occurs? If we've been in a parallel universe for the last three episodes, it might explain not only why Amy's never heard of the Daleks, but just who those Daleks are in Victory. How many unaccounted for Daleks are there - with a saucer no less! - at this point? And if this scenario seems to contradict the recent announcement that Doc11 would guest star in Sarah Jane Adventures, remember that no such announcement was made about Amy... a side-adventure while he was running the TARDIS in (to the moon and back by the scenic route?). Well, not sure about that, because it'll be a bit late to show him in the wrong costume. Maybe it's only Leadworth that's out of phase with the proper universe, and that's why the mail and the ducks can't get in. The inhabitants of this micro-universe are somehow oblivious (perception filtered) not to notice or something.
Timey-Wimey Finale: Then there's the possibility of Moffat revisiting each and every episode in the finale for some honest-to-goodness timey-whimey bits of business, Back to the Future Part II style (not a good pedigree, I admit). Perhaps the cracks have to be manually closed, making the characters cross their own timelines and forcing the Doctor to mindwipe Amy to keep the paradox monsters at bay. These holes in her memory might be a side-effect. Evidence? Well, there's this moment in Victory where the old guard on the roof turns to someone opening the door behind him, telling them to shut the lights off. We never see who it is. On the surface, it's just to establish the necessity for lights off during the blitz, but should we read more into that moment? Will we revisit that moment and find out the Doctor opened that door? I'll have to check if there are similar moments in the previous (and upcoming) episodes. Certainly, stuff could happen during Amy's forget button moment...
More stuff to watch out for!
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