#datesandfigs

[devinclaire]

Sunday nights with Julie London #comeonamyhouse #datesandfigs #records #amwriting

[ughbenedict]

Hi I just wanted to say I love your URL name!

[tillthenexttimedoctor]

I am re-watching the opener of series 6 and am wondering how much of her childhood in 1969 America (if any) do you think River remembers in those episodes? And in general how much of the adventures in Impossible Astronaut/Day of the Moon do you think River, The Doctor, and the Ponds remember in subsequent episodes since the Silence were involved?

It’s so hard to tell - logically, they shouldn’t remember much, at least whenever it related to the Silence. Canton, having not been reminded about the Silence for a while, seemed to not remember a lot of it after only three months:

CANTON: Why didn’t you tell me this before we started? DOCTOR: I did, but even information about these creatures erases itself over time. I couldn’t refresh it because I couldn’t talk to you.

And Rory:

AMY: That’s what we’ve spent the last three months trying to find out. RORY: Not easy, if you can’t remember anything you discover.

So, unless they refresh the information, those three months probably seem awfully muddled (on the other hand, they should still retain some information about what they did, but who knows how much sense that makes once the information about the Silence gets deleted).

However:

they retain the system of tally marks (the Doctor marks his arm in The Wedding of River Song)

it is unknown how much information got through to Amy, even with time stopping - did she find out everything herself or was some of it from before?

Amy remembers killing Kovarian in spite of all the Silence running around at the time, so important events apparently don’t get deleted alongside, at least not immediately

River seems to have the best chance of remembering the Silence, after all, she managed to shoot one when it was standing behind her. She remembers her conditioning, the basic points of her early life: “I was trained and conditioned for one purpose. I was born to kill the Doctor.”

But in Closing Time it becomes clear that she is missing all important details:

RIVER: You know about the Doctor? KOVARIAN: So very well. Oh, don’t try and remember me. We’ve been far too thorough with your dear little head. RIVER: Oh! What are they? What are those things? [referring to the Silence] KOVARIAN: Your owners. RIVER: My what?

So, overall, she’s unlikely to remember more than bits and pieces of her childhood.

[xavir-blog]

Do you have the link to the interview that your set of "Benedict Cumberbatch, BBC’s Sherlock interview, 2012" posted 2 February 2012 is from?

Yes, absolutely! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qR5Dyt2CwNY&hd=1

[kikoutei]

do you know where the Matt at Karen singing the Christmas song is from? you posted the posted the audio the other day.

I do believe the video you are looking for is here.