janescarlett replied to your post: anonymous asked:but if they KNEW ...
Your tags for this are hysterical.
The saddest part about the Silence arc being over (other than River not coming back, but this is not happening, nobody dare to question my denial) will be the lack of hilariously bad planning.
I mean, the Daleks - "let's throw the Doctor at a planet, I'm sure this is a great idea" - or the Great Intelligence - "look, I'm frustrated enough to just kill you a million times over, even though it really would be just enough to do it once at the beginning of your timeline" haven't exactly stood out either.
But nothing will ever beat:
Having a grand plan to re-write events they all already part of and have probably been part of for years.
One of the first orders of business apparently being kidnapping the Doctor's best friend to genetically manipulate and condition her daughter, because nothing says successful like convoluted.
Kidnapping the flesh duplicate of an already kidnapped Amy Pond. WHAT THE FUCK WAS THAT ABOUT?
Spending thousands of years manipulating all of human history just because they were too lazy to build a space suit
Kidnapping someone and raising them to be a perfect killer, but storing them in some dingy orphanage and possibly letting them escape because of reasons
But only AFTER she phones the President of the United States, because that's apparently essential gear on a space/murder suit
Did I forget to mention that this trained killer will save the Doctor's life multiple times? I never said this plan was fool-proof (spoiler alert: none of this is).
Supposedly never losing Melody's tracks, but allowing her to complete her doctorate and come to her own conclusions about the Doctor, so she will be extra-motivated to a) decide not to kill the Doctor b) empty her weapons system, because nobody thought of that mechanical issue and c) marry him, idek anymore.
Blowing up the person's time machine without checking who's actually on it.
Consequently destroying the entire universe, ooops.
Causing the very cracks in time for which they want him dead in the first place.
Doing all this before their other (possibly first) weapon was conceived and born, because nothing says great planning like more paradoxes.
I suppose Tasha Lem gets weekly updates on what the Kovarian chapter gets up to and spends the night in question crying herself to sleep. Possibly tears of laughter, no one is quite sure about that.