In the very unlikely case that you aren't sure what I'm talking about, there are a few rumours that Moffat's very first Doctor Who Xmas special might have something in common with a story ('Continuity Errors') he once wrote featuring the 7th Doctor and the biggest library of the universe having every single book ever known, at least up to 2668. (So, strictly speaking, the events took place long before Moffat's 'Silence in the Library' 2-parter.)You can give it a read-through here. And believe me, it's worth it.
To sum it up, it's about the Doctor manipulating a librarian's past to get hold of a 'restricted' book. And oddly enough, reading the story now is some sort of a continuity error in its own. From the very beginning you think you know what is going to happen, for example we know that and how the Doctor will answer Gwen's question, without the question actually being part of Andrea's first 'memory-draft'. But we just know these things from Moffat's episodes, from - I don't know how to put it - it's like reading a deja-vu. It's as if we were knowing the hard facts before them taking place but without being familiar of the details. Or vice versa. And that's what keeps us interested into the story this such.
And it's not entirely impossible that the Doctor might end up doing something different this Christmas, manipulating Mr Scrooge's life... Well, I'm pretty sure that there won't be this 'deja-vu feeling' about it, but I'm afraid, it will be only after having watched 'A Christmas Carol' that we'll know for sure.
To sum it up, it's about the Doctor manipulating a librarian's past to get hold of a 'restricted' book. And oddly enough, reading the story now is some sort of a continuity error in its own. From the very beginning you think you know what is going to happen, for example we know that and how the Doctor will answer Gwen's question, without the question actually being part of Andrea's first 'memory-draft'. But we just know these things from Moffat's episodes, from - I don't know how to put it - it's like reading a deja-vu. It's as if we were knowing the hard facts before them taking place but without being familiar of the details. Or vice versa. And that's what keeps us interested into the story this such.
And it's not entirely impossible that the Doctor might end up doing something different this Christmas, manipulating Mr Scrooge's life... Well, I'm pretty sure that there won't be this 'deja-vu feeling' about it, but I'm afraid, it will be only after having watched 'A Christmas Carol' that we'll know for sure.
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