We've been speculating this for ages, ever since The Wedding of River Song - and the way I can see it Moffat lied within the prophecy itself. Some of it is fine, but some of it seems to have been ignored or forgotten entirely:


This is true - it was the setting of the story.


The Doctor fell to Trenzelore since the TARDIS refused to land.


I'll get back to this in a moment,


This part is fine as well, as it refers to the events of the story towards the end of the episode.

Now let's get back to that earlier part of the quote:


At that point, it states that no living creature could speak falsely or fail to answer. We can ignore Vastra, Strax and Jenny here since they couldn't have answered anyway.

Both the Doctor and Clara knew the answer to the Question, and (if this prophecy were accurate) both would have chimed in with the correct answer no sooner had they been asked.

While the Question was answered, it was done so by a person who can't exactly be called 'living'. Meanwhile both the Doctor and Clara succeeded in either speaking falsely or failing to answer.

Does anyone find this whole thing just a bit of a cheat?

Clara was directly asked so didn't have to answer maybe The Doctor would have answered eventually but been The Doctor managed to resist it doesn't say have to answer straight away or the first time.

To me it came across like he was going to answer but was fighting it but sooner or later would have

Well neither of them flatly said they wouldn't answer, so given time they probably would have.

River is a living consciousness, ergo is a living thing.

Who says the prophecy was fulfilled with River answering the question put forth by the GI?

What was so special about Trenzalore that meant a question couldn't be answered falsely? Nothing, it seems. However, being muddled in the Doctor's own timestream - now there's a situation where he probably couldn't lie; because the truth will be there to be seen.

The question has been asked. The anniversary special is where it cannot fail to be answered.

Possibly.

Maybe that was just a lie The Doctor got told to put him off ever going there rather than tell him what was really there

Rule one - the prophecy lies.

I'd like to think as some have already posted elsewhere, that the events on Trenzalore haven't yet ended. The Doctor hasn't left, yet, as far as the screenplay.
Perhaps the 50th anniversary will cover the prophecy in more detail.

In posting this, I have just added the word 'Trenzalore' to my browser's dictionary.
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So far we've seen nothing to worry the Silence. If the thing they were scared of was the death of the doctor then their plan to kill the doctor to prevent this was bloody stupid.

If however if was the rise/return of Darth Who then I suspect there's a question of which Doc comes back

I'm for the question not being answered yet, and maybe not even been asked yet

Maybe the Silence were scared of The "Forgotten" Doctor been released

I found it fine, The Doctor and Clara couldn't speak falsely or fail to answer because then the tomb wouldn't open, but then it was River who opened it, and she wasn't a living creature.

Does Clara know the Doctor's name then?

As she remembered the events of JTTCOTT I would say yes she does for now anyway but will likely forget it later

River is a living creature, living consciousness in a computer is still living......

It's a mistranslation... When no living creature, may speak falsely or fail to answer... It's not hat only alive people can speak... It's that only a dead one can...

One thing that was hinted at was the doctor stealing the TARDIS. could the question be why? he took his granddaughter away after an incident. within the history of Dr Who the audience has been misled. for instance, in Tennent and Donna's time, we were lead to think the four taps were the beat in the masters head when in fact it was Wilfred on the glass.

i believe we have yet to see the events of trensalore as the Doctor hasn't actually fallen as a warrior, which is hinted as the graves were all war graves. Many questions are still unanswered:
Who put the fake grave/shortcut into the tomb
How did the GI escape earth.
Who is the new 'Doctor' (possibly an younger version of the first doctor, before he took either his name or the tardis?)
WTF is going on with river.

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AND MOST IMPORTANTLY HOW DOES TENNANT FIT IN WITH THE WHOLE STORY!!!!

John Hurt is playing an incarnation between McGann & Eccleston, because 11 talks about being him and that he broke the promise and did not act in the name of the doctor, which means he's in the past but after the first Doctor, William Hartnell, seeing as we have seen every regeneration apart from mcGann and Eccleston, this is the logical answer.

River is a living consciousness in the computer at the Library. Dunno what else you need there.

The episode leaves 11 and Clara in the Doctors time stream with Hurt, so it sets up the 50th as them bouncing around his time stream to escape, probably using 10 for help, giving us nods to the entirety of Doctor Who history in the process.

Your questions about the GI and the fake grave are probably ones that won't be answered by the show.

The Eleventh hasn't fell; therefore the question has not been asked. Remember, GI mentioned a further Battle (a 'minor skirmish' compared to what else the Doctor has been through) where the Doctor died.

Eleven fell to trenzalore in the TARDIS. Simeon asked the question, Doctor Who?

No living creature could lie or not give an answer because they would be killed. If they lied it wouldn't open
Presumably the silence didn't know that the doctor not exiting would be the end of the universe they just knew it would be the end of the universe if the question was answered that was why they tried to kill him.

Yeh i see where you're coming from with John Hurt being between the two, but we have never been told that William was actually the first incarnation, also he is an older man, why couldn't hurt just be a younger version? Clara said that she could only see the 11, that did not include Hurt, so how could he be within the current known timeline and she not see Hurt before he broke the promise?

River - yes she is a consciousness, and mind linked with Clara, however she hinted at 'spoilers' meaning she knows more than she is saying about the current events.

Your theory for 10 seems plausible, sounds like a good arc. and granted the GI question prob wont be answered, but the entrance to the tomb, think there could be more there as River knew about it, Possibly because we see a previous physical incarnation of her in the 50th??