Question about Rory

[Marsden]

I'm sorry if I missed it, but how did Rory go from being erased from ever existing via the crack in time to a Roman centurion Auton?



As a side question, it's heavily implied that the Pandorica was based on Amy's Pandora's box book and the Roman books having the Romans there, who did that? All Madame Kovarian?

 

[Ithekro]

The Alliance against the Doctor blowing up the Universe made the trap using stuff from Amy's room. Including Rory. Save they got Rory so good they basically brought his soul back...somehow. Or something like it.

 

[The Mighty Monkey of Mim]

If I remember correctly, it was not the Silence but the alliance of all those other races (Daleks, Cybermen, Silurians, et al) who designed the Pandorica scenario from Amy's memories, which included Rory despite the fact that she wasn't conscious of it ("nothing is ever forgotten, not completely, and if something can be remembered it can come back"). The reason they set it all up to imprison the Doctor was because they believed he would be directly responsible for the TARDIS blowing up and threatening all universes, but it actually turned out that the Silence were behind that.

 

[RoJoHen]

Yep, the Alliance took Amy's memories and constructed a trap for the Doctor.

The Pandoria = Pandora's Box = Amy's favorite childhood story
The Roman Legion = Amy's favorite subject in school
Rory the Roman = From the picture of him in a Roman costume

One of the races landed at Amy's house (we see landing marks in her lawn) and stole memories that they acquired from her bedroom.

The Roman Legion itself was actually made up of Nestine duplicates, living plastic like we saw in Eccleston's premier episode "Rose."

 

[Ithekro]

Those were the best replications of humans that the Nestine ever managed. Back in the days if the Third Doctor they tried to still needed to use masks on mannequins.

 

[diankra]

Those were the best replications of humans that the Nestine ever managed. Back in the days if the Third Doctor they tried to still needed to use masks on mannequins.

In Terror of the Autons, yes, but in Spearhead there's perfect replicas. Aside from slightly glossy skin, and maybe needing a feed from a living but comatose mind. Eg General Scobie. Also Channing, who doesn't have a human original that we see (but maybe there was one in unseen backplot. For more in that vein, see Alan Moore's DWM strip Business as Usual).