Why did the silence explode the TARDIS?

The most logical answer is this: The Silence planned to kill the Doctor by blowing up the TARDIS (to prevent him from reaching Trenzalore). However when the TARDIS exploded it was in the Time Vortex.
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Did the TARDIS get destroyed?

As I'm sure many of you remember, the TARDIS was destroyed in The Pandorica Opens. This was something that had been heavily foreshadowed beforehand, so we knew that it was coming.
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What happens when a TARDIS explodes?

Aside from the Moon, the exploding TARDIS, and Earth and its inhabitants, every star, planet, life form and object was erased from the Universe, past, present and future. Those races present near the initial explosion, namely, the Alliance, were preserved as stone statues.
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Why was there a crack in time Doctor Who?

The cracks were caused by the TARDIS exploding which, it being a space/time machine, took place at all moments in space and time. From what we were shown, as the Doctor/TARDIS' personal timeline got closer to the event, the cracks became more numerous and more dangerous (they were wider each time).
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Who says Silence will fall in the TARDIS?

In the first episode of the series, "The Eleventh Hour", Prisoner Zero tells the Doctor, "The universe is cracked. The Pandorica will open. Silence will fall". The Pandorica was also mentioned by River in "Flesh and Stone" as the next time she would meet him, and the Doctor dismissed the Pandorica as a fairy tale.
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What ACTUALLY Caused the TARDIS to Explode? - Doctor Who Mysteries



What is the Doctor's real name?

John Smith. The Doctor's most common alias (apart from the Doctor, obviously), this is his standard pseudonym on Earth.
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What is the crack in Amys wall?

These cracks were caused by the explosion of the TARDIS. Thus, the explosion led to several points in time and space touch when they shouldn't have been. These are linked to Amy because the explosion takes place in Amy's timeline as mentioned in this quote from Flesh and Stone.
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Why can't Amy remember Daleks?

It was the fact that the 11th Doctor's companion — Amy Pond (Karen Gillan) — did not remember the Daleks. This was eventually revealed to be the result of a crack in time which was caused by the TARDIS exploding in the future.
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How did Amy forgets Rory?

At the end of "Cold Blood", Rory is killed by a Silurian, then is erased from history by the cracks in the universe. Because he is part of Amy's own time-line, she ceases to remember him.
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How did the silence destroy the TARDIS?

2. How did the Silence blow up the TARDIS? Tasha Lem admitted in The Time of the Doctor that the rogue Kovarian Strain of the Silence blew up the TARDIS in The Pandorica Opens.
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Why did the TARDIS explode in Season 5?

Doctor Who confirmed the Silence was responsible for blowing up the TARDIS in season 5, but how they managed to accomplish this is still a mystery. The Silence, a religious sect of the space church called the Papal Mainframe, made the TARDIS explode at the end of season 5 of Doctor Who.
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What did the silence do Doctor Who?

Through the use post-hypnotic suggestion, The Silence make people who see them instantly forget their existence. After an incursion with The Eleventh Doctor, Amy, Rory and River Song, the Silence became known to mankind, temporarily halting their plan.
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What can destroy a TARDIS?

Can nothing destroy a TARDIS? Time rams, temporal weapons, the House, the volcano on Dulcis, and the Silence have all destroyed or nearly destroyed Tardises.
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How was the TARDIS created?

The production team conceived of the TARDIS travelling by dematerialising at one point and rematerialising elsewhere, although sometimes in the series it is shown also to be capable of conventional space travel.
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What happened to the TARDIS?

What happened to the TARDIS? The TARDIS then jolted, sending the new Doctor to the floor and opening the front doors. The machine then dematerialised, leaving the Doctor falling to the Earth.
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Is Rory an Auton?

No, Rory is still human. After "The Big Bang" (Season 5. Episode 13) Rory was never an Auton, tho his human self retains the memory of his time as "the Last Centurion" while he waited for Amy.
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Is Clara the Doctor's daughter?

Clara is the future child of the Doctor and River who's had her memory erased. The two Time Lords must be up to something on their nights away from River's prison cell.
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How did Rory survived 2000 years?

He was killed by the Silurians and absorbed into a crack in time, before being resurrected as an Auton, who then killed Amy. After breaking his programming, he stood watch over her tomb in the Pandorica for 2000 years. When reality was restored, Rory ceased to be an Auton and returned to human form.
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Are there female Daleks?

Being one of the only female Daleks, you can imagine wanting to bring death to everything around you. The Dalek Queen took control of the Dalek Empire for awhile, but eventually she grew bored. She found the stasis field of Gallifrey, and took over as the new Queen.
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What did the Doctor whisper to himself?

A bewildered Amy wonders how the Doctor keeps vanishing, making him explain what the device on his wrist is: "cheap, and nasty time travel; it's bad for you. I'm trying to give it up." The Eleventh Doctor whispers to himself.
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Who will be the 14th Doctor?

Doctor Who casts Sex Education's Ncuti Gatwa as 14th Doctor - Polygon.
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What did Prisoner Zero do?

Prisoner Zero went to the hospital and killed all the doctors and nurses. It took the form of a woman with two children to fool Amy and Rory, but gave itself away by talking with the woman's voice through a child's mouth.
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What was the question in Doctor Who?

This question was "the First Question, the oldest question in the universe, that must never be answered, hidden in plain sight". Dorium Maldovar told the Eleventh Doctor that the question was: "Doctor who?", which was a question the Doctor had been apparently running from his entire life.
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What is crack in space and time?

Cracks, called cosmic strings, are topological defects in spacetime that might have formed when the universe was young.
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