[Ben Dawson]

Originally Posted by Recurring Villain

I did pay attention, thanks. The TARDIS exploded, and then it didn't, through the magic power of tears. There's also the fact that the Doctor managed to escape from the Pandorica with the assistance of his own, post escape, self - yet for this to be even remotely possible, his post escape self would have had to have escaped the Pandorica without a future Doctor's help, making the fact he helped himself escape sort of pointless because if he escaped without his own help at first, there would be no point in having to help himself escape. Not to mention that this was a deus ex machina of RTD proportions.

If you could explain an idea where the Pandorica could've opened in the museum with the Doctor inside, then finding the vortex manipulator in the museum then going back, then that could work to fixed the deus ex machina problem.