they'd contrived a get out which worked with "yes, this really is the doctor, yes, we checked it's not a clone or scan, yes he's dead" -- 100% consistent with what was presented.

My problem remains that the time-connection to me means that what needed to happen was for the Doctor as Time Lord to be dead -- the teselecta has no special relevance to time or the universe so I don't see why its "death" would have anything to do with time stopping or starting. But, looks like we will have to agree to disagree on this one (and stop hijacking major_clanger's blog :-> )