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From: John Hall <john_nospam@jhall.co.uk>
Newsgroups: rec.arts.drwho,uk.media.tv.sf.drwho,rec.arts.sf.tv,rec.arts.sf.fandom
Subject: Re: Why WAS the 6th Doctor era SO BAD?!
Date: Sun, 12 Jan 2025 09:42:07 +0000
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In message <vlv2md$re1k$3@dont-email.me>, Dimensional Traveler 
<dtravel@sonic.net> writes
>On 1/11/2025 1:00 PM, anim8rfsk wrote:
>> Dimensional Traveler <dtravel@sonic.net> wrote:
>>> On 1/11/2025 10:09 AM, anim8rfsk wrote:
>>>> John Hall <john_nospam@jhall.co.uk> wrote:
>>>>> In message <vlsi7d$a8vm$1@dont-email.me>, The True Doctor
>>>>> <agamemnon@hello.to.NO_SPAM> writes
>>>>> <snip>
>>>>>> This stupid imbecilic degeneracy was copied by the moron Steven Moffat
>>>>>> for the character of the 12th Doctor and that finally killed the series
>>>>>> off completely after Capaldi got Clara killed for nothing after making
>>>>>> both characters not get on with each other and then got Bill Potts
>>>>>> killed off for nothing as well, as well as Capaldi. Oh, and don't
>>>>>> forgery he effectively killed off Amy and Rory too.
>>>>>
>>>>> I always felt that the rationale for the Doctor not being able to rescue
>>>>> Amy and Rory because for some tenuous reason he couldn't visit NY at the
>>>>> particular time they'd been sent to didn't really hold weather. He could
>>>>> visit some earlier time or different place and arrange for a message to
>>>>> be sent to them, telling them to take a train to, say, Chicago, where
>>>>> he'd be able to pick them up.
>>>>
>>>> Agreed, there had to be some workarounds. At least they could have brought
>>>> some up and explained why they wouldn’t work.
>>>>
>>> I thought it was that those time-shifted by the Angels could never time
>>> travel afterwards.
>>>
>>  No, they were just trapped in a zone that the doctor couldn’t go to.
>>
>Can someone remind/enlighten me on _why_ The Doctor couldn't go there?
>

I don't recall that a convincing explanation was ever given. I suspect 
that even Steven Moffat didn't know. It was just that a way had to be 
found to write out Amy and Rory, and this was what he came up with.

[Least relevant ng trimmed]
-- 
John Hall
                "I look upon it, that he who does not mind his belly,
                 will hardly mind anything else."
                                            Dr Samuel Johnson (1709-84)