Path: ...!eternal-september.org!feeder3.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: The True Doctor 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 15:29:33 +0000 Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Lines: 82 Message-ID: References: <141429737.758311355.989284.anim8rfsk-cox.net@news.easynews.com> <1144498697.758321110.765099.anim8rfsk-cox.net@news.easynews.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Injection-Date: Sun, 12 Jan 2025 16:29:33 +0100 (CET) Injection-Info: dont-email.me; posting-host="53a7e5689d43a4833f89738cf1915a79"; logging-data="1273763"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX1+Cshmds2SHcfJQPhO9cnMbNzdOB8r1M4U=" User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird Cancel-Lock: sha1:kK/SE/FcdJIAooNGiVFLPNkzCsc= In-Reply-To: Content-Language: en-GB Bytes: 5090 On 12/01/2025 12:11, The Last Doctor wrote: > On 12/01/2025 09:42, John Hall wrote: >> In message , Dimensional Traveler >> writes >>> On 1/11/2025 1:00 PM, anim8rfsk wrote: >>>> Dimensional Traveler wrote: >>>>> On 1/11/2025 10:09 AM, anim8rfsk wrote: >>>>>> John Hall wrote: >>>>>>> In message , The True Doctor >>>>>>> writes >>>>>>> >>>>>>>> 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] > > Moern Doctor Who seems to have adopted a sort of "probability collapse" > model  for time travel (except when the writers break their rules). > Events are changeable, but become fixed for a specific observer once > they are observed by that observer. (In addition to the "fixed points in > time" that Time Lords perceive in some unexplained manner and are > immutable - except when the writers choose to break their rules ["The > Fires of Pompeii"]). > > In this case, once the Doctor had seen Amy and Rory's names on > gravestones, their lifetimes were set. So although the Doctor COULD > technically visit them again, he couldn't imperil them or take them off > though time and space, for fear of unravelling the Web of Time. > > That's as close to a "reasonable" explanation as I can come up with. > How do they prove their identities to the US authorities? Do they get deported? They can't prove they're British either. How do they obtain a Green Card so they can work? Why couldn't they just have said they wanted to start a family and no-more sex in the space-time vortex, so the decide to live with Rory's Dad until they can get a mortgage. Simple. Moffat, Chibnall, and Davies are all degenerate retards. -- The True Doctor https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCngrZwoS0n21IRcXpKO79Lw "To be woke is to be uninformed which is exactly the opposite of what it stands for." -William Shatner