Path: news.eternal-september.org!eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: solar penguin Newsgroups: rec.arts.drwho,rec.arts.tv,uk.media.tv.sf.drwho,rec.arts.sf.tv,rec.arts.sf.fandom Subject: Re: Why WAS the 6th Doctor era SO BAD?! Date: Sat, 11 Jan 2025 20:07:00 -0000 (UTC) Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Lines: 26 Message-ID: References: <141429737.758311355.989284.anim8rfsk-cox.net@news.easynews.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Injection-Date: Sat, 11 Jan 2025 21:07:00 +0100 (CET) Injection-Info: dont-email.me; posting-host="cacfb63be90c5e1f8db41a4af65f827c"; logging-data="816657"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX1/3WsxIXfENLgRO9VtICFBwZ/cOjQyVR/o=" User-Agent: NewsTap/5.5 (iPhone/iPod Touch) Cancel-Lock: sha1:PMzrarKRad5pJrQEzLtl3n6RWl8= sha1:MBYLHel7bYvwJ/auFe9GmbDVbMk= Dimensional Traveler wrote: > On 1/11/2025 10:09 AM, anim8rfsk wrote: >> John Hall wrote: >>> >>> 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. The tenth Doctor and Martha were shifted to 1969 by the Angels but they were still able to time travel once they were reunited with the TARDIS. -- solar penguin