This actually makes sense with Earth being the only planet in the universe with life. Most of the threats in Doctor Who comes from aliens and there aren't any aliens here. Hence, they didn't need the Doctor to keep saving them.
That part makes sense, but I was referring to after the Doctor flew the Pandorica into the TARDIS explosion but before Amy called him to her wedding. Then, he was supposedly erased from existence, but the rest of the universe was real and looking fairly normal.
Because when the Doctor reappears at the wedding, Rory is going in the background "I was plastic and he was a stripper at my stag night."
Ha! Thanks so much for pointing that out. I totally missed it, and that line just made me very happy. :)
Though some people have speculated that with the universe pretty much collapsing really quickly, the usual rules probably don't apply quite as strictly as they would in the normal universe with proper rules.
That could make sense. Also, the instant death Reaper when Rose touched baby Rose in Father's Day may have happened because time was already fragile there with Pete being impossibly alive. (I think classic Who has also addressed time traveling humans coming into contact with themselves, but I haven't seen those eps, so I don't know what happened.) Still, this is something I think should have had at least a brief hand-wave in the script.
Maybe he's finally matured enough to think that some people can be responsible and he doesn't have to keep looking over their shoulder. River Song is the ultimate timey wimey companion. Would the Doctor seriously believe disabling a little vortex manipulator is going to stop her? And she seems rather sensible about the rules of travelling through time after all.
If he's changed his mind about whether humans can be responsible solo time travelers, then the first time Rory and Amy are asleep he better go track down Jack and fix his vortex manipulator. While River Song seems aware of the basic concept of avoiding paradoxes, I don't trust her to be responsible. She is in prison for killing a man, for crying out loud. She deals with criminals, graffitied the oldest cliff in the universe, and she pulls crazy stunts like jumping out an airlock and assuming the Doctor will drop what he's doing to come rescue her. She's badass, yes. Willing to save the universe, yes. Responsible and trustworthy? Not really. Jack was a Time Agent and traveled with the Doctor (and the Doctor remembers it, unlike with River). He knows the rules of time travel. I guess Jack was choosing to base himself on 21st century Earth, when time travel technology doesn't normally exist and could muck up timelines, but it still bothers me.
"Drunk giraffe" is definitely a good descriptor of Eleven's dancing. :)
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Date: 2010-06-28 07:48 pm (UTC)This actually makes sense with Earth being the only planet in the universe with life. Most of the threats in Doctor Who comes from aliens and there aren't any aliens here. Hence, they didn't need the Doctor to keep saving them.
That part makes sense, but I was referring to after the Doctor flew the Pandorica into the TARDIS explosion but before Amy called him to her wedding. Then, he was supposedly erased from existence, but the rest of the universe was real and looking fairly normal.
Because when the Doctor reappears at the wedding, Rory is going in the background "I was plastic and he was a stripper at my stag night."
Ha! Thanks so much for pointing that out. I totally missed it, and that line just made me very happy. :)
Though some people have speculated that with the universe pretty much collapsing really quickly, the usual rules probably don't apply quite as strictly as they would in the normal universe with proper rules.
That could make sense. Also, the instant death Reaper when Rose touched baby Rose in Father's Day may have happened because time was already fragile there with Pete being impossibly alive. (I think classic Who has also addressed time traveling humans coming into contact with themselves, but I haven't seen those eps, so I don't know what happened.) Still, this is something I think should have had at least a brief hand-wave in the script.
Maybe he's finally matured enough to think that some people can be responsible and he doesn't have to keep looking over their shoulder. River Song is the ultimate timey wimey companion. Would the Doctor seriously believe disabling a little vortex manipulator is going to stop her? And she seems rather sensible about the rules of travelling through time after all.
If he's changed his mind about whether humans can be responsible solo time travelers, then the first time Rory and Amy are asleep he better go track down Jack and fix his vortex manipulator. While River Song seems aware of the basic concept of avoiding paradoxes, I don't trust her to be responsible. She is in prison for killing a man, for crying out loud. She deals with criminals, graffitied the oldest cliff in the universe, and she pulls crazy stunts like jumping out an airlock and assuming the Doctor will drop what he's doing to come rescue her. She's badass, yes. Willing to save the universe, yes. Responsible and trustworthy? Not really. Jack was a Time Agent and traveled with the Doctor (and the Doctor remembers it, unlike with River). He knows the rules of time travel. I guess Jack was choosing to base himself on 21st century Earth, when time travel technology doesn't normally exist and could muck up timelines, but it still bothers me.
"Drunk giraffe" is definitely a good descriptor of Eleven's dancing. :)