"Let's Talk About Time Travel" or "That One Doctor Who Bit Where They Did It Wrong"

Seil · 07-18-2011, 06:02 PM

So there's been Time Travel in a bunch of stuff - Bender's Big Score, Harry Potter And Hermione's Magical MacGuffin, The Prince Of Persia - and each one has their own cleary established rules. Or not - sometimes, they just wing it.

That being said, you cannae bring up time travel and not mention Doctor Who. Now, it's usually pretty good about it... save for episodes like "Fathers Day," where Rose saves her dad from being hit by a car and Eccleston gets eaten by a gargoyle or whatever. I like the show, and I'm okay with them taking some liberties - it's their show. But there's that one bit that bugs me: The End Of Time.

Let me tell you a little bit about the end of time, Tennant's last episode: The Doctor goes to visit the Ood, who tell him The Master is returning. The Master gets resurrected, and ends up changing the biology of every person on Earth, turning them into copies of himself. With all those copies, he figures out that the drumming in his head has been the work of the Time Lord President, James Bond. James Bond and the rest of the Time Lords are time locked in the Time War because of the Doctor, and Bond devises a plan to get them out. However, their plan, once they escape with the help of the Master, is to end time. The Doctor stops them, and survives, but ends up having to save Wilf, gets radiated to bejesus, and has a long, tearful goodbye scene, yadda yadda yadda. The thing is, when the Doctor hears that (spoiler) the Master is ressurecting, he rushes to the prison. Don't act like he didn't know where it was, the TARDIS lands just outside of the joint.

He's got a bloody time machine, and they make it into a big , tense moment where 'He's got to hurry, the Master is reviving!" No he doesn't! He's got a time machine, he wasn't part of events at that point, he could've walked to the TARDIS and gone a week earlier and been on time. But he doesn't, because that's not dramatic and exciting and intense enough.(end spoiler)

07-18-2011, 06:02 PM	#1
Seil Super stressed! Join Date: Feb 2007 Location: British Columbia Posts: 8,081	"Let's Talk About Time Travel" or "That One Doctor Who Bit Where They Did It Wrong" So there's been Time Travel in a bunch of stuff - Bender's Big Score, Harry Potter And Hermione's Magical MacGuffin, The Prince Of Persia - and each one has their own cleary established rules. Or not - sometimes, they just wing it. That being said, you cannae bring up time travel and not mention Doctor Who. Now, it's usually pretty good about it... save for episodes like "Fathers Day," where Rose saves her dad from being hit by a car and Eccleston gets eaten by a gargoyle or whatever. I like the show, and I'm okay with them taking some liberties - it's their show. But there's that one bit that bugs me: The End Of Time. Let me tell you a little bit about the end of time, Tennant's last episode: The Doctor goes to visit the Ood, who tell him The Master is returning. The Master gets resurrected, and ends up changing the biology of every person on Earth, turning them into copies of himself. With all those copies, he figures out that the drumming in his head has been the work of the Time Lord President, James Bond. James Bond and the rest of the Time Lords are time locked in the Time War because of the Doctor, and Bond devises a plan to get them out. However, their plan, once they escape with the help of the Master, is to end time. The Doctor stops them, and survives, but ends up having to save Wilf, gets radiated to bejesus, and has a long, tearful goodbye scene, yadda yadda yadda. The thing is, when the Doctor hears that (spoiler) the Master is ressurecting, he rushes to the prison. Don't act like he didn't know where it was, the TARDIS lands just outside of the joint. He's got a bloody time machine, and they make it into a big , tense moment where 'He's got to hurry, the Master is reviving!" No he doesn't! He's got a time machine, he wasn't part of events at that point, he could've walked to the TARDIS and gone a week earlier and been on time. But he doesn't, because that's not dramatic and exciting and intense enough.(end spoiler)