Timeline for Why didn't the Doctor and River do this at the end of "The Angels Take Manhattan"?
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| Mar 18, 2021 at 18:27 | comment | added | FreeMan | @thnkwthprtls Why didn't The Doctor go back and visit them? Because that would have meant getting Karen Gillan and Arthur Darvill back on set for filming and they were done with the show. | |
| Jan 30, 2015 at 19:12 | comment | added | Kmi | But that wouldn't make eny sense, then why is he depressed? I think that there are kinds and kinds of fixed time points, one that couldn't be moved an others that are more flexible, like the Doctor's "Death" in the "Impossible Astronaut". | |
| Jan 30, 2015 at 15:21 | comment | added | mg30rg | @Kmi - The episode "Waters of mars." clearly shows that he is capable of changing the timeline if he wants to. Remember? "The Doctor: For a long time now, I thought I was just a survivor, but I'm not. I'm the winner. That's who I am. A Time Lord victorious. Adelaide: And there's no one to stop you? The Doctor: No." I think he simply got tired of Amy Pond. And - to be honest - I fully understand if he is. He is a godlike creature, who mostly plays with humans, and only poses as a good person. | |
| Jan 29, 2015 at 17:46 | comment | added | Kmi | Time is not like we think it is. Don't forget that the Doctor is a TimeLord, and like is showed in Season 8's "Kill the Moon" a Time Lord could "read" past, present, and future at he same time. It wouldn't be mad that he could "read" when a point in time is fixed and when he could tamper with the Space-Time Continium as he wishes. | |
| Jan 29, 2015 at 15:57 | comment | added | Radhil | @cde - yeah, for a being that has rebooted the universe, and dodged his own foretold death twice just in this incarnation alone, the reasons feel flat. He reads the book, he's TOLD he never goes back, but there's ways, so it's still flat. Maybe he thought it was just selfish to assume the risk, and it was finally time to let Amelia go. They should have gone into it more. | |
| Jan 29, 2015 at 15:45 | comment | added | user16696 | What, he couldn't just drop them off when they got old? Or have fake tombstones created? There is no rational in universe reason for not just picking them up in jersey or something. | |
| Jan 29, 2015 at 15:31 | vote | accept | thnkwthprtls | ||
| Jan 29, 2015 at 15:31 | comment | added | thnkwthprtls | Thanks, I suppose that makes sense for why they couldn't go with him anymore (considering how often he finds himself in dangerous situations, the odds of something happening to one of them to break that circle would be too high). However, wouldn't it have still been possible for him to at least visit them? It doesn't seem like there's really any harm in that. | |
| Jan 29, 2015 at 15:28 | history | answered | Radhil | CC BY-SA 3.0 |