History Headscratchers / DoctorWho2009Specials

*** It also made me think of the fairies in ''Series/{{Torchwood}}''. Considering that they can apparently choose to become invisible to security cameras, it at least sets a president that there are ways to trick sensors. In this case projecting the image of what the user wants.

* First the Dalek ignores a young Adelaide, despite there MO being the destruction of all of reality itself at that time. That alone is bad, as they were shown actively killing people who disobeyed them in ''The Stolen Earth'', so why would it spare that one child?

** My ex girlfriend made me watch ''Film/TheCraft'' about 20 times when I was a teenager. I watch ''TheMentalist'' regularly and never noticed that they share a main lead until it was pointed out to me. Pretty much that.

(Yes, the person who moved me does realize that "2008-10 specials" is technically the more "correct" term)

*** 10's entire speech about regeneration meaning that one Doctor dies and a new one walks away gets a lot of flak from the fans for [[CharacterDerailment going against all of the established continuity about the different faces being the same person.]] My attempt at a Sonic MindScrewdriver, considering the fact that he wanted to permanently drown in [[Recap/DoctorWho2006CSTheRunawayBride "Runaway Bride"]] but not regenerate in [[Recap/DoctorWhoS30E12TheStolenEarth "The Stolen Earth"]] or [[Recap/DoctorWhoS30E17E18TheEndOfTime "The End of Time"]], is as follows: he feels that he's getting too genocidally violent ([[Recap/DoctorWhoS12E4GenesisOfTheDaleks Four didn't wipe out the Daleks]], Eight wiped out the Time Lords), he doesn't want to feel that his "better" lives ([[Recap/DoctorWho2007CiNSTimeCrash like Five]]) are guilty of what he's done more recently, [[ThatManIsDead tries to lie to himself that they're different, better people from the Oncoming Storm]], and is worried that 11-13 will be even worse. Plus, regeneration probably heals psychological damage alongside the physical, as somebody further down the list points out.
** In a way, though, he is a different person walking away, to an extent. He has a completely different personality and mindset- and, of course, appearance. He is still the same, though, in that he has his previous self's memories. He can understand what his previous self was thinking and feeling, but now he is looking at such events through slightly different lenses. Typically, though, the Doctors all hold pretty much the same values and morality, and certain likes/dislikes seem to be universal. In this sense, you can think of the Doctors as different people, but these over-arcing similarities make them all the same person.

**** Tongue, meet cheek. I wasn't being entirely serious there. Although considering that the OP is asking why Eleven isn't feeling 'remorse' (suggesting guilt rather than simply sorrow)...

** Plus the fact that he was standing in the dark. Besides, do ''you'' remember every drunk you spoke to on New Years Day?

**** [[ModernFamily You paint with words.]]

** My ex girlfriend made me watch ''TheCraft'' about 20 times when I was a teenager. I watch ''TheMentalist'' regularly and never noticed that they share a main lead until it was pointed out to me. Pretty much that.

* Given what is written in the HeartwarmingMoments and TearJerker pages, does anyone really believe the Master did a HeelFaceTurn or RedemptionEqualsDeath? The Master is a CompleteMonster and always has been. The Doctor only thought otherwise because of his loneliness.

** In the radio drama "The Paradise of Death", Three survives a long fall by "bone relaxation". It was still an insanely stupid thing to do: if Ten had misjudged his jump even slightly, the Master and the Lord President would have wondered briefly what that strange splat on the roof was and then gone back to chewing the scenery.

** The Master, let's be honest here, has been a major beneficiary of the DracoInLeatherPants effect, particularly since he regenerated into his John Simm form. While the scene in question is clearly played out as the Master doing a good thing for sort-of-good-or-at-least-not-entirely-bad reasons, it's not entirely surprising would take a slightly more rosy-eyed view of his actions than was perhaps warranted.

* Given what is written in the HeartwarmingMoments and TearJerker pages, does anyone really believe the Master did a HeelFaceTurn? The Master is a CompleteMonster and always has been. The Doctor only thought otherwise because of his loneliness.

* Given what is written in the HeartwarmingMoments and TearJerker pages, does anyone really believe the Master did a HealFaceTurn? The Master is a CompleteMonster and always has been. The Doctor only thought otherwise because of his loneliness.

** Question: Do you think that the Doctor's 'Time Lord Victorious' moment was unavoidable? I mean, I understand that he's a very bad thing, but do you think it was going to happen at this right for Ten? He has been through a lot of crap, namely Journey's End, that's been pushing him to do this. Seriously, have you SEEN how badly screwed he has gotten in that episode? So can people kinda understand where Ten is coming from here?

** Here's my best understanding of how ''Doctor Who'' TemporalMutability works. TheButterflyEffect is not nearly as much the case as scientists believe in the real world. Time (to the extent that it's correct to personify it) cares deeply that fixed events happen, and it ''doesn't'' care as much about the logic of their happening, even when one fixed event leads to another. So if "Adelaide's death inspires granddaughter Susie" is a fixed event, then by God it's going to happen, even if the logic of it seems strange. (Continued in next bullet)