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31st May '13 9:51:18 PM allboyband

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*** In fact, averting the above is precisely the reason why it's done the way it is. RusselTDavies wanted to avoid ''Franchise/StarTrek''-ish TechnoBabble, where shows that take themselves more seriously would have the nonsensoleum described in great detail at great length in a dead-serious manner, as if you were a student and the writers were putting a lecture on the effects of neutrino flux on the phase-matrix of warp inducers in story form. As such, the Doctor will instead say "Think of X" and then tell you "It's nothing like X, but if it makes you feel better, think of it as an X." or come up with things like time being "great big ball of wibbly-wobbly, timey-wimey... stuff." In-universe, this is given as or implied to be the Doctor basically being ''so'' much more advanced than humans that he's only capable of sharing so much of his knowledge - slowing his thought process down to explain things is hard for him, and sometimes there is simply no way to ''ever'' make a {{Muggle}} truly understand how something like a Weeping Angel works, and really, all you ''need'' to know is "Don't turn your back, don't look away, and don't blink. Good luck."[[hottip:*:But don't look them in the eyes.]]

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*** In fact, averting the above is precisely the reason why it's done the way it is. RussellTDavies wanted to avoid ''Franchise/StarTrek''-ish TechnoBabble, where shows that take themselves more seriously would have the nonsensoleum described in great detail at great length in a dead-serious manner, as if you were a student and the writers were putting a lecture on the effects of neutrino flux on the phase-matrix of warp inducers in story form. As such, the Doctor will instead say "Think of X" and then tell you "It's nothing like X, but if it makes you feel better, think of it as an X." or come up with things like time being "great big ball of wibbly-wobbly, timey-wimey... stuff." In-universe, this is given as or implied to be the Doctor basically being ''so'' much more advanced than humans that he's only capable of sharing so much of his knowledge - slowing his thought process down to explain things is hard for him, and sometimes there is simply no way to ''ever'' make a {{Muggle}} truly understand how something like a Weeping Angel works, and really, all you ''need'' to know is "Don't turn your back, don't look away, and don't blink. Good luck."[[hottip:*:But don't look them in the eyes.]]

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