History Quotes / ArmedWithCanon

->‘How can hiding in one of Julian adolescent programs be a good sign?’ ‘[[IStandingRightRightHere Hey!]]’ ‘It could be worse. He could be hiding in the Alamo program’ ‘''Hey!''’ ‘Or that ridiculous secret agent program!’ ‘'''''Hey!'''''’ ‘Or that stupid Viking program!’ – the ''[[Series/StarTrekVoyager Voyager]]'' comparisons continue! People praise Tom Paris to the high heavens for creating obscenely dull places like "Fair Haven" and yet Bashir is criticised for living out his adolescent fantasies in the holosuite. I know which show I believe in more!

->‘How can hiding in one of Julian adolescent programs be a good sign?’ ‘[[IStandingRightRight Hey!]]’ ‘It could be worse. He could be hiding in the Alamo program’ ‘''Hey!''’ ‘Or that ridiculous secret agent program!’ ‘'''''Hey!'''''’ ‘Or that stupid Viking program!’ – the ''[[Series/StarTrekVoyager Voyager]]'' comparisons continue! People praise Tom Paris to the high heavens for creating obscenely dull places like "Fair Haven" and yet Bashir is criticised for living out his adolescent fantasies in the holosuite. I know which show I believe in more!

-I thought it was a nice touch to have Ben harshly criticize Peter's pact with {{ComicBook/Venom}}. It showed that Ben was more like the Peter Parker we knew, loved and remembered [[CerebusSyndrome than Peter was being at that time]]...I always hated the pact between Peter and Venom, I thought it was so out of character for Peter to make such a deal with a villain as obviously crazy and dangerous as Venom, and it was especially interesting to hear Ben voicing my own opinion. It was good to see this used as a way to show a major difference between Peter and Ben, and to perhaps imply that [[HeWhoFightsMonsters all was not right with Peter]], that maybe Ben was the preferable choice between the two.

->''"I thought it was a nice touch to have Ben harshly criticize Peter's pact with {{ComicBook/Venom}}. It showed that Ben was more like the Peter Parker we knew, loved and remembered [[CerebusSyndrome than Peter was being at that time]]...I always hated the pact between Peter and Venom, I thought it was so out of character for Peter to make such a deal with a villain as obviously crazy and dangerous as Venom, and it was especially interesting to hear Ben voicing my own opinion. It was good to see this used as a way to show a major difference between Peter and Ben, and to perhaps imply that [[HeWhoFightsMonsters all was not right with Peter]], that maybe Ben was the preferable choice between the two."''

->''"In this feature we examine comic book stories and ideas that were not only abandoned, but also had the stories/plots specifically 'overturned' by a later writer (as if they were a legal precedent)."''

->''"Not content to ruin his own comics, [[Creator/KevinSmith (Kevin) Smith]] flashes back to one of the pivotal moments of ''[[ComicBook/BatmanYearOne Year One]]'' and decides that you know what? This would be way better with Batman [[PottyEmergency pissing himself.]]\\\
School in the summertime, folks. No class."''

->''"As the episode opens, we get another completely ludicrous '{{Previously On}} ''Smallville''[='=] segment, where we find out that Clark, in typical Clark fashion, totally destroyed his Legion ring because he didn’t want the responsibility of being able to go into the future... This really feels like one of those things where the people writing the show were having some huge, passive-aggressive argument through their scripts without ever talking to each other. Like GeoffJohns clearly wanted the door open for more [[LegionOfSuperheroes Legion]] appearances, but then the next guy was like 'NUH UH THAT’S DUMB!' and then the guy who wrote this one was like '[[NoYou NO YOU’RE DUMB]],' and the end result is that once again, Clark completely shirks any responsibility so that he [[StatusQuoIsGod can continue doing nothing.]]"''

->''"[[Creator/DavidTennant Tennant's]] Doctor, in this story, has just come off of [[Recap/DoctorWhoS30E16TheWatersOfMars "The Waters of Mars"]] where his hubris and arrogance have seemingly damned him. Specifically, he's just arrogantly decided that he has the right as the Time Lord Victorious to rewrite history at will and without serious thought, and this arrogance has caused him to have to confront an omen of the imminence of his own death. In particular, recall the reason given in [[Recap/DoctorWhoS30E2TheFiresOfPompeii "The Fires of Pompeii"]] for why [[YouAlreadyChangedThePast you can't alter a fixed point in time]] -- because if you could, the Doctor could go and change the end of the Time War. So what does he do in the only story explicitly situated between "The Waters of Mars" and [[Recap/DoctorWhoS30E17E18TheEndOfTime "The End of Time"]]? He pilots his TARDIS into the Time War and [[AesopAmnesia changes the ending]]. On the surface, at least, it is difficult to come up with a less plausible or sensible answer to that question.... But for [[Creator/StevenMoffat (Steven) Moffat]], there are just things you don't do. Moffat has said in interviews that the resolution of the Time War always stuck in his craw a bit for the simple fact that, in his view, the Doctor wouldn't ''do'' that."''

School in the summertime, folks. No class."''\\

->''"I thought it was a nice touch to have Ben harshly criticize Peter's pact with {{ComicBook/Venom}}. It showed that Ben was more like the Peter Parker we knew, loved and remembered than Peter [[CerebusSyndrome was being at that time]]...I always hated [[EnemyMine the pact between Peter and Venom]], I thought it was so out of character for Peter to make such a deal with a villain as [[AxCrazy obviously crazy and dangerous]] as Venom, and it was especially interesting to hear Ben voicing my own opinion. It was good to see this used as a way to show a major difference between Peter and Ben, and to perhaps imply that [[HeWhoFightsMonsters all was not right with Peter]], that maybe Ben was the preferable choice between the two."''\\
--Writer/Editor '''Glenn Greenberg''' on ''ComicBook/TheCloneSaga''

->''"In this feature we examine comic book stories and ideas that were not only abandoned, but also had the stories/plots specifically 'overturned' by a later writer (as if they were a legal precedent)."''\\
--'''''Comics Should Be Good''''', ''The Abandoned An' Forsaked''

->''Stradleyism: The act of dismissing an element of {{canon}} altogether on grounds of it being "stupid", without taking the effort to do something interesting with it.''\\
-- '''Thefourdotelipsis''', [[http://starwars.wikia.com/ Wookieepedia]], on Creator/DarkHorseComics writer Randy Stradley.

--'''Chris Sims''', [[http://comicsalliance.com/worst-of-the-worst-batman-the-widening-gyre-6/?trackback=tsmclip "Worst of the Worst: ‘Batman: The Widening Gyre’ #6"]]

->''"As the episode opens, we get another completely ludicrous '{{Previously On}} ''Smallville''[='=] segment, where we find out that Clark, in typical Clark fashion, totally destroyed his Legion ring because he didn’t want the responsibility of being able to go into the future... This really feels like one of those things where the people writing the show were having some huge, passive-aggressive argument through their scripts without ever talking to each other. Like GeoffJohns clearly wanted the door open for more [[LegionOfSuperheroes Legion]] appearances, but then the next guy was like 'NUH UH THAT’S DUMB!' and then the guy who wrote this one was like '[[NoYou NO YOU’RE DUMB]],' and the end result is that once again, Clark completely shirks any responsibility so that he [[StatusQuoIsGod can continue doing nothing.]]"''\\
--'''''[=ComicsAlliance=]''''' [[http://comicsalliance.com/recap-smallville-episode-8-22-doomsday/ on]] ''{{Series/Smallville}}'' ("Doomsday")

->''"[[Creator/DavidTennant Tennant's]] Doctor, in this story, has just come off of [[Recap/DoctorWhoS30E16TheWatersOfMars "The Waters of Mars"]] where [[DrunkWithPower his hubris and arrogance]] have seemingly damned him. Specifically, he's just arrogantly decided that he has the right as the Time Lord Victorious to rewrite history at will and without serious thought, and this arrogance has caused him to have to confront an omen of the imminence of his own death. In particular, recall the reason given in [[Recap/DoctorWhoS30E2TheFiresOfPompeii "The Fires of Pompeii"]] for why [[YouAlreadyChangedThePast you can't alter a fixed point in time]] -- because if you could, the Doctor could go and change the end of the Time War. So what does he do in the only story explicitly situated between "The Waters of Mars" and [[Recap/DoctorWhoS30E17E18TheEndOfTime "The End of Time"]]? He pilots his TARDIS into the Time War and [[AesopAmnesia changes the ending]]. On the surface, at least, it is difficult to come up with a less plausible or sensible answer to that question.... But for [[Creator/StevenMoffat (Steven) Moffat]], there are just things you don't do. Moffat has said in interviews that the resolution of the Time War always stuck in his craw a bit for the simple fact that, in his view, the Doctor wouldn't ''do'' that."''\\
-- '''Phil Sandifer''' [[http://www.philipsandifer.com/2014/03/time-can-be-rewritten-final-day-of.html on]] [[Recap/DoctorWho50thASTheDayOfTheDoctor "The Day of the Doctor"]]

->''"Both Neelix and the Doctor pause to acknowledge how silly the episode’s central plot is for a ship that really should be trying to get home. [='=]''This ship is the match of any vessel within a hundred light years, and what do they do with it?''[='=] Neelix asks rhetorically. '[='=]Well, let’s see if we can’t [[IdiotPlot find some space anomaly today that might rip it apart!]][='=]' He seems to have foreseen [[StrictlyFormula the next few years of plotting]] on the show...''[Michael]'' Piller seems wryly aware of how this seems an absurd way of developing ''Voyager''[=‘=]s core concept – trying to do a continuation of ''[[Series/StarTrekTheNextGeneration The Next Generation]]'', despite the fact that this is a different show. In fact, there’s a sense that Piller is having a bit of fun at the episode’s central premise, treating as something of a ''Star Trek'' cliché. The Cloud seems curiously uninterested in its [[NegativeSpaceWedgie anomaly of the week]], and the whole thing is treated as a set-up for various character-based jokes. It’s Janeway’s [[MustHaveCaffeine monomaniacal desire for coffee]] that risks dooming the ship. (In fact [='=]''there’s coffee in that nebula''[='=] feels like a playful riff on the Western cliché '[='=]''[[GoldFever there’s gold in them there hills.]]''[='=])."''\\
--'''[[http://them0vieblog.com/2014/09/25/star-trek-voyager-the-cloud-review/ Darren Mooney]]''' on ''Series/StarTrekVoyager'', "The Cloud"

->''"In this feature we examine comic book stories and ideas that were not only abandoned, but also had the stories/plots specifically 'overturned' by a later writer (as if they were a legal precedent)."''
-->--'''''Comics Should Be Good''''', ''The Abandoned An' Forsaked''

->''"Quite frankly, Crossover is a pretty damning criticism of the classic ''Star Trek'' television show, an exploration of how cultural norms have shifted since Kirk piloted the ''Enterprise'' out into the unknown to share his values with the wider universe. It’s possible to argue that the original ''Star Trek'' had some imperialist undertones, perhaps betraying a fascination with empire...The Klingons were never mentioned in [[Series/StarTrekTheOriginalSeries Mirror, Mirror]]. They existed as an unknown quantity in this alternate universe. Kirk never considered the mid- to long-term consequences of converting a war-like empire to pacifism, never thinking beyond his own value system...(I also like the fact that our version of Kira has absolutely no idea who James Tiberius Kirk is. It’s nice to get the sense that the universe could be so big that she’s never heard of the guy. After all, Kirk may have saved Earth quite a few times, but he never did anything from Bajor. Kira’s ignorance of a cultural icon is a nice reminder of just how relative all this is. Kirk was a heroic champion of human ideals. To Kira, he’s just another alien.)"''\\
--'''Darren Mooney''' [[http://them0vieblog.com/2013/10/12/star-trek-deep-space-nine-crossover-review/ on]] ''Series/StarTrekDeepSpaceNine'', "Crossover"

->''"I thought it was a nice touch to have Ben harshly criticize Peter's pact with {{ComicBook/Venom}}. It showed that Ben was more like the [[ComicBook/SpiderMan Peter Parker]] we knew, loved and remembered than Peter was being at that time. ...I always hated [[EnemyMine the pact between Peter and Venom]], I thought it was so out of character for Peter to make such a deal with a villain as [[AxCrazy obviously crazy and dangerous]] as Venom, and it was especially interesting to hear Ben voicing my own opinion. It was good to see this used as a way to show a major difference between Peter and Ben, and to perhaps imply that [[HeWhoFightsMonsters all was not right with Peter]], that maybe Ben was the preferable choice between the two."''\\

->''"As the episode opens, we get another completely ludicrous '{{Previously On}} ''Smallville''[='=] segment, where we find out that Clark, in typical Clark fashion, totally destroyed his Legion ring because he didn’t want the responsibility of being able to go into the future... This really feels like one of those things where the people writing the show were having some huge, passive-aggressive argument through their scripts without ever talking to each other. Like GeoffJohns clearly wanted the door open for more [[LegionOfSuperheroes Legion]] appearances, but then the next guy was like 'NUH UH THAT’S DUMB!' and then the guy who wrote this one was like '[[NoYou NO YOU’RE DUMB]],' and the end result is that once again, Clark completely shirks any responsibility so that he [[StatusQuoIsGod can continue doing nothing.]]"''
-->--'''''[=ComicsAlliance=]''''' [[http://comicsalliance.com/recap-smallville-episode-8-22-doomsday/ on]] ''{{Series/Smallville}}'' ("Doomsday")

->''"Quite frankly, Crossover is a pretty damning criticism of the classic ''Star Trek'' television show, an exploration of how cultural norms have shifted since Kirk piloted the ''Enterprise'' out into the unknown to share his values with the wider universe. It’s possible to argue that the original ''Star Trek'' had some imperialist undertones, perhaps betraying a fascination with empire...The Klingons were never mentioned in [[Series/StarTrekTheOriginalSeries Mirror, Mirror]]. They existed as an unknown quantity in this alternate universe. Kirk never considered the mid- to long-term consequences of converting a war-like empire to pacifism, never thinking beyond his own value system...(I also like the fact that our version of Kira has absolutely no idea who James Tiberius Kirk is. It’s nice to get the sense that the universe could be so big that she’s never heard of the guy. After all, Kirk may have saved Earth quite a few times, but he never did anything from Bajor. Kira’s ignorance of a cultural icon is a nice reminder of just how relative all this is. Kirk was a heroic champion of human ideals. To Kira, he’s just another alien.)"''
-->--'''Darren Mooney''' [[http://them0vieblog.com/2013/10/12/star-trek-deep-space-nine-crossover-review/ on]] ''Series/StarTrekDeepSpaceNine'', "Crossover"

->''Stradleyism: The act of dismissing an element of {{canon}} altogether on grounds of it being "stupid", without taking the effort to do something interesting with it.''
-->-- '''Thefourdotelipsis''', [[http://starwars.wikia.com/ Wookieepedia]], on Creator/DarkHorseComics writer Randy Stradley.

->''"Quite frankly, Crossover is a pretty damning criticism of the classic ''Star Trek'' television show, an exploration of how cultural norms have shifted since Kirk piloted the ''Enterprise'' out into the unknown to share his values with the wider universe. It’s possible to argue that the original Star Trek had some imperialist undertones, perhaps betraying a fascination with empire...The Klingons were never mentioned in [[Series/StarTrekTheOriginalSeries Mirror, Mirror]]. They existed as an unknown quantity in this alternate universe. Kirk never considered the mid- to long-term consequences of converting a war-like empire to pacifism, never thinking beyond his own value system...(I also like the fact that our version of Kira has absolutely no idea who James Tiberius Kirk is. It’s nice to get the sense that the universe could be so big that she’s never heard of the guy. After all, Kirk may have saved Earth quite a few times, but he never did anything from Bajor. Kira’s ignorance of a cultural icon is a nice reminder of just how relative all this is. Kirk was a heroic champion of human ideals. To Kira, he’s just another alien.)"''

School in the summertime, folks. No class."''
-->--'''Chris Sims''', [[http://comicsalliance.com/worst-of-the-worst-batman-the-widening-gyre-6/?trackback=tsmclip "Worst of the Worst: ‘Batman: The Widening Gyre’ #6"]]

-->--'''Chris Sims''' and '''David Uzumeri''' [[http://comicsalliance.com/recap-smallville-episode-8-22-doomsday/ on]] ''{{Series/Smallville}}'' ("Doomsday")

->''"As the episode opens, we get another completely ludicrous “{{Previously On}} ''Smallville''” segment, where we find out that Clark, in typical Clark fashion, totally destroyed his Legion ring because he didn’t want the responsibility of being able to go into the future... This really feels like one of those things where the people writing the show were having some huge, passive-aggressive argument through their scripts without ever talking to each other. Like GeoffJohns clearly wanted the door open for more Legion appearances, but then the next guy was like 'NUH UH THAT’S DUMB!' and then the guy who wrote this one was like '[[BigStupidDooDooHead NO YOU’RE DUMB]],' and the end result is that once again, Clark completely shirks any responsibility so that he [[StatusQuoIsGod can continue doing nothing.]]"''

->''"As the episode opens, we get another completely ludicrous “{{Previously On}} ''Smallville''” segment, where we find out that Clark, in typical Clark fashion, totally destroyed his Legion ring because he didn’t want the responsibility of being able to go into the future... This really feels like one of those things where the people writing the show were having some huge, passive-aggressive argument through their scripts without ever talking to each other. Like Geoff Johns clearly wanted the door open for more Legion appearances, but then the next guy was like 'NUH UH THAT’S DUMB!' and then the guy who wrote this one was like '[[BigStupidDooDooHead NO YOU’RE DUMB]],' and the end result is that once again, Clark completely shirks any responsibility so that he [[StatusQuoIsGod can continue doing nothing.]]"''

->''"[[Creator/DavidTennant Tennant's]] Doctor, in this story, has just come off of [[Recap/DoctorWhoS30E16TheWatersOfMars "The Waters of Mars"]] where [[DrunkWithPower his hubris and arrogance have seemingly damned him]]. Specifically, he's just arrogantly decided that he has the right as the Time Lord Victorious to rewrite history at will and without serious thought, and this arrogance has caused him to have to confront an omen of the imminence of his own death. In particular, recall the reason given in [[Recap/DoctorWhoS30E2TheFiresOfPompeii "The Fires of Pompeii"]] for why [[YouAlreadyChangedThePast you can't alter a fixed point in time]] -- because if you could, the Doctor could go and change the end of the Time War. So what does he do in the only story explicitly situated between "The Waters of Mars" and [[Recap/DoctorWhoS30E17E18TheEndOfTime "The End of Time"]]? He pilots his TARDIS into the Time War and changes the ending. On the surface, at least, it is difficult to come up with a less plausible or sensible answer to that question.... But for [[Creator/StevenMoffat [Steven] Moffat]], there are just things you don't do. Moffat has said in interviews that the resolution of the Time War always stuck in his craw a bit for the simple fact that, in his view, the Doctor wouldn't ''do'' that."''\\

->''"[[Creator/DavidTennant Tennant's]] Doctor, in this story, has just come off of [[Recap/DoctorWhoS30E16TheWatersOfMars "The Waters of Mars"]] where [[DrunkWithPower his hubris and arrogance have seemingly damned him]]. Specifically, he's just arrogantly decided that he has the right as the Time Lord Victorious to rewrite history at will and without serious thought, and this arrogance has caused him to have to confront an omen of the imminence of his own death. In particular, recall the reason given in [[Recap/DoctorWhoS30E2TheFiresOfPompeii "The Fires of Pompeii"]] for why [[YouAlreadyChangedThePast you can't alter a fixed point in time]] -- because if you could, the Doctor could go and change the end of the Time War. So what does he do in the only story explicitly situated between "The Waters of Mars" and [[Recap/DoctorWhoS30E17E18TheEndOfTime "The End of Time"]]? He pilots his TARDIS into the Time War and changes the ending. On the surface, at least, it is difficult to come up with a less plausible or sensible answer to that question.... But for [[Creator/StevenMoffat [Steven] Moffat]], there are just things you don't do. Moffat has said in interviews that the resolution of the Time War always stuck in his craw a bit for the simple fact that, in his view, the Doctor wouldn't ''do'' that."''\\-- '''Phil Sandifer''' [[http://www.philipsandifer.com/2014/03/time-can-be-rewritten-final-day-of.html on]] [[Recap/DoctorWho50thASTheDayOfTheDoctor "The Day of the Doctor"]]

->''"[[Creator/DavidTennant Tennant's]] Doctor, in this story, has just come off of [[Recap/DoctorWhoS30E16TheWatersOfMars "The Waters of Mars"]] where [[DrunkWithPower his hubris and arrogance have seemingly damned him]]. Specifically, he's just arrogantly decided that he has the right as the Time Lord Victorious to rewrite history at will and without serious thought, and this arrogance has caused him to have to confront an omen of the imminence of his own death. In particular, recall the reason given in [[Recap/DoctorWhoS30E2TheFiresOfPompeii "The Fires of Pompeii"]] for why [[YouAlreadyChangedThePast you can't alter a fixed point in time]] -- because if you could, the Doctor could go and change the end of the Time War. So what does he do in the only story explicitly situated between "The Waters of Mars" and [[Recap/DoctorWhoS30E17E18TheEndOfTime "The End of Time"]]? He pilots his TARDIS into the Time War and changes the ending. On the surface, at least, it is difficult to come up with a less plausible or sensible answer to that question.... But for [[Creator/StevenMoffat [Steven] Moffat]], there are just things you don't do. Moffat has said in interviews that the resolution of the Time War always stuck in his craw a bit for the simple fact that, in his view, the Doctor wouldn't ''do'' that."''
-->-- '''Phil Sandifer''' [[http://www.philipsandifer.com/2014/03/time-can-be-rewritten-final-day-of.html on]] [[Recap/DoctorWho50thASTheDayOfTheDoctor "The Day of the Doctor"]]

->''"'[[Creator/DavidTennant Tennant’s]] Doctor, in this story, has just come off of [[{{Recap/DoctorWhoNSS4E16TheWatersOfMars}} The Waters of Mars]] where [[DrunkWithPower his hubris and arrogance have seemingly damned him]]. Specifically, he’s just arrogantly decided that he has the right as the Time Lord Victorious to rewrite history at will and without serious thought, and this arrogance has caused him to have to confront an omen of the imminence of his own death. In particular, recall the reason given in [[{{Recap/DoctorWhoNSS4E2TheFiresOfPompeii}} The Fires of Pompeii]] for why [[YouAlreadyChangedThePast you can’t alter a fixed point in time ]]- because if you could, the Doctor could go and change the end of the Time War. So what does he do in the only story explicitly situated between The Waters of Mars and [[{{Recap/DoctorWhoNSS4E17E18TheEndOfTime}} The End of Time?]] He pilots his TARDIS into the Time War and changes the ending. On the surface, at least, it is difficult to come up with a less plausible or sensible answer to that question. ...But for [[Creator/StevenMoffat [Steven] Moffat]], there are just things you don’t do. Moffat has said in interviews that the resolution of the Time War always stuck in his craw a bit for the simple fact that, in his view, the Doctor wouldn’t ''do'' that."''\\
--'''Phil Sandifer''' [[http://www.philipsandifer.com/2014/03/time-can-be-rewritten-final-day-of.html on]] ''[[{{Recap/DoctorWho50thASTheDayOfTheDoctor}} The Day of the Doctor]]''

->''"'[[Creator/DavidTennant Tennant’s]] Doctor, in this story, has just come off of [[{{Recap/DoctorWhoNSS4E16TheWatersOfMars}} The Waters of Mars]] where his hubris and arrogance have seemingly damned him. Specifically, he’s just arrogantly decided that he has the right as the Time Lord Victorious to rewrite history at will and without serious thought, and this arrogance has caused him to have to confront an omen of the imminence of his own death. In particular, recall the reason given in [[{{Recap/DoctorWhoNSS4E2TheFiresOfPompeii}} The Fires of Pompeii]] for why [[YouAlreadyChangedThePast you can’t alter a fixed point in time ]]- because if you could, the Doctor could go and change the end of the Time War. So what does he do in the only story explicitly situated between The Waters of Mars and [[{{Recap/DoctorWhoNSS4E17E18TheEndOfTime}} The End of Time?]] He pilots his TARDIS into the Time War and changes the ending. On the surface, at least, it is difficult to come up with a less plausible or sensible answer to that question. ...But for [[Creator/StevenMoffat [Steven] Moffat]], there are just things you don’t do. Moffat has said in interviews that the resolution of the Time War always stuck in his craw a bit for the simple fact that, in his view, the Doctor wouldn’t ''do'' that."''\\

->''"I thought it was a nice touch to have Ben harshly criticize Peter's pact with {{ComicBook/Venom}}. It showed that Ben was more like the Peter Parker we knew, loved and remembered than Peter was being at that time. ...I always hated [[EnemyMine the pact between Peter and Venom]], I thought it was so out of character for Peter to make such a deal with a villain as [[AxCrazy obviously crazy and dangerous]] as Venom, and it was especially interesting to hear Ben voicing my own opinion. It was good to see this used as a way to show a major difference between Peter and Ben, and to perhaps imply that [[HeWhoFightsMonsters all was not right with Peter]], that maybe Ben was the preferable choice between the two."''\\

->''"'[[Creator/DavidTennant Tennant’s]] Doctor, in this story, has just come off of [[{{Recap/DoctorWhoNSS4E16TheWatersOfMars}} The Waters of Mars]] where his hubris and arrogance have seemingly damned him. Specifically, he’s just arrogantly decided that he has the right as the Time Lord Victorious to rewrite history at will and without serious thought, and this arrogance has caused him to have to confront an omen of the imminence of his own death. In particular, recall the reason given in [[{{Recap/DoctorWhoNSS4E2TheFiresOfPompeii}} The Fires of Pompeii]] for why [[YouAlreadyChangedThePast you can’t alter a fixed point in time ]]- because if you could, the Doctor could go and change the end of the Time War. So what does he do in the only story explicitly situated between The Waters of Mars and [[{{Recap/DoctorWhoNSS4E17E18TheEndOfTime}} The End of Time?]] He pilots his TARDIS into the Time War and changes the ending. On the surface, at least, it is difficult to come up with a less plausible or sensible answer to that question. ...But for [[Creator/StevenMoffat [Steven] Moffat]], there are just things you don’t do. Moffat has said in interviews that the resolution of the Time War always stuck in his craw a bit for the simple fact that, in his view, the Doctor wouldn’t ''do'' that."''
-->--'''Phil Sandifer''' [[http://www.philipsandifer.com/2014/03/time-can-be-rewritten-final-day-of.html on]] ''[[{{Recap/DoctorWho50thASTheDayOfTheDoctor}} The Day of the Doctor]]''

->''"Tennant’s Doctor, in this story, has just come off of [[{{Recap/DoctorWhoNSS4E16TheWatersOfMars}} The Waters of Mars]] where his hubris and arrogance have seemingly damned him. Specifically, he’s just arrogantly decided that he has the right as the Time Lord Victorious to rewrite history at will and without serious thought, and this arrogance has caused him to have to confront an omen of the imminence of his own death. In particular, recall the reason given in [[{{Recap/DoctorWhoNSS4E2TheFiresOfPompeii}} The Fires of Pompeii]] for why [[YouAlreadyChangedThePast you can’t alter a fixed point in time ]]- because if you could, the Doctor could go and change the end of the Time War. So what does he do in the only story explicitly situated between The Waters of Mars and [[{{Recap/DoctorWhoNSS4E17E18TheEndOfTime}} The End of Time?]] He pilots his TARDIS into the Time War and changes the ending. On the surface, at least, it is difficult to come up with a less plausible or sensible answer to that question. ...But for [[Creator/StevenMoffat [Steven] Moffat]], there are just things you don’t do. Moffat has said in interviews that the resolution of the Time War always stuck in his craw a bit for the simple fact that, in his view, the Doctor wouldn’t ''do'' that."''

->''"Tennant’s Doctor, in this story, has just come off of [[{{Recap/DoctorWhoNSS4E16TheWatersOfMars}} The Waters of Mars]] where his hubris and arrogance have seemingly damned him. Specifically, he’s just arrogantly decided that he has the right as the Time Lord Victorious to rewrite history at will and without serious thought, and this arrogance has caused him to have to confront an omen of the imminence of his own death. In particular, recall the reason given in [[{{Recap/DoctorWhoNSS4E2TheFiresOfPompeii}} The Fires of Pompeii]] for why [[YouAlreadyChangedThePast you can’t alter a fixed point in time ]]- because if you could, the Doctor could go and change the end of the Time War. So what does he do in the only story explicitly situated between The Waters of Mars and [[{{Recap/DoctorWhoNSS4E17E18TheEndOfTime}} The End of Time?]] He pilots his TARDIS into the Time War and changes the ending. On the surface, at least, it is difficult to come up with a less plausible or sensible answer to that question. ...But for [[StephenMoffat [Stephen] Moffat]], there are just things you don’t do. Moffat has said in interviews that the resolution of the Time War always stuck in his craw a bit for the simple fact that, in his view, the Doctor wouldn’t ''do'' that."''