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Edited by Mrph1 on Jun 12th 2025 at 5:03:16 PM
I want to see a facial comparison between him with shaved head and John Cena. See if I can tell the difference.
This is late, but anyway.
I don't understand how this applies to the book, but not to Rory, since they're pretty much the same thing. 1) Book is read, thing in book is unavoidable and must happen at specific time. Nothing can change this. 2) Person dies, that person's death is now unavoidable and must happen at that specific time. Nothing can change this.
If they were equal, then the Doctor could've just broken River's hands at a different point, which would magically break the paradox or something.
Also here
you say that if they did anything differently, Wedding of River Song would happen. Why would this not happen with what Rory did?
edited 30th May '13 5:26:33 PM by TricksterCal
Wibbly Wobbly, Timey Wimey.
Or Faction Paradox did it when they were bored.
Or one of the Guardians was bored.
Or Yog Sothoth was bored.
Or maybe Clara was bored.
Or Bad Wolf was bored.
Somebody got really bored and felt like fucking with the Doctor.
edited 30th May '13 5:33:22 PM by unnoun
When Rory does what he does, he's trying to destroy everything.
I should really rewatch Crimson Horror. On paper I should like it muc hmore than I did. The lack of Clara and the setting (old timey Britain: meh.) brought it down a lot for me. Maybe going into it knowing that would help. Hmm...
He's the Doctor. He could be anywhere in time and space.Now we're getting into "time travel works differently in every episode to serve whatever narrative the writer needs".
"Fixed point in time" is very handwavy, but there might be a range of predestination, from "whatever happens is cool" to "so many things hang on this that the universe will break".
If they don't do what the book says, time will break in accordance with how much the book affected history. Since it's a pulpy detective novel, probably not a great deal.
Rory saw himself die one way, then decided to avoid that by dying another way. If the death he was forced to see happened any other way, he might have broken time irreparably, but time just gets discontinuous for a moment until the paradoxes resolve and mostly work out (except for New York in the 30s being too brittle for time travel to touch again).
The Silence engineered the most ironclad Fixed Point they could. They chose a moment where not much time travel happens (or whatever "a still point" means). They made an event so major and bizarre it couldn't be overlooked or misinterpreted (they thought). And they made sure history documented it well. It's not the death of any ordinary time traveller who dies every other week, it's the death of the Doctor. The population of the universe is sure to react. Take it away, and the whole house of cards collapses. Time pancakes on itself.
Fresh-eyed movie blogI think a large reason why Time didn't pancake when Rory jumped is because the Angels ate the paradox, which caused them to die and their scheme to unhappen, resulting in a more stable but still bruised timeline.
Fresh-eyed movie blogI like to believe that the surviving alien had a horrible case of indigestion.
Forever liveblogging the AvengersWhat the fuck is with the slavering devotion that Steven Moffat's Mary Sue/fantasy girlfriend gets?
We're celebrating the 50th anniversary of the most important current character and the 5th anniversary of the other longterm current character.
Fresh-eyed movie blogRe: Paradox talk: I saw somebody on the Eruditorum before forth the idea that since paradoxes are inherently breakdowns in logic and violations of cause and effect, they do not- and indeed should not- act predictably. They may be a set of half-remembered, complicated equations in the Doctor's head that would give him some general intuitive grasp how things are likely to go, but from our perspective, it's simply easier to say that paradoxes break time in individualistic ways.
edited 30th May '13 7:36:52 PM by Gilphon

I wonder how Matt Smith feels about people making fun of his chin. Especially the writers.