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The Mass Effect, Quarians don\'t seem to live a bad life or have anything wrong with their method of sustenance. They\'re Dependent, not Terminally Dependent. Terminally Dependent Society requires that they be dependent on something that it is bad to be dependent on, right?
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The Mass Effect, Quarians don\\\'t seem to live a bad life or have anything wrong with their method of sustenance. Goes for World of Warcraft, too. They\\\'re Dependent, not Terminally Dependent. Terminally Dependent Society requires that they be dependent on something that it is bad to be dependent on, right?
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The Mass Effect, Quarians don\'t seem to live a bad life or have anything wrong with their method of sustenance. They\'re Dependent, not Terminally Dependent.
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The Mass Effect, Quarians don\\\'t seem to live a bad life or have anything wrong with their method of sustenance. They\\\'re Dependent, not Terminally Dependent. Terminally Dependent Society requires that they be dependent on something that it is bad to be dependent on, right?
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The mention of past companions have mostly always been \\\"they come and go and it\\\'s always sad\\\". the Adric example, though more valid as Wham Episode than, say, the departure of Dodo, made for a tear-jerking episode conclusion, but didn\\\'t have more repercussion than, the departure of any other companion. *because the cast alteration have become part of the premise*
The problem is the examples only list the HSQ part of a given episode, not the status quo altering part of the episode.
So yes Torchwood\\\'d destruction was a handy plot device for a handful of later stories, though it is a \\\"Emergency Temporal Shift\\\" kind of plot device - except as a background element rather than a central plot point.
Thing is we should list those particular ETS instances (precisely, an enemy that shouldn\\\'t exist, does because they got lucky, but at the end of the episode, it is the final end of that enemy...ever! -- which I unaccurately refered to as reset button though, technically it\\\'s not, but given the very episodic nature of the show, for all intents and purposes, it is the same thing)
- The Dalek ones (obviously)
- The Cybermen
- The Master/Time Lords have one (actualy Utopia/Sound of Drums/Last of the Time Lords isn\\\'t any more
Whammy than Dalek) and YES, the Doctor burned Gallifrey, which we have known since series 1. not an End of Time revelation.
- The numerous tech scavenged from the supposedly destroyed TW1 who all get destroyed by the end of
the serial in which they\\\'re introduced.
- The time war had at least three FINAL BATTLE EVER-s! (Dalek, Parting of the ways and End of Time - though every other Dalek story might count too...)
The problem is the examples only list the HSQ part of a given episode, not the status quo altering part of the episode.
So yes Torchwood\\\'d destruction was a handy plot device for a handful of later stories, though it is a \\\"Emergency Temporal Shift\\\" kind of plot device - except as a background element rather than a central plot point.
Thing is we should list those particular ETS instances (precisely, an enemy that shouldn\\\'t exist, does because they got lucky, but at the end of the episode, it is the final end of that enemy...ever! -- which I unaccurately refered to as reset button though, technically it\\\'s not, but given the very episodic nature of the show, for all intents and purposes, it is the same thing)
- The Dalek ones (obviously)
- The Cybermen
- The Master/Time Lords have one (actualy Utopia/Sound of Drums/Last of the Time Lords isn\\\'t any more
Whammy than Dalek) and YES, the Doctor burned Gallifrey, which we have known since series 1. not an End of Time revelation.
- The numerous tech scavenged from the supposedly destroyed TW1 who all get destroyed by the end of
the serial in which they\\\'re introduced.
- The time war had at least three FINAL BATTLE EVER-s! (Dalek, Parting of the ways and End of Time - though every other Dalek story might count too...)
