Post by Atrahasis on Jul 7, 2007 9:00:20 GMT -5
Liked it!
And the details of the Time War are coming into focus now. There was that line about the Sea Devils and the Axons messing with a time rift, and this sounded like the beginning of the Time War?
It made me think that in a universe where paradoxes are not allowed, any race that consistently decides to mess with Time Travel will eventually extinguish intself in the end, or have other Time Travelling races be involved in the extinguishing, because they will likely meet up and not like each other. Consider the Realpolitik way the universe would work...who can you trust really? And if you know that someone has Time Travel and other powerful tech, wouldn't you want to extinguish them before they extinguish you?
Let's say for the sake of argument that you're a time travelling race like the Time Lords who decide to become all benevolent and non-interfering. You're all-powerful, but you decide not to use that power on others. But somewhere down the road, at some point let's say a fledgling race gets access to time travel, maybe not time travel via a fancy smancy piece of hardware like a Tardis. but via some sort of rift that had opened up. Such fledgling race may think they're pretty hot stuff, and the ones they would fear the most are: The ones who don't allow messing around with Time...the Time Lords.
So now in a Realpolitik situation, said fledgling race would have to come up with a plan to kill the Time Lords via time travel, and they may enlist the help of the Time Lord's other enemies, because after all the enemy of my enemy is my friend.
But wait...since these are the Time Lords we're talking about here, they eventually (already) have wind of this plan, and do some time-travelling on their own to screw with the aforementioned fledgling race.
But wait! Since this is time travel, if you're the fldgling race or an ally of theirs, you can always travel back further in time and foil the plans of the one who tried to screw with you!
Hence the Time War. And after the Time War...
So now no single race can time travel at a whim, and the universe which doesn't like paradoxes has sorted itself out. It's like the universe itself extinguished the big masters of Time.
Now here's what I don't get: If the Doctor is all broken up over being the last of the Time Lords, why doesn't he impregnate some hot women and sire the race again, instead of wanting to care for somebody like the Master who is a danger to all of creation? Imo the procreation route is more logical than the preservation route for him right now.
Martha can bear him a few kids...the other candidate is Lucy Saxon, who was pretty hot! ;D
And the details of the Time War are coming into focus now. There was that line about the Sea Devils and the Axons messing with a time rift, and this sounded like the beginning of the Time War?
It made me think that in a universe where paradoxes are not allowed, any race that consistently decides to mess with Time Travel will eventually extinguish intself in the end, or have other Time Travelling races be involved in the extinguishing, because they will likely meet up and not like each other. Consider the Realpolitik way the universe would work...who can you trust really? And if you know that someone has Time Travel and other powerful tech, wouldn't you want to extinguish them before they extinguish you?
Let's say for the sake of argument that you're a time travelling race like the Time Lords who decide to become all benevolent and non-interfering. You're all-powerful, but you decide not to use that power on others. But somewhere down the road, at some point let's say a fledgling race gets access to time travel, maybe not time travel via a fancy smancy piece of hardware like a Tardis. but via some sort of rift that had opened up. Such fledgling race may think they're pretty hot stuff, and the ones they would fear the most are: The ones who don't allow messing around with Time...the Time Lords.
So now in a Realpolitik situation, said fledgling race would have to come up with a plan to kill the Time Lords via time travel, and they may enlist the help of the Time Lord's other enemies, because after all the enemy of my enemy is my friend.
But wait...since these are the Time Lords we're talking about here, they eventually (already) have wind of this plan, and do some time-travelling on their own to screw with the aforementioned fledgling race.
But wait! Since this is time travel, if you're the fldgling race or an ally of theirs, you can always travel back further in time and foil the plans of the one who tried to screw with you!
Hence the Time War. And after the Time War...
So now no single race can time travel at a whim, and the universe which doesn't like paradoxes has sorted itself out. It's like the universe itself extinguished the big masters of Time.
Now here's what I don't get: If the Doctor is all broken up over being the last of the Time Lords, why doesn't he impregnate some hot women and sire the race again, instead of wanting to care for somebody like the Master who is a danger to all of creation? Imo the procreation route is more logical than the preservation route for him right now.
Martha can bear him a few kids...the other candidate is Lucy Saxon, who was pretty hot! ;D
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