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ysobelspoilers for the Dr Who 50th
I get how the "400 years in four seconds" trick with scanning the door worked -- the Doctors (8.5 and 10 at least) do not remember, but the sonic screwdriver doesn't forget.
But two things I don't get:
1) How did he have four hundred years to figure out the calculations for saving Gallifrey? To *think* about how he *might have* saved it, sure, but not how to work this specific multi-Tardis hijink.
2) How did he get his prior lives involved? Yes, it was fannishly awesome to have all of them swoop in -- even if some were sort of pastede on yey -- and "No, all *thirteen*" was amazing, but how did he work it, and how did he convince himselves to assemble in one place when that sort of breaks the rules, and how does he not remember having been part of it already argh?
Oh, and one more thing, related to etching a message in the Tower for modern day people to find:
3) How did Clara know that the numbers were the activation code for Jack's wrist thingamabob, and how did 11 know that *that* was what to write? Even if the "won't remember this" applies only to the saving of Gallifrey (so they remember most of the events up until they are in the shack ready to push the big red button) rather than to the whole event, that's a hell of a thing for 10 to have to remember to tell Clara in such a way that they both remember.
Wah, time travel makes my head hurt :)
I get how the "400 years in four seconds" trick with scanning the door worked -- the Doctors (8.5 and 10 at least) do not remember, but the sonic screwdriver doesn't forget.
But two things I don't get:
1) How did he have four hundred years to figure out the calculations for saving Gallifrey? To *think* about how he *might have* saved it, sure, but not how to work this specific multi-Tardis hijink.
2) How did he get his prior lives involved? Yes, it was fannishly awesome to have all of them swoop in -- even if some were sort of pastede on yey -- and "No, all *thirteen*" was amazing, but how did he work it, and how did he convince himselves to assemble in one place when that sort of breaks the rules, and how does he not remember having been part of it already argh?
Oh, and one more thing, related to etching a message in the Tower for modern day people to find:
3) How did Clara know that the numbers were the activation code for Jack's wrist thingamabob, and how did 11 know that *that* was what to write? Even if the "won't remember this" applies only to the saving of Gallifrey (so they remember most of the events up until they are in the shack ready to push the big red button) rather than to the whole event, that's a hell of a thing for 10 to have to remember to tell Clara in such a way that they both remember.
Wah, time travel makes my head hurt :)
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Date: 2013-11-28 07:28 am (UTC)