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From: dtravel@sonic.net
On 1/11/2025 8:45 PM, anim8rfsk wrote:
> The Doctor wrote:
>> In article <292306484.758343110.763046.anim8rfsk-cox.net@news.easynews.com>,
>> anim8rfsk wrote:
>>> Dimensional Traveler wrote:
>>>> On 1/11/2025 1:00 PM, anim8rfsk wrote:
>>>>> Dimensional Traveler wrote:
>>>>>> On 1/11/2025 10:09 AM, anim8rfsk wrote:
>>>>>>> John Hall wrote:
>>>>>>>> In message , The True Doctor
>>>>>>>> writes
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> This stupid imbecilic degeneracy was copied by the moron Steven
Moffat
>>>>>>>>> for the character of the 12th Doctor and that finally killed the
series
>>>>>>>>> off completely after Capaldi got Clara killed for nothing after
making
>>>>>>>>> both characters not get on with each other and then got Bill Potts
>>>>>>>>> killed off for nothing as well, as well as Capaldi. Oh, and don't
>>>>>>>>> forgery he effectively killed off Amy and Rory too.
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> I always felt that the rationale for the Doctor not being able to
rescue
>>>>>>>> Amy and Rory because for some tenuous reason he couldn't visit NY at
the
>>>>>>>> particular time they'd been sent to didn't really hold weather. He
could
>>>>>>>> visit some earlier time or different place and arrange for a message
to
>>>>>>>> be sent to them, telling them to take a train to, say, Chicago, where
>>>>>>>> he'd be able to pick them up.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Agreed, there had to be some workarounds. At least they could have
brought
>>>>>>> some up and explained why they wouldn’t work.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>> I thought it was that those time-shifted by the Angels could never time
>>>>>> travel afterwards.
>>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> No, they were just trapped in a zone that the doctor couldn’t go
to.
>>>>>
>>>> Can someone remind/enlighten me on _why_ The Doctor couldn't go there?
>>>>
>>>
>>> This is from Wikipedia:
>>>
>>> The Weeping Angel collector Grayle captures River and Rory. He locks Rory
>>> in the cellar with several cherub Weeping Angels, while he has a Weeping
>>> Angel grab River by the wrist while he interrogates her. River is able to
>>> use her vortex manipulator to allow the TARDIS to arrive. Amy, knowing
>>> River wrote the book to help them, uses it to look for Rory. River breaks
>>> her wrist to free herself. Amy finds the cellar empty and the Doctor
>>> locates Rory at an apartment building nearby.
>>>
>>> Rory enters an apartment with an elderly version of himself in bed, who
>>> dies without having seen Amy for many years. The Doctor deduces that the
>>> Weeping Angels have been using the building as a battery farm, sending the
>>> victims to their past while feeding off their time energy. Rory and Amy
>>> refuse to accept their fate and flee to the roof. Amy and Rory jump off the
>>> roof, creating a paradox that destroys the building and the Weeping Angels.
>>>
>>> The Doctor, River, Amy and Rory find themselves near the TARDIS in a
>>> graveyard in 2012. Rory catches sight of a gravestone with his name on it.
>>> He is then sent into the past by a Weeping Angel who had survived the
>>> paradox. The Doctor is unable to go back to get him, due to the paradox.
>>> Despite the Doctor urging her not to do so, Amy allows herself to be
>>> touched by the Weeping Angel in the hope of being with Rory. Her name then
>>> appears along with Rory's on the gravestone.
>>>
>>
>> Who wrote that?
>
> I have no idea if you can tell the author of a Wikipedia article or not
>
Sounds like someone took a large dose of handwavium before writing that
script.
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