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   From: john_nospam@jhall.co.uk   
      
   In message , Dimensional Traveler   
    writes   
   >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?   
   >   
      
   I don't recall that a convincing explanation was ever given. I suspect   
   that even Steven Moffat didn't know. It was just that a way had to be   
   found to write out Amy and Rory, and this was what he came up with.   
      
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   John Hall   
                   "I look upon it, that he who does not mind his belly,   
                    will hardly mind anything else."   
                                               Dr Samuel Johnson (1709-84)   
      
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