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   The Doctor to anim8rfsk@cox.net   
   Re: Why WAS the 6th Doctor era SO BAD?!   
   12 Jan 25 12:41:20   
   
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   From: doctor@doctor.nl2k.ab.ca   
      
   In article <766191734.758361777.018966.anim8rfsk-cox.net@news.easynews.com>,   
   anim8rfsk   wrote:   
   >Dimensional Traveler  wrote:   
   >> On 1/11/2025 8:45 PM, anim8rfsk wrote:   
   >>> The Doctor  wrote:   
   >>>> In article <292306484.758343110.763046.anim8rfsk-cox.net@ne   
   s.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.   
   >>   
   >   
   >Yes, since the paradox has them die, either way, how much worse can he make   
   >it?   
   >   
      
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