The commentator P'Bantonox
posts on 1/4/2007 4:11:52 PM
It's true that Gallifrey is on a singular time-path. Usually, time can be considered to loop about on itself, but there has to be a guideline, a path to show what direction time must go in when it does not loop, and Gallifrey is that example. Also, the Gallifreyans were one of the earlier life forms of the universe, so their timeline has precidence in the history of the space-time contiuum. A relatable analogy is that a glass' worth of water is taken from the ocean. The surface, representing modern existances, creates only ripples in the path of time. The deeper you go, however, the more water must be displaced to allow the vacuum left by the missing water. Gallifrey is found at the ocean bed, or equivilent to it in this analogy, remove a glass's worth of water from there, and nearly the entire ocean is affected by it in some way or another. This theory also can be linked to the time war, and how it affected other species (ie why the Gelth became psychic-energy type beings)
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posts on 9/2/2006 11:06:18 AM
The Time Lord homeworld is stuck in one time by Rassilon. There is no tardis that can go back to gallifrey's past
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posts on 9/1/2006 7:03:37 PM
When the Doctor refers to the "laws" of time I think he's talking about the phisical unchangeable laws of the universe. Such as the law of gravity and such. Afterall, the Doctor has never seemed to mind any of the "rules" the timelords created. While the Doctor has traveled through time and saved people's lives ,he has never done so deliberatly. Mostly, he just happens into a situation, often accidently, and saves the day. Were he to deliberatly go back and save Adric it would create a paradox. By Adric not dieing, he wouldn't travel back to save him in the first place. Making it imposible.
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posts on 7/19/2006 8:44:23 PM
Engouh with the Adric bashing already. Lots of people enjoyed this character and his only crime was not working as well with Peter Davison as he had with Tom Baker.
As for why they dont just travel back in time and save everybody, companion or no, who dies in the episodes- it is against one of the laws of time not to mention it would completely disrupt the timelines.
The Reapers, granted, are one explanation as seen in the new series but they didnt have as much power when the Time Lords were still around in the clasic series.
So no, while there would be consequences and it would be immoral if you think about it (ie everyone dies at some point, thats part of living and even the Doctor knows that) the Reapers wrath is not the main reason why such trips should not be attempted. Remember what the Doctor told Nyssa and Tegan there are some things even he and the Tardis cannnot do and they must accept it. Shame the TV Movie and new series ruined that.
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posts on 5/8/2006 10:42:03 PM
There are some obvious problems (and flaws in the rebuttal) with the reasons given so far. Firstly, saving a person's life when he was supposed to die DID have dire effects in "Father's Day", but the Doctor stated that the Time Lords could have stopped the Reapers had they not been destroyed. The chief problem with this is that the Time Lords could travel in time (and the Doctor had been to the past and present prior to their destruction), so they should have known about the situation first. The Doctor also knew of a way of saving the day without killing Rose's father (although Rose successfully mucked that up). Secondly, although this seems to have been superseded, in "The Aztecs" the first Doctor suggests that changing history is impossible. Finally, and perhaps most importantly, several Doctors quote the first law of time, which is that a Time Lord may not interfere with the history of other planets. (On occasion, however, it was suggested that the first law was that Time Lords could not meet their own selves.) It is true that the Doctor regularly affected history (if his very presence wasn't enough), but he rarely CHANGED the history of a particular planet (usually Earth). In short, saving Adric was a breach of that law. The Doctor knew that Adric was dead, so stopping him dying was in direct contrast to known history.
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michael
posts on 4/3/2006 3:25:37 PM
gess what i made my own doctor who moive is called doctor moo
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Porthos
posts on 3/1/2006 11:10:08 PM
Maybe there are laws against time travel for stuff like that.
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Cybercontroller
posts on 3/1/2006 1:33:49 PM
The reason they did not save Adric is because Earthshock would have been a complete waste, people did not like Adric and it was a surprising ending with him dying.
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TemporalOrbit
posts on 2/28/2006 4:17:09 PM
All you have to do is watch the "Father's Day" episode.
IT ANSWERS THIS POINT BLANK!!
THE REAPERS, BABY! THE REAPERS!
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Chris
posts on 2/15/2006 5:24:43 PM
Unfourtunatly for those two, time travel in the Doctor Who universe does not work in that way. If they did attempt to do that the outcome would some how be the same.
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The commentator Adam
posts on 11/20/2005 11:55:52 PM
For the same reason that on Star Trek, they don't bring back the dead by beaming back their most recent molecular pattern from the ship's transporter. It conflicts with the plot.
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man from venus
posts on 10/28/2005 4:41:47 PM
Because he had his hand up Tegans skirt and his other on Nyssas butt and he didnt want to spoil the moment by rescuing a dork
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matthew waterhouse
posts on 9/10/2005 10:43:20 AM
Actually Adric lasted 11 episodes. He was funny and interesting. The scriptwriters maybe didn't do a great job with him. But he was way better than Tegan who never seemed to stop complaining. He also seemed to have chemistry with Nyssa.
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The commentator Paul
posts on 7/20/2005 2:41:07 PM
Who would want to save Adric. He only lasted about seven adventures (six to many)
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Os Davis
posts on 7/20/2005 11:42:33 AM
Two answers to the question:
1. You may recall that the spaceship about to hit the earth was travelling through time and that its position in timespace wasn't consistent. Therefore, the TARDIS couldn't get a lock or something like that...
2. To save us all from one more episode with the little geek.
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The commentator Chloe
posts on 7/20/2005 7:50:43 AM
No he didn't! He made me laugh more than all the other chars put together.
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The commentator Lord Xanthor
posts on 6/5/2005 7:56:55 PM
Actually, the reason he didnt bring aderick back was if you all remember that episode with the cybermen, aderick tried fooling with the ships controlls, sending the ship back in time. In doing so, it was before man existed when the dinosaurs were the race of the earth and that if you also remember the doctor stated they all died out when something hit the earth causing the iceage that killed them. Right there, he realized that if he rescued aderick, that he might be dooming humanity. Think, either Aderick survived and maybe a female did, or the huge explosion caused his DNA to be merged and years lator the results (Humans) I been a big fan for years, and after signing petations when they took dr who away, just faded out and was suprised and really happy to see they finally brought a great show back.
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The commentator Alec Hunt
posts on 5/29/2005 9:07:40 PM
the new episodes are hitting on things that the original didnt answer. Fathers day explained what happens with going back in time to many times. The new show is really doing a good job with carrying on the doctors name. Love it I am glad I can download it becasue we dont get it in the states.
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Simon
posts on 5/21/2005 11:35:13 PM
Because they had three assistants and wanted to get rid of one, so they killed off the one no body liked.
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Omega
posts on 5/19/2005 1:01:06 PM
It was Adric's DNA that eventually led to the evolution of human's on Earth; the Doctor just didn't want to have to explain that by going back and rescuing Adric he would have wiped the human race from existence. Also he might would have been crosssing his own time stream which can have dire consequences: just see 'Father's Day.'
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