Re: The Girl in the Fireplace

In article <e76k83$1hb$1@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
Stuffed <talking@xxxxxxx> wrote:

"L. Ross Raszewski" <lraszewski@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
news:34qlg.20984$YI2.646@xxxxxxxxxxx
On Mon, 19 Jun 2006 00:42:12 +0100, Stuffed <talking@xxxxxxx> wrote:

You're not thinking four dimensionally!

He could go back to immediately after the letter was written, pick her
up,
take her for a whirl round the stars (using a bit of "modern" medicine to
keep her going), then drop her back at home a mere second after she'd
left,
"Earth" timeline-wise. No paradox there, just a need for writing that
isn't
a scripted version of forced/ fake emotion based on a succession of down
notes.

It's not so much the paradox that is the problem as "crossing his own
timestream", which he's not allowed to do, as even the slightest
misstep, and it's Time Monkey time.

But surely there was a gap between Madame Whatsit writing the letter, and
being dead. Meaning the letter would exist and be passed on with no
problems, the Doctor reads it, then pops back to after the letter had been
written but before he is handed it. He's not there for that time in the
first timeline, and isn't creating any sort of paradox or history change
when he does go there. If (as it appeared last year) people can go back and
view themselves, providing they don't change their own actions or
consequences thereof, what is the problem with the above?

I suppose really I just feel that the Doctor should be able to manage to
keep one fairly easy promise, whereas RTD seems to think he must run around
"believing in the human spirit", shouting from time to time, and turning
dead people into paving slabs. Death and misery are good things to introduce
to add dimension and drama, but the Girl In The Fireplace ending was to me a
simply pointless plotline to try and jerk some tears.



Pompadour that is. I hear this is either Gatiss or Moffit.
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