Re: more paradox loops in Doctor Who latest series

u235bomb@xxxxxxx wrote:

In the days of Susan Foreman and her granpa,
didn't the Time Lords, as guardians of causality,
have a rule that you couldn't see your own future?
That was naughty, just like going back and changing history.

The Time Lords are gone, their rules with them.

Now the ending of Blink seems to violate this, when
Sally Sparrow realises that that tenth Doctor doesn't
know about about the weeping angels and him going back to
1969, so she gives him the file?

So why didn't the Doctor just avoid the old house,
and avoid all that trouble to reclaim his TARDIS?

Because he knew that doing so would cause a paradox - if he 'avoided
all that trouble' then Sally Sparrow wouldn't have a file to give
him so he wouldn't read it, so he wouldn't 'avoid all that trouble'.
Better to accept the information, preserve it for use when the time
comes and ensure events play out correctly. The episode "Father's
Day" showed how undesirable a paradox situation is.

And if the weeping angels sent victims back in time to
die before the time they disappeared, why did the
police inspector Shipton live until one day after his
temporal shift?

He got lucky? I don't think it's so much a case of sending them back
in time to die as simply getting them out of the way in the
here-and-now.

Dan

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