Howling:Battle of Medusa Cascade never happened

Okay, so are we all agreed that the Dalek invasion of Earth and the subsequent Battle of the Medusa Cascade are still erased from time by the Time Cracks? 195.188.243.175^{talk to me} 14:45, February 16, 2012 (UTC)

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Well, since no episode after The Big Bang has really discussed the issue, and The Big Bang itsself left it rather ambiguous, I don't think that we can make an assumption one way or the other. We can't even be 100% sure that the invasion was actually erased. Maybe Amy stayed in her house throughout the invasion, and any Daleks that came into her house fell into the crack in her wall, causing her to forget them. I'm not saying that that is particularly likely, but it is a possibility. We also can't really use the fact that characters in Torchwood and Sarah Jane still don't believe in aliens, because I don't think that anybody would be too surprised by that even if it hadn't been for the cracks. I'm sure that UNIT or Torchwood or somebody came up with some lame coverstory that most people believed within hours the Earth being returned to its original location. Even in The End of Time, which featured a major event that would be at least as hard to ignore as the Dalek invasion was, Mr. Smith was able to come up with some BS coverstory, and most people would rather believe that the WiFi malfunctioned than that an alien took over all of their bodies and a planet materialized in the sky. Icecreamdif ^{talk to me} 15:51, February 16, 2012 (UTC)

Could it have been something to do with the Men in Black, as seen in DW Dreamland and SJA The Vault of Secrets? We know they possess the ability to wipe people's memories of aliens, as Mister Dread does to Gita at the end of the latter story. I'd prefer this explanation over the Time Crack one, but the Crack is the more popular explanation among fans. I once dared to suggest alternative reasons for the forgetting of the Daleks over at Gallifrey Base, and it did go down well with most people. 82.2.136.93^{talk to me} 18:19, February 16, 2012 (UTC)

In the Sarah Jane episode, didn't they say that the MIBs' operation had been shut down for decades, and now all they did was protect the Vault? I could be wrong, because I've only seen that episode once. Anyway, if I'm wrong then it could have been the reason that everyone's forgotten, but I don't think that there's anything wrong with the reason that the show's been using for decades to explain humans forgetting several millenia worth of alien invasions. In the Doctor Who universe, people are willing to overlook almost anything out of the ordinary if they have a more convenient explanation for it. Throughout the years there have been armies of plastic dummies, Loch Ness Monsters in London, Cybermen knocking out everyone on the planet, ghosts becoming a normal phenomenon, the Master broadcasting a message about the destruction of the universe, the US president being murdered by a floating metal sphere on TV, the list is endless. People have always simply refused to believe in obvious proof of aliens, even before the cracks were around. According to Children of Earth, most people still weren't convinced that aliens existed even after Journey's End.Icecreamdif ^{talk to me} 18:36, February 16, 2012 (UTC)

Even if you only saw The Vault of Secrets once, you remembered correctly. Mr. Smith said the Alliance of Shades had been disbanded in 1972 and Mr. Dread said that all the MIB had been doing since was guarding the vault. Sarah Jane noted that the most recent of the press cuttings also dated from 1972. There might have been a few other little pointers to the same date that I've missed but those will do. Both Sarah Jane (to Rose, in School Reunion) and the Doctor (to Ace, in Remembrance of the Daleks) referred to the Loch Ness Monster -- singular, please note -- and the Doctor was specifically talking about the human capacity to overlook such things. --89.242.67.155^{talk to me} 21:18, February 16, 2012 (UTC)

Well I personally reckon that thousands of Daleks swarming all over the planet devastating civilisation is a lot harder to just ignore than a lot of the stuff that's happened in and around the London area in past DW stories. I can't see people deliberately ignoring such a massive thing, which is why some other agency would have to have restructured the memories of the population so they remember the past somewhat differently, a kind of mental conditioning. But who would be able to do such a thing, and why? 82.2.136.93^{talk to me} 22:27, February 16, 2012 (UTC)

It's not like those past invasions were just tiny things that nobody would notice. A whole bunch of people died in the first and third Auton invasions (and a few people died in the second one), the Cybermen knocked out pretty much the entire world in The Invasion, ghosts were a normal worldwide phenomenon in Army of Ghosts, the relatively common ghosts throughout the world proceeded to turn into giant metal robots, the moon nearly hit the planet, every single child started speaking in unison shortly before the government instituted a new policy of kidnapping children, a good chunk of the human population (including the royal family) preparing to jump off of tall buildings, and London had to be completely evacuated due to dinosaurs. And those are just the examples I can think of off the top of my head. If people can overlook a major city being evacuated due to dinosaurs, it's not too much of a stretch to say that they will overlook a small thing like the entire planet being moved across the universe. We already know that Mr. Smith came up with an excuse for the entire population of the planet turning into a creepy, laughing blond-haired man and another planet materializing in the sky, and that somebody came up with an explanation for a giant battle between 2 different types of robots in the middle of London, despite the fact that there was even a list of casualties at the event, and they convinced people that another alien ship was a hoax, despite the fact that it destroyed Big Ben. Keep in mind, that there was definetly video evidence of the "ghosts" and Masters. That's not even getting into the fact that Torchwood can erase people's memories, though likely not on a global scale. If humans were dumb enough to believe all of that, I'm sure that they believed the government when they were told that they saw 27 planets in the sky due to a freaky group hallucination, which coincidentally happenned at the exact same time as terrorists were dressing up as the robots from everyone's last drug-induced hallucination, and exterminating people at random. Anyone dumb enough to believe those other cover stories would be willing to believe anything to explain that the world wasn't moved across the universe. The fact that people didn't believe in the Daleks was confirmed in Children of Earth, and the fact that Sarah Jane still felt it necessary to cover up alien invasions that she had nothing to do with in End of Time also proves that aliens aren't common knowledge.Icecreamdif ^{talk to me} 03:51, February 17, 2012 (UTC)

I believe on another discussion I came up with a variety of possible reasons as to why nobody remembered the invasions, and here they are:

• Torchwood or UNIT somehow retconned everyone.
• Other aliens came along and erased the memories of the invasions, leaving Earth unprepared for future attacks.
• The Silence memory erasure may have had a weird effect and caused people to forget about other aliens, not just the Silence.
• Intergalactic police did a memory wipe.
• The Trickster's Brigade may have thwarted them as part of a bigger plan, as they did with other invasions when erasing Sarah Jane.
• After the reboot where everyone remembered everything again, perhaps they subconciously wanted to forget the invasion and that's why they did, with the exception of a few who thought the invasion was a good thing. 87.102.94.183^{talk to me} 19:32, February 17, 2012 (UTC)

Sorry, folks, but as much as I'd like to believe these alternate explanations, it just feels like grasping at straws to me. I think at the end of the day, we just have to accept that there literally NEVER WERE ANY DALEKS. Yes, it leaves us with awkward paradoxes such as Mickey still living on his own Earth again, Harriet Jones' death, and Donna being half-Time Lord...but them's the breaks, as they say. 82.2.136.93^{talk to me} 17:49, March 10, 2012 (UTC)

If the Battle of the Medusa Cascade never happened, then surely the Ironsides couldn't be around for Amy to not remember? Surely they would have been swallowed by the cracks in time too, and never have located the Progenitor? I quite like the idea of Daleks coming into Amy's bedroom and being swallowed by the crack during the invasion, unlikely though it seems. Toothless100 - Talk to me 07:35, March 30, 2012 (UTC)

I always assumed that the Ironsides were from Parting of the Ways, and not Journey's End since the Ironsides ere exterminated for being impure. The Daleks in The Stolen Earth were made from Davros' Kaled cells, and the Doctor made a point of explaining that these were the first large group of "real" Daleks that had been encountered in the new series. The Daleks in Bad Wolf, however, were made from human cells, and the Doctor made a point of explaining that these Daleks were impure and hated themselves. Victory of the Daleks never made it clear which invasion the Daleks came from. Anyway, even if they did come from the Medusa Cascade battle, and the events were erased, there are plenty of conversations in these forums trying to figure out how the cracks work, and those Daleks may have been able to exist even if the invasion didn't. It still seems a bit ridiculous to assume that an entire invasion was erased though, when all we know is that Amy had never heard of Daleks.Icecreamdif ^{talk to me} 01:20, March 31, 2012 (UTC)

Which wouldn't be possible given the events of TSE/JE. Even Clyde's dad knew of them, in Mark of the Berserker, in season 2 of The Sarah Jane Adventures. The dominant theory is that the Dalek invasion was undone by the Cracks, and remains undone now. 82.2.136.93^{talk to me} 08:55, April 1, 2012 (UTC)

What evidence do we actually have that the invasion was undone though. The only evidence that we have is that Amy doesn't remember them. For all we know, Rory or Mels, or anybody else would remember the invasion, and Amy just missed it somehow. Maybe there were no Daleks in Leadworth, and she slept through the planets in the sky, or maybe any Daleks that were in her house were simply erased, or maybe she believed whatever lame excuse the government came up with for the planets in the sky. Icecreamdif ^{talk to me} 20:20, April 1, 2012 (UTC)

It's not just Amy. Rory didn't recognise them in THE BIG BANG, if I remember correctly. And no government cover-up could explain away what happened in TSE/JE. 82.2.136.93^{talk to me} 23:16, April 1, 2012 (UTC)

Drugs in the water combined with a once in a thousand years alignment of the planets created the illusion of planets in the sky. I don't remember Rory ever saying whether or not he remembered the Daleks in The Big BangIcecreamdif ^{talk to me} 23:22, April 1, 2012 (UTC)

I'd say there's probably a 98% chance the Dalek invasion was never restored. 82.2.136.93^{talk to me} 09:51, April 3, 2012 (UTC)

And how did you calculate that?Icecreamdif ^{talk to me} 19:05, April 3, 2012 (UTC)

Hang on. All the business with the Cracks had already happened BEFORE the Daleks invaded, as the Doctor had already met River, who'd already experienced all of that. So the Crack had ALREADY gotten to the Daleks....except we still saw them, before they were erased. 194.168.208.42^{talk to me} 14:47, April 4, 2012 (UTC)

I think that the only possible response to that is "wibbly-wobbly timey-wimey." It gets even more complicated when you realize that in Flesh and Stone, River basically said that she'd already lived through the universe being destroyed and rebooted. Icecreamdif ^{talk to me} 18:59, April 4, 2012 (UTC)

So, now that there never were any Daleks, what became of the Doctor's hand that Jack kept in a jar? How did Donna get Time Lord abilities? And what killed Harriet Jones? 82.2.136.93^{talk to me} 21:39, April 4, 2012 (UTC)

You might as well ask how Amy was born without parents. Of course, things are much simpler if you assume that the invasion wasn't erased.Icecreamdif ^{talk to me} 02:16, April 5, 2012 (UTC)

One big push to tackle the whole issue: but we need at least two dimensions in time (just go with it for now). And for short hand, I will use t1 for the first time dimension that we commonly refer to and t2 for the second dimension in time – and for this discussion, t2 will be a running time with an arbitrary start time. Remember that the cracks in time and space destroy the universe. They are not static events.

On Monday at t1 = 7:50 AM and t2 = 0:00, a crack appears in Amy’s bedroom wall and Amy’s parents pass through the crack and thus the information about her parents is removed from history – without removing their impact on historical events. At t1=8:00 AM and t2=0:00, a crack appears on Amy's wall. At t1=8:00 AM and t2 = 1:00 the crack is bigger and at t1=8:00 AM and t2 = 20:00 (or some time period) the crack has grown large enough to cross galaxies, perhaps seen by a convicted felon who passes through the crack into Amy’s world. At t1=8:00 AM and t2 = Friday (I jest here, I mean t2 = a bunch of time later), the universe at this specific space/time coordinate has completely exploded/imploded or whatever it was that we saw in The Big Bang.

On Monday at 8:01 AM and t2= 0:00 the crack appears on Amy’s wall. Days, months, or years go by and on whatever day and t1 time the 11th Doctor arrives in Amy’s room and t2 = 0, the crack is still only on Amy’s wall. But as t2 increases, that crack eats away the universe (and maybe at some point allows fish-like people to step through to Venice or a different crack could do that just as well). t2 also allows the 11th Doctor to revisit these “past” events as he rewinds at the end of The Big Bang.

Provided you agree with the concepts of this argument, then you understand that you cannot ask silly questions like “if we went back in time to Amy’s birth, would she just appear from thin air?” because there is no universe to go back to. As we see in The Big Bang nothing at all is left in the universe in all of time and space - only the Earth is left "with time running out, isn't anyone paying attention" and is being kept warm by the exploding TARDIS and only because the Doctor and his companions are at the eye of the storm.

Finally, the Doctor flies the Pandorica into the exploding TARDIS and reboots the universe. Now you can debate that the only “atoms of the universe” that exist in the Pandorica represent those after some of the effects of the cracks in time and space. But considering that a DALEK is revitalized by the light from the Pandorica in the museum at the beginning of The Big Bang, I think one must agree that the information of the DALEK race exists within the Pandorica and therefore the DALEK Race exists after the reboot.--ANone ^{talk to me} 08:09, April 6, 2012 (UTC)