Talk:Death Is the Only Answer (TV story)

Canonicity

This episode shouldn't bed considered canon. User:Doctorpenguin 08:00, October 2, 2011 (UTC)

Normally people give evidence for their claims...--Skittles the hog - talk 08:09, October 2, 2011 (UTC)

The fact that a 20th century physicist was capable of creating a green ooze that was able to turn him into an ood (complete with translator orb), only to turn back to normal by stepping through a "magic gateway" pretty much classes this story as non-canon, or at most a dream (a la Dimensions in Time/Search Out Space). This isn't even mentioning the truly cringeworthy lines. TemporalSpleen ^{talk to me} 08:49, October 2, 2011 (UTC)

It's by no means the goofiest thing a human scientist has ever been able to accomplish in Doctor Who. Maybe the ooze is alien in origin and Einstein found it. Maybe it reacted with the time bridge created by the TARDIS accident and his own time machine in some way. But if mildly difficult and underexplained narrative points were on their own enough to de-canonise a Doctor Who story, we'd lose at least half of them. — Rob T Firefly - Δ∇ - 17:21, October 2, 2011 (UTC)