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 scifi plot 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)

Most of the dialogue's okay, but the plot doesn't make any sense at all. Still, if we decided that episodes can be declared non canon because there plots don't make sense, then we'd lose, Ghost Light, The Curse of Fenric, and several other episodes. The only possible reason to declare this non canon would be that it was written by a group of children. Does anybody know if Moffat or the BBC considers this canon, because that is what really matters.Icecreamdif ^{talk to me} 20:44, October 2, 2011 (UTC)

Timeline

We don't know enough to place this in a specific point in the timeline. The current "Timeline" section in this article represents the best guesses with all the available data, but we can't really pin it down to when it definitely occurs for the Doctor. — Rob T Firefly - Δ∇ - 17:26, October 2, 2011 (UTC)