Howling:What crashed the Byzantium?
Angel Bob, of course. Well, he did. But there never was an Angel Bob anymore, yet the Byantium remained crashed. As someone here pointed out, when things are remove dform time, time rewrites itself around the remove person or event. As noted in Flesh and Stone, time is unwritten, and then rewritten. We know the Weeping Angels along with a bunch of Clerics were unwritten, but we don't know how time wrote around thair lack of existence so that the consequences remain the same or similar.
As theoriesed, with Rory having never existed, time would have rewrote around Amelia's childhood The Eleventh Hour, The Vampires of Venice, Amy's Choice (which may be gone completely, as it was only a dream involving Rory, not a real, major event), The Hungry Earth, and Cold Blood. For example, the Atraxi would have been stopped differently, and so would have all other enemies in stories featuring Rory. It is like when the Doctor tried to changed a fixed point in time in The Waters of Mars - he changed the event, but time rewrote around it so that the consequences remained the same - Adelaide's granddaughter still goes into space and all of that.
It should be noted that, even with The Stolen Earth/Journey's End out of history, all evnets that happened after it (including stories set after it in the spin-offs) will still have happened the same, or very similar, as the consequences are barely affected. The only difference would be small, such as in Planet of the Dead, all Dalek invasion references would be gone. The Waters of Mars (oh dear, a fixed point in time is retconed again!) would have been rewrote, too. Adelaide would no longer have met the Dalek or lost her parents (or so we think), but time would make it so that she stills goes to Mars and all of that business, but the events leading her there would be changed, with the same sort of consequences.
Do you understand what I'm saying? Time is unwritten (people of events, or both), but then is rewritten so that not much is changed. My big question, however, is what has time done concernignt eh crash of the Byzantium? What has crashed it in the absense of the Weeping Angels who fell into the crack? Delton Menace 22:14, June 3, 2010 (UTC)
- What we also need to consider is that the cracks erasing people are not the same as changing the future by manipulating the past. If the Doctor time travels to the past and stops Hitler from being born, the future changes, though someone may take Hitler's place in order to maintain a fixed point in time. The cracks however, erase people completely. Whether this is the same as changing the past is not known. That's something we need to take into consideration as well. The Thirteenth Doctor 22:20, June 3, 2010 (UTC)
