Theory:Doctor Who television discontinuity and plot holes/Inferno: Difference between revisions

::The most reasonable explanation is that the Doctor was simply lying to [[Brigade Leader Lethbridge-Stewart]] about "dimensional paradoxes" in an attempt to keep him from trying to enter this universe. This theory is substantiated by the fact that the [[Tenth Doctor]] told [[Rose]] and [[Mickey Smith|Mickey]] that travel between universes was quite easy prior to the destruction of Gallifrey and the Time Lords.

:::It's possible that he was lying, but doing so did mean leaving all of them there to their deaths - not very "Doctor-like". We're almost certainly meant to believe that the Doctor is telling the truth. What he tells them is that they can't go to his universe because there are already versions of them there. Hence, he can travel between the universes himself without issue, so long as there is no version of the Doctor in that other universe. This obviously wasn't a concern for the later visits involving "Pete's World". That may well have been a different kind of "parallel universe", as we've seen that there are different varieties of them (other time streams, "bubble" universes, E-Space, etc).

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