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* So did he actually do (almost) whole heist before just to set up the heist? Why do it two times? | * So did he actually do (almost) whole heist before just to set up the heist? Why do it two times? | ||
:: | ::Causal loop? (see below a similar question). | ||
* Why didn't the Doctor just choose without-solar-flare-time, and use the TARDIS? | * Why didn't the Doctor just choose without-solar-flare-time, and use the TARDIS? | ||
:: Because Karabraxos wouldn't be evacuating and would still hold sway over the Teller, making it impossible to rescue it and its mate. | :: Because Karabraxos wouldn't be evacuating and would still hold sway over the Teller, making it impossible to rescue it and its mate. | ||
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*Suspension of disbelief is important in stories, and even more important in science fiction: we need to believe the Doctor's world is real even if we know it's not, BUT that world must be consistent. At the beginning of the episode the writers 1) remove the magic blue box from the game (''as usual'', to show the audience that Doctor is really in dire straits), and 2) they establish that Karabraxos is the ''most secure bank in the universe''. But THEN they destroy all suspension of disbelief with the '''teleporters'''! WHY on <s>Krop Tor</s>Hell is Karabraxos known as the ''most secure bank in the universe'', when you can sneak in and out at will with a friggin' '''pocket teleporter'''? And if it is so easy for the Doctor to get a whole briefcase of pocket teleporters, why he never used them before or after this adventure? (out-of-universe: of course, because the TARDIS and the sonic gadgets are already overpowered game-breaking tools, and pocket teleporters would be just too much, that's why the writes made him disable Jack's vortex manipulator: Jack already had a story-breaking superpower, immortality). | *Suspension of disbelief is important in stories, and even more important in science fiction: we need to believe the Doctor's world is real even if we know it's not, BUT that world must be consistent. At the beginning of the episode the writers 1) remove the magic blue box from the game (''as usual'', to show the audience that Doctor is really in dire straits), and 2) they establish that Karabraxos is the ''most secure bank in the universe''. But THEN they destroy all suspension of disbelief with the '''teleporters'''! WHY on <s>Krop Tor</s>Hell is Karabraxos known as the ''most secure bank in the universe'', when you can sneak in and out at will with a friggin' '''pocket teleporter'''? And if it is so easy for the Doctor to get a whole briefcase of pocket teleporters, why he never used them before or after this adventure? (out-of-universe: of course, because the TARDIS and the sonic gadgets are already overpowered game-breaking tools, and pocket teleporters would be just too much, that's why the writes made him disable Jack's vortex manipulator: Jack already had a story-breaking superpower, immortality). | ||
::Just because people say it's the most secure bank in the universe doesn't necessarily make it true. | ::Just because people say it's the most secure bank in the universe doesn't necessarily make it true. | ||
:::Yes, "''most'' secure" is certainly advertisement boasting, but I'm sure the rich customers require a certain level of security beyond simple advertisement. A telepathic guard (''one'' single telepathic guard, for crying out loud) is ridiculously useless in an universe where pocket teleportes, transmat rays, vortex manipulators and other similar gadgets exist. There's a good (in-universe and out-of-universe) reason if Harry Potter does not simply teleport out of Gringotts :) | |||
