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*Where does all the matter come from for all these skulls? When he jumps in the water, there is a huge pile of skulls underwater, clearly containing many times more mass than his own body. How is all this mass coming into the system? | *Where does all the matter come from for all these skulls? When he jumps in the water, there is a huge pile of skulls underwater, clearly containing many times more mass than his own body. How is all this mass coming into the system? | ||
*How can his body provide enough energy to create a new copy of him? Each time, his skull is left behind, so at best, the teleport machine might have received the amount of mass/energy in his body ''minus his skull''. | *How can his body provide enough energy to create a new copy of him? Each time, his skull is left behind, so at best, the teleport machine might have received the amount of mass/energy in his body ''minus his skull''. | ||
::When the Doctor burns himself up, he's trying to summon (or re-print, as he puts it) the version of himself that is stored in the teleporter, not create a new version from scratch. The amount of energy required for this task, presumably, is less than the amount provided by his total body mass. | |||
*Where is the energy coming from to keep the whole mechanism of the castle running for 4.5 billion years? And if the system has such a vast energy source, how come the Doctor has to burn his own body to provide enough energy to run the teleporter? | *Where is the energy coming from to keep the whole mechanism of the castle running for 4.5 billion years? And if the system has such a vast energy source, how come the Doctor has to burn his own body to provide enough energy to run the teleporter? | ||
::It's very clever Time Lord technology, i.e. so intricate that it would be far too difficult for the dying Doctor to understand and re-purpose on the spot, if it's possible at all from the inside. | |||
*What was the Confession Dial doing for 4.5 billion years? Just sitting in the desert, in that place where the Doctor emerged and met a little boy? And no one tampered with it during that time? Nor did its walls get worn down by weather, nor was it buried as continents moved, mountains turned to ocean floors, and similar geologic changes occurred? | *What was the Confession Dial doing for 4.5 billion years? Just sitting in the desert, in that place where the Doctor emerged and met a little boy? And no one tampered with it during that time? Nor did its walls get worn down by weather, nor was it buried as continents moved, mountains turned to ocean floors, and similar geologic changes occurred? | ||
::Considering this whole thing was a setup by the Time Lords, it naturally follows that they intended for him to end up on Gallifrey, so it's likely that they ensured the the dial would end up on the planet, if not specifically the region. Furthermore, with it being Time Lord tech and all, maybe it was kept in some kind of pocket space or something for those 4.5 billion years, keeping it safe from the physical changes you describe. | |||
*Why would the Doctor bury a cryptic message to himself underground, rather than a very informative, explicit message that was easy to access? | *Why would the Doctor bury a cryptic message to himself underground, rather than a very informative, explicit message that was easy to access? | ||
*Are the new copies of the Doctor that appear in each cycle actually the same person - or did the Doctor we know simply die, and then a series of clones of him lived and died, until finally one lucky clone emerged at the end? | *Are the new copies of the Doctor that appear in each cycle actually the same person - or did the Doctor we know simply die, and then a series of clones of him lived and died, until finally one lucky clone emerged at the end? | ||
::Depends on your philosophy, I suppose. When Super Mario dies and respawns, do you consider that the same Mario, or a clone? I'd say it was the same Doctor. | |||
*Why did the Time Lords make it difficult for the Doctor to figure out what he was supposed to do? It was only by accident that he figured out that he was supposed to tell secrets to the Veil, because he accidentally confessed "I'm afraid of dying." If he didn't happen to say that, out loud (and very oddly), he wouldn't have known, and the Veil would have just killed him. | *Why did the Time Lords make it difficult for the Doctor to figure out what he was supposed to do? It was only by accident that he figured out that he was supposed to tell secrets to the Veil, because he accidentally confessed "I'm afraid of dying." If he didn't happen to say that, out loud (and very oddly), he wouldn't have known, and the Veil would have just killed him. | ||
