The Waters of Mars (TV story): Difference between revisions
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*Why didn't the Doctor simply take the crew into the distant future or the distant past? History would have been preserved as the records would show the crew were killed in the nuclear explosion. ''At this point the Doctor wasn't just concerned with saving the crew - he was, as he said, fighting the very laws of time themselves. In that state of mind, delivering the crew to another point in time would not have been as great a victory for him. He '''wanted''' to break the laws of time. Likely he felt that doing so successfully would mean he could also delay or prevent his own death, which has been foreshadowed in several episodes leading up to ''[[The End of Time (TV story)|The End of Time]]''.'' | *Why didn't the Doctor simply take the crew into the distant future or the distant past? History would have been preserved as the records would show the crew were killed in the nuclear explosion. ''At this point the Doctor wasn't just concerned with saving the crew - he was, as he said, fighting the very laws of time themselves. In that state of mind, delivering the crew to another point in time would not have been as great a victory for him. He '''wanted''' to break the laws of time. Likely he felt that doing so successfully would mean he could also delay or prevent his own death, which has been foreshadowed in several episodes leading up to ''[[The End of Time (TV story)|The End of Time]]''.'' | ||
*How come the Doctor could talk Marsian if the TARDIS translated every single language? ''(Because the members of the moon base have not come into contact with the TARDIS, so it wont translate for them. It would be kind of lame if we understood what The Doctor said but no one else. It adds suspense to the | *How come the Doctor could talk Marsian if the TARDIS translated every single language? ''(Because the members of the moon base have not come into contact with the TARDIS, so it wont translate for them. It would be kind of lame if we understood what The Doctor said but no one else. It adds suspense to the episode.)'' | ||
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