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Thats already raised in the plot holes section, if you want you can talk about it in the Forums --[[User:Bigshowbower|Bigshowbower]] 12:30, January 2, 2010 (UTC) | Thats already raised in the plot holes section, if you want you can talk about it in the Forums --[[User:Bigshowbower|Bigshowbower]] 12:30, January 2, 2010 (UTC) | ||
== Plot Part Two - the Time Lock == | |||
Re http://tardis.wikia.com/wiki/The_End_of_Time_%28TV_story%29#Part_2_2 | |||
"The President is adamant he will not allow himself or his race to die. An opportunity exists to prevent this, which involves placing Gallifrey and many other terrors in a Time Lock" | |||
This is totally incorrect. | |||
The Lord President did not place Gallifrey in a Time Lock. The whole Time War itself was already in a Time Lock, as established by various previous episodes of New Who. | |||
Furthermore, why on Earth would the Lord President himself place Gallifrey in a Time Lock, only to then come up with a convoluted means of escaping said same Time Lock? If there were no Time Lock initially, the Time Lords would simply have escaped already, avoiding their death at the hands of the Doctor, rather than put themselves in a lock and then try & find a way out of it. It is utterly illogical that the Lord President would trap them all & then have to find a way out of the trap that he himself made. | |||
The whole point was that they (in fact the whole Time War) were already trapped within a Time Lock, and needed a way to escape it (after the Visionary said that it was the last day of the war & the Doctor would burn them all) and escape their destruction at the hands of the Doctor. Hence sending the drum-beat signal back to the Master as a child, & then sending the diamond through to create a more physical link. | |||
Also, in addition to this, the scenes with the Time Lord council are not flashbacks - they are what could be called "meanwhiles". The scenes with the Lord President are occurring at the same time as the scenes on Earth. This is a time travel show afterall, plus as mentioned the Time War exists out of time in a Time Lock. The only flashback was, IIRC, when the Master was remembering staring into the Vortex as a child. | |||
I would edit the Time Lock mention myself, but the article is protected and I'm a new user. I did however make the change to the Wikipedia article on The End of Time, which did get accepted. | |||
[[User:ShatteredPlastic|ShatteredPlastic]] 14:46, January 2, 2010 (UTC) | |||
