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:: This just about falls into the same league of absurdity as "cateloguing and giving individual pages to every single DVD and video that can be just barely identified if you squint real hard on the shelves of the video store in ''[[Random Shoes (TV story)|Random Shoes]]''". [[User:WaltK|WaltK]] [[User talk:WaltK|<span title="Talk to me">☎</span>]] 19:28, 28 March 2022 (UTC) | :: This just about falls into the same league of absurdity as "cateloguing and giving individual pages to every single DVD and video that can be just barely identified if you squint real hard on the shelves of the video store in ''[[Random Shoes (TV story)|Random Shoes]]''". [[User:WaltK|WaltK]] [[User talk:WaltK|<span title="Talk to me">☎</span>]] 19:28, 28 March 2022 (UTC) | ||
== State of the Universe Post-Flux == | |||
Now I know this is a rather controversial topic, but it's one that is constantly brought up... | |||
Was the Universe destroyed? No... it was not. | |||
As we know, in Doctor Who: Flux, the Flux rips through the universe, destroying planets, suns and galaxies. However what most miss, is that in 'Chapter 1: The Halloween Apocalypse' at the end when the Flux barrels towards the TARDIS, the TARDIS stopped the first Flux event! This isn't actually said until 'Chapter 5: Survivors of the Flux' at Division, when Tecteun criticises the Doctor's interference in their Universe shutdown strategy | |||
<blockquote>Tecteun: Precisely. Which is why we engineered the Flux, shut the universe down and you within it. Except even then you interfere. Disrupting the Flux, just as it came into existence. Throwing yourself and a Tardis in front of it.</blockquote> | |||
Stating that between chapters 1 and 2, the first Flux event was halted, hence the generation of a second and final wave! | |||
So in episodes 2-5 we are seeing the fallout of the Flux, the confusion that the universe has been thrown into. Including Daleks, Cybermen and Sontarans fighting for control, refugees of the Flux seeking sanctuary, and the timestorm erasing people from existance! | |||
Then in episode 5 we are told that a second wave of the Flux is being generated, a wave that begins towards the end of Chapter 6. Throughout Chapter 6 we see the Sontarans and the Grand Serpent preparing for this event, using humans to predict where and when it will begin. Thanks to Claire Brown's psychic abilities, they locate this area in Deep Space, and instantly leave Earth, reading to strike against their prey. | |||
What is important to note here, is that the second Flux event doesn't destroy anything of importance, only the War battalions of the Sontaran, Dalek and Cyber empires, before it was absorbed by the Passenger form, claiming one final victim (the Passenger form itself). | |||
Slight side-tangent here, but the Passenger being the solution was actually foreshadowed from Chapter 5! We see throughout Flux that the Ravagers are the opposite to the Doctor, in their moral code, their beliefs, their regenerative powers, but what they do have in common with the Doctor, is a bigger on the inside life-form! So, the point I'm trying to make, is that in Chapter 2 the Flux is prevented by the TARDIS, and given the opposite to the TARDIS is the Passenger, the Passenger form was the obvious candidate to absorb the Flux! | |||
Anyway, side-tangent over. Back to the main point of discussion, which is: | |||
'''<u>The Only part of the Universe that was destroyed, was what the first Flux event destroyed in Chapter 1!</u>''' | |||
Flux has 3 main volumes | |||
Vol. 1 - The First Flux Event - Chapter 1 | |||
Vol. 2 - The Fallout of the first Flux event - Chapters 2-5 | |||
Vol. 3 - The Second Flux Event - Chapter 6 | |||
Epilogue - The Dalek Execution of the Doctor - Eve of the Daleks | |||
(I felt like adding the Epilogue, cause why not) | |||
It's nowhere near "the entire universe" as many believe, it's not even a quarter! So, how much is it? | |||
Well, it's never specified, but given what we are shown in Chapter 5, I would guess, no more than 10% of the universe was destroyed! | |||
In Chapter 5, the Doctor is brought back to Division, where we learn that the Flux was engineered to destroy the universe on account of the Doctor's tireless persecution and hunt for Division. Division became wary of the potential universal revolution they might face due to the Doctor's "viral" influance. However following the first Flux event, the Doctor still was able to rise up against it, purely by accident! So, in order to avoid this, Division removes the Doctor from the universe, separating her from her main source of power, her companions (hence "Power of the Doctor" being a story about companions from the last 59 years re-uniting to face off against the big three (four if you count CyberMasters) | |||
But while at Division, the Doctor gets a rundown on Division, more importantly where they are stationed, we are shown a hologram of | |||
<blockquote>Tecteun: ...the universe as you know it. Universe One, if you like. </blockquote> | |||
[[File:The universe as the Doctor knows it.png|thumb]] | |||
This hologram only shows a section of the universe, but it's enough to understand what the original universe looked like. | |||
Then, later in the episode, Division Ood shows us the universe as it at that time looked like. Very, very similar to what the original universe looked like, but with Flux particles on the edge of the universe. In the script for the episode, this hologram has been described as <blockquote>The Ood looks at her -- blinks a couple of times again -- and then activates a map which appears as a hologram in the air. A black mass is moving slowly across the map of tiny stars and planets.</blockquote> | |||
[[File:The Universe post-Flux.png|thumb]] | |||
I believe that this "black mass" is what the flux particles are here, representing what has been destroyed! | |||
The compression that is mentioned, is the rearrangement of the planets, galaxies and superclusters, pushing them closer together before the Flux actually begins, in addition to rearranging the universe so the Earth can be the centre, so the Earth can be Tecteun's bargaining chip! | |||
Lastly, Division Ood, specifically states that: | |||
<blockquote>The first Flux event destroyed many galaxies. </blockquote> | |||
So all that is destroyed is "many galaxies", a number that based on the visual cues via hologram, seems to be around the 10% mark. | |||
Anyway, thank you for coming to my Ted Talk. | |||
