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::Yet, her young nephew is still a child when they meet old Kazran. Even with prolonged longevity, a child would most likely mature into adulthood at roughly the same rate. | ::Yet, her young nephew is still a child when they meet old Kazran. Even with prolonged longevity, a child would most likely mature into adulthood at roughly the same rate. | ||
:::Obviously a number of years has passed because her sister is shown to be a middle-aged woman when she meets Kazran for the first time. | :::Obviously a number of years has passed because her sister is shown to be a middle-aged woman when she meets Kazran for the first time. | ||
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:::Abigail's family does age. The confusion is due to the child actor playing two roles. Look at the credits, Bailey Pepper is credited as playing both "Boy" and "Benjamin." Meanwhile, Steve North is credited as "Old Benjamin." When Abigail's family goes to plead for Abigail's release, it is her sister Isabella, Isabella's son Benjamin, and Ben's two children, one of whom is the boy who throws coal at Kazran. Just as Michael Gambon plays father and son, Bailey Pepper is cast as two generations of the Pettigrew family. | |||
* How can the Doctor so casually alter time? | * How can the Doctor so casually alter time? | ||
::The long and short is "suspension of disbelief". If we're going to theorize though on how the Doctor gets away with it... The people he is acting to save and manipulating are the "little people" - the ones that really don't count so changing their fate doesn't affect much. Also there is a swing to the changes in Kazran - the Christmas at Sinatra's being the obvious push-back. | ::The long and short is "suspension of disbelief". If we're going to theorize though on how the Doctor gets away with it... The people he is acting to save and manipulating are the "little people" - the ones that really don't count so changing their fate doesn't affect much. Also there is a swing to the changes in Kazran - the Christmas at Sinatra's being the obvious push-back. | ||
:::In the ''Doctor Who Confidential'' that accompanies the episode, Moffat says the Doctor changes time and people's lives every time he lands on a planet. He's just being more direct about it. And not that long ago, in ''[[The Waters of Mars]]'', the Doctor showed he could, in theory, even change a fixed point in time, at least briefly, if he set his mind to it. | :::In the ''Doctor Who Confidential'' that accompanies the episode, Moffat says the Doctor changes time and people's lives every time he lands on a planet. He's just being more direct about it. And not that long ago, in ''[[The Waters of Mars]]'', the Doctor showed he could, in theory, even change a fixed point in time, at least briefly, if he set his mind to it. | ||
* How come Kazran seems exactly the same when time has been altered? These were huge changes. | * How come Kazran seems exactly the same when time has been altered? These were huge changes. | ||
