Torchwood/Headscratchers: Difference between revisions

** Perhaps part 2 of his plan was to list off the huge list of things the Doctor wiped out and then inform them that he was a friend of the Doctor and that humanity was his favorite race.

** Or he meant to emulate the Doctor--except when the Doctor does it, it actually work

** And you'd have thought he'd already have a backup plan for if they did start fighting back.

** Ianto was part of Torchwood One, and he goes into the building with no protection or plan or even slight knowledge of being an alien-fighting baddass. That's some epic writing right there.

***** Oh, come on, folks, the Doctor may be a jerkass and the master of running away but can you ''really'' see him staying back whistling when millions of earth's children were about to be given to druggies, if he could in any way prevent it? He may be inconsistent sometimes, but standing aside while millions of innocents from his favourite planet are sentenced to a lifertime of torture? I really can't see him doing that. Not unless it were a Fixed Point and he had no choice but to stand and watch, or else genuinely didn't know it was happening (he can't possibly know everything that's possible, and if his companions didn't call hm... well, that's not exactly HIS fault.).

****** Additionally, just a point about the Doctor choosing not to help: watch The Beast Below. There's no way he'd let all those children be hurt if he could do anything. I agree with the others: he didn't know until he found out he wasn't there.

 

***** [[Co E]] being a Fixed Point in time (hot on the tails of the monumental cock up the Doc made in ''Waters of Mars'' too, probably, so he's probably not gonna risk messing with those again anytime soon) seems to be the most popular theory for why he didn't show up, I think. But there's also the possibility that he didn't know. Did they call him? If they didn't (for whatever reason) then that would explain that: I'm fairly sure that "I see all of time and space in my head" thing he has going on is, at best, damned hard to filter through because if it wasn't then he'd have most of the dilemmas we see in each episode solved the very second he arrived, (if they did call him -which is possible- then the problem of why he didn't come remains but is still explainable via fixed point.) Plus, he can't come running every single damn time humans get themselves in trouble or we'll never get out of the galactic nursery.

**** How else, exactly, were the Daleks supposed to be dealt with in Journey's End if not by killing them?

** Hm-m. "The Parting of the Ways", anyone ?

'''The Doctor''': Coward, any day. }}

** Answered in ''The End of Time''. {{spoiler|Gets him a new boyfriend in some alien bar. "His name is Alonso".}}