![]() ![]() The case of Brooke marks one of the only times the Doctor has intentionally interfered with a fixed point, under the rationale that, being the last surviving Time Lord, the Laws of Time were now his to command. Examples include Jack Harkness after his rejuvenation by Rose Tyler ( DW : Utopia (although the Doctor nonetheless shared several adventures with him), the destruction of Pompeii by the Vesuvius volcano ( DW : The Fires of Pompeii, and the death of explorer Adelaide Brooke ( DW : The Waters of Mars ). The Doctor, while free to interfere in alien invasions and save planets in most cases, cannot interfere/interact with these fixed points. The Laws of Time were connected to the concept of "fixed points" in time - events and/or individuals who have such a long-standing impact on the timeline that no one, not even Time Lords, were allowed to interfere with their natural progression. Here's a splainin from the Doctor Who Wiki : Davies gave us a TV concept that would have meant the Twin Towers were doomed even if Superman had been alive: fixed points in Time. ![]() (This was after he rescued a couple of characters from the TV series 'Crime Story' from an atomic test site.)īut Russell T. The Toobworld splainin was that Superman was already dead in the TV Universe, having died from Krypton radiation poisoning in the early sixties. Once upon a time in the old Tubeworld Dynamic website, I speculated on the reason why Superman didn't come to the rescue of the TV version of the World Trade Center on September 11th, 2001.
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