Howling:Jack in the doctor dances

In the episode the doctor dances, the doctor tells jack to teleport away to deal with the bomb about to hit the chula ambulance. When he catches it in his tractor beam, the doctor says he no longer needs the bomb and to get rid of it. Was the doctor planning on using the bomb to kill all the gas mask zombies?! Cause that's what I --Coop3 ☎  22:33, September 10, 2013 (UTC)think whenever I was that scene.


 * I think he hadn't found out the truth behind the ambulance pod and the zombies until just before that scene, meaning that he'd only just realized they were harmless, and how to cure them. According to history, the bomb was to drop from a German plane and destroy the pod (which is why Jack had "parked" the pod there in the first place), so he wasn't involved in its delivery, only his convincing of Jack to intercept it. When still thinking the zombies might have been hostile, part of his backup plan had probably been to let history take its course if no alternative could be found. Luckily, one was. —BioniclesaurKing4t2 - "Hello, I'm the Doctor. Basically, . . . run." 01:09, September 11, 2013 (UTC)

There is always the possibility the Doctor was being ironic, but the apparently virulent, mind-robbing plague which Jack sent to London from space in the future would be potentially on par with the Pyrovale invasion, as a world changing event. So he might have allowed them to be killed by the bomb to avoid that change in history. Except I don't think he knew the victims would be flocking to the site when he went there. (Didn't they respond to a message from the pod after the Doctor tried to open it?) So it is possible the use he had in mind for the bomb was more to do with the site than the victims.Phil Stone ☎  17:39, September 17, 2013 (UTC)


 * No. No, no, no. No. History said that the ambulance exploded, "and who am I to argue with history?" He clearly intended to evacuate the area before detonation, but changed the plan when all the "Empty Children" arrived at the site and were cured. And he didn't go to the "bomb site" to kill everyone; he went there to examine the Chula ambulance, and figure out how to solve the problem by studying its beginning. --SOTO ☎ 20:48, September 19, 2013 (UTC)