Howling:After someone's been absorbed by the Crack...

It's stated numerous times in Series 5 that once an object or person is absorbed into the Time Crack, it never existed at all. Retconned out of history entirely, so to speak (At least this appears to be the dominant theory). But what if you went back in time after someone was absorbed, to a place and time you know that person was, what would you see? Would there just be a patch of empty space where they used to be? After Rory was sucked into the Crack, what would you have seen if you'd gone back to the moment he took the Silurian's gunblast and saved the Doctor - would the bolt just hit air? This, to me, is where the scenario comes apart, as it's just too silly to contemplate. Other people I've asked about this say that after something's absorbed, there'd be a "hole" in time where they used to be, but how the heck does this actually work? I feel it's worth noting that throughout the show, the only time it's noticed that something is gone because of the Crack, is AFTER they've been absorbed, not before. I probably didn't word that very well, but I hope you get the idea. 82.2.136.93 16:30, August 4, 2011 (UTC)

I have come to look upon the plotting and continuity in DOCTOR WHO as very English: if you close your eye and squint it looks about okay, and it actually does work, even though it is neither elegant (in the mathematical sense) nor strictly logical. Talk to an expert in military engineering some time and ask about the evolution of World War Two ordinance in Great Britain and watch 'em turn beet red. Now, how does this apply to the Time Cracks? Explain, if you will, how Amy Pond could be when both her parents never existed? You can't? Neither can I. But it works. My advice is to stop worrying and just enjoy the paradoxes. nd in any cases, the cracks never existed, so I don't know what you're talking about. Boblipton 17:35, August 4, 2011 (UTC)

But if you were to travel back in time AFTER a Crack had absorbed someone, and go to a point where that person was involved, what would you see? Anyway, if Amy's parents never existed, how do people explain her existence? Did she just pop out of nowhere one day? What about all the hospital records that would show her mother being admitted into the hospital on the day she was born, don't they still exist? Some knowledge of her parents must still exist, otherwise how would her aunt know she's her aunt? 82.2.136.93 17:51, August 4, 2011 (UTC)

When you've gone and looked, let me know. Boblipton 18:36, August 4, 2011 (UTC)

Ah, but the Cracks did exist though, otherwise how did they survive the Weeping Angels in The Time of Angels/Flesh & Stone? God, I wonder what it must have been like in the hospital on the day Amy was born....the staff would've seen her just pop out of thin air! Daft. 82.2.136.93 21:28, August 4, 2011 (UTC)