Howling:Touching your past self

Not like that!! Pervert.

In Series 1, Rose weakens the defences on a church she and others are barricaded in and lets the vicious reapers in by touching a past version of herself as a baby. Clearly, touching your past self has repercussions.

Series 5, the Doctor, shot by a Dalek (how he survived that is beyond me, but that's another tale,) travels back twelve minutes in time and clutches his past self as he whispers his plan to himself several minutes back.

Is this something to do with time and reality being so frail that even breaking the rules of time has no effect, or is this simply a continuity error? Futile Crush 16:22, June 30, 2010 (UTC)