Talk:The Girl in the Fireplace (TV story)

Two questions

 * 1: Were those clockwork robots, by any chance, Supreme Alliance work? We know from The Talons of Weng-Chiang that the Three Laws of Robotics were not very popular in the fifty-first century.


 * unless the story itself says so specifically, I think we can assume that they had nothing to do with each other. (good rule in general.) remember the hugeness of space or even of Earth for that matter.


 * 2: In the mind meld, Madame de Pompadour MUST have seen the French Revolution and the Reign of Terror. How could that not have changed things? - Tawaki 20:06, 6 May 2008 (UTC)


 * definitely a plot hole which the story itself obviously doesn't address. it doesn't address, leave it that, unless you want to make note of it as a plot hole. 76.24.20.92 20:53, 6 May 2008 (UTC)


 * I can think of a few possible explanations.


 * 1) They didn't really seem to be connected for very long. It would probably take a while to sort through centuries of memories.
 * 2) Neither the Doctor or Madame de Pompadour really had much reason to be looking for those memories, so there's no reason for them to be found.
 * 3) She might not have found the context for those memories, just the events themselves.
 * --

A Small Curiosity
Why can't the Doctor just use the TARDIS to go back in time to the moment after he left and Reinette went to pack and pick her up then? Would that change the future? Would it poke a hole in the time stream? Would it rip apart the fabric of time and space, effectively destroying the universe? Or would it just be too much of a happy ending and the writers wouldn't know how to eventually get rid of her? --SmokeHeart talk to me 19:49, April 11, 2012 (UTC)