Talk:Fixed point in time

Should there be a disusssion about these being plot devices?

No, many major concepts on Doctor Who and other successful series are plot devices. It's unnecessary to note them all.210.49.167.47 08:52, September 22, 2011 (UTC)

This is becoming a headache

Technicaly... DOES the Doctor need to be at Lake Silencio? It's the Teselecta posing as him, so doesn't that make things even more complicated? (173.167.179.77^{talk to me} 23:15, May 29, 2012 (UTC))

He is there. He's in the Teselecta. Everything's kosher. —Josiah Rowe ^{talk to me} 03:36, May 30, 2012 (UTC)

Miracle Day

From what we've seen, the start of the Miralce during the fourth season of Torchwood is most likely a fixed point in time. Ending it was left in flux; had Oswald Danes not gotten ahold of himself, he would have blown everyone up before Rex could release Jack's blood in Beauno Aries; Jack would have been dead for good and the Miracle would continue to causes sociey's collaspse. (173.167.179.77^{talk to me} 21:27, August 31, 2012 (UTC))

No, if it was a fixed point in time, that would mean that humans are supposed to be immortal in the normal time line, which would mean every story that takes places in the future would supposed to have immortal humans, which they don't. If it was a fixed point, then the fact that Torchwood saved the day would have caused massive damage to time, like in The Wedding of River Song, which didn't happen. -<Azes13 ☎ 21:44, August 31, 2012 (UTC)

Fixed time

In The Angels Take Manhattan, when Amy is about to let herself be sent back by a Weeping Angel, the Doctor says it would create a "fixed time". It would seem that the implication here is that if she gets sent back and he sees that she died, it's not simply one fixed point, but that the rest of her life would be fixed. The difference between a point and a line. Does this make sense to anyone else, and how should the specific terminology be handled? d ●•· 17:37, October 5, 2012 (UTC)

Amy, Rory & the Doctor

Okay, assuming that this explanation about what causes a fixed point in time is not total BS and made up as the series goes along and that Rory & Amy are irretrievably in the past, I still don't understand why this means that the Doctor can't travel to the past and see them. What is fixed is that they moved in time from the present to 1930s New York City. The Tenth Doctor has already traveled to this time & place before with Martha, why couldn't the Eleventh Doctor not travel back and have tea with the Williams?

It all makes me wish he HAD just let them be when he said goodbye before the Wedding of River Song episode, where they could live out their lives surrounded by family & friends. But Doctor Who writing team doesn't like happy endings, does it?69.125.134.86^{talk to me} 20:16, December 17, 2012 (UTC)

It looks like New York in the more recent timeline (after Big Bang 2) is one giant time distortion, which makes it a lot more difficult to land there in the first place. On top of that is the fact that Rory and Amy managed to generate a paradox to erase Winter Quay and most of the Weeping Angels from Manhattan, making the time distortions more prominent at that time. Apparently, The Doctor "saw" that he'd create some paradox or another if he met up with Rory and Amy again, he's always going on about being able to see fixed points and the like - according to the episode's wikia page, he actually mentions that another paradox would destroy the city, and I know he wouldn't be willing to risk an entire city going *poof* and a reality shattering anomaly just to see some friends.

I have no idea what implications these events have on The Doctor's previous journeys to New York, and it's never revealed whether everything still occurs as it did before Big Bang 2 happened. So I think we'd need a massive continuity check here to confirm what does and doesn't still have a place in the new timeline, and how exactly Rory and Amy became capable of such a paradox. - Jackal-d ☎ 17:44, December 29, 2012 (UTC)

Thanks for trying to explain what is a clumsy plot device to explain why Amy & Rory would no longer be appearing in Doctor Who (it's really the actors' decision, right?). But why would this prevent River from visiting them? I can see why a paradox MIGHT affect Rory & Amy's ability to travel in time but why would the Doctor or River's visiting them cause the city of New York to explode? I mean, the Doctor and River are not the source of the paradox, Rory & Amy are.

And is this connected at all to the time distortion that initially prevented the TARDIS from landing in 1938 (but not later in the episode?)? Why was the TARDIS bouncing off of old NYC included in there? 69.125.134.86^{talk to me} 23:30, April 2, 2013 (UTC)