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Ok, can somebody just clarify something for me? They're TIME LORDS right? So why cant he just like, you know... travel back in time to when they were still alive! Or for that matter, why can't one of them in the past pop up into the future and visit him! Did they explain that somewhere and i just missed it?

There are rules explicitly prohibiting interfereing in someone's personal timeline ("except for parlor tricks"). The Two Doctors was an accident, sort of. Two and Six happened to be going to see the same guy at the same time and Six had to bail out Two when he got in a bit of a pickle (and as I remember, Two wasn't too happy about seeing himself). In The Five Doctors everyone was drawn to the eye of orion against their will so meeting each other was beyond their control.

I think the hardest thing about having to push the button that destroyed Gallifrey is knowing that it was supposed to happen. It was like Pompeii, there was nothing that the Doctor could do to prevent it. So, no matter how much he may want to, rogue that he is, he could never find a point on his timeline and warn himself of the war because he might try to save Gallifrey. A paradox such as that would tear the universe apart.


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This thread is giving me a headache, but here's my theory:

Remember those Pterodactyl things that came when Rose saved her dad from dying? It's because the Doctor says that some points in time are fixed, and some are flux. The Time War had to be both fixed AND outside of time. Like the Time Lords are not a part of the wibbly-wobbly-time-wimey sphere, but they've learned how to go in there and travel in it. Therefore, the doctor literally cannot go back and change things because they are outside of time, and even if he could, those Langoliers would come and destroy EVERYTHING, EVERYWHERE! That's why he was so tempted by the building blocks of the Univers that Anthony Head was trying to share with him.

The Dalek Emperor in Parting of the Ways states that he escaped the Time War

"You destroyed us, Doctor. The Dalek Race died in your inferno, but my ship survived, falling through time, crippled but alive."

The Empreror then proceeded to cultivate "worthy" human cells to create a new army of Daleks.

"Harvesting the waste of humanity. The prisoners, the refugees, the dispossessed - they all came to us. The bodies were filtered, pulped, sifted."

Unfortunatly, the centuries in space, and the fact they a not pure Dalek has driven them into a form of Dalek insanity, as normal (true?) Daleks have no religion, or tolerance of such a thing.

Now, we all know that the Doctor sends Rose back to her time, along with the TARDIS, and she decides to open the Heart in an attempt to communicate with it, to tell it to return to the Gamestation.

Doing so infuses Rose with wisdom and power beyond that of any human, I would say demi-god-like.

Using this TARDIS-granted power, Rose destroys the impure Dalek fleet, and resurrects Jack.




As can be seen, the Daleks in PotW are created AFTER the end of the Time War, so there is no Paradox regarding them, the War, or the Timelords.




As for WHY he doesn't go back to save his people, think back to the reapers from Father's day, but billions of them... That's the least of what could happen if the Doctor prevents the Genocide of his people.

the only thing i don't get is that if time lords can travel where ever, when ever wouldn't some still be alive when the doctor was about, because it was before the war started in their personal time line?