A Question Regarding Doctor Who (Spoilers)

**Nick_Ardill** · 11-03-2006, 06:50 PM

some spoiler space to be safe...

So I'm fairly new to the Doctor Who universe. My brother used to watch it all the time when I was a kid and I'm reaquainting myself with it. But I thought I remembered the Tardus being able to go through space and time and other universes.

Now the reason I ask is I just watched Season 2 Episode 12 and 13. Where Rose is trapped on the Cyberman Earth, and the Doctor can never see her again, and I'm stuck wondering can't the Doctor take the Tardus and meet her at the other Earth?

**Unknown Kadath** · 11-03-2006, 07:04 PM

I believe it is explained in "Rise Of The Cybermen" that with the Timelords gone (the Doctor's people) this [and many other things] are no longer possible.

**Kensington** · 11-03-2006, 07:52 PM

Yeah, big old huuuuuge spoilers. Why not go ahead and spoiler protect those puppies?

**The Human Target** · 11-03-2006, 08:10 PM

They made up a in show reason, didn't give a very detailed explanation of it, and kinda moved on.

Dunno why.

**Kensington** · 11-03-2006, 08:15 PM

Wait, I think I can explain this, actually.

Spoilers:

The TARDIS is a time machine, so it is not generally equipped for traveling between realities. Further, the big problem during the finale was that all the tinkering between realities had caused the wall between them to become porous, and unless it was stopped permanently, there would be a terrible risk of everything getting sucked into the same void that ends up devouring the Cybermen and the Daleks.

My understanding is that the weakness cannot be repaired, it can only be exacerbated, and therefore it is simply too reckless for the Doctor (or anyone else) to try and go through again.

**Unknown Kadath** · 11-04-2006, 03:24 PM

Originally Posted by Kensington

Yeah, big old huuuuuge spoilers. Why not go ahead and spoiler protect those puppies?

I was going to do that but then I saw that it had the word (spoilers) in the title and figured people who didn't want to be spoiled would stay away. Sorry.

**Dusto** · 11-04-2006, 03:50 PM

Originally Posted by Kensington

Wait, I think I can explain this, actually.

Spoilers:

The TARDIS is a time machine, so it is not generally equipped for traveling between realities. Further, the big problem during the finale was that all the tinkering between realities had caused the wall between them to become porous, and unless it was stopped permanently, there would be a terrible risk of everything getting sucked into the same void that ends up devouring the Cybermen and the Daleks.

My understanding is that the weakness cannot be repaired, it can only be exacerbated, and therefore it is simply too reckless for the Doctor (or anyone else) to try and go through again.

I always figured other realities were included in "Relative Dimensions In Space."